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A lot of people joke about how postit notes on your computer are super insecure etc... But the fact is that the vast majority of threats are from people in other parts of the world, attacking your computer over the internet. So although a piece of paper with your passwords right next to your computer is very insecure vs people who are in your house; those are generally not the people you are worried about anyway! So that isn't so bad.
As for a piece of paper in your wallet... That's legitimately a high-security approach. There and some obvious downsides; but from a security point of view, it's very good - especially if your 'enemies' don't know about it. (Which they probably don't; because unless you're some high-profile political target or a spy or something like that, probably no one is watching you closely enough to care how you store your passwords.)
I think people get stuck on the software angle because they like the cool factor and we all like to think we are super important. In reality most accounts are broken into not with the password but the password recovery anyways.