Zettlekasten is about optimizing for insight! §

Created: 2022-04-10 20:22

Picking the topic and hypothesis to write about is often the first step researches and writers take. However that triggers our brain to go straight into looking for confirmation, so instead of challenging the hypothesis we merely try to prove it.

Open ended questions and a theme or topic we want to focus on, on the other hand, keeps our brain open to new ideas and helps to develop insights as we read, research, and think.

Once we got all the insights topics chose themselves.