What’s the Lever That Can Help You Move YOUR World?

Digital note-taking is a lever that can multiply your effectiveness in surprising ways. An ancient Greek genius helps us understand how.

“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.” — Archimedes

If you take Archimedes’ words literally, he’s speaking about the power of a fulcrum to multiply the results of physical effort.

But if you look at them figuratively, they’re incredibly rich in meaning.

At the surface level, for example, Archimedes’ quote speaks to the potential power of tools, properly applied. Simply put, you can accomplish much more with tools than you can through brute force efforts.

You wouldn’t dream of pounding a nail with your bare hand. But with a hammer? Much easier.

It also speaks to the idea that certain actions and mindsets can lead to a big impact on your life. They can act as levers to multiply your efforts many times over. In some cases, a change in mindset can enable you to accomplish things that were previously out of your reach — or outright impossible.

Archimedes’ quote about leverage can also be applied to multiplying the value of your intellectual resources. A second brain, for example, “remembers” a wealth of information, knowledge and ideas — freeing up your first brain to focus on observing, interpreting, connecting, imagining and creating.

In an age of abundance, you have the world’s knowledge at your fingertips. The trick is to learn how to capture the most interesting bits and employ them to create something new, valuable and irreplaceable.

Tiago Forte’s course, Building a Second Brain, will teach you how to do that.

The modular approach it teaches encourages you to re-use and remix your notes in new ways — another form of leverage that helps you extract greater value out of your information, knowledge and ideas over time.

Ideally, a tool like this can also help you leverage your time more effectively. By keeping your personal knowledge base at your fingertips, organized and ready to work on your behalf, you can be much more…