I thought it was the case, and now there’s a study — reported in Fast Company at The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For Writing Things Out — that bears me out.
Writing, on paper, using a your own hand, is often better for creativity and for thinking than typing! It’s also better for remembering:
By committing your thought to paper, you’re also doing more to lock it into place. … as your hand executes each stroke of each letter, it activates a much larger portion of the brain’s thinking, language, and “working memory” regions than typing, which whisks your attention along at a more letters-and-words pace.
For me, every important project I work on has a significant part of its life as ink scrawled onto paper.
Don’t let those handwriting muscles atrophy!
Jeff Brooks has been serving the nonprofit community for more than 35 years and blogging about it since 2005. He considers fundraising the most noble of pursuits and hopes you’ll join him in that opinion. You can reach him at jeff [at] jeff-brooks [dot] com.
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