Building a Second Brain

Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 2, 2022 at 02:32 PM

In principle, I tend to agree with @Dellu (being all in favour of strengthening my brain!); on the other hand, without my vast list of to-dos (many of them extremely tedious and forgettable), I wouldn’t be able to live, so in practice I agree with @Franz as well. There, how’s that for some magnificent fence-sitting!

Also, I’ve been analysing my own use of notes, and find that to take full advantage of the Forte method, note analysis would have to become a vital part of my day. Now, I’ve always intended to make it such, because I have huge amounts of potentially useful info awaiting Distillation and Expression (the second, “convergence” part of the Forte CODE approach!). But I’m finding his system as described deceptively simple – in practice, organising is always complicated, even if you decide to ditch a large proportion of your collected information because it’s out of date, no longer relevant, doesn’t interest you any more, or for any other reason. Inevitably, I find myself having to resort to multiple layers, despite every attempt to keep things to a simple two.

So I’m giving my (weak!) brain a good workout by formulating an efficient approach to (a) sorting out my existing information and (b) structuring what I want to keep. I’ve finally opted for Obsidian because it’s just so fricking impressive! But I’m still running Craft alongside it because it’s so flexible and has such convenient sharing options.

With any luck, I’ll end up with a Huge, Muscular, Incredibly Fit and Well Organised Brain!

Cheers,
Bill

Franz Grieser wrote:
@Dellu
> >Yes, I think you’re missing one thing.
> >“Getting stuff out of your head to de-stress the brain” means: Getting
>boring stuff out of your head. Stuff like “I must not forget to pay the
>bills, to do this and do that…” Yes, these things must not get
>forgotten but if your brain is occupied with remembering this, it has
>less capacity to do the “heavy-lifting”, to do interesting, challenging
>thinking. And challenging thinking is what keeps our brain in good
>shape.
> >Just my 2ct.