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I’m not “smarter” but keeping a daily journal where I can dump stream-of-consciousness onto the page and look back at it has been very helpful for me. It frees

• milesvp 3y ago
  I’ve been watching a youtube psychiatrist who seems to be abreast of the latest research on some of this stuff. He had an interesting insight around learning and journaling. His take seems to be that journaling is something you do to help process big things, mostly emotional. Or to write things down so you can clear your working memory. But there seems to be evidence that you don’t want to write down certain things you want to recall. Or at least, you don’t want to write them down prior to sleep. Seems there’s some research that suggest sleep brain activity will proritise emotional problem solving, then non emotional problem solving, then recall. So to get better recall of facts, writing down things to clear the brain of everything but what you want to remember is a good strategy. edit: healthy gamer is the channel, and I really enjoy when he talks the science behind some of these topics