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Your brain is a terrible place to store information. As David Allen says, you want to use your brain to have ideas, not to store them. Your second brain is a library of insights, notes, thoughts, and ideas that you have at your fingertips as you begin the steps in the writing process.

Whenever you want to think to some purpose, you should consider writing it down. See Luhmann, Communication with Slip Boxes. An Empirical Account, and the book by Steffens (pp 20–21, see references).

Writing improves your ability to think coherently: “what’s my point?” Whatever the answer, you’ll be able to stick to it.

Writing prevents you from

if you focus on your anger when someone insults you, you’re likely to communicate violently by hurling an insult right back. But if you focus on the feelings and needs you have in common, you might recognize that insulting you was this person’s way of expressing their insecurity and their need for self-esteem. Keeping your attention on that common