Benefits of Letter Writing

• You don’t have to actively concentrate on the act of writing itself, but on thinking about what to write.
• You can write your thoughts down immediately as you are forming them, without suffering from a delay which hinders your thought process.
• Improved perform...

Being hard on yourself can ruin your mood, focus, and productivity. Luckily, shame and humiliation – two emotions that are common with self-criticism — are shown to only last between 30 to 50 minutes.

Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? 

First, it keeps you awake, not merely conscious, but wide awake. 

Second, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The person who says he knows what he thinks bu...