My editor is suggesting I title the book BUILD a Second Brain instead of BuildING a Second Brain. I’ve noticed that people often remember it as the former. Which one do you like better and why?
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I like building. Like getting things done instead of get things done. Both suggest an ongoing process over a one time heavy lift.
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That was my original thinking, except there's a key difference: "getting things done" is the continuous end state that you want to achieve, whereas "building a second brain" is just the setting up of the system that will THEN allow you to reach an end state
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Me, too, though I wonder if to some it sounds too passive/descriptive, vs prescriptive....
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Same. Continuous process seems more in line with how actual brains work e.g. memory *re*formation upon recall. Build is only better if you accept the 2nd brain in literal discrete sense, but the reality is that you are making a sort of extended hyperbrain out of the primary one.
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