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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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Improve your thinking with writing:
- Have a written meeting, before your face-to-face one: You’ll be able to communicate them intelligently when the meeting comes.
- Many problems that feel overwhelming are suddenly simplified once you write them down.
- Simply the act of writing down an explanatio...
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