📰 - Building a Second Brain_ An Overview (Tiago 2019)
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- By offloading our thinking onto a “second brain,” we free our biological brain to imagine, create, and simply be present. We can move through life confident that we will remember everything that matters, instead of floundering through our days struggling to keep track of every detail
- By keeping a diverse collection of information in one centralized place, it is free to intermix and intermingle, helping us see unexpected connections and patterns in our thinking.
- unless we make conscious, strategic decisions about what we consume, we’ll always be at the mercy of what others want us to see.
- Instead of organizing your files primarily by topic (for example, web design or psychology), which is time-consuming and mentally taxing, organize them according to the projects you are actively working on.
- Instead of organizing each one of the information management tools you use in a completely different way, use your projects as universal categories across all of them
- You can greatly facilitate and speed up this process by distilling your notes into actionable, bite-sized summaries.
- By constantly saving packets of knowledge in a format that our future self can easily consume, we follow a “pay it forward” strategy that we get to benefit from in the future!
- Progressive Summarization is a technique that relies on summarizing a note in multiple stages over time. You save only the best excerpts from whatever you’re reading, and then create a summary of those excerpts, and then a summary of that summary, distilling the essence of the content at each stage**.
- Your rule of thumb should be: add value to a note every time you touch it
- With a second brain at your disposal, you always have something to inspire you, remind you, support you, or guide you as you engage in the projects and interests that are important to you.You are able to draw on the sum total of your life experience and learning, not just whatever you can think of in the moment.
- we should shift as much of our effort as possible from consuming information, to creating new things
- You will begin to think of your projects as made up of discrete parts. I call them “intermediate packets,” which can include any kind of content we’ve already mentioned
- the real payoff comes at the end, when you create something out of the knowledge you’ve collected and share it with the world.
- Each note in your second brain is a record of something you’ve experienced in your life – whether that is from reading a book, having an interesting conversation, or completing a project at work.
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