I love cursive, and when taking notes for myself, cursive is the easiest, fastest, and best way to write.
It has an added bonus here in Japan if I don't want anyone else to decipher what I'm writing, for whatever reason. Since the norms for teaching English here are extremely inflexible, cursive has been absolutely baffling and unreadable for all of the natives I've come across, because they never encounter it.
Moreover, since the writing is so continuous, I find cursive reduces excessive self-censorship, which starts to creep up whenever I stop to think about what I'm writing, which tends to coincide with the times that my pen leaves the paper. When perfectionism creeps up and reduces my ability to put out any sort of product, cursive is the best solution, since the focused, continuous act of physically writing stops me from going back and second-guessing. It's too easy to just mash the delete button if I'm using a computer and judge something to be inadequate, which is definitely hard for productivity--not to mention that typing is absolutely effortless. Much more difficult to crumple up and throw away that paper that I just spent pouring physical and mental energy onto. It gets the ideas out of my head and keeps them visible.
It has an added bonus here in Japan if I don't want anyone else to decipher what I'm writing, for whatever reason. Since the norms for teaching English here are extremely inflexible, cursive has been absolutely baffling and unreadable for all of the natives I've come across, because they never encounter it.
Moreover, since the writing is so continuous, I find cursive reduces excessive self-censorship, which starts to creep up whenever I stop to think about what I'm writing, which tends to coincide with the times that my pen leaves the paper. When perfectionism creeps up and reduces my ability to put out any sort of product, cursive is the best solution, since the focused, continuous act of physically writing stops me from going back and second-guessing. It's too easy to just mash the delete button if I'm using a computer and judge something to be inadequate, which is definitely hard for productivity--not to mention that typing is absolutely effortless. Much more difficult to crumple up and throw away that paper that I just spent pouring physical and mental energy onto. It gets the ideas out of my head and keeps them visible.