Participants were then assigned either the role of “idea producer”, a job that entailed generating and working with important ideas, or of “worker”, a job that involved menial tasks like checking for typos.
I wrote this book three years ago, and as many of you guys have pointed out to me, there are still typos in the book because I foolishly tried to edit it myself.
I gotta say, when I read this study, I was super shocked by the results that I had to double and even triple check that there weren't any typos or if I was reading things correctly.
They fixed one letter of one word. It's a typo. And, for that, myself, I and one of my former colleagues can go to jail for six years. That's the first.
That's killing our darlings! We revise before we edit because revision is so impactful that editing for typos or formatting errors first would be a waste of time.