Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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“I think it’s important to put your impressions down on the first reading because those are the initial instincts about what you thought was good or what you didn’t understand or what you thought was bad.”
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Create notes from the initial read and how it resonates with you.
This is collecting and organising information but not utilizing it.
You curate and nurture a garden of knowledge to maintain over a life time. Be minimalist with what you consume. You have only so may F*#ks to give in the world.
Information isn’t a luxury—it is the very basis of our survival.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
A knowledge building block is discrete.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
if a piece of content has been interpreted through your lens, curated according to your taste, translated into your own words, or drawn from your life experience, and stored in a secure place, then it qualifies as a note.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
For modern, professional notetaking, a note is a “knowledge building block”—a discrete unit of information interpreted through your unique perspective and stored outside your head.