Your life is not natural, but is constructed from records; If you don't define yourself, you can only be defined by others. 1. Recording is not only a memory, but also a snatching of the right to speak in life. 2. The brain needs a story carrier, don't be the audience in other people's scripts. 3. Memories are not passively stored, but are actively created by relying on records. 4. Only by seeing your own traces can you start accumulating compound interest in life. In the past, I despised records, thinking that as long as I felt the present with my heart, it turned out that life was like quicksand, and looking back was blank. Later, I forced myself to write a blank sheet of paper in my life, solidifying the fragmented experience into evidence. Now I am no longer overwhelmed by the flood of information, because I have built my own coordinate system and truly have the sovereignty of life. Why do you feel like you're going through a lot of things every day, but in retrospect, your mind is blank, as if you've never really lived? Not recording is not 'living freely', but a kind of cowardice that does not dare to leave traces in this world. If you don't write down your thoughts, other people's thoughts will colonize your brain; If you don't record your life, other people's experiences will falsify your memory.