Building a Second Brain

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

By: Tiago Forte

Narrated by: André Santana, Tiago Forte

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

“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.

I'll re-review in a year

The energy and optimism of this book is great. System seen doable. I hope my review on a year show that it affected my positively.

Great advice and resources.

Will read again once my second brain is growing. I used to do many of these suggestions, but aging and stress makes one forget as we develop bad habits.

GTD for notetaking?

This book will not tell you anything that you don’t already know. It is a reminder of how important it is to take notes. It does give me some insight on how to develop a note into an idea. I guess the course will teach you how to develop the note.

Life-changing!

Tiago stands on the shoulders of David Allen (Getting Things Done), takes the concept into the tech age, and brings a clean structure that goes way beyond GTD.

Packed with actionable ideas

A great guide to improving quality of life. Annoying voice, made slightly better by speeding up

Great practical note systems

Overall, I really enjoyed this book but there was also something slightly hollow about it. The testimonials were good but not one resonated with me as they felt kind of broad. Nonetheless, I would still recommend to friends and family,

Highly recommend

This book really helped me to change my methodology of taking notes and organized them. It helped me to do more creative .

Longer than necessary but excellent book

Although the book does have some fluff, it gives you time to process the many valuable gems scattered throughout. Stories told generally add clarity to the points made. Easy to listen to.

Inspiring Book !

This is currently the only book, I took actions steps right away as I was listening to the book!
I appreciate the examples of popular icons using parts of C.O.D.E to back up his points and the activities he recommends to get started on a second brain!

Helpful tips with some fillers

This book has about 40-50% useful information, wish it was be shorter by taking the fillers out.