Learn to observe thoughts as objects and externalize them into manipulable form.
Thoughts are not you — they are objects you can craft, version, and reuse across contexts.
Your most novel thinking arrives as fleeting signals. Without a capture practice, you are systematically destroying your own cognitive raw material.
Writing does not record thinking. Writing IS thinking. The act of externalization transforms a vague internal sense into something precise enough to inspect, challenge, and build on.
Metacognition — the ability to observe your own thinking — is what makes self-correction possible. Without it, you cannot debug your own reasoning.
Your sense of cognitive completeness is an illusion. What you can access at any moment is a context-dependent sample of what you actually know — and the sample changes without your awareness.