Building Second Brain — Introduction: The Promise Of Second Brain
Table of Contents
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: Introduction: The Promise Of Second Brain .
You can find the ToC from the link above
The Summary
We spent countless hours reading, listening to, and watching other’s people opinions about what we should do, how we should think, and how we should live but make comparatively little effort applying that knowledge and making it our own. So much of the time we are “information hoarders” stockpiling endless amounts of well-intentioned content that only ends up increasing our anxiety.
Second Brain , the system will teach you how to
- Find anything that you’ve learned, touched, or thought about in the past within seconds
- Organize your knowledge and use it to move your projects and goals forward more consistently
- Save your best thinking so you don’t have to do it again
- Connect ideas and notice patterns across different areas of your life so you know how to live better
- Adopt a reliable system that helps you share your work more confidently and with more ease
- Turn work “off” and relax, knowing you have a trusted system keeping track all the details
- Spend less time looking for things, and more time doing the best, most creative work you are capable of
Those who learn how to leverage technology and master the flow of information through their lives will be empowered to accomplish anything they set their minds to.
- At the same time, those who continue to rely on their fragile biological brains will become ever more overwhelmed by the explosive growth in the complexity of our lives
Footnotes
- The field of PKM emerged in the 1990s to help university students handle the huge volume of information they suddenly had access to through Internet-connected libraries
- This metaphor was first used by
Steve Jobsto describe the future potential of the personal computer - Other popular terms for such a system include
Zettelkasten(aslip boxin German), coined by influential sociologist Niklas Luhmann) Memex, a word invented by American inventor Vannevar Bush- A
digital gardennamed by popular online creator Anne-Laure Le Cunff
The Value
This first part of the book, tells us the reason behind the system called Second Brain and its advantages. This system will prevent us to be “information hoarders”, which I think already happened to many people on this day.
There is so much information that flaws per second out there, and people today just like have to absorb all of it. The problem is, our brain has a limitation to do it. That’s why on this day, we have seen so many people which often to being overwhelmed, one of the reasons is that we think that we need to absorb all of the information without any ability to filter it or manage it.
The MindMap
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.
By learning a Second Brain , it will help us to prevent us to be “information hoarders”.
