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Chew on this: Research suggests that handwriting has significant cognitive and creative benefits. Here’s why you might want to switch back to the pen (or stylus) during your meetings and brainstorms

• Handwriting involves complex coordination between motor and visual systems, engaging the brain more deeply than typing.
• Studies show that handwriting synchronizes brain areas related to motor and visual information processing with memory formation, unlike typing.
• Engaging in handwriting helps create associations between body movements and cognitive processes, crucial for learning and thinking.
• Writing by hand forces you to slow down and process information, leading to better retention and understanding.

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So long, in fact, that they interrupted their own :30 and :15 spots.

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