The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System

ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8

Ideas:

1. Borrowed creativity: creativity is about mixing stuff up that
2. Capture Ideas: Are brains are for having ideas, not storing them
3. Idea Recycling: Ideas can be re-used in different contexts
4. Projects over categories: Don't do folders that are in broad categories, but in a project category, a thing you'll build on
5. Slow Burns: Heavy Lift (herculean effort: go to a cabin in the woods), Slow Burns: lots of work in pieces that you can put together easily.
6. Start with abundance: Blank pages don't work, if you've collected a bunch of stuff you're always starting from stuff in your second brain.
7. Intermediate Packets: And Essays are made of lots of little 5-8 "packets" (paragraph) of knowledge. These are reusable and it's easier to just get it done.
8. Only know what you make: You can consume all you want, but you have to reword things yourself and summarize.
9. Make it easier on your future self: Don't assume you'll know what you meant, you need to make the note stand on it's own.
10. Keep your ideas moving: Don't try to make your "perfect system", just make sure you use it. Imperfection is prefect if you're using it.

Keywords: intentional thinking, Zettelkasten, Great Artists Steal, writing, Second Brain, knowledge worker

Source--Building a Second Brain Sketchnotes

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