Building a Second Brain, Productivity, and Trauma with Tiago Forte
b'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 \\u201caverage human life is now too complex to be managed by the average human brain.\\u201d
- Why hyperfocus and intense productivity are symptoms of trauma, and how to deal with that trauma.
- The theory of constraints and why it\\u2019s so powerful.
- Religion and meaning-making for the secular world.
- The future of libraries and why Tiago calls them \\u201cdigital nomad embassies.\\u201d
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