A while back, I stopped writing daily after 548 consecutive posts.
I was about to have my second child and knew my energy and bandwidth would be limited for a while.
Opportunities didn’t immediately dry up—though they would have if I neglected writing long enough.
But I realized my expertise felt less sharp. In a way, it felt like my expertise had rusted a little.
It’s just like the other week when my wife took our second car to an appointment. The car sounded like it was struggling for a bit. We hadn’t driven it in a couple of months and no surprise, it was sluggish.
The reality is, you don’t lose your expertise by not writing. You do lose the sharp edge, however. If your ideas stay in your head, they remain vague and slightly blurry.
The more you teach what you know, the sharper your ideas get, the stronger your thinking muscle gets, and the more people will be attracted to your ideas in general.
Even if nobody consumes your ideas, the very act of sharing your ideas and teaching what you know will make your expertise sharper.
And that alone is valuable.