Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, famously said: "What management should do in the 21st century is to increase the productivity of knowledge work and knowledge workers." ”
So, what can be done to improve the productivity of knowledge management?
In the book "Building a Second Brain", Thiago Ford tells us how to build our own knowledge management system, so that this management system can become our second brain, help us to complete our work easily, manage our lives, and make our wishes come true, so that the second brain can become our best personal assistant.
Thiago Ford is one of the world's foremost experts in personal knowledge management, who has successfully helped thousands of people around the world to improve their personal productivity, and his course "Building a Second Brain" has been warmly welcomed by many knowledge managers. Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, idol singer Taylor Swift, and "The Godfather" director Ford Coppola have all benefited from second brains.
So, how do we build our second brain?
In just four steps, we can easily build our second brain.
100 Families Help Plan 1Scrape information.
Whether we turn on the computer or the mobile phone, we will see a variety of information, how to make this information into knowledge that is helpful to us?
Learn to grasp information and turn it into food for thought.
I met Mr. Shi Ruo in a reading training camp, Mr. Shi Ruo is a person who is very good at knowledge management, and he uses his second brain to publish several books.
Some people browse information, and it may pass after browsing, but as a knowledge manager, you can grab information after browsing and turn it into a useful resource for us.
So what kind of information can be scraped to help us?
First, is it instructive?
Sometimes when we see a message, it inspires us to be inspired, and this kind of information is worth grabbing.
Second, whether it is practical, for example, if you want to buy a gift for a friend, you may have to look for information on how to choose a gift, and there are some methods and skills that are worth learning Xi. What are the criteria for choosing gifts in different contexts and facing different people?
Third, does it have a personality?
Some of the things we have done ourselves, some of our reviews, can be captured as this kind of information.
When we see this information later, it may have a different impact on us.
Fourth, is it novel?
Some of the information is refreshing to us, and when you see it, you think, why didn't I think of this aspect myself?
We need to know that the notes we make are for our own use, so we must be attentive and have a touch on ourselves.
2.Organize our notes.
Flaubert, the famous French family, once said: Only by keeping life in order can we make work full of passion.
After the information is captured, how can we quickly extract it when we need it?
This brings us to how to manage these notes of ours.
The author tells us a simple and effective way to organize notes, which he calls the para system, which divides the information we usually capture into four types.
The first is the project, the short-term activity that we are engaged in in our work or life, and all the information related to this can be put in this type.
The second is the field, which is what we have to stick to for a long time.
There is a clear difference between the first and the second, for example: ten catties is one of our projects, but this is only a short-term project for us, our long-term goal is to be healthy, so the knowledge related to physical health can be placed in the field of our health.
The third type is resources, which are information that is neither a project nor a domain, and can be placed in this category. For example, some topics that we are interested in, some topics that we study, such as how to develop good Xi, etc.
The fourth type is archiving, that is, it originally belonged to the first three types of information, but it is currently idle, such as a project we have completed, or an area that we are no longer involved in, this part of the information seems to have nothing to do with your current life, but it is also possible that there will be new needs in the future for a period of time, and this information needs to be used.
3.Extract the information and use it for me.
How do we turn the material we capture and organize into the information we need?
The author writes in the book that it is impossible for us to make a note that highlights the key points and is not word for word, just as it is impossible to make a paragraph both wonderful and detailed;It is also impossible to make a scene both concise and efficient, and comprehensive.
The author recommends a step-by-step inductive method, where you first mark the main points of a note, then mark the main points of the main points, and finally write an outline of the information in your own words.
This is also a process of information transformation, and it should be noted that in each processing process, the value of the value that can help the future self is explored.
4.The final step is to make the notes your own.
How can we make our information work and quickly help us create what we want?
The first method is to retrieve the target information on demand.
We can continue to collect some more vivid materials in our lives, and there are many opportunities to share and touch each other with others.
The second aspect is connectivity.
The author mentions the story of a pastor who helped others plan various memorial services. He collects some meaningful stories of the deceased and organizes them, giving others a different experience like a tribute to life.
The third approach is innovation.
Belica is a psychology professor, and she uses notes to organize all the inspirations she has gained in a certain moment into notes, and when she starts to take teaching notes, she will easily retrieve some of his notes that allow her to complete teaching notes quickly.
If the timeline is extended, knowledge management is to complete the accumulation and transformation of oneself.
Building a Second Brain is like an operating manual that allows us to learn personal knowledge management, improve efficiency, and more easily complete our projects and goals.