Your Brain is for Intuiting and Creating, Not for Storage
Episode Description
[0:00:00] Today’s episode: The benefits of using a Second Brain [0:01:00] A Second Brain is a place to store information so you can spend more time intuiting and creating [0:02:00] How to turn your concepts and ideas into an effective tool for success using a Second Brain [0:08:00] Collaging and your Second Brain as your digital scrapbook [0:14:00] Why using a distraction can help you develop your working memory and focus to create stronger mental connections [0:22:00] The three things we want our Second Brain to do for us: storage, recall and create connections [0:28:00] How freeing up your mental bandwidth can help your connection with your intuition [0:30:00] Second Brain — once you set it up, it’s smooth sailing from there!
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“A second brain is a place to store information, and it’s important because we’re really entering this era of the knowledge worker and we’ve been in a time of coaching and influencing.”
“We need to develop powerful, valuable, interesting, meaningful ideas. The more depth there is to our concepts and ideas that we incubate, the more likely we are to be successful because we’re bringing something new to the table.”
“One of the best ways to find your niche is to find two things that are contradictory that you are interested in, and the intersection of those two things.”
“Meme culture is contemporary, modern art. You need to understand the references in order to think it’s funny.”
“To make a beautiful collage, you have to have a lot of magazines, pictures, a lot of things to work with because not everything is going to work together.”
“We can develop deep, intentional theories and concepts by acknowledging that our brains are not for storage. They’re for cognition, for thinking and creating, and intuiting.”
“Go and experiment and explore with tons of pieces of information and inspiration. Don’t just get inspired by one artist because you’ll end up copying that person.”
“Even if you don’t have ADHD, we’re in this culture of multitasking and switching constantly. You have 20 million tabs you’re switching between desktops, so it makes working memory really difficult. You can’t always remember what task you’re on.”
“It will make you more intuitive if you can free up your mental bandwidth and your space.”
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Show Notes
[0:00:00] Today’s episode: Second Brain
[0:01:00] A Second brain is a place to store information so that you can spend more time intuiting and creating
[0:02:00] How to turn your concepts and ideas into an effective tool for success using a second brain
[0:03:00] The correlation between money and psychology as per Ramit Sethi
[0:06:00] TikTok as a platform to make things your own
[0:07:00] Understanding the references of the meme culture for it to be considered funny
[0:08:00] The analogy of collaging, and your second brain as your digital scrapbook
[0:10:00] Your second brain as a place to aggregate and collate the information that you've learned over time
[0:11:00] Joan Rivers’ jokes compilation
[0:12:00] How to make use of the tons of pieces of information and inspiration available everywhere
[0:12:00] Working memory into short-term memory, and eventually turn to long-term memory
[0:13:00] The culture of multitasking and switching constantly
[0:13:00] How a second brain can help yourself to work on your working memory
[0:14:00] Creating a distraction log to help you develop your working memory and focus
[0:15:00] Being able to hold ideas in your brain, and fear that it is going to slip and be forgotten
[0:17:00] Being paralyzed by perfectionism where you want everything around you to be exactly the way you want
[0:19:00] The Complete Grimoire: Magickal Practices and Spells for Awakening Your Inner Witch by Lidia Pradas
[0:21:00] Bookmarking is a form of a second brain
[0:22:00] The three things we want our second brain to do for us: storage, recall and create connections
[0:24:00] Recommended app for ebook: Readwise
[0:25:00] Recommended app for podcasts: Airr
[0:26:00] Figuring out the system that works best for you
[0:26:00] Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
[0:28:00] How freeing up your mental bandwidth can help your connection with your intuition
[0:29:00] How does the volume of your concepts affect your anxiety level, frustration, and intuition?
[0:30:00] Second brain --- once you set it up, it’s smooth sailing from there!
Resources and People Mentioned
Follow Ramit Sethi on IG @ramit
Follow Joan Rivers on IG @joanrivers
Follow David Allen on IG @dallen45
Follow Getting Things Done on IG @gtdtimes
Readwise https://readwise.io/
Airr https://www.airr.io/
Tiago Forte’s class on Building a Second Brain
Checkout Phil Boissiere’s services
The Complete Grimoire: Magickal Practices and Spells for Awakening Your Inner Witch by Lidia Pradas