Building a Second Brain

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

By: Tiago Forte, Tiago Forte - introduction

Narrated by: André Santana

“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.

Critic reviews

"After productivity guru Tiago Forte delivers his succinct introduction with the low-key self-assurance of a true expert, narrator André Santana delivers a performance that perfectly fits this audiobook. His boyish tone and palpable altruism express the author’s ideas with intellectual security that highlights Santana’s thinking and suggestions without overselling them. The author’s ingenious principles show how the desire to create can be harnessed and expressed with the help of the digital tools available today. His memorable prescriptions show how to capture and organize information, distill key takeaways, and link useful ideas to specific projects you’re working on. Powered by the empathic performances of both narrators, these are seminal operating principles and tech recommendations for creative people who want to streamline and refresh their creative process."

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.