How often have you tried to remember something important and felt it slip through your mental grasp? (View Highlight)

How often have you tried to remember something important and felt it slip through your mental grasp? (View Highlight)

We’re flooded with more advice than ever promising to make us smarter, healthier, and happier. We consume more books, podcasts, articles, and videos than we could possibly absorb. (View Highlight)

We spend countless hours reading, listening to, and watching other people’s opinions about what we should do, how we should think, and how we should live, but make comparatively little effort applying that knowledge and making it our own. (View Highlight)

“information hoarders,” (View Highlight)

all the content you consume online and through all the different kinds of media you have at your disposal isn’t useless. It’s incredibly important and valuable. The only problem is that you’re often consuming it at the wrong time. (View Highlight)

To be able to make use of information we value, we need a way to package it up and send it through time to our future self. We need a way to cultivate a body of knowledge that is uniquely our own, so when the opportunity arises (View Highlight)

simple act of writing things down. (View Highlight)

Building a Second Brain, (View Highlight)

PKM—or personal knowledge management. (View Highlight)

In the same way that personal computers revolutionized our relationship with technology, personal finance changed how we manage our money, and personal productivity reshaped how we work, personal knowledge management helps us harness the full potential of what we know. (View Highlight)

The Building a Second Brain system will teach you how to: Find anything you’ve learned, touched, or thought about in the past within seconds. Organize your knowledge and use it to move your projects and goals forward more consistently. Save your best thinking so you don’t have to do it again. Connect ideas and notice patterns across different areas of your life so you know how to live better. (View Highlight)

Adopt a reliable system that helps you share your work more confidently and with more ease. Turn work “off” and relax, knowing you have a trusted system keeping track of all the details. Spend less time looking for things, and more time doing the best, most creative work you are capable of. (View Highlight)

transform your relationship to information, you will begin to see the technology in your life not just as a storage medium but as a tool for thinking. (View Highlight)

bicycle for the mind, (View Highlight)

digital archive of your most valuable memories, (View Highlight)

digital archive of your most valuable memories, (View Highlight)

system to manage the ever- increasing volume of information (View Highlight)

leverage technology and master the flow of information through their lives will be empowered to accomplish anything they set their minds to. At the same time, those who continue to rely on their fragile biological brains will become ever more overwhelmed by the explosive growth in the complexity of our lives. (View Highlight)

With a Second Brain at your fingertips, you will be able to unlock the full potential of your hidden strengths and creative instincts. You will have a system that supports you when you are forgetful and unleashes you when you are strong. You will be able to do and learn and create so much more, with so much less effort and stress, than was ever possible before. (View Highlight)