Learn from Your Fellow Bloggers with Blogging

An author friend of mine has a daughter who has clearly been brilliant from an early age. She once started doing her hair in a pony tail in a way he hadn’t seen before. She was young; younger than 10, I think, when this happened. He asked her about it. Did her mother teach her that hair style? No, she said. It wasn’t anyone at school, either. So who was it?

“The lady on the boat,” she told him.

“Do you mean the boat tour we took?” he asked, referring to a vacation they had taken the previous summer.

It turned out that she had watched a woman in the row in front of her as the woman did her hair in this particular style. She memorized the method and then worked out how to do it herself.

“That isn’t the first time she’s done something like that,” he explained to me. “Do you know that nobody taught her to tie her shoes? I found out after asking her that she taught herself to do it by watching YouTube videos.”

I know of another family whose matriarch taught herself to be a mechanic simply to save money. With their budget tight and a minivan that was not exactly young, she used online blog posts and video sharing sites to teach herself how to repair and maintain the van’s problems, keeping it running when things were difficult for the family.

The fact is, today’s “information age” is something we all take for granted… but to which every person with a blog can contribute. And while you can use your blog to share your own knowledge with the world, don’t forget that the blogs of every other person with subject-matter expertise can help educate you.

“Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” – Andrew Sullivan

Whenever you want to learn something new, never forget that the world’s bloggers have your back. They can teach you. Now, yes, you have to take your time and do your research, rather than accepting the first opinion you get; people can be wrong as often as they are right. But if you find the preponderance of opinions on a topic all give you a specific set of information, you can probably accept it as reliable.

Use the blogs that are out there. Never forget that they exist. Learning from others’ blogs should be as much a part of your blogging journey as the blogs you choose to write and share with the world. Have fun, learn, and grow. That’s what it’s all about.

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*This blog was written 100% by a human and contains no AI-generated written content.