In his book The Organized Mind, cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin talks about the tremendous harm inflicted on us by information overload, which he claims is worse for your brain than exhaustion and smoking marijuana (he calls multitasking “empty-calories brain candy”). Numerous studies have shown that handwriting notes is simply better for engagement, information retention, and mental health than is writing on digital devices. “Writing something down conserves the mental energy of worrying that you might forget something and in trying not to forget it,” Levitin wrote,
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