Since the mind and thoughts are complex, it’s actually quite a struggle to write down thoughts, especially in a way so that you or other people could read or understand the written material.

That’s why note taking system is very beneficial for this ‘brain dumping’.

Reference

Ahrens, Sönke. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking. 2nd edition, Revised and Expanded edition, Sönke Ahrens, 2022.

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Getting something that is already written into another written piece is incomparably easier than assembling everything in your mind and then trying to retrieve it from there.

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