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📝 Weekly Report #23

✏️ Have taken some time this week to look at ways of improving my own learning and formulating my own ideas in a much more effective way. This has lead me to the idea of using a Second Brain. Lots of YouTubers currently use the idea of second brains to store information they have read about or learnt and then be able to retrieve it and use it as content for their videos. It's pretty much a searchable sub conscious.

Imagine all the quotes and ideas you have ever read about, stored electronically and searchable. It allows you to make lots of links between all of your stored ideas and retrieve them whenever you need them. I am currently in the process of formulating my own system using OneNote, personal preference, but there are lots of different options for your own system. Be sure to check out the following video for more on using a Second Brain. 

📚 Peps Mcrea twitter thread on how to minimise distractions. 

📚 James Clear article about commitment. Fully commit to the process and you'll become good enough, soon enough.

🔊 Greg McKeown talking to Ximena Vengoecha about the importance of listening and how we can properly hear what others are saying and going further than just surface level thinking to deeper, more empathetic listening. Again it's back to this idea of avoiding distractions and having more focus.
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