Thread by @fortelabs

1/ The act of building a Second Brain is an act of revolution

2/ Your experience is the sum of the information you consume

When you take control of that information stream, you push your world into a state of change

You become a destabilizing force to the prevailing worldview

3/ Your ability to shape your information stream becomes the power to shape your own experience

Once you master this, you can also shape the experiences of others

It’s all just information

4/ This process begins with taking note of what is, just as it is

By documenting reality, we get close to it

And when we are close to it, we can bend reality to our will

5/ Acts of revolution can break things, but you also need information to make things

Your Second Brain is also a tool of creation

6/ The ideas you collect form your world

Every insight you gain becomes a new desert, mountain range, or forest in your landscape of knowledge

This world in turn shapes all that you will become and all that you will create in your life

7/ When we were children, we allowed ourselves to create imaginary worlds all the time

We inhabited them just as much as the “real” world

But then we were told that those worlds didn’t matter

Our imagination was tamed

8/ You have the choice of where to focus your attention

And thus, you have the right to choose your interpretation of events

And thus, you have permission to create your own reality

9/ The problem with reality is it’s so easy to see

Look around you — there it is

You can’t leave reality

It is stubbornly tangible and persistent

10/ But in fact, reality isn’t permanent at all

It’s constantly changing

What we know about reality is always incomplete

Even the things we think we do know are approximations at best

11/ When we think about the future, this reality can get in the way

Our incomplete and incorrect ideas about reality can end up tainting our view of what is possible in the world

The resulting visions of the future turn out not so different from the present

12/ It takes extra effort and courage to set aside our ideas about reality and imagine a different future

Not to mention explore the innumerable pathways that could exist

13/ The word “utopia” means “good not place” — a wonderful place that doesn’t exist

It is important to remember that we are not meant to arrive at utopia, because it isn’t a place

14/ The reason we imagine utopias is to provide a point on the compass that orients us in our travels

The vision of utopia we create gives us direction and hope that we are moving forward

15/ (Inspired/paraphrased from The Imaginary World of... by Keri Smith)