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📖 Get your copy of “Beyond Acceptance: The Transformational Journey of Applying to Grad School”: https://bit.ly/44gyYve My wife Lauren has helped over 500 people get into Harvard, MIT, and Berkeley—even those with mediocre GPAs and test scores. After serving on a UC Berkeley admissions committee, she learned that elite schools often use arbitrary metrics to quickly eliminate candidates. Lauren will show you how she used Second Brain principles to overcome her own weak credentials and get accepted everywhere she applied with full scholarships, and how you can do the same, whether you're applying to grad school, jobs, or funding. More info on Lauren’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LaurenValdez @LaurenValdez 🧠 Join the BASB Foundation course: https://buildingasecondbrain.com/foundation CHAPTERS: 00:00 - 01:11 The Elimination System 01:11 - 02:18 How Second Brain Helped me Get into Grad School 02:18 - 03:10 Capture: Follow Your Curiosity 03:10 - 04:10 Organize: Apply Strategically, Not Desperately 04:10 - 05:26 Distill: Tell Your Story With Compassion Over Criticism 05:26 - 07:35 Express: Build Courage Over Credentials 07:35 - 09:16 Three Strategic Moves You Can Make Today ----------------------- 💌 Join our weekly newsletter for more tips and resources: https://fortelabs.com/subscribe/ 📚ORDER MY BEST-SELLING BOOKS 🧠 Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/book 📂The PARA Method: Simplify, Organize, and Master Your Digital Life: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/para 👩‍🎓 TAKE MY SELF-PACED COURSES 1️⃣ Pillars of Productivity: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/pop 2️⃣ BASB Foundation: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/foundation 🤓 TEST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY POTENTIAL Take our Productivity Pulse Check to evaluate your daily habits and find out where you can make improvements. Take the quiz now: https://fortelabs.typeform.com/pulsecheck?utm_source=youtube 👋 CONNECT WITH ME 📬 My weekly newsletter: https://fortelabs.com/subscribe 👩‍💻 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagoforte/ 🌐 My website: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ 💌 My blog: https://fortelabs.com/blog/ 🐦‍⬛ X: http://x.com/fortelabs 🟦 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fortelabs 🤳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortelabsco/