Building a Second Brain, Productivity, and Trauma with Tiago Forte

Erik is joined by Tiago Forte (@fortelabs), creator of Building a Second Brain, founder of Forte Labs, and writer at Praxis.

They talk about:

- Why productivity is not an end in and of itself.

- Why content creation (not just consumption) is integral to your career.

- How to better deal with the 11 hours of media a day that the average person consumes.

- Why the “average human life is now too complex to be managed by the average human brain.”

- Why hyperfocus and intense productivity are symptoms of trauma, and how to deal with that trauma.

- The theory of constraints and why it’s so powerful.

- Religion and meaning-making for the secular world.

- The future of libraries and why Tiago calls them “digital nomad embassies.”

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