Writing to learn

Writing can serve to internalize concepts and accelerate learning. Writing forces us to structure our thoughts and in the process, internalization occurs so the thoughts and words are more embedded into us and quickly come up to us when we speak, write, and think.

I noticed that I use many words for which I don’t have a clear definition. I understand intuitively what the words mean, but if I were to define them, I would face some challenges. This situation is common and just part of how we learn languages. Because we assign intuitive meanings to words based on the context where we read or hear them. So, by writing the definitions, I could gain more fluency in the language and use them properly, so here are some of those words.

• Ladder: a series of increasingly important jobs or stages in a particular type or process.
• Boss: the person who is in charge of an organization and who tell others what to do.
• Employee: someone who is paid to work for someone else.
• Employer: a person or organization that employs people.
• Shareholder: a person or a group of people who own a share in a business. A person such as an employee, customer, or citizen who is involved with an organization, society, project, etc. and therefore has a responsibility towards it and interest in its success.
• Career: the job or series of jobs a person does during the person’s work life, especially when this involves making progress to better jobs in a particular profession.
• Job: the regular work that a person does to earn money.
• Work: an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually for money.
• Profession: the people doing a particular type of work, considered as a group. Any work that requires training or a specific skill, often one that is respected because it requires a high-level education.
• Education: the process of teaching or learning, especially in school or college, or the knowledge you get from this process.
• Manager: the person who is responsible for managing an organization.
• Mentor: a person who gives a younger or less experienced person help and advice over a period of time, especially at work or school.
• Vocation: a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a kind of work suits you in this way.
• Coach: someone who teaches people to improve at a sport, skill, subject, or job.
•  The corporate ladder represents a company’s hierarchical structure of jobs with different responsibilities, status, and power. The higher one goes to the corporate ladder, the more responsibilities they have, better pay, and better benefits.
• Internalize: to accept or absorb an idea, opinion, belief, etc. so that it becomes part of your character.
• Role: the position or purpose that someone has in a situation, organization, society, or relationship. The function or responsibilities somebody or something has in a particular situation or group.
• Embed: to fix something firmly into a substance. To fix deeply into something.

Most of those words have multiple definitions. I focused on the ones that interested me and most likely oversimplified some of the definitions to keep this piece short. Additionally, I borrowed most of the definitions from the Cambridge Dictionary and some others from Investopedia.

What words did you find interesting? What word would you include if you performed the same exercise?

The set of words you choose will give you an insight into what you are thinking about lately and your assumptions about those terms.