Building a Second Brain To Become More Productive (in 2022)
A Simple Formula To Help You Become More Productive.
The human brain is always hungry for information. Doesn't matter, it comes from which source. It searches for information.
But as we all know, our brain has a certain capacity. So we can’t store or remember everything we learnt.
This is where the concept of building a second brain plays an important part.
It helps you to organize everything you learned in a very systematic manner.
Let’s uncover it.
Capture
It involves capturing every single thing you learnt.
Why you should do this:
We consider ourselves as storage machines and think that we will remember this thing easily.
But this creates a chaos in your mind. Because a normal human mind receives around 30K+ thoughts per day.
So it is very difficult to remember everything you learnt because our brain also deletes the things that it finds less important.
Example: It is like transferring your important folders from your device to pen drive, to create space for more info.
Highlight:
This involves highlighting the important points from the information gathered.
Why You Should Do This:
Now everything you note will not be important. Because now there is plenty of data to deal with.
So highlighting the key points makes your job quite easier. As now you have to only deal with the information that is important.
Example: It is like putting your very important emails under starred section in Gmail.
Create:
It involves creating things from the notes you prepared.
Why You Should Do This:
People love watching motivational videos, but when it comes to application, you will find very few people actually doing it.
It is because people don’t like taking action. But as we all know, success comes from taking action and there is no substitute for it.
Example: Creating a step-by-step course from the points you learned and highlighted.
Tools To Help You:
- You can use Keep Notes, Google Docs and Apple Notes for capturing notes.
- You can use applications like Notion and Mindnode for highlighting the key points.
- To create, I don’t think you need any kind of tool. Here you need Pure Determination, Patience and Hard work.
Final Thoughts
All the points I mentioned are from the book: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte.
I personally enjoyed the key insights from the book and that’s why I shared this with you.
Thank you for reading.
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