Writing and learning and thinking are the same process

Thought is action in rehearsal

Less is more.

Writing is thinking on paper.

As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an objective eye on the reader.

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think in
Therefore threatening ways?