Feeling Overwhelmed, confuse and lost? Get a second brain NOW!
Published: 2023-09-10 18:16:02

In today’s world with the amount of information and tools it’s very easy to someone, a young talent starter or a seasoned professional, to feel overwhelmed, lost, confused and easily forgettable, and much less capable of develop sustainable knowledge, be productive and even less come up or connect ideas. Now on top of this put AI, ChatGPT and all innovations that will change humans and the World dramatically.

![Note about BigData Project](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/0g9worls1fa07ha9fz04.jpeg)

If these feelings prevail too much in your mind and life it can lead to mental health of anxiety, attention deficit, depression and other issues. So let's fix this.


## How do I Remember stuff?

I am going to share with you how I address this in my life.

The other day, I was watching an [youtube video](https://youtu.be/Rvey9g0VgY0) about how to remember what you read last week.

There's an [old proverb](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/226886/origin-of-i-hear-and-i-forget-i-see-and-i-remember-i-do-and-i-understand) that says:

> I hear, and I forget
> I see, and I remember
> I do, and I understand.

This touches a second point of 

## How do I understand stuff?

The amount of information that we are bombarded is a serious candidate to **_mental overflow_**.

So, we need to actively learn and remember and not lose control of our mind. 

What to do? Get a [Second Brain](https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/).

## How do I do it?

My colleagues sometimes are surprised with the vast topics that I can cover, might be Jack of all trades, master of None, but I do work and have relevant experience of a variety topics from Cloud Architecture, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, BigData, DevOps, DataOps, MLOPs and now LLMOPs.

Let me brief, what do I do to absorb and retain a lot of these information without getting dizzy:

### Handwriting

I write with pen and paper for slow thinking and resonate with content on my own words. This is not typing on a keyboard but **creatively draw some nice strokes** and produce words and phrases out on your functioning brain, not just copying.

![AI handwriting notes](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/nby4j0tzwm57il8e9xc3.jpeg)
 
### Second Brain Tool
I use a system for second brain, [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md). A second choice on absence of Obsidian is [Dendron](https://www.dendron.so/) an extension of VSCode.

### Link Your thinking

We live in a world what lightning fast pace of innovation, and if you are like me, your head is full of ideas, what is called your personal **_IDEAVERSE_**.

![golden-ratio](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/0950b260336piaf3igci.png)



I tried many methodologies:
- [Zettelkasten](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/)
- [Building a Second Brain](https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/)
- [Link Your Thinking](https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/)

NOTE: Forget about productivity and organization tools like Evernote, Notion, etc.. this is **ABOUT THINKING** not about being productive.

I just leave it here for now and let you digest and think what do you thing about this and if you're already addressing this in your own way, I would like to know about it.

Want to learn more:
- https://www.youtube.com/@linkingyourthinking