jim kwik

Jim Kwik
7 Study Tips for Better Memory

okay let's get Limitless how do you study anything quickly how do you cram correctly and
this episode is for students of all ages and all stages this is for parents that want to help
students this is for if you're going for your MBA you're in medical school or you're a student
of life you have to prepare for a meeting a sales call you need absorbent a lot of information
in a very short period of a time so it's abbreviated so how would I approach studying new
material in a short period of time so one of the first keys to learning anything faster any
subject is to really have a goal and so when I sit down I want to ask questions I want to have
a Target in mind a lot of people don't learn something because they just don't know what
they're looking for they don't know when they're going to be successful and remember this
questions are the answer questions are the answer so ask yourself if numerous us questions
you'll notice that in our Limitless book that all the chapters start with primer questions right
questions stimulate that part of your brain called the reticular activating system as which
really direct your focus and your awareness and get you alert and then you're like oh there's
an answer there's an answer there's the answer so first Prime yourself with questions now I
would also say remember this as a reminder as a quick reminder that all learning is State
dependent all learning is State dependent meaning that if you learn something in a board
State you know information by itself is forgettable but information combined with emotion
becomes Unforgettable right so you have to up the emotion and so how can you add some fun
into your studies how can you add some a little bit of more joy how can you add a little bit
more interest and excitement you know and part of it is different for different people some
people before they start studying they'll play music in the background you know they have a
soundtrack to their life you know I don't know if you have a song that puts you in the mood
to get you focused it gets you motivated right get you excited about something some people
do some jumping jacks or some card Wheels they do some rebounding they move their body
they put smile on their faces because you have to up your emotion because if you're in a
bored sedated State the information will not be encoded very strong so you're not gonna be
able to retrieve the information outside of your mind so just remember that now it's not just
your internal environment the next tip would be to really really optimize your external
environment what do I mean by that your workspace and I would highly recommend if it you
could avoid it do not work on your bed I see so many people of all ages working in their bed
here's the thing the environment that you're learning something in gets encoded with the
information and the feelings and the emotion that come with that and really some people
actually have sleep issues because they work in bed and they can't differentiate that between
that and actually going to sleep or if you associate bed to going to sleep you're not going to be
very efficient in your study so either way it's a lose right and so really what's an ideal
environment it's never going to be perfect all right there could be kids around there could be
distractions there could be noise but do the best you can some people are learning remotely
or maybe they're working remotely do the best you can to have a dedicated environment so
that when you go in that space then you go into you're in you're in the zone right this is
where you're going to be studying right every area of your home or your office should really
be dedicated if ideally to certain behaviors that when you go to do you know whether it's like
you know watching something on your iPad is just put you in entertainment mode right or
you're going to the gym you're just going to work out you're not on your phone doing social
media right whatever environment it really puts sets an internal environment to put you in a
place where you're just really really optimized for that spurt and behavior now what I would
recommend so always studying the same place ideally ideally that you have good lighting
we've talked about this in previous podcast episodes meaning you know the fluorescent light
probably not the best because it's been shown to really make people tired or some high strain
there indirect sunlight is optimal temperature find something that's not putting you to sleep
that keeps you alert sometimes for most people it's a little bit on the on the cool side also as
well good airflow because oxygen is very important in the process so you're getting a good
environment plus your environment do the best you can to free yourself from what the
enemy of your focus which is distractions right tell your family that you this is your study
time you know lock the door put a sign you know close by you know in your office cubicle
saying you know do not disturb and you know until this time turn off close turn off your
phone right I put it on airplane mode or even better yet put it in your in your glove
compartment of the car put it in another room because even if it's there it's like even at the
dinner table you feel like you have to kind of check it right you know out of out of habit turn
off all the alerts maybe uh close different browsers right just focus on that one thing so that's
your external environment now when you're actually sitting there to study you know I have
my notepad here I do my capture created but what I'm looking to do is set a timer right and it
can be on your phone if you're using it you still have your phone there or it could be an
analog timer or something you could get online very inexpensive and I'm looking to study I
have like 30,45 minutes I set a countdown timer for 30,45 minutes and they call this the
pomodoro technique right that's it's after that amount of time after about like the amount of
time of a sitcom your focus concentration starts to dip you start to lose some energy right you
need to get refreshed my final tip for you is really active retrieval this is your retrieval
practice we know that studying the human brain and then adult learning that brains don't
always learn best just consuming information right it actually learns better through creativity
through creation or co-creation where it's not pushing information inside your mind it's
actually pulling information out right we've talked about memory a lot in our podcast and
many of you are part of our programs you know there's three stages you encode information
you store it and you retrieve it you encode it you see it you feel it right you store it we use the
location method or the peg method or chain linking right the pie method all these methods we
teach are for storage and then you retrieve it well did you know when you start actively
retrieving information pulling information out it actually helps you to learn it better so simple
things you could do at the end of a study session and then beginning of a study session is quiz
yourself you know quiz yourself at the end of what you learned or when you're after you're
coming back from your brain break start your Beginnings the next Primacy recency or next
study session by asking yourself questions about what you just learned right this is a way of
forming active retrieval or retrieval practice to help you to really ingrain and test yourself to
see if the information is really there right sometimes when we write things down and it's okay
to take notes obviously we feel like it's there but we don't have to really know it right and as
just as a final bonus besides active retrieval and quizzing yourself remember if you want to
learn something faster learn with the intention of teaching somebody else they call it the
explanation effect you get to take advantage of the explanation effect when you're studying
whatever you're studying for school or for work or you're helping your child to be able to do
that remember to remind them and yourself that if you learn it with the intention of
explaining to somebody else you're going to learn it so much better because when you teach
something you get to learn it twice all right now I gave you a lot of quick tips in this episode
on how to learn more rapidly how to study something and you're going to get so much more
out of it better comprehension better organization better actual retention of the information
and these little tips little by little they become a lot

How to Build Good Habits

Now the expert in this field of habit creation is someone by the name of Dr BJ fog Dr BJ fog
out of Stanford University and he runs the lab there and actually one of his students co-
created Instagram talk about things that are addictive and habit forming because you know
every time you're on there you get a like and a share and a comment it makes you want to go
back for more and more and more well how do you create the things that are good for you get
that dopamine fixed how do you do that for the things that are that you want to do do and you
do it by Design so you're not just reacting to how the world is C trying to create habits around
you to consume things and get you to do certain things what can you do for yourself so I'm
going to teach you his model his model for creating habits and it's called b mata, B equal m a
t b equals m a t so the b in this formula stands for the behavior the behavior is the actual habit
what do you want to change what do you want to add or what do you want to subtract so
think about a habit right now for me I hope reading has become a habit if you're watching this
right now and you have the follow through I assume reading every single day is something
that you're already doing if it's not apply this towards reading now if you ready are reading
right now let's take another habit let's maybe take a habit that's along the lines of something
that's brain friendly maybe it's making a brain smoothie every day maybe it's meditating
maybe it's journaling maybe it's getting good sleep pick a behavior so we can apply it towards
that right you what do you want to make a new habit for yourself what's going to transform
your life that's the B now the b equals m a t the m in the formula stands for motivation
motivation now what is motivation what is that feeling that emotion that gets you to act your
motive for taking action if you will because according to his formula if you want to create a
behavior but you're not motivated to do that new habit what's your chances of actually that
that behavior sticking very slim to none because your motivation is zero anything times zero
is what is zero so who's in control of your motivation who's in control you are of course so a
quick tip I would recommend to be able to enhance your motivation is this is do a check-in
around this Behavior how motivated are you to work out let's say that's your behavior you
want to change and let's say it's a 0 to 10 what do you what does it feel like to you let's say
somebody says my motivation on a scale of 0 to 10 happens to be a five then what I would do
is ask yourself a new question and say okay I can't manage something unless I can measure it
it feels like a five and here's the question how do I make it feel like a seven how do I get my
motivation from a five to a seven you're asking a brand new question and ask and you shall
what you shall receive so maybe you want to be able to read 30 minutes a day that's the new
Behavior motivation how motivated are you to become a quick reader maybe it feels like a
five what do I need to do to make it a seven ask yourself that question or if your motivation is
a three what do I need to make it a five and you just incrementally grow it or maybe it's a
nine and you say my motivation is a nine to be a quick reader and to read 30 minutes a day
ask yourself how do we make it a 10 and in your mind you'll start to picture different things
like for example whatever your motivation is to read every single day put a number to it right
now what's their motivation on scale of 0 to 10 now whatever it is add two points to it and
say what does it need what needs to happen in order for it to be this new number and what are
some of your answers shout it out loud you're like okay well maybe I'll reward myself if I do
this I'll do this for myself or maybe I just have to visualize the benefits I get after becoming a
quick reader or maybe I think about the confidence I'll have when this happens right you start
changing in your mind and all of a sudden it feels like more motivating and or maybe you're
doing something the opposite maybe you're motivated by that pleasure of it or maybe you're
motivated by also the pain wow I think about if I don't do this who's it going to hurt if I don't
if I'm not reading 30 minutes a day who am I letting down how am I being held back so your
motivation could drive up saying oh if I don't learn this and read these sales books I'm not
going to be able to earn this income and how's that how's my family going to be affected your
motivation spikes right so that's the B and that's the m b equals m a t the m stands for
motivation one brain hack you can do is just level up in your mind saying put a number to it
because you can't manage it unless you can measure it and ask yourself what do I need to do
to get make it a a seven and then an eight and then a 10 right because if it's a 10 that behavior
is happening now but it's not happening if you don't have the a what does the A stand for the a
stands for ability ability because in order to do quick reading for example that's the behavior
you need the ability so you need the training it' be impossible to do a new habit for example if
you didn't have the ability to do so that's something that you only can come through the
proper training and also sending yourself an environment where you could actually do that so
for example if you want to work out every single day but you don't have the ability to get to
the gym then you have to change that a little bit maybe you work out at home right so your
ability you train it and finally the t b equals m a t the T this is so important but often
overlooked the T stands for trigger, trigger all habits need a trigger what is a trigger it's the
reminder what reminds you to do this behavior and so this is the area that I want you to really
look closely to the motivation and the trigger once you're motivated to do the reading for
example what triggers you or remind you to do it so for example you could set up your
environment in a way where you provide triggers for yourself simple way is setting an alarm
put it on your schedule that's why we had you scheduling this in advance your reading right
and you have your alarm go off and that's a trigger to remind you since you're already
motivated to do your reading you know maybe it's putting your trigger is is having the uh
your sneakers or your running shoes right by the door and you know you're going to walk
past it at a certain time it reminds you to get to the gym or to run outside for example a
trigger simple example I live um for a while in a in a high story building and I was on the
30th floor and part of me I talk about digital dementia and and how we're so relying on
technology makes us mentally weak but also physically you know I was like I was like
ubering everywhere and I would walk you know 10 minutes somewhere and I was like oh my
body is is is not in is in shape as it once was I'm using technology and and my body is getting
weaker and every time I would go into this building I'm like I'm not going to walk up 30
flights of stairs and down every single time but what I end up doing is every time I went into
the elevator and I was alone which was most of the time I was just doing these squats or I
would be doing my superb brain yoga and by doing that my trigger was that elevator even to
this day years later every time I'm in an elevator by myself I start doing squats because that
became my trigger because you could control your triggers right you could teach yourself
what reminds you to do what you know my friend Brendan brashard has a trigger every
single time he walks through a doorway he puts himself into three emotional states maybe the
states are I want to be bold I want to be funny I want to be present and every single time
walks doorway it triggers him to be that person so here's the question what is a behavior you
want to change for me I'd like you to pick one that's around your brain and learning and
reading pick a new Behavior because we don't want this to be the end we want this to be the
beginning and then do a motivation check what's your motivation to do this behavior and
ability have I gone through the training the same reason why I read books sometimes over
and over again there's certain books I like to read over and over again not because the book
has changed at all but what what's changed I've changed right so if I reread a book two years
later I get more out of it because I'm a different person and finally what's the trigger that's
going to remind you to read maybe you have a book by your bedstand every single night and
when you see the book that becomes the trigger or maybe for example every morning I make
a brain tea or a brain power smoothie and that's the trigger to remind me to the journal and so
that one Behavior leads to another Behavior because the studies say that up to 40 or 50 or
more % of your day is spent just doing habits so remember consciously create your habits and
then your habits will create you and do an audit because if you want to change your habits
and you're doing something that you don't want to do look at this formula what's the behavior
of something you don't want to do right and then look at your motivation and look at your
ability to do that behavior and what's triggering you that so for example we talk about how
your brain is being rewired for distraction by looking at your phone first thing in the morning
maybe that's the behavior you want to stop so what do you do you lower the motivation how
can you lower your motivation well think about all the negative effects that that phone is
having on your brain first thing in the morning think about how it's affecting your family the
things that you value the most right your ability is probably not going to change very much
because that's you've sure trained to be able to look at your phone right but you could change
your trigger simple thing you could do every single morning is just have your phone in a
different room so you don't you remove the trigger and then all of a sudden you can't do the
behavior
Unleash Your Super Brain To Learn Faster
i'm going to be sharing with you some of my favorite strategies and states to be able to learn
any subject or skill faster [Music] how's everyone feeling today so when i when i ask you a
question if it feels right to you i want you to say super how's everyone feeling today super
and i want to honor you for being here because i've been going to seminars and events my
whole life how is it so far for everybody that was a test right a lot of people think it's your
retention when people forget something let's do this for example take a right hand shake it out
how many people here want to learn faster how many people want to remember more yeah
watch this make a fist now put it to your chin where's your chin everybody so the number one
rule the art of memory the art of learning is the art of attention the art of learning is the art of
attention and really that's where observation that's where presence comes in and so i'm going
to be sharing with you some of my favorite strategies and states to be able to learn any
subject or skill faster how many people like that idea now in order to be able to do this let me
first start by acknowledging you for being here because i believe there's a success formula
and it takes two parts it takes first showing up fifty percent of success is just showing up and i
appreciate your ability to show up here today because most people aren't here true or true
right i mean i'll ask also ask questions that we know the answers to true or true right and so
we show up here and most people don't show up and i think in life you want to show up show
up for your health show up for your relationships show up for your career show up for your
service but just showing up is that just going to get the job done no you have to what yeah
you play full out right you have to play full out how many people here like to play by the way
who are the fastest learners on the planet who i did this uh to a group of 10 000 people from
60 countries and a whole table yelled out pygmies and if anybody knows why pygmies are
such great learners please tell me but children right children how fast can a child learn a
musical instrument compared to an adult how fast can they learn a second or third language
they learn fast right because they why do children learn quickly because why they don't know
good what else they're curious they have attention what else they have time certainly no
limits they don't have the learned helplessness very good they're not thinking about the
mortgage payment focus right i mean they're curious and they play a lot remember as a kid
you went to your friends and you were like you want to come out and play do you want to
play but later on it was we got rid of the word play and we started saying it's hang out right
and then all of a sudden there's a difference right and the curiosity is important also there's a
there's a roomy quote from the poet said trade your cleverness for bewilderment is that a
great word bewilderment when's the last time you're in that state we're talking about genius
states and superhero states when's the last time you're in that state of bewilderment i mean so
who's in control of your state by the way who's in control of how you feel what's this when
we defining a state how would you define a state what does it mean it's like your mood what
else this is where the active part comes in here it's your emotions like a snapshot of your
mind and your body how you feel here's the key do this information do this which hands out
information combined with emotion becomes a long-term memory long-term memory how
many people know this how many people you hear a song and they'll take you back to when
you're a child raise your hand how many people it's not a song but maybe it's a fragrance or a
food that will take you back decades because information combined with emotion became a
long-term memory right because we're not logical we're what we don't do things logically all
the time we do things what emotionally right because we're not logical we're biological we're
not logical we're biological and so what i want to talk about is how to unlock what we call
your super brain i'm going to talk about the states these emotional states where the best of
you shows up automatically where you don't have those limits now in my breakout i'm going
to talk about the strategies how to read faster how to remember names step-by-step how to
learn another language those are the strategies but you always start with state everyone wants
to write this down all learning is state dependent all learning is state dependent that the
emotional state that you feel when you're learning something gets anchored to the learning
does that make sense by the way what was the state that you felt back in school primarily
how did you mostly feel in class board and the other class the other half of the class is like
confused right now on a scale of zero to ten what's boredom a scale of zero to ten, zero
anything times zero becomes what zero and that's why a lot of people don't remember what
they learned it's the emotional state does that make sense. Let's test this out stand up real
quick stand up i have no slides for you i'm just gonna i take you through exercises how many
people like experiential learning so it gets in your body right so what we're going to do here
is we're going to play some games we already said that children are the fastest learners right
children are the fastest learners how many people here feel like you want to learn more in less
time raise your hand raise your hand if you have books on your shelf you haven't read more
than one and it becomes like lisa nichols talked about she becomes shelf help not self-help
right how many people here get more than 10 emails a day how many people came here
today like to have a better memory how many people forgot why you came here today have
you ever done that walk into a room of your own home and just forgot why you're there
anyone feel like senior moments are coming a little bit early like you're in the you're in the
shower and you can't remember if you shampooed your hair and you end up doing it twice
right or you misplace things how many people here know somebody maybe personally who
misplaces things all the time the remote control the apple remote their phone have you ever
found yourself calling your own phone hoping you kept it on or maybe you lose something
like your car keys or not something larger like your car you ever see the people out in the
malls and they're using their like car alarm trying to figure out where they where they parked
their car and so and what about names how many people here honestly you have trouble
remembering people's names how many people forgot the name of somebody in this room
right and so let's start with my name hopefully you remember it my name is jim quick with
quick learning and i help people to learn quickly the question i always get is about my last
name my last name really is quick i didn't change it to do what i do with the name like quick
you could say my life and my destiny was pretty much planned out i had to be i'd be a runner
back in school which is a lot of pressure when it says quick right on your shirt i have to be
very careful when i'm driving because the worst name to have on your driver's license when
you get pulled over for speeding is the name quick right because you're not going to talk your
way out of that speeding ticket and i get to do my mission my dharma which is helping
people to learn faster i think if there's any skill to be able to master in the 21st century
something that's going to give you a real tangible advantage it's your ability to learn quickly
and only because it's a sign of the times because digital overload digital distraction i mean so
many things vying for our attention how do you get things done but when i talk about speed i
don't talk about just fran i'm not talking about frantic speed like you could actually learn
faster and actually have an ease a confidence a piece of mind how many people would like to
have that be able to succeed but also have this level of harmony inside of yourself this clarity
of thought and it's the idea how many people here read seven habits of highly effective people
by dr stephen covey what's the seventh habit sharpen the saw very good sharpen the saw the
metaphor here is if you have all this wood to cut and you have a saw with a dull blade when
do you want to sharpen it before you start cutting the wood right because a lot of people are
going to work hard is going to work a lot harder if you have a dull blade and they have to
sweat and perspire and work three or four times harder when they could have sharpened their
saw and so learning how to learn like vision was talking about that's you sharpening the saw
because anything that comes afterwards is going to be easier right and so if that person's not
working harder they're working what smarter and one of the best ways to work smarter is
accessing your genius states so i'm going to test this out we said that children are the fastest
learners right that they have this curiosity and they play all the time let's see how many
people here raise your hand if you're willing to play now it's been shown in science the
research by doing by playing more actually creates neurogenesis and neuroplasticity what's
neurogenesis new growth new brain cells how many people like the idea of creating new
more new brain cells what about neuroplasticity what does that mean more connections so
intelligence in a way is not necessarily like einstein didn't have a bigger brain than anyone
here probably it was actually less he had a smaller brain but in certain areas of his brain he
had highly connectedness he did these thought experiments where he would put himself in
these brain wave states specifically theta state the status the theta state of creativity that's the
state that you're in when you shower how many people notice when you're showering you
come up with all these wonderful ideas it's always when you can't write something down
right and so that's the theta state that's a relaxed state of creativity you're inspired you come
up with new ideas new things come out of you right and i actually took six showers this
morning just to prepare for this presentation so you take it put you in creative state and so he
had more connections in certain areas and so you could promote that by playing more and so
what i'm going to ask you to do right now is i'm going to ask you to find two people in the
room you do not know pair up in threes go find two people you do not know pair up in threes
so we're going to go through a quick exercise and basically what i want to do we're going to
talk about superheroes a lot i grew up with learning challenges some of you know i had a
brain injury when i was five years old a head injury that left me with certain disabilities
teachers would have to repeat themselves three four five six times and then eventually i
would just pretend i understood but i didn't mostly most of the time did not understand i had
very bad focus issues i had very bad memory it took me an extra three and a half years just to
learn how to read and i learned how to read by reading comic books actually late at night
something about how any comic book fans here or superhero fans geeks i something about
looking at the superheroes and good versus evil and the illustrations that the idea that one
person can make a difference how many people believe one person can make a difference
right that they provide hope and they provide real help and when i look here i look at a room
full of superheroes because i said in the beginning i said you know it's just showing up and
then playing full out and so what does a superhero do they have what's the defining
characteristics of a superhero they have super powers right and does how many people here
have found their unique ability their superpower you're discovering it right your unique talent
your unique strength something that's unique to you but then just having a superpower does
that make you a superhero you have to use that power for what for good for some kind of
purpose on top of that right and so i love sharing space and time with modern day
superheroes but there are also some modern day super villains right these these ideas of uh
these phenomena like digital overload how many people feel like when you're learning
something feels like you're taking a sip of water out of a fire hose raise your hand right and
and not that just that it's it has an effect on our health also right they call it information
fatigue syndrome information fatigue syndrome because everything is a syndrome right so
higher blood pressure compression of leisure time more sleeplessness or even if you have a
little bit of free time you can't even enjoy because your mind's still multitasking and also not
just the supervillain of digital overload but digital distraction how many people feel like your
mind is so distracted and you can't focus on just one thing anymore raise your hand and this
is a challenge that takes away from your ability to be present your ability to be able to get
things done your ability to be able to be profitable and i don't just mean financially profitable
that's obvious right we live in an age where it's not your muscle power it's more your mind
power it's not your brute strength it's your it's your brain strength right and so the faster you
can learn certainly the faster you could earn but not just financially in all the areas of your life
all the treasures of your life your health relationships your career so what we're going to do is
this exercise of play and then we're going to start with this state this childhood state of
curiosity and wonder and you're going to meet these your individuals the people that your
new friends and i want you to decide right now who's batman who's superman and who's
wonder woman go so who's batman who's super okay batman raise your hand all the batman's
raise your hand very good what about superman raise your hand and where are wonder
women there you go remember information combined with emotion becomes a long-term
memory right and by the way who's in charge of your emotional states i am who's in charge
of control you are right i remember recently i got to introduce to my modern day superheroes
it was richard branson and stan lee like who's not stanley but stan lee who's stan lee yeah the
co-creator of spider-man and x-men and avengers and fantastic four and we're going to dinner
i remember asking stan i was like i have to know you you've created all these incredible
superheroes who's your favorite and he looks at me without a blanket he's like iron man i'm
like that's awesome and then he's like jim who's your favorite superhero and he had this
spider-man tie so i was like spider-man and without a pause he says with great power comes
and how do we all know that right it's like in our dna right so we're going on this superheroes
journey together here at a-fest and i'm thinking about it i'm like and i grew up with these
challenges and i have you know dyslexia and i have i flip things around in my mind and part
of my issues growing up and i flipped it in my mind i was like you know with great power
comes great responsibility when you're in a position of power you have great responsibility to
wield that power well and the opposite is also true with great responsibility comes great
power right when you take responsibility for something you have great power to what to
change things it transforms things to make things better and a lot of times how many how
many entrepreneurs are in the room raise your hand wow 80 of the room a lot of times based
on your values entrepreneurs value things like freedom they want to be able to do what they
want when they want whenever they want wherever they want raise your hand if that's you
and sometimes it's hard sometimes as entrepreneurs to get yourself to do the things that you
need to do how many people also resonate with that did you procrastinate like why would
you put things down why would you delay things that are important that will reach help you
to reach your goals and you wonder why that is i would introduce to you going back to state
and strategy that those two components is probably 80 of it because most people who
procrastinate are in a state of procrastination that's the feeling right or they have a poor
strategy for executing getting things done and you're like jim where's this exercise why am i
standing the whole time does your physiology affect your psychology yes or yes because one
of the best ways of changing your state is by moving your body right because as your body
moves your brain grooves as your body moves your brain groups you create more
neurogenesis neuroplasticity actually you know what supports it novelty what helps you
make more of these connections is novelty and nutrition just like your body right you want to
build a physical muscle you give it what you work it out you give it exercise you give it
stimulus novelty and then you feed that muscle with nutrition same thing with your mental
muscles and so what i want to introduce you is ways of getting into these states and then
strategies in the breakout that help you to specifically build these mental muscles so you have
more you have more mental strength just like physically you want to be stronger you'll be
faster you'll be more agile you could be there mentally also straw stronger more agile more
focused also so what we're going to do here is talking about states what are the highest level
of highest level states peace very good what else love what else gratitude what else joy
compassion so what i want to let's pick one of them remember we said that when it comes to
learning things and getting it into your nervous system information is not enough because we
all know what to do common sense right we all know for both most part how many people
know what they should do to make things better but there's in discrepancy but like in terms of
not getting things done right and so what i'd like to offer you is this is common sense is not
often common practice right so how do we get aligned with this so let's talk about joy and
introducing more joy in the room and throughout the entire event how do you spread joy if
you wanted to spread joy right now in this room what would your strategy be what's one
thing you could do be joyful what else okay massage somebody what else hugs hugs good
kisses right high fives right good so what i want you to do now is i want wonder woman to be
in charge okay wonder woman raise your hand wonder woman you are the ceo of the group
you are the ceo of the group and what we're gonna do is you're gonna tell and you delegate to
superman and batman how to spread joy around the room and they're gonna do it for 30
seconds all right we're gonna put a countdown timer on here ready go information combined
with emotion becomes a long-term memory right the state that you learn something and the
mood and the feelings that you learn something in gets attached to what you want to learn
also it's going to motivate you to use it more often if you learn because here's the thing
learning is not a spectator sport learning is not a spectator sport i'm going to give you six keys
to learn anything faster you can write these down i want you to remember be fast be fast six
keys to learn any subject or skill faster now i want you to think about if you can learn any
subject or skill faster what would it be outside of learning how to learn because that's kind of
the that's that's what after learning how to learn what subject what are you interested in say it
out loud languages very good what else computer science good what else good i mean so
whether it's whether it's martial arts or it's mandarin whether it's music or marketing there's
subjects that we're interested in right and we live in this expert economy and we want to be
knowledgeable about things because knowledge is not only power knowledge is profit right
and so how do you access those things so i want you to remember be fast and just six quick
tips on how to just sensitize you now every single one of these things you're going to
understand because you're studied and me as your as your super brain coach if you will i want
to be a personal trainer for your brain for your mind i want to make it faster sharper and not
everything i'm going to say is going to be something that's brand new but if i maybe say it in
a different way and you control your state because going back to stan when i said
responsibility you know with great responsibility comes great power the most important thing
to be responsible for is how you feel does that make sense and who controls how you feel
how many people are feeling pretty good right now yeah and notice that these kind of things
it's you know why metaphorically i look at you more like a thermostat than a thermometer is
there a difference between a thermometer and thermostat yes or yes a thermometer does what
what does the thermometer do what's the function yeah it takes the time it reflects and it
reacts to the environment is that true it just reacts the environment and we are sometimes you
know we're thermometers we react to the weather if we're honest the economy to politics we
react to how people treat us sometimes but is there a gap between how something someone
stimulates us and how we respond do we have choice yes or yes the difference between a
thermometer and a thermostat though is a thermometer thermometer reacts the environment
what's the thermostat do though yeah it regulates right it helps manage it sets a standard or a
vision or a goal and then what happens the environment it raises to be able to do that is there
a difference yes or yes and so that's where we're going back to responsibility when we're
talking about being responsible the ability to be able to respond is how you feel about things
and also how you focus on things so the be in be fast stands for believe because if you believe
you can or believe you can either way what you're right who said that henry ford said that
right if you believe you can or believe you can't either way you're right let me let me show
you what a belief is stan stand up real quick stand up you're like oh you're one of those
teachers i'm telling you it's it's in your body you have so much intelligence in your body right
now i'll prove it to you jump up and down a little bit and make a little fate make a little space
for the person next to you if you can so if you went like this you're ideally not going to take
anyone's eye out or anything like that okay now stop stop bouncing i love the energy though
notice where your feet are i want to keep your feet stationary the entire time and what i want
you to do is with your right hand just point forward with your right hand your other right
hand sir sorry i know all right forward with your right hand and what i want you to do
without moving it without moving your feet just turn to your right clockwise as far as you can
go and notice where you're pointing as you take your neighbor's eye out notice how far you
go notice where you're pointing notice the exact spot come back center now put your arms
down now i'm going to take you through a really quick visualization exercise so take a deep
breath exhale and close your eyes put your arms by your side out of your pockets by your
side and breathe normally and with your eyes closed we're gonna play a game i want you just
to imagine just imagine that you're raising your arm again but this time imagine you're
turning twice as far two times as far like you're getting a good stretch it's pleasant feel that in
your body and if you can't imagine it just imagine that you're imagining it and then again
raise your arm point forward and this time no no with your eyes closed imagine just imagine
just imagine just in your mind see and feel yourself turning three times as far just feel it in
your body with your arms by your side just imagine turning around three times and then one
more time with a smile on your face thinking what does this have to do with learning faster
see and feel yourself turning four times around in your body see and feel yourself turning
four times around like your gumby like you're made out of rubber great great stretch all right
open your eyes now raise your arm again point forward with your right hand now turn to your
right now as far as far as you can now go wow raise your hand or make some noise if you
want further second time have a seat have a seat now some of you went further some of you
went 25 percent further some of you went 50 percent further yes raise your hand if you went
further a second time now here's the magic question right that you know i'm going to ask you
even before i ask it were you physically capable of turning that far the first time like nobody
took a yoga class and my eyes were closed right you're physically capable of it where was the
block or the limitation if there was one where was it in your mind right in your mind and
you're like jim i didn't have a belief on how far i could turn how many beliefs do you think
we have millions and zillions of beliefs right because here's what you want to write down all
behavior is belief driven all behavior is belief what some of you went 25 50 further with no
anything remember vision was talking about how it's not just it's not working hard but it's you
when you're in a certain state a mind you could just go further and it's effortless how many
people have experienced this state of flow before that's data flow where you lose track of
time where your attention is right there and you're in the moment and it's the your stu the
level of challenge is really matching your level of capabilities and you're stretching yourself
and you're in that zone right like that athletes talk about that stephen toddler talks about in the
rise of superman and stealing fire and so on how many people are familiar with steve's work
by the way i'm just curious this context okay so how do you get into those states one of the
ways is just believing that you can because if you believe you can or believe you can't either
way you're right because all behavior is belief driven some of you went 25 50 or more what if
you could go 25 50 more in your business that effortless what if you could go 25 50 even
more in your body or in your relationship did you work harder the second time when you
turned the second time yes or no no because it's a state right so behavior so belief let me give
an example i'm going to play this game with you we're going to do this together collectively i
need some mic runners here please there's a couple mac runners how many people here
talking about memory because memory forgetting is a state when it comes to learning let me
give you a distinction here a lot of people say oh i have a bad memory right they always like i
have memory or i have focus or i don't have focus or i have creativity i don't have creativity i
want you to scrap that creativity is not something you have it's something you do focus is not
something you have focus is something you do energy is not something you have or don't
have it's something you do memory is not something you have it's something you do and
what's the benefit of turning it into a do as opposed to something you have what's the benefit
you have control over it because you could put it into a process it becomes a strategy because
there's a strategy for reading faster there's a strategy for remembering names there's a strategy
for having focus and it's a verb not a noun right and so the goal here when we're talking about
this memory for example a lot of people believe here let me shake this up a little bit there's no
such thing as a good or bad memory there is no such thing as a good or bad memory there's
just a trained memory and an untrained memory does that make sense now here's the thing i
grew up with these learning challenges i had all these difficulties all through school all
through elementary middle school junior high high school i had all these challenges at the age
of nine i remember a teacher looking at me thinking i wasn't either smart enough to l to
understand what she was saying or wasn't paying attention she was talking to another adult
and she said that's the boy with a broken brain and i was like at nine years old right and so
those kind of identity issues those beliefs does that make a difference yes right and a lot of
people believe that they can't do certain things they could just never remember names so i
could teach them a strategy but if the belief is not changed what happens it's not because it
becomes self-fulfilling i remember running a marathon and i preparing for it i read a chapter
of one of the books and it was on the psychology of running a marathon right the mental part
and it said this verbatim word for word because i'm a memory expert it said your brain is like
a super computer and your self-talk is a program it will run so if you tell yourself you're not
good at remembering names you will not remember the name of the next person you meet
because you programmed your super computer not to isn't that interesting what i always tell
people is this you have to monitor your self-talk monitor your self-talk if you go around
people tell people oh i have a horrible memory i'm not smart enough i'm getting too old fill in
the blank first of all if you fight for your limitations you get to keep them does that make
sense a lot of people like oh i'm so forgetful i'm so busy which that whole busyness really
bothers me like where people so you how are you doing i'm just so crazy so stressed so busy
it becomes like a badge of honor that people wear all the time and then what do you start
reinforcing being busy right but here going back to this your self-talk is the program that will
run so you want to be mindful right and stand guard to your mind because your mind is
always eavesdropping on your self-talk your mind is always eavesdropping on your self-talk
and so going back to this i want to play this little game because how many people here you
your memory is not quite as good as it used to be raise your hand honestly now how many
people here let's take numbers how many phone numbers did you used to know growing up
how many phone numbers shout it out how many phone numbers when you're younger all of
them right pretty much how many phone numbers do you know right now one one two right
and so is there how many people here have a number you call all the time but honestly if you
don't have your phone on or with you or battery said you honestly do not know that number
you call it every single day almost or text it or whatever and so the challenge here is this the
two super villains that we're talking about it's digital overload too much information too little
time the amount information is doubling at dizzying speed but how we learn it how we
remember it has that changed at all if anything there's been a decline the amount information
is doubling like this your learning abilities in terms of your reading memory every flatline
that gap creates the stress that you feel on an ongoing basis right how do you catch up how do
you keep up how do you get ahead you know underneath that velocity right and that
acceleration the other thing that i talk about supervillains not just digital overload because
we're going to talk about that in the breakout is digital distraction digital distraction right how
many people i'll tell you the worst habit because i'm going to talk about this later the worst
habit and you're gonna you're gonna hate me for saying this the first hour of the day is
touching your phone the worst thing you could do the absolute worst how many people are
guilty of doing this though right because you have that addiction to it and i'll tell you there's a
reason why you don't want to do it i'll give you two reasons because i don't want to talk
strategy too much i'm going to talk about it more tomorrow the strategy the reason why you
don't do it is when you wake up talking about brain wave states we're talking about superhero
states your brain cycles through different brain waves beta is when you're most awake this is
you're in beta most of you right now delta is when you're asleep hopefully nobody's in delta
right now theta is right above delta that's the state of creativity we talked about like when
you're in when you're in the shower right you're so relaxed almost in and out of sleep you're
you know and then information you're so creative right you're very inspired in between theta
and beta when you're most awake is this state called alpha how many people are familiar with
alpha states all right it's a state you go in when you meditate states you go into when you do
deep breathe breathing state you're also in when you watch television how many people have
ever seen somebody watching television you're trying to talk to them but they're watching
their favorite show their sports or whatever it is or maybe you're guilty of it or two and
honestly that person is not hearing you you know that you're talking to them but they're so in
trance right television programming it's programming them they're in such trance they're in
an alpha state and the alpha state is where your conscious mind is set aside and you're not
filtering it's information is coming in alpha state is a great state to learn in though great state
to learn facts great state to be able to learn foreign languages also great states to learn uh
information like giving presentations and scripts one of the ways we work with actors putting
into an alpha state so they're in this relaxed state of awareness where their conscious mind set
aside and information is just flowing in like television and you could control those states
because you have a responsibility once you learn the strategies behind it and so when we're
coming back to to memory i want to play this quick game you you actually i'll give you a
third villain well he's talking about the first villain super villain we're talking about
superheroes you're a superhero the super villains that are taking away from your joy your
productivity or peace of mind digital overwhelm digital distraction i'll add a third one i wasn't
going to say digital dementia digital dimension this is a real medical term right now this is the
idea that we're outsourcing our brains to our smart devices we're so reliant on our
smartphones that our smartphones are making us stupid does that make sense that i mean it's
convenient i don't want to i i don't want to memorize 500 phone numbers right nobody wants
to do that but we've lost the ability to memorize one like if i give you a seven digit number
now how difficult would it be you find that kind of difficult to memorize like a phone number
that you used to do years ago yes or yes because we've our if i take my arm i put into a sling
for six months does it stay the same would even grow stronger it would what it would
atrophy and grow weaker same thing with your mental muscles if you're relying on your
phone to keep your schedules your to-do's do simple i went out to dinner with 10 people uh
recently there was a 10 of us and three people at the end pulled out their phones to divide the
check the bill by 10. right and we've lost that ability to use our men we've lost the ability to
be able to do certain things and so what that's what digital dementia is um i was talking to dr
daniel amen who wrote change your brain change your life right raise 40 million dollars on
public broadcast he was saying yeah digital dementia hey i got something for you jim he's
like gps relying on gps a third-party piece of technology to tell you when and where to turn
when you normally know that or not know it is actually getting people aren't going to the
doctors get checked out when they would have memory lapses if they didn't see that well now
gps like they didn't have the gps they would have memory lapses and we'd go get checked out
and we're not getting that early detection on it just because of that so how do you keep your
brain active so smart devices could be extremely convenient but they could be crippling also
so it could be a balance yes or yes all right so we lost the ability to memorize a number but i
want to try to memorize a group number together today let's try to do it let's try to re-awaken
that memory and everything i talk about everyone asks like oh you know i have such a
horrible memory can you improve my memory when somebody says i want a better memory
can you help me with my memory for me it's equivalent as a memory coach somebody's
saying oh i just wish i was better at sports right i want to know what sport specifically so like
apply it because there's different memory techniques for remembering names or languages or
giving speeches without notes or facts figures numbers but let's talk about numbers because
this be a great mental exercise let's go around and just raise your hand and let's give a group
number one number we create together as a group for all of us to try to memorize and notice
what i want you to do is i believe one of the most important things to be able to get good at is
self-awareness i ultimately think the expert is not the person on stage who's the expert you
are right you are the expert on you and what i think is in terms of i think self-coaching and
self-knowledge is really most of it you know and so i think you could learn i know you could
learn better by looking at yourself and seeing what works for you does that make sense and
so let's see how we go about remembering things now let's raise our hand and just let's come
up with let's let's try to remember a string of numbers maybe 10 or 20 numbers and we'll do
the best we can you can write them down and then let's see if we can memorize them together
right so raise your hand let's do it two at a time so instead of saying one seven just say 17 and
then just two digit number 88 88 so everyone writes 88 right all right we got the game here
we're going to keep on going until we get to a threshold and we see if we can memorize these
numbers yes 54 54. i'll repeat it so so you guys you guys hear it also as well 54 35 35 very
good 35 21 20 21 21 if we're having trouble coming up with numbers i have to take this in a
totally different direction 99 what's that 99 99 bingo 99 how many by the way how many
have we had so far single digits just this can be given 10. does everybody have 10 i want to
make sure we're all on the same page here all right um something over here 66 11. okay 11 66
66 11 and 66. 23. raise your hand so 23 23 number 23. okay quick i'm sorry 13 13. how many
it's a lot of numbers right 77. hold on hold on one second so it's 13 let's count 13 after that
also as well what's that 77 77 how many numbers is that by the way 20. we're doing pretty
good how how many do you remember so far do you think let's do a few more let's do a few
more for the heck of it go ahead i'm sorry 30 38 or 39 let's go with 39 39 and before that was
77 is that true very good we're on the same page 39. let's do a couple more yeah here 42 42
good 42. let's do three let's do like three three more zero six zero six okay two more quick 13.
13. did we do 13 already that's okay let's do it again let's do it again 13 is great and then last
one 42 again 42. very creative okay now i want you to do this close your eyes and just write
down as many as you remember right now last one was 42 right i mean no one close your
eyes close your paper and then just write down as many as you remember in order yes
definitely in order it's the only way it kind of works all right let me let me try to do it okay let
me let me try to do it with you and you guys you guys could check right and i'll look here so
you know nothing is being broadcast here all right i'm gonna do single digits all right i need
some energy here okay eight eight five four how we doing so far three five two one yes nine
nine one one six six two three one three seven seven how am i doing good three nine four two
zero is that good so far one three four two now i don't do this to impress you i i do this more
to express to you what's possible because like this exercise that we did when we turned like
this um let me give you an example um what did what did roger bannister do in 1954 the four
minute mile throughout human history nobody could run a mile in less than four minutes why
they didn't believe that they could in fact what was the belief back then it was impossible you
would die your heart would ex the human heart was not capable of running a sub form in a
mile it would explode in your chest now that was the belief would that keep you from
running a form at a mile like i'm a runner that'll keep me from running period right and so it's
interesting how he actually was able to do it is he actually visualized himself crossing the
finish line and seeing it says 359 because he knows what you know as superheroes and he's
doing these thought experiments that success is an inside out game right that in order to take
the invisible and make it visible just like a thermostat right you visualize things here and then
you make it out here he knew it had to happen here first because all behavior is belief driven
now that wasn't the interesting to me thing to me just like when you did the turning exercise
that's what he did the equivalent the interesting thing is what happened the next couple years
nobody could do it for thousands of years one person does it what happens yeah dozens of
people started breaking the formula mile now in that year was there big advancements in shoe
technology and nutrition and training methodology no what was the change a change in belief
like i remember when i was a child i was in a at a restaurant and we had a waiter go around
and take everybody's order 20 people busy night halfway through he was taking my order i
noticed something funny he wasn't writing it down have you ever had a waiter a waitress like
that and i was like there's just no way i was very skeptical i'm gonna send stuff back doesn't
mean this is gonna be a disaster but when he came back he got every single thing perfect the
salad dressings the beverages how we wanted the meal cooked i mean the desserts everything
perfect now is that a standout skill or is that a standout skill yes yes yes he was like my roger
bannister he did something i never thought was possible and opened up possibility inside my
mind perceived limits right you don't know how far you could turn just like we talked about
what vision was talking about and just like with this i do this demonstration not to impress
you to express upon you what's really possible i grew up with learning challenges you know
with difficulties how about how about this how many people want to see me memorize this
backwards recall it backwards yeah that's how much energy i'm getting here let me try to get
most of this list backwards all right now i'm just using here actually let me try this two four
are we are we good also make sure everything's in the right and the right thing three one six
zero two four is that good nine three seven seven three one three two six six one one nine
nine one two how are we doing um five three four five eight eight so what if you could get in
these kind of states and have strategies to be able to do things that you need how much more
productive could you be as a coach as an expert as a speaker as an entrepreneur as a parent as
a student by having these kind of strategies what really upset me is when i struggled my
whole life with like my whole childhood life until i was 18 where i hit a wall i literally when i
became a freshman in college i was lucky to get into i was like i want to make a fresh start
and i was like i want to make i'm going to show my family i want to make them proud i want
to show the world myself that i was good enough and smart i could really do this so i worked
really hard and i did worse and i was ready to quit school and i was living in the library i
wasn't eating i wasn't you know sleeping i wasn't doing anything that that was good for me
nothing in wildfit all the things i should be doing to be to you know to build my superhero
strength end up passing out in the in the library late night and i fell down a flight of stairs i hit
my head again and i woke up in the hospital two days later and at this point i was way i
weighed about 117 pounds i was wasted away like i thought i died maybe part of me wished
that i had and also when i got out i was like there has to be something better for me here like
what do i do and the nurse came in at that exact moment and brought a mug of tea and on the
t was a picture of a genius a true genius the opposite of what i felt i was at the time it was
albert einstein and it said this quote that you've all heard in some iteration the same level of
thinking that's created the problem won't solve the problem the same level of thinking that's
created the problem won't solve the problem i was thinking what's my problem i'm a really
slow learner how do i think differently maybe i can learn how to learn right and i was this
like i picked up a course bulletin to look at classes and they're all classes at school on what to
learn math history science spanish right all important subjects but what to learn how many
classes were on how to learn no classes i mean classes on where's your class on creativity and
problem solving and thinking right where's your classes on reading faster and having better
focus and concentration or improving your memory i always thought it should be in the
fourth r in school they teach you three r's reading writing what arithmetic what about
remembering what about recall what about retention because their socrates says there is no
learning without remembering there is no learning without remembering so be is believe
believe you can't believe you can't now the e i'm gonna go through these really fast is exercise
exercise and what i mean by this is i mean physical exercise because your brain primarily the
primary function of your brain is to control your movement as your body moves your brain
grows stand up real quick stand up quick quick quick watch this i want you to do this i want
you to take your your right elbow and just put it your left ear left what knee good and then
your left elbow to your right knee and vice versa or if you can't reach that far just tap these
are cross laterals right i want you to do this take your left hand and just massage your right
ear lobe and then your right hand and massage your left ear lobe and squat down inhale
exhale come up go down inhale exhale come up one more time inhale exhale come up shake
out your body all right have a seat they call that super brain yoga right how many people are
familiar with educational kinesiology brain gym super brain yoga so as your body moves
your brain grooves that's exercise so if you want to change your state exercise and movement
is key i'm going to go through the rest really fast the f a s t if you want to learn any subject or
skill faster the f is to forget forget and what do i mean by that a lot of people don't learn faster
because they feel like they know it already i'm going back to chronological age it's not
chronological age it's really the age of your mind and your heart a lot of people don't learn
because they haven't empty their cup does that make sense that you hear all these cliches but
there's there's truth in every cliche that your mind is like a parachute it only works when it's
what it's open so this is the beginner's mind right so you want to forget about anything else
than what you're learning here temporarily the a in fast so that's the curiosity state right um
the a in fast stands for active active and the reason why have you get up and shout out and do
all these things it's not for me trust me i like i know the answers to most of the questions and
everything is the active part is learning is not a spectator sport learning is not a spectator sport
you the human brain and the mind doesn't learn consuming information it learns through
creating and from creating it your mind doesn't learn based on consumption it learns through
creation or co-creation this in this state does that make sense so you have to be active you
take notes you ask questions you do you participate in it how many people believe what you
put in is what you get out right so you're active the s in fast stands for state so this is
emphasizing the state that all learning is state dependent all learning is state dependent i
never want to learn in a board state right most people like when they read they're in a board
state how many people you read a page in a book get to the end just forget what you just read
and you go back and you reread it and you still don't know what you just read because you're
in that board state how many people use reading as a sedative like you have this token book
that's been inside your bed for an embarrassingly long period of time but if your state that you
have associated to this activity called reading is falling asleep or a zero anything times zero is
what zero and people wonder why they don't remember what they read so control your state
finally the t in fast and be fast stands for teach teach i recommend that throughout this entire
gathering and beyond you learn with the intention of teaching it to somebody else does that
make sense if you had to re if you had to teach this to somebody when you got back home
your team your family your friends would you learn it differently yes or yes would your focus
be better yes yes would you ask better questions would you take better notes right so you
learn with the intention of teaching to somebody else all right so the b stands for what let's do
this fast be fast b stanford believe believe you can't believe you can't you're right the e stands
for what exercise as your body moves your brain grooves the f stands for what forget
beginner's mind your mind's like a parachute only works when it's open the a stands for what
active is learning is not a spectator sport the s stands for what state all learning is state
dependent finally t is what teach because when you teach something you get to learn it twice
let me close with this this is how i use this once and so i think children going back to
childhood this is you're the fastest learners right and you could access that at any time
because you have an inner what child you do have an inner child how many people believe
they have an inner child a child inside there that is a genius that can learn that maybe needs to
hear some words from you every so often right and so a few years ago i'll close with this a
few years ago i because i remembered someone name someone's name it led to business that
how many people believe remembering names is important because if you forget someone's
name what's the communication you're sending them that they're not what important how are
you going to show somebody you care for their business their future their finances their
health if you don't care and just remember them right and so i remember someone's name it lit
this business for 20th century fox and it was for the chairman and i was training him in his
executive team on a friday and i go there and because i was in state because i saw all this
avatar like like memorabilia and i saw this movie poster with star wars i was like a kid right
so i gave my best training ever and afterwards they really felt it he was like gave me a tour of
the whole place and everything and i saw this movie poster of wolverine i don't this for me is
a big deal a move ring coming out i was like wow i can't wait for that film to come out and he
picks up the chairman picks up the phone and five minutes later i'm in the fox studios with 3d
glasses watching hugh jackman fight all these super ninjas right and i'm in my bliss on a
friday afterwards he comes to me and says jim how was the movie i was like it's great thank
you so much i tell my story how i grew up with learning disabilities i taught myself how to
read by reading comic books my favorite comic book were the x-men wolverine and the x-
men and not because they were strongest is because they didn't fit in because i felt like i
didn't fit in growing up as a kid does that make sense with this disability and the boy with a
broken brain and the highlight of the comic books for me was when i read that the school for
the gifted for the superheroes was in for the x-men was in westchester new york and that it's a
suburb of new york city and that's where i grew up so when i was nine years old i used to ride
my bicycle all around the neighborhood trying to find this school because i wanted i wanted
to run away i wanted to find my my superpower something that i was good at um and i want
to find my super friends because when you're the boy with a broken brain you don't you don't
connect with a lot of people because you don't feel like you have a lot to offer right so i used
to do that i'm telling him this story the chairman he's like jim i know you're like superheroes
do you want to go to comic-con now what do how many people are familiar with comic-con
right tens of thousands of people getting together san diego dress up like like you know
superheroes i was like when is it he's like today friday saturday sunday now notice my mind i
go from a nine-year-old to a 99 year old because i'm like i'm in l.a i'm gonna get to san diego
on a friday right there's many lines there'll be traffic i have nothing to wear i have all these
meetings in la and notice like the critic that comes in right because sometimes we have to get
out of our own way and mentally i just became an old person in my mind and then i was like
he's like jim you want to go i'm going tomorrow and he was like oh i was like oh you're going
tomorrow i'm going to go with you so he picks me up saturday morning and instead of
driving down there we get on his plane and i swear to you on that plane is the entire cast of x-
men and they're going to surprise comic-con right with their presence for the new movie
that's coming out and i spend the entire like i go on there and i'm i don't i see wolverine and
and patrick's like you know professor x i'm seeing between jennifer lawrence and holly berry
going to comic-con right and we spent the entire day amazing we come back here's here's
here's the lesson we come back and chairman was like how was it i was like the best day ever
thank you so much he was like he's like am i something else for you i like i don't want
anything else what can i do for you he was like they really loved you how would you like uh
to go to montreal they were filming the last 30 days of the new movie i'm like oh wow i've
never been on film so i would love to do that but what can i do for you and he says jim just
do what you did with us just share teach them how to speed read scripts memorize their lines
faster be present and focus on set and i was like i could totally do that sunday morning we're
on what they call the x-jet and we're going to montreal and i'm brain training these amazing
individuals that inspired me like growing up right and i got to see like on set it was actually
taking place at the school and i got to see my real-life heroes come to life in front of me as a
nine-year-old boy now when i got home there was a package waiting for me open up i don't
know if you could put this last the slide on please i open it up and there's this photograph um
on the screen there's a photograph of me and the entire cast of x-men and even better than
halle berry and jennifer lawrence everything that's on there was the note from the chairman it
said this jim thank you so much for sharing your super powers with all of us i know you've
been looking for your superhero school since you were a kid here's your class photo
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the the the lesson that that
everyone gets different lessons out of this for me is is me being that childhood vulnerable
state that allowed something like that to happen and the what i would leave for you is this
homework if you is it okay if i give you some homework is this movie what's called days of
future past it takes place in the future and it's there's armageddon i mean it's the most dreaded
future you could ever imagine and professor x sends wolverine because wolverine has
healing abilities with his mind sends him back in time as like the communicator to talk to his
younger self so professor x sends wolverine back in time to talk to the younger version of
professor x to tell them something so that way the future gets changed does that make sense
so my question for you is this if you could go back to that child inside of you that younger
self and right now tell them something that they need to hear what would that be if you could
go back and pass on a message to your younger self what would it be and if you were to go in
the future one year two years five years ten years ahead in the future i believe you have
wisdom inside of you i believe you have greatness inside of you and genius that you're not
even even tapped in those states if you were to project 10 years ahead of time and look back
on this day right now what does your current self need to hear from your future self i have a
quote that i get quoted on more than anything else it talks about an egg and stress that your
egg is like your life that if an egg is broken by an outside force life ends but if it's broken by
an inside force life begins and all great things begin on the inside thank you very much.

How to Build Limitless Confidence

so let's start by defining confidence in the comments down below how would you define
confidence please put it down below confidence is what what is confidence to you so
confidence for me is this belief in oneself you know self-worth is you or self-esteem is you
you knowing your value your worth I think self-confidence is US trusting in fact the Latin
root for confidence is fadir which means to trust so self-confidence is trusting yourself I think
part of the journey we're doing is self-awareness is having the Curiosity to know yourself so
we're getting to know yourself but also trusting ourself right and later on it's about loving
ourself right and also being ourself and that's really the goal self-confidence is about trusting
your self and when you trust yourself really a lot of doors open a lot of limits Fall by the side
because all of a sudden we've transcended we're ending this trance and what's the opposite of
not trusting ourselves or not having confidence that's where we're in doubt you know when
we're not confident we are doubting ourselves or Downing our knowledge doubting our skills
Downing doubting our own abilities maybe we're even doubting our own self-worth the
opposite of confidence might be not just doubt but but fear and how does that show up we
might be painfully shy like I was we might you know turn down opportunity we might not
take risks we might be so fearful of taking on new projects to learn something to do
something to be do have share in a way because we're afraid of making mistakes right if we
don't have confidence and we're not going to take on things and make mistakes and from That
We're Not Gonna We're not gonna learn anything and I really do believe that you know
there's this quote that I have on my desk that says that if failure is not an option then neither
is success I think Seth Godin said that that a failure is not an option then neither is Success so
the opposite of self-confidence is where we are limiting ourselves we're somehow putting
being a constraint and part of what we're doing here is redrawing the borders and boundaries
of of what's possible you know what's possible for us you know what is possible that we can
do what's possible for what we deserve in our in our learning and also in our life when we
have low self-esteem or low self-confidence we could feel anxiety we could have social
anxiety you know going out for me when I was first starting out I was doubting myself you
know I was only 18 19 years old when I started this and I would think you know this is a few
decades ago but I was like who am I to to teach these people who are twice and three times
my age you know I would be at a networking event maybe a chamber of commerce event or a
rotary club event when I first got started and I would have this anxiety the social anxiety and
I would always be the one standing in the corner or going you know it's going five six times
to the restaurant room just to kind of compose myself and because I just didn't believe in
myself I didn't have that self-confidence because I didn't go through what I needed to go
through or maybe it's not even going through it it's growing through it you're like I like to I'm
going to write that down in my in my confidence Journal right make sure you're taking notes
right and so the opposite of that is not feeling Assurance you know I don't feel maybe not
feeling safe and again all that doubt and I think really what we need to do is sometimes we
need to be too optimistic to doubt you know we have to be too determined to doubt and that's
really the goal of this program and so we're talking about right now we Define confidence
right as a trust in oneself we know you know that the root is about trust and then trusting in
our own abilities that we'll be able to figure it out and if we don't well we will eventually be
able to figure it out and the other side of it where you might feel like even you know more
most awareness is Maybe when you don't have confidence it's a little bit awkward it could be
a little bit frightening but how do you get past this one of the main principles I want to really
land home right now is the same that we talk about in our memory and our reading program
the work done on positive psychology you know really pioneered by Dr Carol dweck who
wrote the book mindset I told you in each lesson I'm going to mention a book here or there
because leaders are readers right and it's the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth
mindset because remember we're going out of the Limitless model we're looking at mindset
first because that's the first thing that needs to be addressed to be able to open up because you
can learn a great method right a great method for having confidence in a room but if your
mindset is oh I don't think that's possible or I don't believe I'm capable of having confidence
or I don't believe I deserve it so here's the thing confidence is not something that's just a noun
remember a big principle of quick brain and quick learning is taking nouns and training
yourself every time you you say to yourself I have or I don't have try taking those nouns and
turning them into verbs what do I mean by that you do not have confidence you're like yes I
know Jim that's why since I enrolled in this program quick confidence you do not have
confidence you do confidence and confidence is a muscle the more you exercise courage and
faith and confidence the more it shows up in other areas of your life because please write this
down if you haven't already how you do anything is how you do everything how you do
anything is how you do everything so just like we teach in the other programs you don't have
Focus you do Focus you don't have memories you do memories as a process of encoding
storing retrieving you do not have creativity as we teach in the quick thinking program you
do creative things there's things to access your creativity to write poetry to write books to
make music right to start a business to solve problems and our goal with all our programs
with quick brain really is taking the unconscious taking what looks like magic and showing
you the methods behind the magic so remember this principle when it comes to Quick
confidence take the noun and turn it into a verb how can we take it it's not a magic pill that
will give you confidence but there is a process that will give you confidence because here's
the thing confidence is not fixed and your confidence can Wane depending on your energy
levels depending on how you're connecting with your your purpose depending on strategies
and the tools and the resources depending on also like how well you slept last night
depending on who you're spending time with will affect your confidence you know there are
people you can spend time with that would erode your confidence so remember this as we go
through this process of strategies and tools and skills and abilities that your confidence is not
fixed yes you are born with actually with great confidence you're not very fearful about what
other people think but then part of it is we're going through a process of on learning I call it
unlimiting ourself right a big part of success is getting out of our own way so then we could
just flow getting through like all the noise like we know things but sometimes they're buried
under other people's opinions and their expectations and it's there right but it's been sedated
who you are and part of this is really remember who you are right and for me I needed to stop
hiding and that was that was my thing that I was dealing with I was hiding I was trying to
become invisible I didn't want to be called on in school because I didn't know if I had the
answers or not right you could fake it right that you hear fake it to be making and part of it
has legitimacy you know when you pretend uh are you or you you try to embody somebody
who you know is confident and breathe the way they're breathing and smile and what would
they do part of it is your imagination doesn't know the difference between something you
vividly imagine something that's real but it's not just it's not just fake it's you make it really
it's face it to make it face it to make it remember through challenge comes change through
adversity becomes an advantage right through your struggles you get strength because while
the beauty is in the butterfly the growth is happening in the Cocoon and that's where the
creature is struggling to get out but it develops strength and when it actually emerges what
does it do it soars and I want you to soar to new heights New Heights of confidence and
belief in yourself another important thing I want you to write down before we get to this
exercise is know this that if you do not have confidence in a certain area of your life or you
ex have an extreme amount of doubt in yourself it's not your fault just like in our other
programs I talk about if you don't have a great memory it's not your fault if you're not a great
reader it's not necessarily your fault if you don't have great Focus it's not your fault you are
not taught all right at least Iowa is not taught there was no class called memory back in
school there was no class called Focus back in school going to a child and say Focus or
concentrate is like looking at someone saying play the ukulele who's never taken a class or a
training like you're doing on how to play the ukulele well that's like going to someone say
Focus who's never taken a class called Focus or concentration looking at someone say study
and remember this who's never taken a class on studying and remembering things well if
somebody you know you talk to yourself in the mirror and say you know you got to be
confident right or somebody looks at you and you step into your courage be confident
motivate and inspire you to be confident you've never taken a class until now right and so it's
not your fault right so I want you to own this you're not a victim but now that you know it's
not your fault because where did they come from where where did our fears and our doubts
come from well it could come from from childhood trauma you know trauma it could be an
emotional trauma physical trauma sexual trauma right it could be some kind of trauma on our
system it could have come from our environment right a lot of marketing and media is saying
you have to look this way and again it makes like of this comparison standard you know like
oh you have to look a certain way or be a certain way or there's you're broken and you need
to be fixed they want to sell you something you know so it could be through trauma it could
be through either the external environment mental health right anxiety depression can really
erode on our confidence on our self-confidence on our perception of ourself it could also
have been you know for me it was in school I remember times where I was berated I
remember times where I was bullied I remember times where I was I was teased or I was
maybe harassed right for being different or not knowing something or not fitting in right I
was always the last one picked in in school you know first first sports you know this little kid
that was you know kind of awkward right you know I was always be not doing well on class I
would say oh because you know I have the broken brain right I didn't have a lot of confidence
in myself so wherever it is here's the truth that wherever we are now now you know our past
has shaped who we are now but here's the other side of it though now that you are aware of it
we are a hundred percent responsible for who we are today right and who we are moving
forward so I want to remind you this program like all our programs is about agency it's about
personal responsibility it's about self-awareness and self-management right now that you
know that your past you know through your environment external systems your experience
other people's expectations shaped you you and you alone are responsible for who you show
up for as today and also tomorrow moving forward yes if I if you feel like this resonates with
you put yes in the comments please put yes in the comments so what I'd like to offer you
right now is a challenge I want to ask you this question that you might never really consider
before this in order to feel this turn away feel focused Feel Love feel respected there are
certain rules you have certain evidence that has to happen in order for you to feel like you're
allowed to feel a certain way so if you wanted to feel love what has to happen in order for
you to feel love for some people it's different right they have different Love Languages they
have to be told that somebody loves them they have to be gifted something maybe some
people if their language is touch right there's some kind of service or something everybody
has different rules for feeling something feeling love feeling respected some people feeling
respected is you if you respect me you spare my feelings other people feel respected they like
oh you gotta just let me have it like don't hold back right tell me what's on your mind well
same thing is you have rules for confidence so I want you just to think about for a moment if
you need to pause this and think about what are my rules for feeling confident how do I know
I am good at something or good at making progress in some area of my life what are my rules
for confidence right just like you have rules for respect rules for communication rules for
trust your rules for trust in a relationship what has to happen right and how can somebody
violate those rules to take away from your trust well you have rules for confidence and part of
this journey is knowing yourself I mentioned this before but the process we're going through
is you have the Curiosity to know yourself and once you do do you have the courage to be
that person so this thought experiment we're doing right now you can put in the comments if
you want but what has to happen in order for you to feel confident like think about this thing
that you have okay let's go back to the confident challenge right in an earlier lesson I said hey
at the end of these seven days together I'm going to ask you to commit to making progress in
something that you're fearful of right the confidence challenge this thing that you're just like
nervous about doing you've always put off and that you want to accomplish right well how
confident do you feel about that right now and what is your rule for feeling confidence in that
situation right how do you have to think or feel or be or what do you need to learn to feel
more confident in that situation what skills or methods abilities techniques will give you more
confidence in that area you know what support from the outside world how much energy how
connected to purpose right so this is the thought experiment because how do you show up
when you're confident right you feel Unstoppable imagine walking into a room and you want
to feel confident remembering people's names right A lot of people have fear around that they
don't feel very confident remembering people's names so what has to happen in order for you
to feel confident well I need to practice with one or two people right I need to go back and
watch Quick recall so I could watch those videos again where Jim's brings people on stage
and I get to practice remembering their names and if I could get just four out of five and I feel
very confident right so let's get specific when somebody has confidence they feel they don't
feel necessarily Unstoppable but they say okay I could figure this out right if you give me
enough time and I'm willing to study through discipline and effort I could figure this out so
what has to happen in order for you to feel confident and then finally I want you to in here I
want you to actually in the comments fill this out actually not even just in the comments take
out even better take out your confidence Journal take out your confidence Journal right now
and now that you have your confidence Journal I want you to fill this out if I were more
confident dot dot dot that's all and I want you to list 20 or 30 things all right in your Journal if
I exact words if I were more confident dot dot dot fill in the blanks all right I want you to put
at least 20 things down one per line if I were more confident I would ask for that raise if I
were more confident I would ask for that date if I were more confident I'd be making more
money if I were more confident I wouldn't be so nervous going to social events if I were
more confident fill in the blank and I want you to fill in at least 20 you could do it at 30. if
you want to go more go more but remember this reasons reap results things have to go from
your head to your heart to your hands but if you're not acting with your hands meaning you're
not implementing the things you're not confident you could do the things in your mind all day
but you have to access your heart right the rewards that come right so the reasons reap
rewards so fill it in if I were more confident dot dot dot what changes what are all the benefits
that would come what are all not only just the pleasure you would receive but also the pain
also as well you know like what are you going to get out of right what what are you going to
be able to avoid all the great things that come right because that's what's coming waiting for
you on the other side of this program so do it right now open up your Journal this is your
homework assignment remember just hearing this is not going to make a difference in your
life doing it will write down 20 or 30 Things fill in the blank if I were more confident fill in
the blank all right and then also when you're done put your confidence level down below on a
scale of 0 to 10 how confident do you feel now just do a little gauge how confident do you
feel right now in your life all right I'm your confidence coach Jim quick and I'll see you in our
next lesson

5 Steps to Reset your Brain

wanna welcome you to a live podcast i'm your brain coach jim quick of quick learning and
i'm here as always to help you to learn quickly um my goal and my mission in life is to build
better brighter brains so you can have your brightest future and we're celebrating our 200th
podcast episode so we're doing this live on facebook uh again i want to thank you if you are
one of the listeners to the tens of millions of downloads that we've had on our show uh 3 500
plus 5 star reviews on itunes today i'm going to rift and one of the questions that we get a lot
this uh majority of this year is jim with everything that's going on in the world how how can i
refresh this i want a fresh start i really had high hopes for 2020 2020 is the you know 2020
vision it's about about the year of visioning um and and creating and imagining these big
lofty goals and i could really use a mental reset i could really use a reboot and uh while we
can't go backwards we can reset here and refresh so uh do me a favor i'm gonna give you my
five keys uh really quick keys they're all going to be common sense and hopefully you'll turn
them into common practice that the five steps that i'm taking people through right now to
reset your brain here's the thing when we experience stress our brains prepare for fight flight
or freeze it's it's not the place you want to study in it's not the place where you're gonna get
the best out of yourself it's not the place uh where you're gonna ponder possibilities and
perform and so our cognitive abilities are limited when our mind feels overwhelmed but
there's lots of process work family health the world life in general the connection between an
over stress brain and the rest of your body can have some serious impact right on your
productivity and your peace of mind and i've noticed that one of the biggest problems people
are facing right now is uncertainty because you don't feel safe and we know that stress
triggers you know when we lose a sense of control we feel stressed we feel anxiety you you
feel like you don't have control in the present you can't predict the future because you don't
know what tomorrow's gonna look like and you're glued on the social media and the news
because it bleeds it leads your amygdala gets hijacked by by the news what's threatening
what's dark you know what's scary and your brain has an algorithm as we've talked about just
like instagram and facebook here because whatever you engage with the most you get more
of you watch cat posts videos share like them then the social media gives you more cats well
your brain is the same way so stand guard to your brain right and because if you're just
focusing on what's dark and threatening you're going to see more of that and it doesn't leave
you bandwidth to focus on possibility on what you'd be grateful for on opportunity we go
down a wild rabbit hole of it's endless what ifs what if this what if this what this so how do
you reboot your brain when you want to reset your brain the goldness you don't want to
necessarily start out by painting a picture of a positive future you can do that certainly
because your imagination is very powerful where i would start is doing little tiny small
simple steps to make you feel safe in the moment because when we don't feel safe we go in a
fight we go into flight we go into freeze we're not going to get the best out of us so we need
to feel safe so i put together an acronym um so reset is the acronym i'm going to use r-e-s-e-t
so what does the r stand for if you want to feel safe i would start by routine really look into
your routines i believe the treasure you seek is hidden in your daily routine and so what kind
of routines would i be thinking about all the things we've talked about in previous episodes in
fact i would encourage you to start if you are if you're new to our community i would start by
listening to episode number one um i would focus on especially routines around your sleep
most important your devotion to motion what's your routine for moving my other routines
besides sleep devotion to motion eating routines is around journaling i feel like that taking
your thoughts and putting them on paper how many of you journal on a regular basis and
that's a wonderful way to reduce anxiety it's a wonderful way to help you process what you're
going through to give yourself an emotional release and going to emotional release that's the
e okay so we're just talking about the five keys to resetting your brain resetting your 2020. the
r is stick to your routines your sleep routines and design those routines little by little a little
becomes a lot because consistency compounds the e stands for emotions now what do i mean
by emotions first of all i would say honor them honor them don't resist them don't feel bad
because you work you're gonna go through this year how many of you went through a
spectrum of emotions this year i mean like the full spectrum of emotions and so don't resist
because what you resist persists if you try not to do it you're going to do it more but you
know journaling is a great way of processing them talk therapy is a wonderful way of
processing them having connection with people is a wonderful way of processing them
meaning that you can be physically distant but you don't have to be socially distant we're
we're connecting here you don't have to be mentally distant so the r is your routine right the e
is what emotion good the s in reset stands for sever what does it mean to sever this ever
means to disconnect to separate right to enjoy some genuine time offline and that's kind of
ironic right because we are online right now but when sometimes when we're on screens all
the time it gets difficult because it becomes addictive how many of you saw a social dilemma
on netflix anyone see social dilemma on netflix and how the billions of dollars are being
spent and some of the top minds you know uh psychologists like on to keep you engaging in
a platform right and here's the thing technology is not good or bad fire is not good or bad fire
can cook your food or it can burn down your home it's how you utilize it so you know again
technology i love allows us to connect allows us to you know to instruct allows us to inspire
but technology is using you technology is a tool for you to use but technology is using you
then who becomes a tool then you become the tool life is the c between b and d what's b birth
d is death c is what c is choice c is a choice that these difficult times can define you these
difficult times can diminish you or these difficult times can develop you ultimately you
decide with the choices you make every single day and we always have a choice a choice on
what to focus on a choice of what things mean so s stands for sever because self love
remember self love first of all self-love and self-care is not selfish but self-love is like falling
in love with the person in the mirror who's been through so much but you're still standing to
get that i get a little choked up thinking about it because i get a lot of messages from a lot of
you and i can't possibly return all those messages that's why i do these lives for you but you
know you're still standing that the only time really to look back is to really honor how far
you've come right because you remember that time when you didn't think you could survive
you remember that well you did if you're watching this right and you will again because your
life is like an egg that if an egg is broken by an outside forest life ends but if it's broken by an
inside force life begins great things begin where on the inside you have greatness inside of
you and you what's inside of you is so much stronger and more powerful than what lies in
front of you now the e stands for explore explore now i love this one because i think curiosity
is one of the most important emotions to uh to cultivate along with gratitude when you're
curious you don't feel as much fear just like when you are grateful when you're curious to like
you know you know it's interesting you know when somebody's upset at you getting curious
instead of angry right it's been suggested that exploration you know things like creativity why
widening our social circles this level of engagement is one of the reasons um that that
positive emotions exist so what can you explore right we're talking about resetting yourself
part of it is getting curious and maybe you want to find a new playlist maybe you want to try
a new workout maybe you want to try a new food just like the food we're going to talk about
the food that helps reduce anxiety when we talk about reset and when we're talking about this
when we're talking about exploration find the things that light you up you know i just did this
this interview today talking about passion and purpose you know passionate you read it and
limitless if you if you read it passion for me is what lights you up and purpose is how you use
that to light other people my my passion is learning my purpose is teaching other people how
to learn how many of you feel exhausted maybe you're not burnt out because you're doing too
much maybe you're burnt out because you're doing too little of the things that make you come
alive the things that you really value so having solitude is a wonderful time for self-reflection
and asking yourself this question what's most important to me in life what's most important to
me in my family what's most important to me in my career in my job in my contribution in
my impact right and then lean into that explore that see where your passions even with your
kids too see where their passions go see where they're give them enough stimulus and novelty
to build your brain mental muscle same thing as your physical muscles you give it novelty
and give it nutrition right you give it stimulus you work it out and then you feed it with
nutrition same thing with your brain your brain thrives on novelty so get curious again get
curious about your situation what can i learn from this and then finally the t and reset my fifth
tip for you to be able to think about when you want to reset your brain reset your mind get a
mental reboot reboot your year if you want will is to really think and when i say think i mean
dream again hope again you know 2020 still there's still time to have vision and you've
listened to this episode because this is our 200th podcast episode listen to the one i do about
not goal setting but goal getting right everyone knows they're smart goals s stands for specific
m is measurable a is what action oriented the r is what what's what's remember the the r in
and then the t and smart just put it in in the chat here also as well so what what is it r is
realistic t is time value but i also think you should need heart goals h e r h e a r t h r h are
healthy you need things that like a vision for your life and your family that's healthy that is
not that's that's within the ecology that supports the ecology of your life right and harmony in
your life the e a goal that's enduring that's going to get you through the hard times the
difficult situations the a is a learning something that pulls you towards that right and the r is
relevant relevant to it solves a problem in your life it's not just somebody you know else's it's
yours right relevant it's solving a problem it's aligned with a value that you hold dear the t in
heart stands for your truth right it's not your your a lot of people they pursued a career
because of their parents right they didn't date somebody because you know they're afraid of
what other people would think but it's what's your truth because that's the whole thing when it
talks about regret a lot of people they have unfulfilled past and you don't you don't want that
to be you if you're watching this it's certainly not you but now when is now a great time to
change that right there's that proverb the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago the second
best time today right now i'm talking to you now is the time to do it and so dream again
imagine take a moment right now take a breath and i know i talk rather quickly um because i
have a lot to share with you but imagine and your time is valuable and i know your time and
your attention is something that um that i don't take for granted that's why i always want to
give you 100 but take a moment and imagine what you want most just dream again do not
shrink your dreams to meet this current situation upgrade your mindset your motivation your
methods to be able to meet your biggest dreams your destiny but imagine what you want
most see it feel it believe in it and then work daily for it then work daily for it then roll up
your sleeves and do it right and that's reset everybody five things you could do to reset your
brain to reboot your year routine e routine e is what emotions s is what is sever e is what you
want to engage and you want to what explore and finally the t is what you want to think you
want to think because the thinking is you want to think big don't think smaller do not do not
do not shrink what's possible to fit your mind expand your mind to fit what's possible and it's
not always about pushing and persevering you know i i like to hustle certainly hustle
kindness most of all but it's not just always about forcing it's about flow it's not about pushing
and persevering it's about agility it's about accepting it's about being adaptive and i know i
tend to alliterate all these letters pushing persevering agile accepting adaptive but you wanna
you don't wanna necessarily force all the time but you wanna flow and sometimes there's
times to push and to stretch and there's times to stabilize and to be safe and we all know we
all know that when something doesn't work you reset it right a reboot often fixes it the piece
of technology or phone sometimes a webcam doesn't work i have to reboot my computer try
rebooting your brain you know choose one or more of these activities you don't have to do all
five and then see if you feel as though your reset has allowed space for peace allowed space
for uh performance allowed space for an upgrade and i would encourage all of you um to
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inner peace is the new success connection is a new currency happiness is the new rich and
keep at it there is a version of you that you haven't met yet i promise you i promise you
there's a version of you that you have not met yet keep showing up until you are introduced to
this amazing person i'm your brain coach jim quick i want to thank you for joining me for the
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my three videos on how to up level your memory and your mind and i want to thank you for
being part of my community here as well you know this is my 29th year of teaching this and
it's been quite a year to launch a book my first book limitless during this 2020 but i couldn't
be happier because i feel like like attracts alike that there's no coincidence here that the reason
you're watching this it's because you're one of the few who do versus the men who complain
you know excuses and complaining is useless we need to get out of the habit of complaining
we need to be able to express our joy because then we'll get more of that remember what you
appreciate in life appreciates and it grows there are no limits limits are learned and if i could
be anything for you remember this the life you live are the lessons you teach the life you live
are lessons you teach so live it well thank you everybody hi quick brain it's your brain coach i
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