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You Only Know What You Make

The Building a Second Brain Podcast

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How to Write the Very Best Book Summaries

In half a decade, you have gone from consuming books in the traditional way to writing book summaries. Tell me about that process and why it's been so beneficial for your learning. You know, i used to pride myself on the quantity of books that i read. But at some point I would just look at books that i had read even a year ago and realize, i can't remember anything from that book. And so what i decided really just a year or two ago, was, what if i read a fraction of the amount of books? What if i sead of 30 books a year? I read five or ten, but i completely immerse myself.

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