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You have to do something different to become different.
Would you hire a person for his or her ability to Google information? No. You want people with information and experience at their fingertips. You want confident people that are certain about what they know.
I decided to buy three books, all written by Tony Buzan: Use Your Head, Use Your Memory, and The Speed Reading Book.
If you keep on doing what you have always done, however, you will get what you have always gotten.
You can have success or excuses, but you can’t have them both. People that learn quickly focus only on the information and skills that matter. Excuses don’t matter—they are “thought viruses.”
Every excuse you accept makes you weaker.
If you continue to repeat negative thoughts like these, you will inevitably come to believe them.
Just because you have been conditioned to think that something is true, does not mean it is an objective fact.
Richard Bach said,
“Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours.”
If you believe your limits, your life will be very limited.
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.
We always defend what we believe. If you believe you have a bad memory, you will always act and think in accordance with that belief.
A belief is a sense of being certain; what you believe, you become.
Every single thought we have is creative: Each one has the power to build and the power to destroy.
Your limiting beliefs will keep you trapped in a loop. Your mind will continue to prevent you from learning anything new. Your beliefs either move you or stop you. Every thought and every word works for you or against you, and every thought that you confirm to be true becomes a belief. When you change a belief, you change a mental construction and, therefore, your life.
There are some things that you previously believed with all your heart but now you don’t believe them. Why? Because you questioned them. If, long ago, some teacher told you that you have a memory like a sieve, it doesn’t mean you have to make the teacher’s words a reality. You were younger then, had less experience, and did not have the ability to question authority. Now you can question his or her judgment of your younger self. Ask yourself questions like, “How much is this belief going to cost me if I hold on to it? Do I have to hold on to it? Is it true? Can I be 100 percent certain that it
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Here are five core beliefs that you can “put on” right now: 1. I Was Born with Exceptional Concentration and Memory
You are already all you need to be.
2. Memory Improvement Is Important
3. I Have Incredible Abilities and My Memory Is Unlimited
4. There Is No Failure, Only Feedback
5. I Don’t Know It All
Thinking you know everything there is to know about something will only hold you back, because it prevents you from learning anything new.
Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
We live in an activity illusion and think that “busyness” is equal to good business, but it’s often just procrastination in disguise.
“Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb,” said Pythagoras.
We fill our minds with all kinds of conflict, which takes us away from the moment. Have you ever had a fight with someone at home, then spent the whole work day trying to concentrate? Conflict pulls your mind in many
When your mind is at peace, you can enjoy the moment and your mind becomes like a laser beam. Peace and co...
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We destroy both peace and concentration by multitasking. Multitasking is a myth! A lioness hunting in the wild focuses on one wildebeest. She never focuses on two—because she knows the odds of missing both are high.
Sharpen your intellect by making it a habit to do one thing at a time.
Your mind never wanders; it moves toward more interesting things.
Tony Robbins says, “If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you’re curious, nothing is a chore; it’s automatic—you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.”
People that learn quickly or have a so-called photographic memory apply creativity to everything they learn. They may have learned how to do this, or may use the principles unconsciously.
But sound is very limited because it doesn’t attach easily to other memories.
Tony Robbins’s life-changing book Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins says, “You are the source of all your emotions; you are the one who creates them. Plant these emotions daily, and watch your whole life grow with vitality that you’ve never dreamed of before.”
This is your first memory route or journey, and it should open your mind to the possibility of having a perfect memory. This method helps you see the big picture as well as zoom in on details. It brings concepts to life and makes them concrete. Since we remember what we think about, it is always easier to remember something that you experienced in your mind. Every memory master uses this method more than any other.
We learn only by association. Learning connects new information to old information; it doesn’t happen any other way. It creates a relationship between the known and the unknown. The more you know, the easier it is to connect more information, and to know even more.
Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. —Dale Carnegie
iMindMap.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is a natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
presentation will be much more powerful. Great presenters know that audiences tend to remember: F—First things L—Last things
O—Outstanding information O—Own links R—Repeated information Therefore, they make their introductions and conclusions powerful and outstanding. They open with memorable demonstrations, questions, facts, quotations, or meaningful stories. They also continually link information to the audience, make it more outstanding, and repeat the main points.
If you focus on your absentminded moments you will create more absentmindedness. Start to catch your memory doing things right and you will start to see improvements.
If you choose to believe that you can’t grow beyond your current limits you will live a limited life.
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas, and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives. —Denis Waitley
We all love to win but how many people love to train? —Mark Spitz
There has never ever been an undisciplined world champion.
What do you want? What are you doing daily to get what you want? If your daily actions are not moving you in the direction of what you want, then you will never get what you want.
