I really like the concept introduced in the book, Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte, so I like to share it here.
The author says that we try so many things to capture new information but rarely take the time to reflect on what we’ve already learned. By building a second brain, we can collect and organize information that is important to us and help us be the best at our work.
There are 4 steps to building your second brain.
Capture
Whatever the source, capture all the information that inspires you or things that you think would help in the future
Organize
Organize all the information that you capture by sorting them with actionability. Instead of organizing information depending on the subject, you should create a box depending on your actions such as, “BLOGGING”, or “Entrepreneurship”, etc, and put in the information that you think would help to achieve that task. This would help you quickly distinguish relevant information.
Distill
When writing your note, think about how your future self would reflect on the information that you are about to write. What is the insight of the note you are trying to take
Express
It would be better if you can actually express all the things that you’ve learned. So maybe you can create blog posts, or create a video to teach what you’ve learned.
