How to Use Your Second Brain to Tap into Your Creative Genius
Episode Description
Michelle and Wallis cover wellness news [0:01:01] Northern white rhinos are extinct, [0:08:07] Lululemon just released its Q1 revenue reports, [0:12:36] Rae Wellness raises $9.5M Series A venture capital round of fundraising, Michelle talks about productivity, and how to organize your brain if you are a creative, intuitive person so that you can get more done and feel less anxious [0:18:17], Michelle explains her first system: Second Brain [0:23:25], [0:32:21] Michelle’s Second System: Inbox, [0:39:09] Michelle shares her end of day routine.
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“If we are going to continue to advance in intelligence and technology, we should be responsible to raise our consciousness level so that we don't have things like moral hazard where we're just blowing things up indiscriminately, thinking we can always go back and fix it later.” – Michelle Pellizzon
“There's always some reaction that happens when we make a decision. And we have to live with those repercussions.” – Michelle Pellizzon
“It taught me that I didn't have to reinvent the wheel in order to be creative.” – Michelle Pellizzon
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Show Notes
[0:00:05] Podcast begins.
[0:01:01] Northern white rhinos are extinct. The last remaining male, the northern white rhino died. Now, there are only two lefts in the world --- his daughter and his granddaughter.
[0:02:12] There are a couple of ideas to save these species. One is to co breed the two remaining northern white rhinos with Southern white rhinos, but that would change the species because their genetic pool would be different. It would be a hybrid.
[0:02:54] Another option is to clone, but the scientists are hesitant, though they already took sperm from this male white rhino before he died.
[0:03:53] Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996 at The Roslin Institute by a team led by Professor Sir Ian Wilmut. She was euthanized in 2003.
[0:06:36] Human nature, despite all our advances, despite how intelligent we are, we’re still human.
[0:06:54] “If we are going to continue to advance in intelligence and technology, we should be responsible to raise our consciousness level so that we don't have things like moral hazard where we're just blowing things up indiscriminately, thinking we can always go back and fix it later.” – Michelle Pellizzon
[0:07:53] “There's always some reaction that happens when we make a decision. And we have to live with those repercussions.” – Michelle Pellizzon
[0:08:07] Lululemon just released its Q1 revenue reports, and they pulled in a cool $1.2 billion this year!
[0:09:15] Lululemon Athletica Inc. acquired the at-home fitness company Mirror last year.
[0:11:45] In The Mood Capsules – it’s a supplement and it's supposed to help with sexual health and wellbeing.
[0:12:36] Rae Wellness raises $9.5M Series A venture capital round of fundraising.
[0:18:15] End of today’s wellness news.
[0:18:17] Today, Michelle is talking about productivity, and how to organize your brain if you are a creative, intuitive person so that you can get more done and feel less anxious.
[0:21:08] “Unless it is a customer or someone to who I owe an explanation or I owe a response to, I don't feel that I owe anyone anything. And I'm not required to get back to them immediately, I can get back to them when I'm healthy and when it's safe for me to do so.” – Michelle Pellizzon
[0:21:58] “So my two systems are called second brain and inbox. And these are not things that I created. They are things that I learned from other people.” – Michelle Pellizzon
[0:22:16] Notion is an amazing software that you can basically do anything in.
[0:23:25] Michelle’s First System: Second Brain
[0:25:24] We should try to do the things that are working.
[0:25:28] “It taught me that I didn't have to reinvent the wheel in order to be creative.” – Michelle Pellizzon
[0:25:45] “It might seem cool to you. But if people can't find it, and read it and learn it and see it, then like, who cares how cool it is?” – Michelle Pellizzon
[0:26:10] Never write from a blank page!
[0:26:19] “You don't need to reinvent the wheel because you can't, because there is no new information out there. Trust me, there isn't!” – Michelle Pellizzon
[0:26:37] Our responsibility as creators is, to tell the truth, to tell the information through our perspective, through our story, through our unique language.
[0:26:55] “It's not reinventing the wheel, it's changing the color of the wheel.” – Michelle Pellizzon
[0:29:07] Your second brain is a place outside of your actual brain, where you store information that's important to you.
[0:29:31] It's important to have everything all in one place because you want to be able to locate your information when you need it.
[0:29:39] You want to be able to go into your second brain when you're having a moment that it's difficult for you to create, or for you to focus, or you don't really know what to do next.
[0:31:58] That's what a second brain is for, it helps open up that space in your brain so you don't need to hold on to facts and figures that aren't important.
[0:32:27] Michelle set up her second brain inside of Notion.
[0:32:50] Michell also uses io
[0:32:21] Michelle’s Second System: Inbox
[0:33:55] The idea of an inbox is not like an email inbox. It's like you're on your teacher's desk or on your desk at your office inbox. Everything that comes in in the day goes in the inbox.
[0:34:35] Michelle got her Inbox inside the Notion.
[0:34:58] Free Inbox Template from Michelle.
[0:36:14] Listen to the Monday Hour One podcast here.
[0:39:09] Michelle shared her end-of-the-day routine.
[0:41:15] Creating a second brain and creating an inbox may help you have an action step after meetings.
[0:43:09] We're made to do things in our own unique way.
[0:44:06] If you're constantly just trying to keep your head above water, you're stealing from yourself and you're stealing from the world. You're not giving yourself the opportunity to go deeper.
[0:44:28] We don't need more of the superficial stuff.
[0:44:55] If you love this idea of building and melding strategy and structure with the intuitive and the magic and the creative, you'll love the north node!
[0:45:06] Some of the theme every single month is how can we take a concept or idea and use the practical, pragmatic structural side, and marry that with the intuitive, mystical, magical, wonderful side.
[0:45:30] The doors to the North Node open on June 20, the Summer Solstice, and we have a limited number of spots.
[0:46:01] If you want to get in, there's a lot of spots open, and a lot of scholarship spots open on the sliding scale and we'd be honored to have you!
[0:46:47] Podcast ends.