Greene: Handwriting notes fosters deeper thinking than typing on a computer
Robert Greene · #35 Robert Greene: Alive Time vs. Dead Time · Jun 27, 2018 · at 23:01
Author Robert Greene explains his physical note card research process to Shane Parrish on The Knowledge Project.
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“Writing things out by hand has a logic to it. So when I'm going through a book, and I'm taking notes, and I'm scrawling with my fountain pen on a card, I'm actually thinking more deeply than when I'm sitting there typing stuff on the computer. I don't know how to explain that, but I really, really feel it, that the handwriting process Kind of links closer and faster to the way my brain works.”
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