Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders
Tiago Forte on Building a Second Brain
If you consider yourself to be a creative type, you ...
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Aug 10 2022 39m
Chapter 1 1 min
We tend to think of people as either artistic or analytical, right-brained or left-brained. But realistically, life requires us to be bothChapter 2 4 mins
Tiago describes how he found his creative medium, which is to find practical solutions to the challenges of lifeChapter 3 5 mins
A second brain is a place to store ideas that you want to revisit and/or implement in the futureChapter 4 9 mins
Tiago’s acronym for the creative process: CODE: Capture, Organize, Distill and ExpressChapter 5 1 min
The first half of CODE is divergence, expanding possibilities and increasing scope. The second half, Distill and Express are convergentChapter 6 1 min
PARA: Projects, Areas, Resources and Archives. How do we organize all the notes and information we’ve collected so we can find them again?Chapter 7 6 mins
Projects end, Areas don’t. Areas are aspects of life that are ongoing. There are different rules for bothChapter 8 2 mins
Why it should matter to people to build a second brain