A second brain is a place where you store all those thoughts you don't want to carry around, and for a person who like to bottle things up and has a lot of ideas, the idea is very tantalizing
I plan to talk about my journey to build a second brain, and the trials and lessons I learned along the way.
I am a web designer, so I have a lot of resources to organize and recall at a moments notice, and if I don't have the thing I saved or need in front of me, I tend to just find it faster to build it again. which isn't ideal but so far, has proven true. it's very difficult for a messy desk creative like me to keep my organization systems from looking like that legendary box of cables in the storage room. I know I have that cable in there, but if I try to find it in there, I am going to end up organizing the whole box of cables, so instead, I buy a new cable, because I like being poor apparently.
So when I found the Notion app I was GIDDY. I loved it, I migrated Everything I could into it. The issue I found immediately was, "You can make it Pretty!" I resisted the urge to fall into the game of Notion dashboard build, mostly. I did build a few and setup a fairly clean dashboard/control panel, that divides my life into 12 categories, I am trying this number, and in the future may reconfigure it to 9 or 7. 12 is nice because its kindof easy to break something down by 2 3 4 and 6. 9 is a good square number, and 7 aligns with the 7 Virtues and 7 Sins.
I have focused on the Finance side of things as it is the core structure of any adult's successful life. I think if there is a good way to create an Entry point in these financial systems, more people could understand how to move up their quality of life fader. Next is the business development plan and Project Management system, and then the Food management system.
I find the most insulting thing about getting a degree is the expectation that you should use that effort in college to work for another rather than build your own job from the skills acquired, without society's permission. So I think it would be a benefit for everyone to understand what I would have liked to learn from college. If I can create a good system that other's can follow we can establish a better quality of life.
A Project Management System helps to keep our minds active and our bodies busy, while freeing our heads of the stresses of other tasks. If you know where you are in your priority stack than you aren't as frantic when trying to get things done, and that is really what we want a system like this for right? Then the best thing we can do is develop a system that helps remind us about the ideas we came up with and be available easily enough to record and capture the ideas when they come up.
Knowing where to eat is always an issue, but knowing what to make to eat is an even tougher struggle, but a Food and Restaurant System with recipes and ingredients built in would help tremendously to speed up the debate. Have a database with ingredients and a good way to visualize the stock in the house when you are out would be a huge help when grocery shopping and knowing what all the recipes I love are and taking them anywhere will help encourage me to cook more often.
I will update with more ideas, and describe more issues as I think of them.