Quote:Course Curriculum

A unified curriculum on leveraging the full power of your ideas

Unit 1: Introduction to the Course

� What to expect: schedule, roadmap, communications, and the 3 pillars of the methodology

� Why organization and collaboration are the two missing links in most people's creative process � and how adding them in can double your creative output

� Idea Management: the new path to produce 10x results with 1/10 the effort

� The secret of Strategic Laziness: the real story of how great thinkers work

� Take an 11-point quiz to score your current note-taking skills


Unit 2: Organizing for Insight

� How to turn your digital notes into "thinking tools" that allow you to access brainpower you didn't even know you had

� Feeling unorganized? How a simple technique called PARA will enable you to organize your entire digital life in minutes

� The 8 must-haves for any digital organizing system, and how to apply them

� A little-known distinction � between micro-projects and areas of responsibility � that can completely revolutionize your productivity

� Banish Information Overload using the Magic Number 4 � a helpful constraint to preserve your working memory

� Discover the incredible power of an up-to-date Project List, with in-depth feedback and guidance on how to create one for yourself


Unit 3: Digital Cognition

� The 4 essential requirements that any good digital notes app MUST have

� How to amplify the single biggest opportunity for making new connections without spending more time or effort: Productive Randomness

� Learn how a simple principle from Information Science called "stigmergy" explains how to effectively manage information

� A new way of working using "slow burns" instead of grueling slogs � people who miss this are doomed to suffer from Information Exhaustion

� What the Feynman Method can teach us about "punching above our intellectual weight"

� Find out how the best note-takers throughout history built up their intellectual capital using compounding gains

� Transform raw material into knowledge ammunition: how to use digital notes to form a valuable body of knowledge for a side project, career advancement, or new business

� Identify your personal learning priorities using the Feynman Method, a simple exercise created by a Nobel prize-winning scientist to permanently improve your reading and learning for years to come


Unit 4: Progressive Summarization

� Have trouble finding your notes when you need them most? A counter-intuitive technique called Progressive Summarization will help you distill them down for easy retrieval

� Understand the pros and cons of organizing your notes by tag, by notebook, or by project, and the best approach based on our 10 years' of experience

� Don�t have time for more research? Develop the skill of balancing compression and context to increase the return-on-investment of your note taking

� Strategic laziness over rigid rules: note-taking strategies that leverage human nature, instead of fighting it

� How to design individual notes for �glanceability� and instant recognition for your Future Self

� The amazing benefits of designing your own Personal Information Landscape

� Practice Progressive Summarization on your own notes, with feedback from instructors and peers


Unit 5: Maximizing Return-on-Attention

� Explore the fascinating science behind "transient hypofrontality": how to maximize the mental state of flow for higher performance, enjoyment, and learning

� Understanding how to minimize the impact of setup costs (environmental, mental, and emotional) on productivity

� How Intermediate Packets can completely transform your approach to productivity

� Become interruption-proof: placeholding, chunking, and reusability as potent sources of leverage for knowledge workers

� Knowledge Artifacts: how to externalize your thinking and accelerate your learning using concrete deliverables

� Turn your notes into a new Knowledge Artifact especially designed to generate valuable, targeted feedback from your peers


Unit 6: Just-In-Time Productivity

� Learn Just-In-Time Productivity � the new, far more effective way of working that becomes possible once you have a Second Brain

� 5 ways to leverage your ideas to leapfrog your peers, skip the corporate ladder, and become a leader in your field

� Divergence and Convergence: use groundbreaking ideas from the world's top designers to escape any creative roadblock or dead-end

� Equip yourself with 16 Workflow Strategies � proven thinking tools

� Banish procrastination forever using the Archipelago of Ideas technique to instantly add structure to any creative project

� Learn a new way of adding structuring to your ideas just-in-time, to produce results quickly, efficiently, and right when they�re most needed

� How to massively accelerate your learning using idea capture tools and quick feedback loops

� Select and try out 3 of the 16 Workflow Strategies on one or more of your projects or deliverables


Unit 7: Workflow Canvas

� Step-by-step walkthrough to design your very own Second Brain, customized to your needs and goals

� Get feedback on further areas for improvement, based on the exercises you completed in the course

� Explore dozens of examples, case studies, and downloadable templates to make implementing this system as easy as possible

� Complete the Workflow Canvas to choose the tools, techniques, and strategies to integrate into your own workflow


Unit 8: The Big Picture

� Information Overload? How Container vs. Stream Thinking is the mindset you need to thrive in a world of information abundance

� Understand how to cultivate situational awareness and curation as the key skills required to navigate streams of information

� Strengthen your creative confidence by borrowing principles from history's most prolific creators and artists

� Identifying and overcoming the most common limiting beliefs we encounter around productivity, thinking, and learning

� The Perspective Era � why the future of work will be dedicated to interpretation and persuasion based on your unique point of view, and what you can do to prepare

� Start with Abundance: a different take on creative output that starts with sifting through interesting ideas, instead of sitting down to a blank screen

� Harnessing the full potential of digital notes: how to integrate Idea Management into your daily routine

� The coming era of Idea Management, and how to prepare yourself to thrive within it