Building a Second Brain

A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

De: Tiago Forte

Narrado por: André Santana, Tiago Forte

“One of my favorite books of the year. It completely reshaped how I think about information and how and why I take notes.” —Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive

A revolutionary approach to enhancing productivity, creating flow, and vastly increasing your ability to capture, remember, and benefit from the unprecedented amount of information all around us.

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 contribute, and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than feeling empowered, we are often left feeling overwhelmed by this constant influx of information. The very knowledge that was supposed to set us free has instead led to the paralyzing stress of believing we’ll never know or remember enough.

Now, 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. As a trusted and organized digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes, and creative work synced across all your devices and platforms, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals.

Discover the full potential of your ideas and translate what you know into more powerful, more meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.

©2022 Tiago Forte. All rights reserved. (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

GTD for the digital age.

Tiago is a manifestation of The Outliers concept explained by Malcom Gladwell regarding how to stay organized in our world today. My intuition was trying to figure out the concepts outlined in the second brain book. I’m so thankful that it exists, and I will be my intuition was trying to figure out the concepts outlined in the second brain book. I’m so thankful that it exists, and I will be requiring everyone at my company to adopt this in their personal life so they can work effectively in their work life.

Incredibly Insightful

I am a Project Manager and naturally am very organized. I already do most of what is taught here. However, I related to the common frustrations he describes and am excitedly implementing the solutions.

It took some selling on the part of the author (because let's face it, I'm smarter than everyone 😉) but CODE and PARA are now my go-to organizing principles. The most notable paradigm shift to me is that PARA is not a filing system, it's a PRODUCTION system.

Mind blown.

Totally changed my perspective on note taking.

Get this book.

Thank you.

This book changed my life

People started calling me superhuman after I implemented almost everything in this book. My productivity increased by 10000%

Methodical and Logical

I first purchased this book in print and began reading over holiday. Eager to implement what I was learning, I was extremely short on time. Skeptical of how a book on this topic would translate to an audiobook, I went for it anyway, knowing I had the book in print to reference. I was surprised at the concepts came through clearly and easily understood through the audiobook format. Happy to have completed the book and will continue to pull concepts into my daily life.

Succinct

Very practical - plan to incorporate it into my life and business as great organizational mental and logistical tool.

Too much fluff and ie too long winded

Like the theory and construct, the content and rambling were too much. Could have been 1/2 the length and still too busy. The extra materials and bonus items or afterthoughts were of more value. Listen on 1.5 speed and skip the fluff sections!

Very helpful for managing info and projects

I’m a new software analyst. I put this system to use within OneNote and it has been immensely helpful managing the large amounts of info and multiple simultaneous projects I deal with. He also managed to make what could be a dry topic pretty interesting to listen to. Thank you!

total game changer

the perfect combination of thought provoking inspiring and pragmatic method. captivating from the first sentence. Diego I appreciate you and this gift of opening my mind to a method I knew I needed but didn't know how to go about it.

Mindset Shift

If you are looking for a way to handle the constant overload of information in your life, this book might be for you. However, BASB is not a quick-fix or one-size-fits-all set of rigid steps to follow that will magically make you organized. It is a way of thinking and and the creation of small habits you build over time. It is incredibly personal and you will have to take the ideas in this book and think about how to apply them to your life.

If you have also read James Clear’s “Atomic Habits” and David Allen’s “GTD”, BASB is the next step in being able to work on your life instead always working in your life.

Great intro to lifelong PKM

I had a head start on this but I think it's an amazing resource for anyone who wants to organize notes beyond a single project, to get compounding gains over time.