V_ The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System
- Author:: Ali Abdaal
- Source:: Youtube
- Tags:: Videos second brain
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- 10 Fundamental Principles of Build a Second Brain
- Borrowed Creativity
- Creativity is about Remixing Ideas in interesting ways. Taking ideas from different places and adding a personal spin
- "Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso Quote
- Steal like an artist
- Capture Habbit
- Brains are for creating ideas not for storing them
- As you come across new ideas or interesting things it's important to capture them in a system so they won't be forgotten
- Idea Recycling
- Ideas are not single use and can be reused over time
- Keep track of all the ideas used part of a project because they can be remixed and reused for another project
- Projects Over Categories
- Capture idea and associate it to a project so the information becomes directly useful
- Slow burn vs heavy lifts
- projects are worked on slowly and progressively instead of doing 1 project start to finish with all attention (a blank page, a blank canvas)
- The slow burn allows you to have multiple projects going and as you come across information worth capturing you know there is a project you can associate that idea to
- Start with Abundance
- You never start a deliverable with a blank page.
- Because of your capture habit you can start with ideas, quotes, sources that you stitch together instead of a the heavy lift
- Intermediate Packets
- spit deliverables into distinct blocks or packets that can be combined
- Intermediate packets can be reused in other projects
- Putting together a new deliverable is merely combining intermediate packets in a new way
- It's easier to work on intermediate packets than to get started on the whole thing
- You only know what you make
- Reading, watching, and listening doesn't directly transfer to knowledge.
- You have to create, restate and put out that knowledge in your own words to really understand it
- Reading a book and writing a summary, listening to a podcast and doing a tweet storm, or having an idea and fleshing it out into an intermediate packet
- Make it easier for your future self
- putting in the work now to make your future self's life easier
- future brain is a dumbass and will forget about what things mean
- Keep your ideas moving
- Anti perfectionist, the most important thing is the output. It doesn't really matter what is in your second brain.
- If you aren't using and applying what you learn then the information is useless
- There is no perfect note system and there is no perfect app. Just improve over time.
- Borrowed Creativity
- 10 Fundamental Principles of Build a Second Brain
V_ The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System
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