Writing your thoughts for better thinking
- You can hold more ideas than you could in your limited working memory.
- Writing allows editing. Editing mentally quickly becomes exhausting, as the old information interferes with the new.
- Writing allows for longer thoughts. Ideas bubble up and pop all the time in our minds and with writing that we can capture them.
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