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ght information at the right time in the right place. It also means you may have trouble shutting up. Your milage may vary.
You will not only be immobilized in the arena of action, but you will also be immobilized in the arena of thought. This appears to be contradictory, but it's not really. When you are writing down your thoughts, you are making them clear to yourself, but when you revise your thoughts, it requires a lot of work- you have to update old ideas to point to new ideas. This discourages a lot of new thinking. There is also a "structural integrity" to your old thoughts that will resist change. You may actively not-think certain things, because it would demand a lot of notekeeping work. (Thus the notion that notebooks are best applied to things that are not changing.)
For all of this immobility, this freezing, for all of these negative effects, *why on Earth* would anyone want to do this?
Because of the INCREDIBLE CLARITY that comes with it. It may feel like, doing this, that for the first time in your life, you REALLY have a CLEAR IDEA of what kinds of thoughts are going through your head. You'll really understand your ideas. And you'll also see connections that you were never consciously aware of before. You'll see a structure and a pattern in your life. You're goals and psychology will become clearer to you. You'll be clearer too about what you do NOT understand.
It is like taking a microscope to your brain. You'll see the little thoughts moving around, *literally*, as you walk them through the maps you discover within yourself.
You'll see what you care about, quite clearly. You'll be familiar with your mental terrain. Incredible clarity. Addictive clarity. Vast clarity. Extraordinary clarity.
You will Love it, if you are anything like me. It will feel natural and free; There will be a freedom within your mind. You'll create astonishing things, and you'll find great tools that will help you in your life after you are immobilized.
Or at least, *it will