#### A good system allows you to get everything out of your head relieving you of the burden of remembering and tracking it all --- The brain is not a great task management system, it is best utilized as an idea machine. Cognitive load requires resources and has a tax on the limited amount of energy / willpower you have available to you on a given day. Spending your cognitive energy on task management and the recollection of ideas that occur to you across the course of a day so that you do not forget them is a poor usage of that mental energy^[[[Well defined tasks negate the need for the use of the limited supply of will power]]]. The brain thrives when [[utilizing external scaffolding lessens the cognitive burden]]. So outsourcing our task management, reminders, and ideas to designated places so that we can rest easy that they will have a home somewhere and can easily be found at a better time allows us to easily let our ideas flow to these capture points and reducing the cognitive load on our brains to remember them, while also letting us capture and retain all the ideas we have. This method lets our brain reserve its cognitive resources for what it is best suited for: Having ideas. --- Tags: [[Productivity]] - [[Task Management]] - [[Psychology]] Links: [[{ 2020-09-09 How To Take Smart Notes]] - [[% 2020-09-08 Getting Things Done]] References: