> And most importantly you have to write. A lot. Writing allows our brain to structure our thinking.
Not to be pedantic, but I’d still argue that thinking is the most important. At least when understanding the nature of learning. I mean, writing is ultimately great because it facilitates high quality thinking. You essentially say this yourself.
Overall, I think it’s more helpful to understand the learning process as promoting high quality thinking (encoding if you want to be technical). This sort of explains why teaching others, argumentation, mind-mapping, good note-taking, and other activities and techniques are great for learning as well.
Not to be pedantic, but I’d still argue that thinking is the most important. At least when understanding the nature of learning. I mean, writing is ultimately great because it facilitates high quality thinking. You essentially say this yourself.
Overall, I think it’s more helpful to understand the learning process as promoting high quality thinking (encoding if you want to be technical). This sort of explains why teaching others, argumentation, mind-mapping, good note-taking, and other activities and techniques are great for learning as well.