So look for similarities between large groups of Thoughts to further organize.Ĭreating some intervening Thoughts that help classify and organize other thoughts can help you understand your subject matter further. Remember that your Brain isn’t a linear file system so putting something under multiple categories is no problem. For instance, if you are a consultant and have hundreds of clients rather then listing all one hundred clients under your “Client” Thought you might want to divide these clients up by industry, service, or territory… Or maybe all three. Now this is where you get to sing the Sesame Street Song! The task here is to look for commonalities and natural sub-groupings of Thoughts. You can tidy this up quite nicely with some additional subcategories for these Thoughts. However, you might have a few areas where you have too many Thoughts grouped together. This process of adding information in and creating new Thoughts and linking them together is absolutely critical for building and taking advantage of your digital Brain. Weee!! Just drag and drop and in that file goes! Yippy, drag from my active Thought and add one more idea, now captured and forever incarnated in my digital Brain. There is a wonderful freedom and ease of use that we all experience when first creating our Brain or adding a section. Now how does this happen? Isn’t that the point of PersonalBrain? Let me explain. There are many reasons why it might be time to breathe some new life into your old and faithful Brain but one of the most common that I’ve bumped into is too many Thoughts linked under one parent or general category. Creating Subcategories and Information Groups
And will lead us into Tip #1 for editing your Brain…ġ. But if you attended my Webinar last month then you will probably realize that this is the perfect tune for the task of cleaning your Brain. Words and Music by Joe Raposo and Jon StoneĮditing and Overhauling your Brain? Well, start singing! Okay if you haven’t sung this song at least once in your life, watched Sesame Street or maybe played this game with your kids then you are probably finding this a rather odd start to a blog post on editing a Brain. “One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song? Did you guess which thing was not like the others? Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong? If you guessed this one is not like the others, Then you're absolutely.right!”