Give your thoughts a useful and deliberate structure by using frameworks to guide the expression of those thoughts.
Thinking often involves meta-thinking about how to organise or present ideas.
The way we package our thoughts influences their content.
Writing is a process of thinking clearly, which applies grammatical rules to thought - and thereby changes the form of those thoughts from nebulous to linear as the sentence moves from its start to its end.
To have a pre-prepared framework for how to think about things can reduce the #cognitive load for thinker, and so free up thinking space for the topic itself, rather than how to think about it.
This can be used to our advantage in digital note taking. We can use Templates to structure thinking in order to prepare the ground for thinking. We have a functioning framework in which thoughts can grow in a controlled and effective way.
With my , I have templates that divide ideas into a summary, the content and connections showing related ideas. This encourages me to think, but also to provide a clear summary and make links between ideas. It encourages to produce a note, and therefore influence my thinking, in a way that creates interconnected thinking.
Deep thinking requires time and attention.
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