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Building a Second Brain
- A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
- Narrated by: André Santana, Tiago Forte
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Discover the full potential of your ideas and make powerful, meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.
For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world's knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to create and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than being empowered by this information, we're often overwhelmed, paralysed by believing we'll never know or remember enough.
This eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. A trusted and organised digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes and creative work, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals. From identifying good ideas, to organising your thoughts, to retrieving everything swiftly and easily, it puts you back in control of your life and information.
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- Juozas
- 10-02-23
one idea that repeats all over the book
listened 5h out of 6h, this book should be condensed in to an article of 2 pages.
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- Danny Currie
- 26-06-23
Worthwhile ideas, but a little drawn out
Some very good advice and inspiration for getting better at managing information. However, I would agree with others that it could be half the length without losing much valuable insight.
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- Lucas
- 23-12-22
Brilliant
Great to get your stuff and life organised in a simply manner, step by step instructions
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- RS S.
- 19-11-22
excellent book made me re think the way I work
excellent book made me re think the way I work and look at creativity
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- Allan Paterson
- 09-01-23
Found by mistake
I thought this book was going to be about AI. That was my mistake but a good one as I am now committed to building a second brain 😀👍🏼
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- Daniel
- 07-02-23
Organising your digital world for the better
An interesting look into how to organise your digital world and enjoy the wealth of knowledge the Internet has to offer.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-08-22
Very Useful
This has inspired me to organise the information in my life. While I'm not really a "project" person, I do often like to recall things I've read or heard but forget and this will be very helpful when it comes to that. I will likely use the project management tools more in the future so it is still worth knowing, but as a method of organising I believe the contents of the book are well explained and easy to start.
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- RStreet
- 10-01-23
One of the most useful and practical books I’ve listened to in a while
Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte is one of the most useful and practical books I’ve listened to in a while. I’ve already begun implementing some of the elements of the book into my daily life, including the PARA filing system, progressive summarisation and intermediate packets.
Very relevant for knowledge workers, but also useful for day to day projects and tasks. The ideas in the book are definitely scalable.
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- A. C. Stedman
- 13-07-23
Bloated and esoteric
The actual system of building a second brain is quite brilliant. Unfortunately, Forte takes 5 pages to explain what could be done in 1, and he seems to think he’s discovered the elixir of life. He switches between practical steps, bloated examples and esoteric “You were made to change the world” fluff. Ironically, I need to apply his techniques on his own book in order to filter out the chaff. When you find the wheat, it’s brilliant.
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- Introverted reviewer
- 08-03-23
Tangible organization for the world today
Pleased to read this. Good suggestions on how to navigate information today. Unfortunately, the audio transitions to resources that I suspect where easy to see in the book were difficult and unsuccessful.
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