Why You Should Always Think on Paper
Boost your productivity by committing to writing things down
If you want to be genuinely productive, you need to focus 100% on what you are doing. With tasks perceived as fun and interesting, that shouldn’t be too hard; since you enjoy doing them, the focus comes for free.
But if you need to deal with something you don’t feel like doing, like a not-so-interesting work task, then the game changes completely. Depending on how strong your self-discipline muscle is, your mind will start to wander, and it will be harder to stay focused.
How can we deal with this? Often, the biggest hurdle is that we haven’t yet decided what to do and how to do it. As you have already heard a million times before, you should break down the problem into smaller, consumable parts. Not exactly ground-breaking news.
However, if your preferred method to resolve this is to lean back and contemplate, you are doing it wrong. Here’s why:
1. Millers Law
Every thought will lead to another, and soon you have flooded your working memory. Have you heard of the 7±2 rule, a.k.a. Miller’s Law? In short, it states that our brains can only juggle a finite number of things at any given moment.
