Brat McKay here and welcome to know the addition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

In the modern age, people are bombarded with more information and are more personally

responsible for managing that information than ever before.

How do you stay on top of your schedule, work responsibilities, financial obligations,

and the spigot of media that runs full force 24-7 while not only avoiding

becoming overwhelmed but actually using all that information to generate better ideas,

advance your career, and generally improve your life?

Well, my guess would say that the answer lies in having a mind outside your mind.

His name is Thiago Forte and he's the author of Building a Second Brain,

a proven method to organize your digital life and unlock your creative potential.

Today on the show, Thiago explains how a second brain is an external resource

where you can store all the most important checklists, thoughts, notes, ideas,

and insights you acquire and generate. He explains how the second brain supercharges

the historical practice of keeping a commonplace book and how it improves your productivity

and well-being by getting stuff out of your head, off your bandwidth, and into a place

where you can actually put it to use. Thiago then walks us through this system of

personal knowledge management, including the tools you can use to capture information,

the question to ask yourself decide what to capture, and why he recommends organizing

what you capture around action instead of subject.

And Thiago explains how the ultimate goal of having a second brain is to take

what you put in this treasury and synthesize it into better ways to live,

think, act, and express yourself. After the show is over,

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