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Building a Second Brain
- A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
- Narrated by: André Santana, Tiago Forte
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Discover the full potential of your ideas and make powerful, meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.
For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world's knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to create and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than being empowered by this information, we're often overwhelmed, paralysed by believing we'll never know or remember enough.
This eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. A trusted and organised digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes and creative work, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals. From identifying good ideas, to organising your thoughts, to retrieving everything swiftly and easily, it puts you back in control of your life and information.
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- Lucas
- 23-12-22
Brilliant
Great to get your stuff and life organised in a simply manner, step by step instructions
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- RS S.
- 19-11-22
excellent book made me re think the way I work
excellent book made me re think the way I work and look at creativity
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- Danny Currie
- 26-06-23
Worthwhile ideas, but a little drawn out
Some very good advice and inspiration for getting better at managing information. However, I would agree with others that it could be half the length without losing much valuable insight.
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- Juozas
- 10-02-23
one idea that repeats all over the book
listened 5h out of 6h, this book should be condensed in to an article of 2 pages.
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- Allan Paterson
- 09-01-23
Found by mistake
I thought this book was going to be about AI. That was my mistake but a good one as I am now committed to building a second brain 😀👍🏼
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- Daniel
- 07-02-23
Organising your digital world for the better
An interesting look into how to organise your digital world and enjoy the wealth of knowledge the Internet has to offer.
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- Adrian Panghe
- 12-12-22
excellent
- The moment you discover an idea is the worst time to decide what it means.
- For knowledge workers, attention is the most precious resource. A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
- Creativity depends on a creative process.
- Emotions rather organize, than disrupt, rational thinking
- One of the biggest temptations with organization of information is getting too perfectionist.
- The ability to be succint, without leaving out key details, is what leads to exciting conversations.
- Express your ideas earlier, more frequently, and In smaller chunks to test what works and gather feedback from others.
- Sometimes, the problem is not lack of time, is the the fact that we forget we have control.
- Do not treat knowledge as disposable. Cut, remove, archive - never delete.
- Discoverability is an important feature of managing your notes.
- When are we ever not pressed for time?! Organize for action.
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- Mark Say
- 27-01-23
Solid idea....
First of all if you have no idea of how you can use technology to help you "remember" things then this is likely a really good book.
For those who already use note taking apps and have some sort of system, it's possibly going to limit how useful this book is.
I use Evernote and tags to organise my notes and having read this book I don't really think that I'm going to implement anything from it. What the book has done though is make me think how I can expand from purely work based things into personal type things. For example if and when I see a nice piece of furniture or a room that I like the look of, saving it for consideration next time I decorate a room in my house etc.
I really think that this book could have just been an hour long podcast and you'd have got the same out of it.
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- Ray
- 22-03-23
Excellent book
Well worth a listen. The ideas are simple but worthwhile. I would highly recommend this book.
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- Ken
- 03-01-24
An outlet for your brain
While I found the book useful I do think this could have been shortened to deliver key points. I imagine Tiago’s website complements the book but don’t add life changing, I have yet to check so I could be proven wrong
To anyone thinking about getting this book I would first check out his website and build your second brain there
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