The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
This, again, is deliberate practice. Now we are faced with a clear choice: We have to choose between feeling smarter or becoming smarter. And while writing down an idea feels like a detour, extra time spent, not writing it down is the real waste of time, as it renders most of what we read as ineffectual.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Working like this will leave you with a lot of different notes in many different places. Writing, then, will mean relying heavily on your brain to remember where and when these notes were written down.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
That’s the essence of all this. I write in a notebook every day. But I almost never go back and look at what I wrote. Writing in a notebook is about transferring things from the world to your brain, not to your notebook. Your notebook is a lens for looking at the world, not a box to keep it in.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
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With the world of information at our fingertips, can having access to so much information be a hindrance to memory rather than an asset?
The answer appears to be a definitive YES!
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