You’ve probably heard many times how important creativity is to modern career success.
Collecting information is easy, and we’ve seen that filing it away isn’t that hard either. But if you stop there, all this effort amounts to hoarding. Value doesn’t come from the inputs; it comes from your outputs, bearing your signature and style.
A lot of what I write about in Building a Second Brain builds on PARA with a holistic system for creativity in the digital age.
But for the purposes of this book, PARA is about creating an environment in which creativity can emerge. Creativity is often mysterious, but one thing I know for sure: