Jul 16 2020 57 mins 23
In this episode, we talk with Michael Ashcroft, a consultant, co-founder and Non-Executive Director of the Carbon Removal Centre, a UK-based non-profit organization whose purpose is to advance sustainable carbon removal. He is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, an awareness-based educational process that helps people live with greater ease and freedom, and a Co-Active coach, working with clients in his spare time. We talked about: How he stumbled into Roam Research from Building A Second Brain His workflow when building his second brain The Alexander Technique, and using Roam to expand his understanding of it, and applying it to coaching How he uses Roam as a self-coaching tool #roamcult as a culture, not a cult: The filter for meeting interesting people Enjoy! Timestamps 02:08 Michael's origin story and meta-realization: Building A Second Brain 04:29 Michael's workflow and version of smart notes 07:09 Deconstructing how to take book notes 8:58 Determine if ideas have their own pages 11:14 Letting go of note-taking structure in advance Re: Evernote 12:41 If Einstein had a Roam... 14:13 Subconsciously building a digital garden 16:29 Multi-graph connections, and unique blocks across Roam 18:09 Synchronising public and Private Roams 19:58 "The onboarding is the #roamcult" 20:44 The Aha! Moment and the many possibilities 21:53 Exploring emotions in Roam and self-introspection 23:53 Co-Active coaching and the Saboteur 25:20 How Michael Ashcroft uses Roam to do self-coaching 27:33 Projects, Areas, Roam, Archives 30:24 Alexander Technique: Undoing habits 34:05 Roam to enhance understanding of Alexander Technique 35:33 Using the right words that resonate better 37:23 Alexander Technique teachers tend to impose jargon on people 38:46 Michael Ashcroft's future plans for Alexander Technique 40:11 A course as a universal resource 41:59 The world is hooked on doing or caring 44:02 How can we help? 46:00 Caring is interference 47:43 Non-doing, and to frame something as a battle is interference 49:42 How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it yet? 51:06 What does Roam mean to you? Roam Culture 52:28 The secret handshake is #roamcult 54:19 PKM meetups are a filter for interesting people Links Michael Ashcroft's Website Michael's Twitter Thinking Out Loud Newsletter How to be Superman (Alexander Technique) Building A Second Brain Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Visit the RoamFM Public Graph for more info!
