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Building a Second Brain Foundation

Build Your Second Brain On Your Own Time & At Your Own Pace

Join our updated self-paced course and learn how to consistently turn the information you consume into creative output and concrete results.

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Have you noticed that our digital lives are expanding exponentially?
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Your profession and pursuits require you to consume and understand more information than ever…

And it’s only going to get more demanding. 

Building a Second Brain is the answer to information overload and overwhelm. 

It will help you clear the mental clutter so you can start doing your best work with more clarity, purpose, and ease.

The Building a Second Brain Promise

When you join Building a Second Brain, we promise that you’ll…

Beat information overload

You’ll reduce stress and anxiety by knowing what to keep and what to ignore. Your best ideas will be preserved forever in a way you can easily find them again.

Organize your digital life

You’ll create a digital environment that promotes flow, clarity, and peace of mind so you can do your best work at any time.

Make consistent progress on your most important projects

You’ll be able to focus your time and energy on the things most meaningful to you, whether that’s your family, a new creative challenge, or your career or business growth.

How our graduates have benefitted from Building a Second Brain

BASB has literally changed my life. Every time I take this course I get a new job that's more specialized and better aligned with my goals and beliefs.

Camila Holanda

Designer, Researcher & Futurist

After taking BASB, I feel 1000X more productive and have a system that gets a lot done for me.

Yaw Owusu-Ansah

WordPress Developer

After BASB, my thoughts are clearer and my writing has improved. It's already allowed me to create things I never would have considered before this course.

Tamisha O'Neal

Board-certified Cosmetologist

The BASB course has made me more confident in handling what life throws at me and being more effective in expressing myself.

Dennis Nehrenheim

Software Engineer & Blogger

BASB has reduced my stress levels. I now feel less scattered and more directed.

Sheila Glesmann

Owner of Emission Strategies, Inc.

I feel as though I have increased my IQ by 20 points. Of course this isn't true, but it feels this way because I am thinking so much more clearly and with so much more relaxation and concentration.

Rob Joseph

Fractional CFO

What you’ll get in Building a Second Brain Foundation

6 Modules With Succinct Instructional Videos

Absorb the fundamentals of the BASB methodology at your own pace and in the most distilled, easy-to-understand way.

You can watch in about two hours what would take you countless hours of reading time to learn.

Pick-Your-Notes-App Quiz & Checklist

Choose the perfect notetaking app for your needs that complements your natural relationship with information instead of interfering with it.

We’ll guide you through setting up your notetaking app with our step-by-step checklist so you’re up and running confidently in no time. 

Guided Implementation Steps

Put what you learn into practice immediately using your notes app of choice while avoiding the biggest pitfalls.

We’ll make sure that you make the right strategic decisions from the start. All you have to do is follow our blueprint to build a fully functional and reliable Second Brain. 

Resource Library

Dive deeper into advanced use cases for digital notetaking and personal knowledge management with our best, most impactful content. This is where you can continue and enhance your practice. 

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Your satisfaction is our #1 goal, and we want the decision to join BASB Foundation to be 100% risk-free so you can focus on learning.

If you decide the course didn’t deliver on its promise for any reason, fill out this form within 30 days of your purchase to get a refund.

Meet Your Instructor

Hi, I’m Tiago Forte

AUTHOR & CREATOR OF BUILDING A SECOND BRAIN

I’ve spent more than 10 years researching and personally experimenting with a new way of organizing our digital lives and improving our productivity.

What started as a quest to deal with a chronic illness turned into a life-long mission to help you harness the full potential of your ideas and turn them into reality. 

My work has been featured in

What you’ll be learning and doing in Building a Second Brain

Every module contains short, to-the-point videos, concrete action steps, and reflection exercises so you can put what you learn into practice immediately. 

Module 1: Set the foundation and choose your notetaking app
  • Find out why you need to build a personal notetaking system even though you can “google” anything.
  • ‍Discover the four superpowers a Second Brain instills in you that will impress anyone you work with.
  • ‍Pick a notetaking app, the heart of your Second Brain, based on your unique notetaking style and preferences.
  • ‍Start using your notetaking app right away with our guidance and without having to “master” every single feature.
  • ‍Feel confident in your decision about which tools to use so you can stop jumping from one “shiny object” to the next.
  • ‍Get introduced to the CODE Method, the intuitive process for turning raw information into concrete results.
Module 2: Capture your best ideas and the crucial information in your life and work
  • Adopt the mindset of a curator to escape information overwhelm once and for all.
  • ‍Set up your digital capture system with our best practices for saving any type of information. 
  • Identify your personal “capture criteria” using the 12-Favorite-Problems exercise, inspired by Nobel prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman.
  • ‍Avoid saving too much without FOMO, knowing what’s worth saving in your Second Brain and what isn’t.
  • ‍Distinguish between personal and work-related notes and help your organization create a shared Second Brain.
Module 3: Organize your notes for actionability and easy access 
  • Organize your entire digital life in seconds with the PARA Method – a favorite among Second Brainers.
  • ‍Set up your Second Brain as a dynamic system that evolves along with your needs and priorities.
  • ‍Learn when to organize your notes and how to decide where to save individual notes instantly so that you can easily find them again later. 
  • ‍Discover the incredible power of a project list to bring you closer to the most important goals in your life.
  • ‍Create a digital working environment that enhances your creativity and helps you get into flow states faster.
Module 4: Distill your notes to make them easily discoverable
  • Find the missing link to making your notes discoverable so that your Second Brain doesn’t turn into an idea graveyard.
  • Design your notes in a way that makes them most useful for your future self, saving you tons of time.
  • ‍Practice a technique called Progressive Summarization so your biggest insights are always front and center.
  • ‍Train your intuition to decide what's important and what's not in the moment based on “resonance.”
  • ‍Avoid the three most common mistakes of novice notetakers and take the effort out of distilling your notes.
Module 5: Express your ideas and turn them into concrete results
  • Use the concept of Intermediate Packets to completely transform the way you approach any new project.
  • ‍Never start anything from scratch again and make progress in any span of time you have available.
  • ‍Become interruption-proof and get better and faster feedback than you ever thought possible.
  • ‍Retrieve your best ideas exactly when you need them to become the most prepared person in the room (without preparing).
Module 6: Establish the habits to continuously benefit from your Second Brain
  • Learn to balance the two phases of any creative endeavor so that you can thrive in each.
  • ‍Always finish what you started with three powerful strategies (#2 was a favorite of Ernest Hemingway).
  • ‍Discover how two simple checklists can help you fast-track your projects and goals.
  • ‍Establish a Weekly Review as a routine check-in to keep your Second Brain in order and your productivity, creativity, and peace of mind on track.
  • ‍Upgrade your mindset from scarcity to abundance so that nothing can stand in your way when you go after what you want.

Get reimbursed by your employer

Most large organizations, and many smaller ones, will reimburse tuition for professional development.

‍Click here to download a proposal template.

BASB Foundation

Our self-paced course to build your Second Brain on your own time.

  • 6 modules with succinct instructional videos so you can absorb the fundamentals of the BASB methodology in the most distilled, easy-to-understand way
  • Pick-your-notes-app quiz & checklist to help you choose & properly set up the right notetaking app for your needs
  • Guided implementation steps so you can put what you learn into practice immediately
  • A resource library of our best, most impactful content to dive deeper into digital notetaking and personal knowledge management
  • 30-day money-back guarantee so you can try Foundation risk-free and focus on learning 
  • Access for the lifetime of the course

Is Building a Second Brain right for you?

Building a Second Brain is for ambitious learners, creators, and thinkers who want to create more meaningful work in the digital age.

Knowledge Workers

Anyone who needs to consume a lot of information, understand it, and use it to produce a result in their jobs. Whether you’re in Tech, Finance, or Management— if your greatest asset is your knowledge, Building a Second Brain is for you.

Creators

As a YouTuber, blogger, podcaster, or someone who needs to give killer presentations at work, a Second Brain will help you capture and organize your ideas, so you always have rich material to pull from.

Students

If you’re working on a thesis or want to make sure every ounce of your learning is captured and secure forever, Building a Second Brain will help you get the most out of your studies and stand out among your peers.

Freelancers & Entrepreneurs

Having trouble managing all the information you need to run your business? Building a Second Brain will help you work on your business and in your business without dropping any balls.

Families

Managing a household can be chaotic and draining. But when you leverage technology the right way and build a Second Brain to offload some of the burden, you can thrive, not just survive, at home.

Life-Long Learners, Productivity & Self-Improvement Enthusiasts

You’re consuming a ton of useful information but struggle to put it into practice. Now you can save all the knowledge you’ve gained, find it when you need it, and take the necessary steps to improve your life.

Here’s how people from every profession and industry are benefiting from Building a Second Brain

Dr. Michele Gill

Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Central Florida

Steven Wilkinson

Founder and Managing Director of Good and Prosper Ltd., Wicklow, Ireland

Building a Second Brain is life-changing. I feel more organized. I know where everything goes. It's cleared up my information hoarding and replaced it with buckets for distilled work.

Barjes R. Angulo

Financial Planner

After taking the BASB course, everything has changed for me. This system is GENIUS and I'm so excited to read the book!

Savera Tasawar

Project Manager

BASB has given me a roadmap of where I want my life to go. It's sparking some creativity in all my endeavors.

Diana Lyn Davidson

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Artist, Writer & Photographer

BASB got me from 0 to a knowledge management system that makes me more effective by the day. This is almost an unfair advantage!

Adam Zielinski

Software Engineer

Visit our Wall of Love for more in-depth reviews of Building a Second Brain.

Answers to your Frequently Asked Questions

How long will I have access to the material?

You’ll have access for the lifetime of the product.

How much time do I need to invest to benefit from Building a Second Brain?

We’ve designed BASB Foundation to fit your schedule and pace.

While you can watch the video lessons in just two hours, we highly recommend that you follow the action steps to put the BASB system into practice.

It will take some time and effort to implement, but ultimately, building and leveraging your Second Brain will save you countless hours. 

What tools are used in Building a Second Brain?

Building a Second Brain is tool-agnostic, meaning our methodology will work in any software you prefer.

Students use Evernote, Notion, Apple Notes, OneNote, Craft, Roam Research, Obsidian, Bear, and Google Keep, among many other notetaking tools.

The videos in the course will show you examples primarily in Evernote and Apple Notes – because they are some of the simplest, most easily understood notes apps available.

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

There are no official prerequisites to take Building a Second Brain. However, we do expect you to be reasonably comfortable with using a computer or smartphone.

What’s your refund policy?

Your satisfaction is our #1 goal, and we want the decision to join BASB Foundation to be 100% risk-free so you can focus on learning.

If you decide the course didn’t deliver on its promise for any reason, fill out this form within 30 days of your purchase to get a refund.

Do you offer discounts or scholarships?

We don’t offer discounts or scholarship. Instead, we support Purchasing Power Parity Pricing. Based on your location, you might qualify for a reduced price for BASB Foundation.

If you do, you’ll automatically see a banner with a discount code on this page. Make sure to disable any VPN since this will block the banner from showing.

Please use this checkout page where you can enter the discount code.

What kind of payment plans do you offer?

We’re happy to offer you “buy now, pay later” options through Klarna and Afterpay/Clearpay, which enable you to pay for our courses in interest-free installments.

On our checkout pages, you’ll find these options under “Payment Methods".

Currently, “buy now, pay later” is available in the United States only.

Didn’t see the answer to your question? Check our Help Center for more FAQs. 

The world is waiting for you to make the difference that only you can make. 

Join BASB Foundation

Our self-paced course to build your Second Brain on your own time.

  • 6 modules with succinct instructional videos so you can absorb the fundamentals of the BASB methodology in the most distilled, easy-to-understand way
  • Pick-your-notes-app quiz & checklist to help you choose & properly set up the right notetaking app for your needs
  • Guided implementation steps so you can put what you learn into practice immediately
  • A resource library of our best, most impactful content to dive deeper into digital notetaking and personal knowledge management
  • 30-day money-back guarantee so you can try Foundation risk free and focus on learning 
  • Access for the lifetime of the course

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