Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte: Book Summary
Key ideas and insights to help you improve your note-taking
Building a second brain is about optimizing a system outside yourself. It leaves you free to roam, wander, spend less time stressing about remembering the information and spend more time doing what makes you feel alive.
We are living in the age of abundance. We have more of everything. And that's true for information as well. We consume more than ever. But have we got any results from so much consumption of information? Do we even remember any of it? Even though our brain is not made for remembering information, has the information that we consume helped us move forward in our careers and life?
This is what your second brain is for. To make better use of the information we collect, we need to package it up and save it externally. Personal knowledge management helps to harness the potential of what we know.
Uses of a second brain system
- Find anything you’ve learned in the past
- Organize your knowledge and use it to move forward in your life
- Connect ideas
- A reliable system to share your work and work confidently
- Spend less time looking for…
