>[!External Links] >[Session proposal](x-devonthink-item://819CE944-9626-4D18-A1FB-775AE45BB648) # _Sorry, but your brain is not very clever: The importance of a ‘Second Brain’._ [[AUA Session summer 2023]] ## Learning Outcomes _1._     _Explain the benefits of the Second Brain methodology, and how it can be applied in a Higher Education setting._ _2._     _Describe how this tool can be used by leaders to generate and capture new insights and ideas, and also empower colleagues._ _3._     _Start their own Second Brain_ Start with why our brains are not very clever? - Easily distracted (Quote: "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention" - Herbert Simon) - recency bias - not good at knowledge retention. (Quote: Everything not saved will be lost - Nintendo “Quit Screen” message). - Research from Microsoft shows that the average US employee spends 76 hours per year looking for misplaced notes, items, or files. And a report from the International Data Corporation found that 26 percent of a typical knowledge worker’s day is spent looking for and consolidating information spread across a variety of systems. Incredibly, only 56 percent of the time are they able to find the information required to do their jobs. - not good at distillation. - Not good at 'stigmurgy' - leaving marks in our environment for when we want to get back to something important. - Some are better than others - Code libraries in IT - Case files in Law - Portfolios in art? - Swipe files in Marketing - ### LO1: Explain the benefits of the Second Brain methodology, and how it can be applied in a Higher Education setting - mise-en-place - mirror to your own brain - not a dump of information- curated content. Different to evernote. - history- 'commonplace books' and Memex Machines - CODE model- capture, organise, distill, express. - Intermediary packets- ask participants to create something. Neil has what is the difference between accountability and responsibility. I have "what is an SU". - Idea of 12 favourite problems - Don't worry about making it perfect. - Give your second brain a birthday, and start your knowledge management afresh. This approach can improve - knowledge retention, an issue in this changing world - handovers (especially in high staff turnover times) - your understanding of issues - having a knowledge retention and analysis discipline/ habit ## LO2: Describe how this tool can be used by leaders to generate and capture new insights and ideas, and also empower colleagues. PUBLISHing your second brain can help: - understanding of roles such as the CEO of an SU - helping to understand unusual areas of an organisation such as an SU. - Establishing some core values in your organisation- transparency, experimentation, learning, authenticity, modesty (lack of certainty is strength), vulnerability, - Help others- it can potentially fill a gap. - It helps to overcome perfectionism, which seems to be pervading our lives at the moment. - Improve the quality of your thinking and your arguments, as you know your notes could be read by others. - - sharing our ideas with others introduces a major element of serendipity. When you present an idea to another person, their reaction is inherently unpredictable. Links to [[digital garden]] ## LO3: Start their own Second Brain - need to integrate this throughout. ## Dangers/ traps for participants. - Not for them - Some people resolve things afterwards. This is an investment in your future self. So if you're not that type of person then don't worry. Reactive people don't worry about coming. - Trap of "tried this before with Evernote" - Trap of fiddling around with the tool and not doing the job (procrastination) - Can be a tool for confirmation bias. Have to be careful. But does help with recency bias. ## Other stuff in my second brain - [[Second Brain]] - [[Second Brain Capture Tools]] - [[My Second Brain Workflow]] - [[Why I'm sharing my second brain]] - [[Claim making Second Brain]] - [[So, you want to start a second brain?]] - [[Source - Building a Second Brain]] ## Session Feedback See [the email here]([AUA: Working Session Feedback 2023-07-21 From [email protected] to [email protected]](hook://email/LOYP123MB2783D1D704915F0B5C5DC3F9B33FA%40LOYP123MB2783.GBRP123.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM)) . Basically, all positive feedback across the 10 people who responded. [[AUA Session Text]]