Everything begins with an idea - Earl Nightingale
For the past few days, I’ve been studying Personal Knowledge Management, and specifically the idea of building a second brain. If you make a living by being creative, like me, then everything depends on how many ideas you can successfully implement.
Taking myself as an example, I typically have between 5 and 100 ideas every single day. My mind has been trained to see an opportunity in everything, so every thought that comes into my mind is a potential blog post, class, or course. Unfortunately, the rate of execution is really low, because I only really execute 1/100 of all the ideas I have.
Perhaps that seems familiar to you.
That’s when I stumbled upon the idea of knowledge management. The concept that you can better manage your ideas to maximize as many as you can.
Think about it for a second.
Imagine there was a system that ensured that at least 50% of your ideas don’t get lost, but captured and put into a mental factory that ensures that they see light? Imagine how much more you could produce, create and potentially earn.
Here’s another thought.
Everything you see and use today was once an idea in the heart of a man. From the device, you’re reading this on, to the cloth you’re wearing (I sincerely hope you’re reading this clothed, or else it’ll be very awkward).
Now imagine that as a civilization, we could better manage our thoughts, harness them and create better things. Think about how powerful that would be?
That’s why I’ve been studying personal knowledge management and I’ll love to share my thoughts with it with you.
In my next 10 posts, I’ll pick one of the 10 pillars of building a second brain and share what it means to me and what I’ve learnt from it.
But while you wait, I’ll love to hear from you. How do you manage your knowledge?
Do you have some sort of system that you use to manage your knowledge and distill into something creative.
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