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Your emotions are data, not noise. Recording them creates the only dataset that reveals what your conscious reasoning consistently misses.
Recurring structures appear at every scale of your experience — in individual thoughts, daily habits, quarterly cycles, and life-long trajectories. The same pattern that shapes a single conversation shapes a career.
Experts do not process more information than novices. They process less — because they have learned which information to ignore. Expertise is not faster consumption. It is superior filtration.
When reality repeatedly contradicts your schema the schema needs updating.
Recording contradictions you encounter builds a dataset for pattern recognition. The act of writing a contradiction down — both sides, the tension between them, the context in which each side holds — transforms a vague cognitive discomfort into a structured observation you can analyze over time. A single contradiction is a puzzle. A journal full of contradictions is a map of where your thinking is ready to grow.
Most decisions you face are variations of types you have encountered before.