Metadata
- Author: The Building a Second Brain Podcast
- Full Title: The Capture Habit
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- URL: https://www.airr.io/episode/5e8265e24cc59f52e52e9c0c
Highlights
Speaker 1: hard. It’s simple because it could be summarized with Write it down Whatever it is, if it’s the most hair brained idea. If it’s a profound quote, if it’s, ah, amazing insight that you had through, ah, book, you read a podcast. You listened to a video you watched. Write that down, write it down before you know if it’s good, write it down before you know how you’re going to use it. Write it down even if you’re certain you’re never gonna forget it for the rest of your life. And the reason for that is your mind has a certain carrying capacity. What’s known as working memory. If you are trying to hold onto things, it’s kind of like you know you’re coming home from the grocery store and your arms are (Time 0:00:38)
Speaker 1: And it’s funny when I say your own ideas, people really differentiate between my ideas and the ideas of others. To me, that distinction almost doesn’t exist, and the reason is nothing is truly 100% yours, and nothing is truly 100%. Someone else’s. Everything that comes into your senses, something you see something, you hear something you touch something you taste is interpreted. This has been the some of the great discoveries of cognitive science in recent decades. Is you interpret everything all the time, So by the time something hits, your prefrontal cortex hits your brain. You’ve already interpreted it. Therefore, it’s already yours. So I make no distinction between your ideas and the ideas of others. I just call them ideas. Um, I think people. So wherever those ideas air (Time 0:01:56)
Speaker 0: that you weren’t able to do before I Speaker 1: think you’re able to play. You’re really able to play. You know, if you look at computers what computers were able to dio, they’re able to think in certain very basic ways. They’re able to remember things. They’re able to do very basic kinds of processing. I think we should give computers those jobs, anything a computer can do. We should just outsource to them and what’s left over, I found. And I’ve seen this in my students is what Onley humans could dio. It’s spontaneity. It’s intuition. It’s creativity. It is spontaneity. It’s responding. It’s adapting its playing. It’s making jokes being weird. (Time 0:07:50)