{"id":41159,"date":"2018-04-10T04:45:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/?p=41159"},"modified":"2018-04-10T04:45:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:45:52","slug":"science-of-pen-and-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/science-of-pen-and-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Putting Pen to Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my earliest memories involves a handwriting struggle. My class had been tasked with writing stories. I love stories. My masterpiece, about accidentally catching a great white shark and putting him into my bedroom aquarium, was the longest in the class.<\/p>\n

It was pages and pages long. It had chapters. I was in child-heaven until my teacher told us that we would be copying our stories into nice, hardcover books using our most perfect handwriting.<\/p>\n

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I spent more recesses than I can count sitting at my desk painstakingly writing into the book. My teacher eventually took pity on me and finished the final \u201cchapters\u201d herself. Her handwriting was shockingly better than mine.<\/p>\n

I still have terrible handwriting, but I write constantly. Pulling out a laptop on the train to jot down random ideas seems unnecessary and also less romantic. Taking handwritten notes at lectures has always come more naturally to me than typing. I like arrows, explanatory margin notes, and multi-colored pens. My go-to study habit involves rewriting study guides ad nauseum, but only the points I haven\u2019t mastered yet, silently repeating them to myself as I dot my i\u2019s and cross my t\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Today, I am incredibly thankful for every teacher that made me sit at my desk and learn to write by hand. As researchers delve into the science of putting ideas to paper the old-fashioned way, benefits of writing with pen and paper are difficult to ignore. Writing is undeniably linked to learning.<\/p>\n\t\t