Building A Second Brain V3 – Tiago Forte

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Do you consume tons of interesting information, but feel like it’s not leading to meaningful results in your life?

Discover how having a Second Brain is helping people around the world save their best ideas, organize their learning, and dramatically expand their creative output

Who this course is for

Entrepreneurs and freelancers

Do you have trouble managing all the information you need to run your business?

Content creators and makers

Do you lose track of your ideas or struggle to organize all the material you need for your creative projects?

Productivity & self-improvement enthusiasts

Do you wonder how to save all the knowledge you’ve gained and find it when you need it?

Get more done, faster, with less effort

You can have a world-class idea management system in 30 days

The Promise of the Course

In 30 days, you will learn how to capture, organize, and share your ideas and insights using digital notes, with a systematic approach and tools that you trust to support creative breakthroughs in your work

What’s Included

Standard Edition

Everything you need to build a Second Brain

Lifetime access to live cohorts 3-4 times per year, with real-time coaching

Lifetime access to a student-only online discussion forum, including source notes, exam

Step-by-step walkthroughs of setting up a note-taking system, with direct support from Tiago

8 units of pre-recorded lectures, with downloadable PDF slides

Real-world examples and 4 in-depth case studies from Tiago’s experience

Premium Edition

An accelerated roadmap and deep dive into idea management

6 advanced tutorials and 8 exclusive interviews demonstrating how experts use their Second Brain

The Nerve Bundle, a collection of 16 pre-made note templates designed to work seamlessly with the course

3-month subscription to Praxis. our members-only blog

Course Curriculum

A unified curriculum on harnessing the full power of your ideas

Unit 1: Introduction to the Course

• What to expect: schedule, roadmap, communications, and the 3 pillars of the methodology
• Why organization and collaboration are the two missing links in most people’s creative process – and how adding them in can double your creative output
• Idea Management: the new path to produce 10x results with 1/10 the effort
• The secret of Strategic Laziness: the real story of how great thinkers work
• Take an 11-point quiz to score your current note-taking skills

Unit 2: Organizing for Insight

• How to turn your digital notes into “thinking tools” that allow you to access brainpower you didn’t even know you had
• Feeling unorganized? How a simple technique called PARA will enable you to organize your entire digital life in minutes
• The 8 must-haves for any digital organizing system, and how to apply them
• A little-known distinction – between micro-projects and areas of responsibility – that can completely revolutionize your productivity
• Banish Information Overload using the Magic Number 4 – a helpful constraint to preserve your working memory
• Discover the incredible power of an up-to-date Project List, with in-depth feedback and guidance on how to create one for yourself

Unit 3: Digital Cognition

• The 4 essential requirements that any good digital notes app MUST have
• How to amplify the single biggest opportunity for making new connections without spending more time or effort: Productive Randomness
• Learn how a simple principle from Information Science called “stigmergy” explains how to effectively manage information
• A new way of working using “slow burns” instead of grueling slogs – people who miss this are doomed to suffer from Information Exhaustion
• What the Feynman Method can teach us about “punching above our intellectual weight”
• Find out how the best note-takers throughout history built up their intellectual capital using compounding gains
• Transform raw material into knowledge ammunition: how to use digital notes to form a valuable body of knowledge for a side project, career advancement, or new business
• Identify your personal learning priorities using the Feynman Method, a simple exercise created by a Nobel prize-winning scientist to permanently improve your reading and learning for years to come

Unit 4: Progressive Summarization

• Have trouble finding your notes when you need them most? A counter-intuitive technique called Progressive Summarization will help you distill them down for easy retrieval
• Understand the pros and cons of organizing your notes by tag, by notebook, or by project, and the best approach based on our 10 years’ of experience
• Don’t have time for more research? Develop the skill of balancing compression and context to increase the return-on-investment of your note taking
• Strategic laziness over rigid rules: note-taking strategies that leverage human nature, instead of fighting it
• How to design individual notes for “glanceability” and instant recognition for your Future Self
• The amazing benefits of designing your own Personal Information Landscape
• Practice Progressive Summarization on your own notes, with feedback from instructors and peers

Unit 5: Maximizing Return-on-Attention

• Explore the fascinating science behind “transient hypofrontality”: how to maximize the mental state of flow for higher performance, enjoyment, and learning
• Understanding how to minimize the impact of setup costs (environmental, mental, and emotional) on productivity
• How Intermediate Packets can completely transform your approach to productivity
• Become interruption-proof: placeholding, chunking, and reusability as potent sources of leverage for knowledge workers
• Knowledge Artifacts: how to externalize your thinking and accelerate your learning using concrete deliverables
• Turn your notes into a new Knowledge Artifact especially designed to generate valuable, targeted feedback from your peers

Unit 6: Just-In-Time Productivity

• Learn Just-In-Time Productivity – the new, far more effective way of working that becomes possible once you have a Second Brain
• 5 ways to leverage your ideas to leapfrog your peers, skip the corporate ladder, and become a leader in your field
• Divergence and Convergence: use groundbreaking ideas from the world’s top designers to escape any creative roadblock or dead-end
• Equip yourself with 16 Workflow Strategies – proven thinking tools
• Banish procrastination forever using the Archipelago of Ideas technique to instantly add structure to any creative project
• Learn a new way of adding structuring to your ideas just-in-time, to produce results quickly, efficiently, and right when they’re most needed
• How to massively accelerate your learning using idea capture tools and quick feedback loops
• Select and try out 3 of the 16 Workflow Strategies on one or more of your projects or deliverables

Unit 7: Workflow Canvas

• Step-by-step walkthrough to design your very own Second Brain, customized to your needs and goals
• Get feedback on further areas for improvement, based on the exercises you completed in the course
• Explore dozens of examples, case studies, and downloadable templates to make implementing this system as easy as possible
• Complete the Workflow Canvas to choose the tools, techniques, and strategies to integrate into your own workflow

Unit 8: The Big Picture

• Information Overload? How Container vs. Stream Thinking is the mindset you need to thrive in a world of information abundance
• Understand how to cultivate situational awareness and curation as the key skills required to navigate streams of information
• Strengthen your creative confidence by borrowing principles from history’s most prolific creators and artists
• Identifying and overcoming the most common limiting beliefs we encounter around productivity, thinking, and learning
• The Perspective Era – why the future of work will be dedicated to interpretation and persuasion based on your unique point of view, and what you can do to prepare
• Start with Abundance: a different take on creative output that starts with sifting through interesting ideas, instead of sitting down to a blank screen
• Harnessing the full potential of digital notes: how to integrate Idea Management into your daily routine
• The coming era of Idea Management, and how to prepare yourself to thrive within it