It can be argued that recording ideas allows more ideas once you have thought of something and it has been recorded--none of your proceeding brain power used to try to remember what you have already thought. And it makes it so it is hard for you to skip vital parts in logic and make decisions based heavily on feelings rather than common sense.
But it can also be argued that the burden and slow pace of recording ideas inhibits your mental flow, and prevents some ideas from taking shape because you are pausing not to think still about your ideas, but to repeat the ideas you already had. This is basically nothing, nothing is being accomplished in this time, it is grunt work. This is what a page should do! Or some kind of modern machine equivalent! This is not a reason to restrict genius!So until I develop the extreme mental capacity and focus to remember everything I think without recording until a later period of time, I will just have to improve my skills at thinking something different than what I am writing. Is it possible? Mwahaha!
Um, I'm not sure.
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Well, that's freakin' deep. How about: The process of recording ideas already thought will generate new ideas which are recorded even as they are formulated. Case in point -- the novelist/creative writer. He (generic he) does not sit down with an entire work already developed in his head -- there may be an outline or even most of a novel, but things create themselves as he types; ideas present themselves almost without thought. You've heard of writers saying the characters take over the work and the writer feels like he's just sitting back and watching it develop? Obviously that can't literally be true, so I would think what must be happening is that the process of recording the ideas is as fast as the thinking of the ideas.
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