# Make things easier for your future self Created On: 01-09-2023 02:36 pm Type: #note/literature📖 #source/podcast Topics: [[Second Brain]] --- ## Notes * Leverage is something that you build overtime through consistent investment * Your [[Second Brain]] is a good example of this * [[Intermediate packets]] are a prime example * Additionally, thinking of the [[PARA Method]], "Resources" fall into this category as well * ==This touches on "intellectual leverage" - capturing and retaining accessible knowledge and wisdom * ==This knowledge and wisdom compounds over time - making it more and more valuable to our future selves * The outcome of this is that ==we form the experience **of** our future-self * "It made my future self feel like it was real" * This is called the "[[End-of-history illusion]]", where we treat our understand of our future-self is merely more than our current-self. --- ## Reference(s) 1. [Make Things Easier for Your Future Self](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vbzQn7X7HpSmcGz2GSUKM?si=0a156ea1ebb24ad9), [[The Build A Second Brain Podcast]], [[Tiago Forte]]