Building a Second Brain
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
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🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
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?
My guest would say that the answer lies in having a mind outside your mind. His name is Tiago 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, Tiago explains how a Second Brain is an external resource where you can store all of the most valuable 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. Tiago then walks us through this system of "Personal Knowledge Management," including the tools you can use to capture information, the question to ask yourself to decide what to capture, and why he recommends organizing what you capture around action instead of subject. And Tiago explains how the ultimate goal of having a Second Brain is to take what you put into this treasury and synthesize it into better ways to live, think, act, and express yourself.
Resources Related to the Podcast- Commonplace books
- AoM Article: The Man Book — Creating a Reservoir of Timeless Wisdom
- Tiago's YouTube series on choosing a digital notes app
- Digital note-taking apps mentioned in the show:
- Pocket — an article-saving app
- Tiago's blog post on his "PARA" organization system
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| 0:00.0 | Brat McKay here and welcome to know the addition of the Art of Manliness podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | In the modern age, people are bombarded with more information and are more personally |
| 0:15.0 | responsible for managing that information than ever before. |
| 0:18.0 | How do you stay on top of your schedule, work responsibilities, financial obligations, |
| 0:22.0 | and the spigot of media that runs full force 24-7 while not only avoiding |
| 0:26.0 | becoming overwhelmed but actually using all that information to generate better ideas, |
| 0:30.0 | advance your career, and generally improve your life? |
| 0:33.0 | Well, my guess would say that the answer lies in having a mind outside your mind. |
| 0:37.0 | His name is Thiago Forte and he's the author of Building a Second Brain, |
| 0:41.0 | a proven method to organize your digital life and unlock your creative potential. |
| 0:45.0 | Today on the show, Thiago explains how a second brain is an external resource |
| 0:49.0 | where you can store all the most important checklists, thoughts, notes, ideas, |
| 0:53.0 | and insights you acquire and generate. He explains how the second brain supercharges |
| 0:57.0 | the historical practice of keeping a commonplace book and how it improves your productivity |
| 1:01.0 | and well-being by getting stuff out of your head, off your bandwidth, and into a place |
| 1:05.0 | where you can actually put it to use. Thiago then walks us through this system of |
| 1:09.0 | personal knowledge management, including the tools you can use to capture information, |
| 1:12.0 | the question to ask yourself decide what to capture, and why he recommends organizing |
| 1:17.0 | what you capture around action instead of subject. |
| 1:20.0 | And Thiago explains how the ultimate goal of having a second brain is to take |
| 1:23.0 | what you put in this treasury and synthesize it into better ways to live, |
| 1:27.0 | think, act, and express yourself. After the show is over, |
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