alt Hacker NewsWriting notes by hand feels like it etches the concepts into my brain in a way that listening alone does not. Typing does not have the same feel.
I have never learned how to do something substantially difficult (math, foreign language, any science, or memorizing a substantial amount of content for a humanities course) without handwriting it. I remember in 8th grade latin, I copied down conjugation charts onto a chalkboard over and over until I had them memorized.
I cannot do university level mathematics without writing it down by hand.
My typing is much better than my penmanship, but it doesn't tend to make topics stick in my brain in the same way that handwriting them does.
I'm very curious what that's like.
Like, handwriting doesn't do a thing for me. It doesn't help me learn at all.
I can't help but wonder if there's some advantage that I'm missing?
But on the other hand, I don't seem to have any problems paying attention or learning. So I'm still just so confused as to how it helps. Like, is my brain already doing the things that some other people need handwriting for? Or is it not, but handwriting doesn't do those things either?
I think I'm extra-baffled because I can't even imagine how it could help. Like, I can't think of any analogy to anything else that would help me understand. I already understand the things and listen to and see, I don't have any issues with concentration or anything... so what does the handwriting add?
I see a lot of people say that it forces you to think more deeply about the material, but I'm kind of always on "maximum thinking mode" already.