The 10 Principles of Building a Second Brain

A quick summary in few very understandable topics to help you remember.

Borrowed Creativity

• Use other’s work
• Treat the internet as a collective conscience

The Capture Habit

• Write things down!
• Takes notes about everything you can

Idea Recycling

• Re-visit your old ideas and refine them in multiple ways

Projects Over Categories

• Use projects to organize your notes/tasks

Slow Burns

• Don’t try to finish everything at once
• Make problem solving a habit, not a task

Start With Abundance

• Look at your previous notes and thoughts and start from there instead of researching everything again

Intermediate Packets

• Divide your projects into small tasks
• Make your system in such a way that it can tell you what can you do in 40 minutes for example

You Only Know What You Make

• Put your knowledge at practice
• Create things, share things

Make Things Easer for Your Future Self

• Write your notes down as you and your future self are totally different people
• Do things that will help your future self.
• Think of your future self as somebody else.

Keep Your Ideas Moving

• Don’t stop learning
• Keep evolving
• Keep your brain moving