The Extended Hand: How Writing by Hand Rewires Your Cognitive Boundaries
Long practice teaches an artist to direct their gaze in an unusually focused way; it trains them to repurpose areas of their brain; and it changes the very structure of the brain’s neural networks. Ocean’s unusual patterns of thought – and his unusually developed brain – were normal in trained artists. Other neurological researchers have shown that
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How can a handwritten journal enable more drawing, confession, weirdness, divergence? I sense that analog explosions might cause some friction in uploading. It might be a shot in productivity, but it’s a boost in something else.
The complex tactile movement of writing by hand stimulates our mind more effectively than typing. It activates multiple regions of the brain simultaneously, thereby imprinting what we learn on a deeper level. As a result, we retain information longer than we would by tapping it into an app.