SPI 607: Building Your Second Brain with Tiago Forte

The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast

Pat Flynn

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4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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#607 What would you be able to accomplish if you had a second brain helping you? And no, science hasn’t found a way to clone your brain yet. What I’m talking about is a digital system that allows you to manage information and deliver high-quality work with less effort. Today’s guest, Tiago Forte, is a knowledge management expert. He helps thousands of people get more done through his unbelievable productivity course, Building a Second Brain. We talk about everything from finding the right software tools for your needs to Tiago’s CODE and PARA systems for note taking. He’s a big fan of acronyms, but you’ll find out what this all means and how these systems can revolutionize your work-life. This is a fascinating chat with Tiago, and we get into the step-by-step process you can use to take your productivity to the next level. Show notes and more at SmartPassiveIncome.com/session607.

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0:00.0	Building your second brain is synonymous with using your second brain.
0:03.8	You've probably seen these beautiful, you know, notion dashboards that just exquisite.
0:09.3	If it looks aesthetically pleasing, it's probably not that useful.
0:12.8	The way that you build a second brain is one project at a time and taking it through to these four steps.
0:17.9	Capturing information, organizing that information, distilling that information and then expressing it.
0:22.7	The way that you know you have a second brain and the way you know it's working is when you can reliably deliver better work.
0:29.1	More consistently with less effort and less stress.
0:31.9	That is the only measure of success.
0:34.8	Today we're speaking with Tiago Forte, somebody whose name that I've heard so often during the past couple of years,
0:41.0	because he has a program called Building a Second Brain.
0:44.3	And by second brain, I don't mean an organic brain that you could hold that is connected to yours.
0:49.0	That might come in the future and I know people like Elon Musk are working on things like Nurellink and whatnot.
0:53.5	That's not what we're talking about here.
0:55.2	We're talking about the best way to capture, to organize, to distill, and then express yourself with the things that are happening around you.
1:05.2	Everything from books that you read, how do we capture the best moments of that book and be able to recall those things later?
1:09.8	Not just from memory, but by building literally a digital organizational tool.
1:14.8	And this is more than just a fancy record keeping situation.
1:18.5	There's a lot of utility here.
1:20.0	We go through a number of different examples.
1:22.0	And I personally know a number of people who've been helped by Tiago and people who are at a very high level who uses for all kinds of different things from surgeons who use it for patient record keeping to the stay at home mom who's keeping track of dinner and all the other functions that their kids need to go through.
1:39.2	This could be a huge life changing episode for you.
1:43.1	This is definitely inspirational for me.
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