Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut.
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Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut.
Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll confuse h... See more
you can't just collect information to feel creatively and
intellectually alive you need to build a relationship with your gut you need to understand what is worth keeping what is my intention what what do I want to get out of this
Sari Azout • How I Build My Personal Knowledge Library W Sari Azout
By collecting our knowledge in a centralized place outside of our own heads, we can create an engine of creative output – a “second brain” – to advance a career, build a business, or pursue a passion. By making this knowledge digital , we can reap the benefits of searchability, backups, syncing between devices, sharing w
... See moreTiago Forte • A Complete Guide to Tagging for Personal Knowledge Management
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When creators talk about using a “second brain” (an external knowledge management system), they risk forgetting the power of their own subconscious. Both could work in unison. You’re “deep subconscious” is untouchable and unknowable, it’s just your engrained way of working that you accumulate over your life through effort and you can barely start t
... See moreMichael Dean added
CODE = capture | organize | distill | express
Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain
Jay Millar added
Building a second brain is a useful strategy for coping with complexity. At the same time, it is fundamentally single-player, and most of the interesting things we do, we do together. Can we find ways to think and make meaning together over the internet?
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The Secret
Allow yourself to go down rabbit holes
A rabbit hole is not a distraction. A rabbit hole is your brain trying to tell you to pay attention to something you’re curious about. Ignore algorithmic rabbit holes.
If you see something, save something
Pay attention to what feels resonant to you. Save breadcrumbs and build a path for yourself to w... See more
Allow yourself to go down rabbit holes
A rabbit hole is not a distraction. A rabbit hole is your brain trying to tell you to pay attention to something you’re curious about. Ignore algorithmic rabbit holes.
If you see something, save something
Pay attention to what feels resonant to you. Save breadcrumbs and build a path for yourself to w... See more
Are.na
the idea of the Second Brain is “[...] a methodology for saving and systematically reminding us of the ideas, inspirations, insights, and connections we’ve gained through our experience.”
Michiel van Beers • My second brain with Notion, Readwise, Google Maps, and much more
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