![]() According to BASB, early modern Englishmen would transcribe fragments of text they came across into a “commonplace book” to help them make sense of the world. And then, it’s about retrieving those notes to help you in your creative outputs, so that you don’t need to start from scratch. ![]() BASB is about knowing what to save and how to save it that makes retrieval easy. In the book, Tiago makes the case to build a “second brain” using a platform like Evernote, Notion, or Google Keep. I sped through the book in 3 days, and saw that it contained some valuable insights on how I could finally manage and activate the monster amount of information I came across at work. But after researching a little more, I decided to give the approach a chance. I assumed that it was just another business book about note-taking (yawn) which I had already been doing for years: I had been using Evernote since 2013, and I had stacks of paper notebooks accumulated from a decade of work life and journaling. Discovering The Second BrainĪ couple of weeks back, I came across Tiago Forte’s book titled Building A Second Brain (BASB). It was only in recent weeks that I came across a promising approach to tackle it. Struggling with these two challenges – making sense of all the info and harnessing it in my work – drove me crazy. If you’ve ever tried doing 20 searches for just that one email or doc, you’ll know what I’m talking about. I knew that I had everything I needed in my Google Drive or my emails, yet finding the right info was cumbersome and time-consuming. Yet despite having access to so much valuable information, I would take hours, sometimes days, to craft any output that required deep thinking, like a new pitch or strategy. None of it really seemed to work, and it would stress me out constantly. It was like drinking from the proverbial firehose of information, and I tried various tactics to manage it: Bookmarking, notebooks, and even building my own personal resource guide. When I started at my new job two years ago, people would throw decks, templates, SOPs, client intel, and a whole barrage of information at me. ![]() “We are surrounded by knowledge, yet starving for wisdom” Tiago Forte, author of Building A Second BrainĮveryone knows that starting a new job is stressful. ![]()
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