Thread by @vibinbaburajan

[THREAD] Building a Second Brain ideas by @fortelabs

1. Our brain is for having ideas, not storing them.

2. Keep a diverse collection of information/ saved articles/ highlights/ tweets in one centralised place(preferably online). This way they intermix and intermingle, helping us see unexpected connections and patterns in our thinking.

3. Don't organise your information primarily by topic instead organise them according to the projects you are actively working on. This ensures that you are consuming information with a purpose.

4. While saving information, don’t make it a highly intellectual, analytical decision. Save what resonates.

5. A common problem with notes is that they are too
long and dense.

6. Save only the best excerpts from whatever you’re reading, and then create a summary of those excerpts, and then a summary of that summary, distilling the essence of the content at each stage.

7. Summarization allows you to read the note in
in depth if you want to glean every detail, or at a high level if you just need the main takeaway. This allows you to review a note’s contents in seconds to decide if it’s useful for the task at hand.

8. All of this capturing, summarizing, connecting, and organizing has one ultimate purpose: creating tangible results in the real world.

9. With time you’ll be shocked at the elegance and power of what pops out of your notes. This epiphany won’t just exist in your head. People can tell.

10. People'll start to notice that you can draw on an unusually large body of knowledge at a moment’s notice.

11. People will admire your amazing memory, but what they don’t know is that you never try to remember anything.

12. People'll admire your incredible self-discipline and dedication at developing ideas over time, not knowing that you’ve created a system in which insights and connections emerge organically.

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