Interesting article. As the saying goes, the first step is always the hardest; and from my personal experience, I can attest that writing (especially through t

Interesting article. As the saying goes, the first step is always the hardest; and from my personal experience, I can attest that writing (especially through the old school 'pen and paper' way [0]) can serve as a very effective tool in de-cluttering the mental muddle that comes with formulating anything new. Think of writing as an extension of the brain's working memory -- by offloading cognitively taxing task of keeping track of nitty-gritty details of task at hand, the prefrontal cortex gets a bigger pie of the mental energy -- which helps one to focus on the stuff that actually matters. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/science/researching-the-brain-of-writers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/science/researching-the-b...