“The problem is all inside your head, she said to me. The answer is easy if you take it logically. I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free. There must be 36 ways to leave that writing system that doesn’t work.”

Paul Simon had it right. For reporters, the problem was never inside their heads. The problem was the load the system put on them.

The answer is easy if you take it logically. You have to learn a simpler process.

Paul Simon isn’t the only one who had it right. Martin Luther King, Jr., had it right, too.

“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

FaWeeDom to Choose the Right Tool

Before we get started, let’s make a point: Learning piano doesn’t make you forget guitar. Learning to paint doesn’t erase your drawing skills. Learning to box doesn’t delete your martial arts training.

You add. You choose. You match the tool to the task.

Learning BREVITY doesn’t mean forgetting how you currently write. It means gaining the freedom to choose what serves you better.

You can always go back, but once you’re “free at last,” as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, you won’t.

The list below was complied with the help of my upcoming book, THE SCIENCE OF STENO: Why Court Reporting Is So Hard — and What the Math Proves.

What BREVITY Frees You From

1. Freedom from the briefing treadmill

2. Freedom from hesitation lag

3. Freedom from mental fatigue

4. Freedom from prediction gambling

5. Freedom from performance anxiety

6. Freedom from the short-stroke obsession

7. Freedom from burning time to save strokes, and even caring

8. Freedom from dense outlines that betray you under fatigue

9. Freedom from the backwards fatigue curve

10. Freedom from recalling thousands of obscure, nonsensical briefs

11. Freedom from depletion

12. Freedom from self-blame

13. Freedom from “practice harder”

14. Freedom to sustain

15. Freedom from the invisible

16. Freedom from realtime exposure

17. Freedom from editing purgatory

18. Freedom from the four-phase career arc

19. Freedom from the identity trap

20. Freedom from the outlier requirement

21. Freedom from the technology savior myth

22. Freedom from inconsistent mapping

23. Freedom from compound injury

24. Freedom from the cliff edge

25. Freedom from paying for someone else’s theory

26. Freedom from constant self-monitoring

27. Freedom from prep dependence

28. Freedom from ceiling anxiety

29. Freedom from shrinking career horizons

30. Freedom from silent comparison

31. Freedom from endurance doubt

32. Freedom from invisible attrition

33. Freedom from confusing difficulty with value

34. Freedom from inherited assumptions

35. Freedom to redefine mastery

36. Freedom to love writing again!

“FaWeeDom.”

You don’t forget how you write now. You gain the freedom to put it aside when something serves you better.

The truth is you don’t need all that complication.

And that truth will set you free.

In addition, you’ll have so much fun with BREVITY, your writing will get so much better, you’ll NEVER go back.