There’s this emphasis to learn and memorize information, but where is it when we need it?
Creating a Second Brain is a method to preserving information and freeing our biological brain to imagine, create, and just be present.
Part I: Remember
Think like a curator
- Be opinionated, objective, and reflective-make strategic decisions about the information you read and take in so you aren’t easily swayed
- Organize content by project
- Prioritize the content to assist with what you are currently working on, consume information with a purpose
- Keep only what resonates
- Train yourself to notice when something resonates with us on a deeper level, it improves our understanding of ourselves and ability to see opportunities
Part II: Connect
Design notes for your future self
- Makes it easier to find and make use of next time
- Includes: defining key terms, inserting placeholders, and adding links we’re likely to forget
- Summarize progressively, at different levels of detail
- Save the best excerpts, create a summary, then a summary of the summary to review a note’s content in seconds
- Organize opportunistically, a little bit at a time
- Add value to a note every time you touch it-highlighting important parts, adding informative titles
Part III: Create
Put information to use
- Information becomes knowledge, shifts effort to creating new things, bringing up new opportunities and meeting new people
- Create smaller, reusable units of work
- Begin to think of projects as having discrete parts, allowing you to work in smaller increments, make use of time, and receive more feedback
- Share your work with the world
- Continually curate and save pieces of content, you’ll realize everything is a work in progress
- Connect with new collaborators, find new clients
