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Chris Guillebeau
Author of The $100 Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit
DANIEL PINK
Bestselling author of Drive
What if you made use of the ideas, wisdom, and resources available to you online instead of stockpiling and hoarding information with no end in sight?
What if you knew with total confidence that you could find the information you need when you need it instead of wasting time looking for notes you swore you’d saved?
What if you could leverage technology to think better, clear your mind, and get more done instead of letting it disrupt you with constant notifications and demands?
All this and more is possible with a Second Brain – a trusted place outside your head where you can collect and organize your most important ideas and insights and use them to do your best work.
“Tiago has put a magnifying lens on the best practice of external capturing to keep our heads open for effective thinking and creativity. This is a well-written, cogent, and useful manual for staying clear in the knowledge-worker world.”
David Allen
Author of Getting Things Done
“A must-read for doing difficult, creative work. We all struggle with having too many ideas, but no system for taking action on them. Tiago creates a structure for staying on top of information in an age of overload.”
Scott H. Young
Author of Ultralearning
“Building a Second Brain will make you rethink your relationship with knowledge. Tiago's method offers a paradigm shift from the tiring quest for self-improvement to the freedom of self-expression. After reading the book, you will finally be able to focus on what matters: connecting ideas and generating insights.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Founder of Ness Labs and Phd candidate
Tiago walks you through the 12 steps to building your own Second Brain and answers the most common questions people have when they're getting started.
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Meet the Author
I’ve spent more than 10 years researching and experimenting with a new way of organizing our digital lives and improving our productivity using technology.
What started as a quest to deal with a chronic illness eventually turned into a life-long mission to help you harness the full potential of your ideas and turn them into reality. I firmly believe this is a crucial part of creating a better future for all of us.
Over the years, I’ve taught thousands of people around the world how to clear the mental clutter, organize their knowledge, and capitalize on the full potential of their thinking through my popular online course Building a Second Brain.
Teaching my methodology live in 16 cohorts with over 6,000 students allowed me to rapidly improve every part of it and make sure it works for a wide range of people.
Now, you can access the Building a Second Brain system in its most succinct and distilled form: a bestselling book available everywhere books are sold.
I can’t wait to share it with you!
Based on Tiago’s work with the following organizations and over 25,000 online learners
“Tiago is a master organizer. His book, Building a Second Brain, is the ultimate guide for anybody who wants to succeed in the Internet age. It’s the single best system I can recommend to any writer. You’ll leave feeling calmer, more creative, and much more productive.”
David Perell
Founder of Write of Passage
“Reading this book feels like being let in on a secret. Tiago offers powerful, elegant, and deeply human solutions to some of the most stubborn challenges we face trying to make sense of the digital age. An absolute must read for anyone interested in personal knowledge management.”
Ryder Caroll
Author of The Bullet Journal Method
“Getting more out of our digital tools is something we should all care about. Tiago offers an excellent guide – this book will help anyone organize information in more useful ways, and ultimately do better work.”
Simon Last
Co-Founder of Notion
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Building a Second Brain is or will be available in the following languages. If there’s no purchasing link listed yet, the translation is still in progress.
Arabic
Coming soon
Chinese
(Simplified)
Coming soon
French
German
Indonesian
Coming soon
Mongolian
Coming soon
Portuguese (Portugal)
Thai
Coming soon
Turkish
Coming soon
Vietnamese
Coming soon
The answer is: Anyone who wants to succeed in our modern, hyper-connected world.
Our digital lives are expanding exponentially. Your profession and even your side projects and hobbies require you to consume and understand more information than ever.
The bad news is: It’s only going to get more demanding.
The most important factors for success are no longer how many hours you work, how much effort you exert, or where you are located. What matters now is what you know, how well you document and organize that knowledge, and your ability to share it with others.
The good news is: You can leverage technology to capitalize on the full value of your ideas and knowledge.
Personal Knowledge Management has become an essential survival skill for everyone navigating the modern world.
You can’t afford to burden your biological brain with trivial details that don’t ultimately give you the life you want. It’s time to build a Second Brain and take hold of the potential you know you are capable of.
“The passion economy is one of the next great waves of entrepreneurship in the world, and the ability to cultivate and leverage your personal knowledge is key to being part of it. Tiago’s book is an excellent introduction to how to succeed in the new landscape of creativity online.”
Li Jin
Co-Founder and General Partner at Variant
"Tiago's changed the game with this book. Building a Second Brain completely changed my life and the book is a great distillation of the key ideas."
Ali Abdaal
YouTuber and Entrepreneur
“Relying on your brain alone will be a thing of the past! Tiago presents a new way of thinking in this new age productivity classic.”
Francesco D'Alessio
Host of Keep Productive
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"Our lives are getting busier and busier, and what we really need is a simple system that works to organize it. Thankfully, Building a Second Brain is exactly that, and with it, you'll be able to unlock more in your life: more time, and more creativity!"
Pat Flynn
Founder of Smart Passive Income and host of the SPI Podcast
“In a world of so much information and more coming – we need a process for organizing and accessing that information. Luckily, Tiago has done all the hard work and gives tactical ways to make it happen.”
Noah Kagan
Founder of AppSumo
“I've already begun adopting his system and it is the one I plan to recommend to anyone -- student, writer, digital marketer, business owner, etc. -- who needs their own personal "knowledge vault" to track and synthesize lots of disparate pieces of information.”
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
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