Building A Second Brain V11 – Tiago Forte

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$35   $9 – Building A Second Brain V11 – Tiago Forte

Do you consume tons of interesting information, but feel like it’s not leading to meaningful results in your life?

Discover how having a Second Brain is helping people around the world save their best ideas, organize their learning, and dramatically expand their creative output

Introduction to Building A Second Brain

• What to expect: schedule, roadmap, communications, and the 4 steps of the methodology
• Why organization and collaboration are the two missing links in most people’s creative process – and how adding them in can double your creative output
• An overview of Knowledge Management: the new skill to produce 10x results with 1/10 the effort
• The secret of Strategic Laziness: the real story of how great thinkers work
• Take the Second Brain Snapshot for a 12-point evaluation of your current note-taking skills

Organizing for Insight

• How to turn your digital notes into “thinking tools” that allow you to access brainpower you didn’t even know you had
• Feeling unorganized? How a simple technique called PARA will enable you to organize your entire digital life in minutes
• The 8 must-haves for any digital organizing system, and how to apply them
• A little-known distinction – between projects and areas of responsibility – that can completely revolutionize your productivity
• Banish Information Overload using the Magic Number 4 – a helpful constraint to preserve your working memory
• Discover the incredible power of an up-to-date Project List, with in-depth feedback and guidance on how to create one for yourself

Digital Cognition

• The 4 essential requirements that any good digital notes app MUST have
• How to amplify the single biggest opportunity for making new connections without spending more time or effort: Productive Randomness
• Learn how a simple principle from Information Science called “stigmergy” explains how to effectively manage information in Building A Second Brain
• A new way of working using “slow burns” instead of heavy lifts – people who miss this are destined to eventually suffer from Information Exhaustion
• Find out how the best note-takers throughout history built up their intellectual capital using compounding gains
• Transform raw material into knowledge assets: how to use digital notes to form a valuable body of knowledge for a side project, career advancement, or new business
• Identify your personal learning priorities using the Feynman Method, a simple exercise created by a Nobel prize-winning scientist to permanently improve your reading and learning for years to come

Progressive Summarization

• Have trouble finding your notes when you need them most? A counter-intuitive technique called Progressive Summarization will help you distill them down for easy retrieval
• Understand the pros and cons of organizing your notes by tag, by notebook, or by project, and the best approach based on our 10+ years of experience
• Don’t have time for more research? Develop the skill of balancing compression and context to increase the return-on-investment of your note-taking
• Strategic laziness over rigid rules: note-taking strategies that leverage human nature, instead of fighting it
• How to design individual notes for “glanceability” and instant recognition for your Future Self
• The amazing benefits of designing your own Personal Information Landscape
• Practice Progressive Summarization on your own notes, with feedback from teaching staff and peers

Maximizing Return-on-Attention

• Explore the fascinating science behind “transient hypofrontality” – how to maximize the mental state of flow for higher performance, enjoyment, and learning
• Understanding how to minimize the impact of setup costs (environmental, mental, and emotional) on productivity in Building A Second Brain
• How Intermediate Packets can completely transform your approach to productivity
• Become interruption-proof: placeholding, chunking, and reusability as potent sources of leverage for knowledge workers
• Knowledge Artifacts: how to externalize your thinking and accelerate your learning using concrete deliverables
• Turn your notes into a new Knowledge Artifact especially designed to generate valuable, targeted feedback from your peers

Just-In-Time Productivity

• Learn Just-In-Time Productivity – the new, far more effective way of working that becomes possible once you have a Second Brain
• 5 ways to leverage your ideas to leapfrog your peers, skip the corporate ladder, and become a leader in your field
• Divergence and Convergence: use groundbreaking ideas from the world’s top designers to escape any creative roadblock or dead-end
• Equip yourself with 16 Workflow Strategies – proven thinking tools for just-in-time execution
• Banish procrastination forever using the Archipelago of Ideas technique to instantly add structure to any creative project
• How to massively accelerate your learning using idea capture tools and quick feedback loops
• Select and try out Workflow Strategies on one or more of your current projects

Workflow Canvas

• Step-by-step walkthrough to design your very own Second Brain, customized to your needs and goals
• Get feedback on further areas for improvement, based on the exercises you completed in the course and your Second Brain Snapshot
• Explore dozens of examples, case studies, and downloadable templates to make implementing your system as easy as possible
• Complete the Workflow Canvas to choose the tools, techniques, and strategies to integrate into your own workflow

The Big Picture

• Information Overload? How Container vs. Stream Thinking is the mindset you need to thrive in a world of information abundance
• Understand how to cultivate situational awareness and curation as the key skills required to navigate streams of information
• Strengthen your creative confidence by borrowing principles from history’s most prolific creators and artists through Building A Second Brain
• Identifying and overcoming the most common limiting beliefs we encounter around productivity, thinking, and learning
• Start with Abundance: a different take on creative output that starts with sifting through interesting ideas, instead of sitting down to a blank screen
• Harnessing the full potential of digital notes: how to integrate Knowledge Management into your daily routine
• The Perspective Era – why the future of work will be dedicated to interpretation and persuasion based on your unique point of view, and what you can do to thrive

$35   $9 – Building A Second Brain V11 – Tiago Forte