To me, the key is to surrender to the nonsense and write down the first words that come to your mind as you listen back to what you’ve recorded. It can take some repetition, but eventually it stops sounding like gibberish and it starts feeling almost like you’re translating from another language—or even better, like you’re taking dictation. Once that step is out of the way, I sit down with just the words on the page to see if there is any sense at all to be made out of the raw translation. Shockingly, there is almost always more sense being made than anyone would anticipate. I’ve even had some
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