writing things down: helpful, has time and depth costs, unclear how useful it is for learning new things
I benefited a lot from re-practicing my handwriting, so that I could take notes as I read the sequences for the first time (which you can only do once).
Taking notes via handwriting is absolutely necessary to learn new things. In school they taught us that we lose 50% if we don’t take notes but we ignored that along with all the other lame propaganda that it was mixed in with, even though it’s very, very true. Writing to paper is like a computer writing to memory instead of RAM.
And if you’re in the habit of trying to think about things worth thinking about, then that means you’ll tend to come across things worth writing down.
If exercising arm and core muscles strengthens the body, then exercising hand/wrist muscles (while practicing handwriting) strengthens the mind.
I benefited a lot from re-practicing my handwriting, so that I could take notes as I read the sequences for the first time (which you can only do once).
Taking notes via handwriting is absolutely necessary to learn new things. In school they taught us that we lose 50% if we don’t take notes but we ignored that along with all the other lame propaganda that it was mixed in with, even though it’s very, very true. Writing to paper is like a computer writing to memory instead of RAM.
And if you’re in the habit of trying to think about things worth thinking about, then that means you’ll tend to come across things worth writing down.
If exercising arm and core muscles strengthens the body, then exercising hand/wrist muscles (while practicing handwriting) strengthens the mind.