Building A Second Brain — Chapter 2: What Is Second Brain
Table of Contents
About The Book
About The Page
The Summary
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 2: What Is Second Brain
You can find the ToC from the link above
The Summary
Information is the fundamental building block of everything you do.
According to the New York Times, the average person’s daily consumption of information now adds up to a remarkable 34 GB
Information OverloadbecomeInformation Exhaustion
It’s time to acknowledge that we can’t “use our head” to store everything we need to know and to outsource the job of remembering to intelligent machines.
Every change in how we use technology also required a change in how we think.
From Leonardo Da Vinci to Virginia Woolf, from John Locke to Octavia Butler, have recorded the ideas they found most interesting in a book they carried around with them, known as “commonplace book”.
What is “CommonPlace Book” ?
Taken from Wikipedia:
Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books.
During the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, the commonplace book was more than a diary or journal of personal reflections. It was a learning tool that the educated class used to understand a rapidly changing world and their place in it.
The digital commonplace book is what I call a Second Brain
A combination of a study notebook, a personal journal, and a sketchbook for new ideas. However you decide to use it, your Second Brain is a private knowledge collection designed to serve a lifetime of learning and growth, not just a single use case.
The workforce today can be considered “knowledge workers” — professionals for whom knowledge is their most valuable asset, and who spend a majority of their time managing large amounts of information.
A “knowledge building block” is a discrete unit of information interpreted through your unique perspective and stored outside your head.
A knowledge building block is discrete. It stands on its own and has intrinsic value, but knowledge building blocks can also be combined into something much greater
- A report
- An argument
- A proposal
- A story
The Value
You’ll learn the definition a Second Brain , and also a history about it. Starting from a commonplace book and digitalize it become a second brain .
It’s not just a definition but also about why we need it.
Information OverloadbecomeInformation Exhaustion
The Mind Map
Outro
We’ll learn about how to manage information here and the Second Brain exists to prevent us to overload incoming information, manage it, or maybe I’ll say it to channel the information based on our needs, to prevent us become exhausted.
