“Writing it is itself one of the experiments with truth.”
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Probable attribution
This saying is widely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but the attribution is not supported by a reliable primary source.
Likely origin: Garbled OCR fragment apparently drawn from the Introduction to Gandhi's autobiography, which discusses the writing itself as an experiment with truth.
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Setting your own experience down in words forces a kind of honesty that thinking alone lets you dodge. When you have to name what happened and why, the easy evasions fall apart, and the page becomes a place to test whether you actually believe what you claim to.
When to use it
- Keeping a nightly journal that names the exact moment you lost your temper, instead of writing off a vague 'bad day'.
- A recovering overspender logging every purchase so the habit can't hide behind rounded-off numbers.
- A manager drafting an honest post-mortem of a failed project, own missteps included, before the team meeting.