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Building a Second Brain

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Distil, Capture, and Organize

The average person consumes over 30 gigabites of data per day. When you're dealing with these kind of industrial, you know, quantities of information, no organizing system is ever going to save you. After organized, you have to distil. You have to bo what that means. As you boil down the contents of your notes to their essence, you you decide, you distinguish between the points or the ideas or the parts that really truly matter and everything else that isn't. And this takes skill and it takes judgment,. Until you do, you're not really going to be able to move on to the the final step, which is to take action on tho evis.

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