Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

If you ignore that inner voice of intuition, over time it will slowly quiet down and fade away. If you practice listening to what it is telling you, the inner voice will grow stronger. You’ll start to hear it in all kinds of situations. It will guide you in what choices to make and which opportunities to pursue. It will warn you away from people an

wait until you know how you’ll put the note to use. For example, when I’m preparing to write a blog post or article, I’ll usually start by highlighting the most interesting points from a group of notes that I think will be relevant to the topic at hand.

Information is food for the brain. It’s no accident that we call new ideas “food for thought.”

The biggest pitfall I see people falling into once they begin capturing digital notes is saving too much.

Research from Microsoft shows that the average US employee spends 76 hours per year looking for misplaced notes, items, or files.

Writer and photographer Craig Mod wrote, “There is a gaping opportunity to consolidate our myriad marginaliaIV into an even more robust commonplace book. One searchable, always accessible, easily shared and embedded amongst the digital text we consume.”

area of responsibility,

Feynman responded: “It doesn’t have any importance… I don’t care whether a thing has importance. Isn’t it fun?”

To properly take advantage of the power of a Second Brain, we need a new relationship to information, to technology, and even to ourselves.