Journaling
I often read that keeping a journal is very useful and even mandatory for your self-growth. I tried often to get in this habit but the countless notebooks, agendas that are still unfinished on my desk are all proof of failure to stick with it. But I do recognize the loss.
What is lost are ideas, inspiration, insights and funny things. I often think after one of these little gems that strike me as important that "no way will I ever forget this!" only to be left with that feeling the next day. You know the feeling, right?
When you remember you had a cool idea or thought but not the actual content? It's just an irritating itch that you can almost remember but no matter how much you scratch at it, nothing comes out. Something lost forever.
Does it matter?
Well, maybe not but also who knows. The accumulated archive of all your lost ideas could have compounded into something pretty interesting and life-changing. But if every day your progress or my progress starts anew from the same point I were pretty much yesterday as I can not re-read something I realized to internalize it then progress will be..slow...
Of course, I can and we all can progress without writing down anything. Most people don't!
I guess if you don't want to be most people better work on that calligraphy and keep a notebook close. You never know when the thought hits you.
Note to self.
Good morning friend
Thanks you post
Amazing post
journals in the world of academics are different from opinions, free writings or essays. if we want to write a journal. then we need a lot of books to find the issues that are being discussed. one of the ways my master taught me was to read the paper and write down the criticism of the news. then searched for theoretical and comparative data to find a solution.
yes, I understand. This is different in the sense that you write your own thoughts and as such, is a self-discovery instrument. But the habit still stands no matter in what discipline you learned it.
Okey
Nice to see your next post
I agree we 'should' keep a journal, I do not. I have various spiral notebooks I jot ideas in and everything else I am keeping track of.
You can see I am not very organized, somehow it all works out.
Added note: I did keep a journal at one time and found it very useful. Maybe we both should consider one. LOL
This is why I started bullet journaling. It is the lazy journal keepers way. Jot down the note and everything close by. I love it. I have had far too many of those moments of thinking I will never forget a moment and can't for the life of me find it again when I sit down to write.