The Value of Journaling Every Day

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"I more often discover what I think about something or have epiphanies through journaling," he says. "If you've put it on post-it notes, you can actually physically move it around and basically turn your ideas into objects that you're manipulating" The book is a gigantic feedback mechanism for referring back to all the things you thought felt and experienced in creating that one giant argument,. That's the value of journaling every day.

In this episode we sit down with Annie Murphy Paul, the acclaimed science writer, whose new book, The Extended Mind is all about how the brain is part of systems, and it is those systems that constitute the mind. In other words, our minds are not, as she puts it, brainbound, but they extend to our computers, our notebooks, our friends and neighbors and colleagues and partners. The environments in which we move, natural and otherwise, deeply influence how we think, what we think, and what we CAN think, and in addition, everything the brain does becomes a reference for extended thinking, and these feedback loops extend what the mind can do.

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