https://kentcdodds.com/blog/solidifying-what-you-learn

Hello friends So recently somebody asked on the KCD discord whether they

should bother writing a blog post because the topic had already beencovered a thousand times by other people who may have more experience inwhatever. And I shared with them a blog post that I wrote quite a whileback called solidifying your understanding or something like that.

And in it I mentioned a an interesting phenomena that I'm sure you've

noticed sometimes you will be walking down the street and you'll seethere's a McDonald's I really like a burger or whatever but then right.Nextto it, you'll see a burger king. And then like we wonder sometimes like whywould Burger King put a building here if there's a McDonald's right nextdoor like they already solved the I need a burger problem why why wouldthey bother doing that?

And the reason is because people's taste are different and people enjoy the

the burgers, you know, or whatever quizzing you want to use as an analogyhere. They enjoy that differently and they,And they have a different takeon that But even if you don't have a different take even if it's exactlythe same there's still value in that.

There's a street intersection down in Texas somewhere that has three

Starbucks on it. So they're missing one Starbucks to get all four cornersthree Starbucks, I think one's in a Barnes & Noble and others in some sortof internet cafe or something and then there's an actual Starbucks but youyou can get Starbucks on any three of those corners and and and it worksand it's fine and people enjoy it and they you know, clearly there'sThere'sbusiness for that and in the same way there the internet is so vast andyour reach is different from my reach is different from his research isdifferent from her reach, whatever we're all over in just the way that wecan reach people, especially if you know a language other than English ifthat's the case then you can reach people.

I simply can't. So definitely right that blog post to create that video

make that content because the other side of this is that the,Contentcreation isn't just for the people consuming the content In fact it's oftenespecially the beginning it's more for the person who is creating thecontent.

You learn a great deal by creating content at educational content of some

kind explaining things. You can teach yourself in the future. You can goreference it later, but also the process of creating that content is goingto make you understand it better. So, yes, I strongly advise that eventhough that everybody's already written about this or whatever go ahead andwrite about it yourself.

You'll learn more and you'll reach more people thanAre already being

reached. Hope that's helpful. Have a good day.