Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

by Jim Kwik

Now, because you’re in the process of becoming limitless, you know that perpetuating negative behaviors is a drain on your superpowers. So, how do you break bad habits and, just as importantly, how do you create new habits that will help you?

By the end of the study, they’d found that it took an average of 66 days for the new behavior to become a habit,

“For a target behavior to happen,” he notes, “a person must have sufficient motivation, sufficient ability, and an effective prompt.

In other words, you need three things in place in order to develop a habit:

Pleasure/pain:

Hope/fear:

Social acceptance/rejection:

Ability

Prompts

Can you identify the habits you want to break? What is that one habit that’s holding you back from doing other important things in your day? Write it down, then identify the prompts that trigger you to perform that habit.

Procrastination

But how do you make something a habit? Just remember WIN:

W is for Want:

I is for Innate:

N is for Now:

He started reading books—the first being Mindset by Carol Dweck—

Carol Dweck—Mindset

I know that some of you have trouble recalling your dreams, so I’m going to provide you with a quick mnemonic technique designed to help you do so. Just think of the word DREAMS:

Remember: Our brains are approximately 75 percent water, so if we’re going to fire up our brains, we need to be well hydrated.

celery juice, which boosts the immune system, helps flush toxins from the liver, and helps restore the adrenal glands (hat tip to Anthony William, the Medical Medium, for this idea).

I’m sure some of you will cringe at the idea of starting the day pummeling yourself with cold water, but cold therapies of this type do a great job of resetting the nervous system and have the added benefit of helping manage any inflammation.

The process I use, Ziva Meditation, was developed by my meditation coach, Emily Fletcher, a three-step process that involves mindfulness, meditation, and manifestation. To watch a video of it, go to www.LimitlessBook.com/resources.

doesn’t have to be a lot. Even a simple three-step routine can help jump-start your morning. What are the three things you will always do when you first wake up to set up your day to win? Write them down.

Drink water Exercise for 5 Minutes Drink Brain Smootie

Before you move on to the next chapter, here are a few things to do: Bolster your understanding of the habit loop by thinking about the four components of some of your most common habits, like making your

breakfast or taking the dog for a walk. What’s the cue, the craving, the response, and the reward for each of these? Spend a few minutes thinking about a habit that you’d love to replace with a more constructive one. Using the Fogg Behavioral Model, what new behavior can you adopt that fits neatly into the model? Walk yourself through the process of starting a valuable new habit using WIN.

In his groundbreaking book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, psychologist

In his groundbreaking book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, psychologist

THE FOUR STAGES OF FLOW

Stage 1: Struggle

Stage 2: Relaxation

Stage 3: Flow

Stage 4: Consolidation

FINDING FLOW

Eliminate Distractions

Give Yourself Enough Time

3. Do Something You Love

4. Have Clear Goals

5. Challenge Yourself . . . A Little

CONQUERING THE ENEMIES OF FLOW

1. Multitasking

2. Stress

3. Fear of Failure

4. Lack of Conviction

“The brain perceives uncertainty as a threat, which sparks the release of cortisol, a stress hormone that disrupts memory, depresses the immune system, and increases the risk of high blood pressure and depression,”

PART IV LIMITLESS METHODS THE HOW

method

In this section, you’re going to learn the science of accelerated learning and meta learning in five areas: focus, study, memory, speed reading, and thinking.

11 FOCUS

What can I learn from what I’m like when I’m most focused? How can I increase my ability to concentrate? How do I limit my distractions and calm my busy mind?

Focus allows us to train our brain power on a particular task to burn through that task.

KWIK START Rate your current level of concentration from 0 to 10. Now rate your desire to increase this level. Your concentration is like a muscle. You can train to become stronger with practice.

Current level of Focus is 8 and Desired is 10

Dandapani points out that concentration is like a muscle that gets stronger the more you exercise it. “Concentration is something you can learn and something you can practice to get better

We allow our minds to jump from thought to thought, often using technology to help us practice distraction until we’re experts at it—