About taking notes

If you’re skeptical about this, let me tell you, I was too. The idea of writing down your feelings, your ideas and plans seemed to me completely unproductive. A waste of time even.

As I grew older and I had more and more feelings to take out from my brain, I noticed the advantages of actually writing down what you’re thinking. Not just for the sake of it, but because it’s actually productive and helpful to you too.

It helped me a lot at work, where I was constantly frustrated because I was doing the same work occasionally and I had forgot how to do it, having also a feeling of falling behind along with it.

That’s when I started to writing down every activity I was involved in, and left notes for my future self so he could remember that exact moment. I did, not because someone else could read it and brag about it, but for me, so I was able to re-read my writing later on and remind what I was doing and how I felt at this specific moment.

It feels magical, but just writing down your thoughts, what you just learned, a to-do list, literally anything, will lead to a better memory overall, which has been proved by several studies before.