The Extended Hand: How Writing by Hand Rewires Your Cognitive Boundaries
Something magic happens when you write by hand. It unlocks new thought patterns.
Sure you can use AI to help you with your thinking or you can simply go for a walk or spend time in nature.
But there's something specifically that happens when you write by hand.
It's just nice to have this as a tool in your toolkit to improve thinking.
And with a
... See moreLong 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.