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29. Tiago Forte: Building A Second Brain

The Reader's Journey

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How Long Did It Take You to Write a Book?

The author says his ability to constantly offload what I'm thinking, turn my attention to something else is completely due to my second brain. "Having a second brain allowed me to write this book and continue to make progress on it when everything in my life and the world was changing," he said. He thinks if he didn't have an external place to keep track of all the details, either the book would have been completely derailed or all those other parts ofMy life would have been derailed.

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