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Jim Kwik
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August 12 - September 4, 2020
Limitless teaches us the five key methods to achieve whatever we want: Focus, Study, Memory Enhancement, Speed Reading, and Critical Thinking.
I would tell myself it was because my brain was broken.
“I’m sorry; I didn’t do it,” I stuttered, just barely getting the words out of my mouth.
“You’re this close,” holding the index fingers on his right and left hands about a foot apart, “to getting every single thing on that list.”
I passed out from sheer exhaustion and fell down a flight of stairs, sustaining yet another head injury.
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
Maybe I was asking the wrong question. I started to wonder, what was my real problem?
For so much of my life, I allowed myself to be defined by my perceived restrictions.
I needed to unlearn. And when I did, what I could learn to be or do each day became limitless.
THE LIMITLESS MODEL
A limit in your Mindset—you entertain a low belief in yourself, your capabilities, what you deserve, or what is possible.
A limit in your Motivation—you lack the drive, purpose, or energy to take action. A limit in your Methods—you were taught and are acting on a process that is not effective to create the results you desire.
Mindset (the WHAT): deeply held beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions we create about who we are, how the world works, what we are capable of and deserve, and what is possible. Motivation (the WHY): the purpose one has for taking action. The energy required for someone to behave in a particular way. Method (the HOW): a specific process for accomplishing something, especially an orderly, logical, or systematic way of instruction.
where mindset crosses over with motivation,
inspiration.
Where motivation and method intersect,
implementation.
Where mindset and method intersect,
ideation.
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“four horsemen” of our age: digital deluge, digital distraction, digital dementia, and digital deduction.
DIGITAL DELUGE Do you have too much to process but not enough time?
There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that if we never let our mind wander or be bored for a moment, we pay a price—poor memory, mental fog, and fatigue.
DIGITAL DISTRACTION
Because of our always-on, ever-connected devices, we’re struggling to find connection when we’re with friends and family, and we’re struggling to stay focused at work.
“Asking the brain to shift attention from one activity to another causes the prefrontal cortex and striatum to burn up oxygenated glucose, the same fuel they need to stay on task,”
the kind of rapid, continual shifting we do with multitasking causes the brain to burn through fuel so quickly that we feel exhausted and disoriented after even a short time.
KWIK START Go to the notification settings of your phone and turn off all unnecessary and distracting pings and dings. Do this now.
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DIGITAL DEMENTIA
overuse of digital technology results in the breakdown of cognitive abilities. He argues that short-term memory pathways will start to deteriorate from underuse if we overuse technology.
KWIK START Take a minute to exercise your memory: Memorize the phone number of someone you communicate with regularly.
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DIGITAL DEDUCTION
the “muscles” we use to think critically and reason effectively are atrophying.
digital depression, a result of the comparison culture that emerges when we let the highlight reels of the social media feeds of others cause us to perceive ourselves as less than.
Maguire and her colleagues discovered that London taxi drivers did indeed have “more gray matter in their posterior hippocampi than people who were similar in age, education, and intelligence who did not drive taxis.
plumper memory centers
the longer someone had been driving a taxi, the large...
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Neuroplasticity, also referred to as brain plasticity, means that every time you learn something new, your brain makes a new synaptic connection.
Plasticity means that your learning, and indeed your life, is not fixed.
Have you ever had a “gut feeling”? That moment when you just knew? If you’ve ever “gone with your gut” to make a decision or felt “butterflies in your stomach,” did you ever wonder why that was? Hidden in the walls of the digestive system, this “brain in your gut” is revolutionizing medicine’s understanding of the links between digestion, mood, health, and even the way you think. Scientists call this little brain the enteric nervous system (ENS). And it’s not so little. The ENS is two thin layers of more than 100 million nerve cells lining your gastrointestinal tract from esophagus to rectum.
FASTER stands for: Forget, Act, State, Teach, Enter, Review.
Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.
