Did you know that the average human mind processes about 34GB of information every day? But what do you do with all that information?
If you struggle with productivity, it's likely that you've consumed enough information to change your life, but you may not have a system for reflecting on and applying that information to your life.
Why? Because the job of your brain is to generate ideas, not to remember them. The job of a second brain is to bring those ideas back into focus with perspective so that you can take action based on them.
The functions of a good second brain are simple. It helps you to CODE information:
C - Capture
O - Organize
D - Distill
E - Express
For example, I stumbled upon the CODE concept by a great writer named Tiago Forte last year, and it fully resonated with me. (He wrote a book named "Building a Second Brain".) I remember thinking, "When I start a newsletter, I want to write about this.”
I captured this information, along with useful links for further research, and stored it in my content bank in my second brain, confident that I could easily retrieve this concept in two minutes, even if 50 years had passed before I finally decided to write about it.
In addition to its archival capabilities, a second brain also serves as a digital office that makes remote work more efficient.
If for some reason I found myself in a different state tomorrow morning without my computer and I had to finish an important project, I wouldn't panic. Instead, I would simply log in to my digital office (a.k.a my second brain) on a different computer and pick up where I left off as if nothing ever happened.
Whether it's at work, school, or in your personal life, capturing, organizing, distilling, and expressing information digitally frees your mind to focus on what really matters — ideating and taking action — while outsourcing the remembering and organizing part.
Now it's time to get our hands dirty. Build a fully functional second brain from scratch with me 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Click the Image.
Talk soon,
Viki 💜
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