Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery, #1)

by Kevin Horsley

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. —Jim Rohn

You cannot fly with the eagles if you continue to scratch with the turkeys. —Zig Ziglar

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it—as long as you believe 100 percent. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Your beliefs about what your concentration and memory can do may be your own limited version of the truth.

A belief is a sense of being certain; what you believe, you become.

Most people don’t realize that when they use doubtful phrases, they are setting standards for themselves. These standards become expectations and eventually self-fulfilling prophecies.

You are already all you need to be. Maxwell Maltz said, “Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of inborn talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.” You don’t need anything more than what you have. You don’t need a special talent or pill to have brilliant concentration or a great memory. All you need is a willingness to learn, a method, and self-discipline.

“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.”

We live in an activity illusion and think that “busyness” is equal to good business, but it’s often just procrastination in disguise. Busyness may make you feel good and make you think you are productive, but if you look back at the end of the day, you’ll realize you haven’t done anything worthwhile.

“If you’re not sure why you’re doing something, you can never do enough of it.”

Your mind never wanders; it moves toward more interesting things.

People that learn quickly or have a so-called photographic memory apply creativity to everything they learn.

“Hear a piece of information and three days later you’ll remember 10 percent of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65 percent.”

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them. —Friedrich Nietzsche