[Xcelerate]

For me, it's not that handwriting is a bottleneck in getting my work done; it's that it's psychologically annoying.

For instance, I also get severely annoyed sitting at red lights or driving behind someone going 10 mph under the speed limit (I joke with people that the only thing that ever makes me angry is having a green light turn red right before I get to it). Is it really going to make that much of a difference in getting where I'm going? No, maybe 1-2 minutes top. But the mental anguish it causes is quite bothersome to me, and it's the same way with writing by hand.

[MichaelCrawford]

I find that my own mental anguish is most severe when I expect something good, but am forced to do without.

That is, I have no problem going without food, even for days on end, if I choose to do so. It's unpleasant at first but I get used to it.

However if I am looking forward to a good meal, but cannot obtain it, say because I don't have the money, or I am late to an event where the food was all eaten up before I arrived, then I am really, really upset about it - even though I only go without food for a few hours.

[nvader]

From your post I get the sense that you realise that your emotional response to impatience is out of proportion to the cause. If you would like to control that feeling of mental anguish, might I suggest you take up meditation?

I've found that regular practice of the Focussed Attention style of meditation does wonders for being able to rapidly dismantle my feelings of frustration and take control of my mental state when I'm "in the field", as it were.

[taeric]

I can hope you are merely invoking hyperbole. Otherwise... wow.

[Xcelerate]

"I joke with people that..."

[taeric]

Fair enough. Even the speed of writing felt overstated to me. And going below the speed limit. I mean, sure there are some days someone going slow annoys me. There are some days I'm sure I'm that person. They are thankfully low on the realm of crap I notice, though.

For me, writing is a bit slower than typing. However, arranging thoughts on paper is faster than the same in a computer. Heaven help you if you want to write something that includes basic graphs or spacial information. And I'm not an artist.

[gknoy]

I don't think the speed of writing is overstated. I am not a touch typist, and don't type fast (without typos), but it's __still__ faster and neater than writing by hand. Nearly every time I write something, I get part-way in, and think, "Man, this would be so much faster if I were typing ...", or "This would be easier to read if I could insert a few lines here".

I still like writing, though.