For many years I took pen to paper for hours on end in a day. I took notes by hand through all my schooling – right through college, wrote papers by hand (unless it was a “big” paper – that got typed), doodled, sent handwritten cards for birthday’s, Christmas, and just to say Hi, made a handwritten shopping list, and journaled most every day. I relished in getting a new pen and discovered my favorite was a fine tipped ink pen or a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil. Now I’m hunched over a desk typing away on a computer and I think we are losing the art the handwriting. A computer keyboard is efficient but there are few things I miss by about writing things out by hand.
Here are a few things you can do to bring back the art of handwriting.
References: Muller P, Openheimer M. The pen is mightier than the keyboard: Advantages of long-hand over laptop note taking. Psychological Science 2014. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581
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