All statements about Building a Second Brain

32 statements about Building a Second Brain in 9 sources, by upload date.

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2020

2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali is also in the Slack groups of Forte Labs, whose course Building a Second Brain he took a few months earlier, and of Standard, the creators' agency he belongs to, which built Nebula. — 00:20:14
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — recommendation: Ali recommends joining two public Slack groups: Forte Labs, run by Tiago Forte, whose Building a Second Brain course he calls very good, and Khe Hy's Rad Reads. (hedged) — 00:17:23
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — recommendation: Ali's Nibble Framework is based on his friend Tiago Forte's online course Building a Second Brain. — 00:13:37
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: In 2019 Ali spent a stupidly large amount of money on Building a Second Brain, an online course that he says genuinely changed his life. — 00:00:00
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: Through Building a Second Brain Ali discovered the field of personal knowledge management, which he calls the next level of productivity. — 00:00:00
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The main idea of Building a Second Brain, Ali explains: over time you build a second brain, a digital note-taking system that takes in what resonates with you from what you read, watch and listen to, and you use it to organise your ideas and turn them into creative output. — 00:00:00
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — announcement: Ali is now an official alumni mentor for the Building a Second Brain course: he will join its live cohorts, held twice a year, and offer mentoring on live Zoom calls. — 00:00:29
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — recommendation: Ali calls the Building a Second Brain course super expensive: totally worth it for him, probably worth it for the right sort of person such as a knowledge worker, but definitely not for everyone. (hedged) — 00:00:59
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The first Building a Second Brain principle, borrowed creativity: creativity is about remixing existing ideas from what you read, watch and listen to, adding your own spin and combining them in interesting ways. — 00:01:35
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The second Building a Second Brain principle, the capture habit: our brains are for having ideas, not storing them, so capture any idea or anything that resonates as soon as possible. — 00:02:07
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The third Building a Second Brain principle, idea recycling: ideas are not single use, as Ali used to think, and can be recycled and reused over time. — 00:03:18
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The fourth Building a Second Brain principle, projects over categories: Ali's old topic folders, such as one for motivation, filled with notes he did nothing with; now each captured idea goes into his general capture inbox and then to a project he is working on. — 00:04:40
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The fifth Building a Second Brain principle, slow burns: keep a list of the projects you are working on, all on the slow burner, instead of doing each as a heavy lift. — 00:05:44
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The sixth Building a Second Brain principle, start with abundance: you are never starting from scratch; to write about motivation, search your second brain in Evernote or Notion for the word and draw on the articles you have read and annotated over the years. — 00:07:14
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The seventh Building a Second Brain principle, intermediate packets: an essay is made up of many intermediate packets, which Ali called content blocks in his third year of writing essays. — 00:07:59
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The eighth Building a Second Brain principle, you only know what you make: what you internalise and can use is what you create yourself, such as a summary of a book or a tweet storm of insights from a podcast. — 00:10:12
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: One of Ali's biggest regrets in life is that he did not take notes on what he read until 2019, when he discovered Building a Second Brain; he wishes he had started at 15, when he first read non-fiction books. — 00:10:41
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The ninth Building a Second Brain principle, make it easier for your future self: Ali sees his second brain, his suite of digital note-taking apps, as work he puts in now to create a resource his future self will find helpful. — 00:11:52
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The tenth Building a Second Brain principle, keep your ideas moving, is anti-perfectionist: a trap in building a note-taking system is perfectionism, such as making an elaborate Notion database of everything you have read with 18 pieces of metadata each. — 00:13:20
2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — recommendation: Ali says the Building a Second Brain course is not really for students who cannot afford it, but for creative professionals who make money from this and can treat its large price tag as an investment in their future. — 00:15:06
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Tiago Forte, who runs the online course Building a Second Brain, uses Evernote as his second brain, Ali says. — 00:02:29
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali says Tiago Forte's online course Building a Second Brain changed his life. — 00:02:29
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali's whole digital note-taking system is built on the online course Building a Second Brain, in which he is a mentor. — 00:10:52
2020-09-27 · Collecting My Tesla Model 3 - Day In The Life — Ali learned in the Building a Second Brain course, which he is taking part in and mentoring, that a project list is one of the biggest productivity boosts, though few people use one. — 00:05:08
2020-09-27 · Collecting My Tesla Model 3 - Day In The Life — Ali joins a mentor session of the Building a Second Brain online course, in which he is a mentor, and talks with students in breakout rooms about their aims for their second brains. — 00:08:01
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali's five most successful affiliate partnerships are Paperlike, IQUnix, Epidemic Sound, Amazon, which has the world's largest affiliate programme, and Tiago Forte's course Building a Second Brain. — 00:26:11
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali has made one video about his keyboard, none in 2020 about the screen protector, none about Epidemic Sound, two about Building a Second Brain and none plugging an Amazon product; the links in his descriptions add up. — 00:27:15
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain starts at $1,500 and David Perell's Write of Passage at $4,000; Ali has taken both and calls them really good. — 00:40:27

2019

2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Tiago Forte (quoted): In his blog post Building a Second Brain, the post that got Ali into his blog, Tiago Forte describes using apps to organise all the inputs of his life, such as news articles, books and to-do lists, to process them, and to turn them into content for his blog. — 00:05:22
2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Tiago Forte (quoted): To remember what you read, Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain says to keep an app such as Evernote as a second brain: summarise and distil what you read to its essence, put it in, and review it semi-regularly to build a treasure trove of knowledge. — 00:05:51
2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: After Building a Second Brain led him through the rest of Tiago Forte's website, Ali changed his own productivity systems: he has watered Forte's ideas down to fit his life and is experimenting with them over the coming weeks and months. — 00:05:51
2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali: Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain, a workshop, online course and series of blog posts, has changed the way Ali thinks about content creation and note-taking. — 00:07:02

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