Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

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As months and then years passed, I began to lose hope that I would ever find relief. I started taking a powerful anti-seizure medication that temporarily relieved the pain, but there were terrible side effects, including a numbing sensation throughout my body and severe short-term memory loss. Entire trips I took, books I read, and precious experiences with loved ones during this period were wiped from my memory as if they never happened. I was a twenty-four-year-old with the mind of an eighty-year-old. Try to be more realistic right out of the gate—before starting a project, decide what you can reasonably accomplish within the allotted amount of time.

Regardless of what you create, Forte’s recommendations on how to complete a project can be broken down into three strategies. Strategy #1: Discard Useless Information and Create Task Bundles Then, for especially unique or valuable notes, Forte recommends including a short summary that explains the main points of the source and why you’ve saved it (if you might forget) in as few words as possible. Using bullet points may be helpful for this step. Itu salah satu pertanyaan yang cukup mengusik gue, sampai dalam rentang waktu beberapa bulan, gue ketemu dan baca beberapa buku, dan dari sumber yang berbeda-beda itu ternyata ada bahasan tentang perfeksionisme yang jadi menonjol buat gue. Semuanya menarik, dan bisa nih jadi sumber gue bikin konten. Next, record all important information that you come across—this can be anything from personal insights or realizations to quotes from articles or meeting notes. However, Forte warns to only save information that resonates with you or makes you reflect—it must be either inspiring, useful, personally important, or something that changes your current ideas or beliefs. If you’re not selective with the information you save, your ESS will end up being cluttered and unmanageable. Nantinya, notes gue tentang cara bikin meeting ini bisa jadi SOP di kantor, atau gue jadiin guidance buat tim lain juga untuk mereka coba. Catatan yang sama, bisa juga jadi bahan sharing session atau ngajar tentang productivity atau t ime management di lingkup kerja. The possibility is endless. Yang pasti gue tahu gue udah punya catatannya, dan bisa diambil kapan pun kalau gue butuh :)If we use busy as an excuse for not doing something what we are really saying is that it’s not a priority. Simply put: You don’t find the time to do something; you make the time to do things. If a piece of content has been interpreted through your lens, curated according to your taste, translated into your own words, or drawn from your life experience, and stored in a secure place, then it qualifies as a note. How a Second Brain Works

Forte found that most organization systems, while well-meaning, complicated his life and kept him from his priorities. One day, after realizing the ease behind dropping all his notes and files into a folder for which project he was focusing on, he made his own organization system called PARA, which stands for Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives.Forte explains what to capture, with additional tips on how to capture the info using various digital tools (such as read-later apps, web-clipper apps, notes apps, etc.). The key is to consolidate your notes in 1 place. Ideally, choose a note-taking app that:

Think about your Second Brain as an intimate commonplace book or journal. What do you most want to capture, learn, explore, or share? Identify two to three kinds of content you already value to get started with. Tiap section itu bisa gue bikin dari notes yang ada/yang gue simpan di second brain. Bakal lebih gampang karena gue udah punya banyak materialnya ( thanks to my capturing habit), udah jelas di mana tempatnya, dan project ini jadi nggak terlalu mengintimidasi karena bisa gue pecah, bongkar pasang kayak lego sampai bisa kesusun jadi final result-nya. Now, you can access the Building a Second Brain system in its most succinct and distilled form: a bestselling book available everywhere books are sold.This makes zero sense in your post-academic career. In the workplace, there are no classes, no tests, no grades, and no diplomas. No teacher is going to tell you what to write down for the final exam, because there isn’t one. Refining your notes to their core essence will increase productivity and creativity. It’ll save time in the future by allowing you to understand the note’s utility as soon as you look at it. It’ll also make it easier for you to apply the information to other relevant current or future projects. To effectively refine your notes, Forte recommends using the following process (which he calls Progressive Summarization):