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How to build your second brain (with Tiago Forte)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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How Do I Distil a Management Note?

The distill is the step most people miss. It basically means when you're looking at a note or a collection of notes, you have to take the time to refine those notes. You want to essentially boil them down into the most important points that are actually going to be used in whatever you're trying to accomplish. And that is kind of a radical filter, right? I might have 5,000 words of notes on a book. But then if I look at a specific situation, like let's say I have someone on my team that I'm having some issue that I'm dealing with, there might be only 1% or 5% or something of all those notes that are actually relevant

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