Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

by Tiago Forte

There are four essential capabilities that we can rely on a Second Brain to perform for us: Making our ideas concrete. Revealing new associations between ideas. Incubating our ideas over time. Sharpening our unique perspectives.

Advocating for a particular point of view isn’t just a matter of sparkling charisma or irresistible charm. It takes supporting material.

it convinced Estelle that she could write something better. She recalls, “Until I began writing my own stories, I never found quite what I was looking for… In desperation, I made up my own.”

“Use what you have; even if it seems meager, it may be magic in your hands.”

Whatever you are building, there is a smaller, simpler version of it that would deliver much of the value in a fraction of the time.