Can Handwriting Make Us Smarter, Better, and Cooler?

Part-Time Genius

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

People have been writing by hand for thousands of years—ever since the Mesopotamians started doodling in cuneiform. That means there’s a vast, inky world for Will and Mango to explore, from the difference between scribes and scriveners to the best feathers for quill pens. They also reveal a shocking truth about fountain pens, and discover all the ways handwriting benefits our brains. (Yes, we recognize the irony of typing that.)

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0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. You're listening to Part-Time Genius, the production of kaleidoscope
0:36.5	and iHeart Radio.
0:41.5	Guess what, Mango?
0:42.8	What's that, Will?
0:43.7	All right, I hate to start an episode this way, but I got to be honest with you.
0:46.9	I'm a little bit disappointed.
0:48.6	You actually never answered my letter.
0:51.9	The one you slid under my door that just said, hey, Mango, I'm looking forward to recording
0:56.5	later. I mean, you could have texted me that. Yeah, no, that's the one. I'm actually,
1:00.5	I'm making an effort to try to write by hand more. And, you know, while I was researching this
1:05.3	episode, I actually discovered that there are some real benefits to writing the old-fashioned way.
1:10.2	Oh, yeah, like what? So if you write
1:12.2	handwritten notes in a meeting or a lecture, we actually understand the material better than if we
1:17.2	type them. And part of the reason for this is that it slows us down. We have to process what's being
1:22.5	said, and then we decide which words to write from that. And that's different than when we type, because when we're at our computers, we can
1:29.8	transcribe things we hear without really thinking about what those words mean or whether
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