Building A Second Brain — Chapter 1: Where It All Started
Table Of Contents
About The Book
About The Page
The Summary
— A Personal Turning Point — Discovering The Power Of Writing Down
— Another Shift — Discovering The Power Of Sharing
— The Origins of the Second Brain System
The Value
The Mind Map
Outro
About The Book
I’ve written a story to introduce this book :
About The Page
This story will tell us the summary of the first part of this book, which is: Chapter 1: Where It All Started.
You can find the ToC from the link above
The Summary
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them
A Personal Turning Point — Discovering The Power Of Writing Down
I took out my journal and began to write what I was feeling and thinking. I wrote out the history of my condition, through my own lens and in my own words, for the first time. I listed which treatments had helped and which hadn’t. I wrote down what I wanted and didn’t want, what I was willing to sacrifice and what I wasn’t, and what it would mean to me to escape the world of pain I felt trapped within.
As I look back, my notes were as important in finding relief as any medicine or procedure. They gave me the chance to step back from the details of my condition and see my situation from a different perspective.
From then on, I became obsessed with the potential of technology to channel the information all around me. I began to realize that the simple act of taking notes on the computer was the tip of the iceberg.
Because once made digital, notes were no longer limited to short, handwritten scribbles-they could take any form, including images, links, and files of any shape and size.
In the digital realm, information could be molded and shaped and directed to any purpose, like a magical, primordial force of nature.
Another Shift — Discovering The Power Of Sharing
My collection of notes and files had always been for my own personal use, but as I worked on consulting projects for some of the most important organizations in the world, I started to realize that it could be a business asset as well.
The Origins of the Second Brain System
I began to call the system I had developed my Second Brain and started a blog to share my ideas about how it worked. These ideas resonated with a much wider audience than I ever expected, and my work was eventually featured in publications such as:
- The Harvard Business Review
- The Atlantic
- Fast Company
- Inc.
The Value
This chapter tells us the history behind this book, Building A Second Brain. It all started with a journey of finding information for the author’s health issue, and starting with a note, where he can channel his mind into his “external brain”.
The Mind Map
Outro
As a disclaimer, I’ll not describe all important things from this part, only tell you what kind of “value” you will get by reading this whole book, especially from this specific part.
The point of this chapter is to tell us a story about a beginning journey to channel information. In my previous story about this book, it describes how to prevent us to be “information hoarders”, this story, tells us how to “distribute” the information itself.
