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If our mindset is not aligned with our desires or goals, we will never achieve them. It’s critical to identify your limiting beliefs, stories, and deeply held beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions about yourself and what’s possible. Examining, excavating, and expunging those beliefs is the first step to having a limitless mindset.
The second secret to a limitless life is your motivation. Jim outlines three key elements to motivation. First, your purpose. The reason why matters. I want to age well and am committed to lifting weights and getting stronger even though it is not my favorite thing to do. The purpose supersedes the discomfort.
Limitless teaches us the five key methods to achieve whatever we want: Focus, Study, Memory Enhancement, Speed Reading, and Critical Thinking.
What is your one wish? Seriously, if a genie offered to grant you one wish, but only one, what would you ask for? Limitless wishes, of course! Now, imagine that I’m your learning genie and I can grant you one learning wish—any one subject or skill. What one thing would you want to learn? What subject or skill would be the equivalent of asking for infinite wishes? To learn how to learn, right?
Now in this book, I refer to superheroes and superpowers.
One of my core beliefs is that human potential is one of the only infinite resources we have in the world. Most everything else is finite, but the human mind is the ultimate superpower—there is no limit to our creativity, imagination, determination, or ability to think, reason, or learn.
If I am your mentor in your hero’s journey, then this book is your map to master your mind, motivation, and methods to learn how to learn. And once you’ve done that, you will be limitless.
Often when you put a label on someone or something, you create a limit—the label becomes the limitation. Adults have to be very careful with their external words because these quickly become a child’s internal words. That’s
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
I remember teachers telling me constantly to study and concentrate harder. Telling a child to do things like “concentrate” is like telling them to play the ukulele; it’s very difficult to do without ever being taught how.
What’s one of your dreams? One that is ever present, like a splinter in your brain? Imagine it in vivid detail. Visualize it. Feel it. Believe it. And work daily for it.
unlimiting un·lim·it·ing (noun) The act or process of casting aside inaccurate and restrictive perceptions of one’s potential and embracing the reality that, with the right mindset, motivation, and methods, there are no limitations.
Just as you’ve learned limits from your family, culture, and life experiences, you can unlearn them.
The Limitless Model
If you are not learning or living at your full potential, if there is a gap between your current reality and your desired reality, here’s the reason: There is a limit that must be released and replaced in one of three areas: 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.
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.
KWIK START Take a moment and schedule 30 minutes of white space in your calendar for this week. This is time to be spent away from technology, time dedicated to clear your mind, relax, and be creative.
Meditera helst under denna tiden, jag vet att du inte gillar meditation eftersom att du tycker det är slöseri på tid, men som du löser i boken så är det viktigt att ge sig själv tid att vara i nuet och ta det lungt utan någon teknik. Oavsett hur dumt eller ekologiskt det låter.
Before mobile devices, we would say “brb” (be right back) all the time when we were online. We don’t say it anymore. We no longer leave. We live here now. Because of our always-on,
För 20 år sedan så var internet, datorer, mobiler och teknologi ett sätt att ta en paus från verkligheten. Nu så är verkligheten en paus från nätet. Tänk på det, nu så tar man en promenad för att vara i naturen och ta en paus från allt på nätet. Förr så var det bara en vanlig sak man gjorde och att gå in på facebook var något man unnade sig…
Go to the notification settings of your phone and turn off all unnecessary and distracting pings and dings. Do this now.
Neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer uses the term digital dementia to describe how overuse of digital technology results in the breakdown of cognitive abilities.
Too often, we outsource our brains to our smart devices, and our smart devices are making us, well, a little bit stupid.
Take a minute to exercise your memory: Memorize the phone number of someone you communicate with regularly.
Du skulle kunna sätta detta som ett nytt habit ifall du vill träna upp ditt minne!!
Which of the four digital villains do you believe are currently most disrupting your performance, productivity, and peace of mind? Take a moment and write the name of this villain down. Conscious awareness is the first part to solving a problem.
As I stated earlier, the brain is capable of being molded and shaped, meaning that at any point anyone can decide to change the way their brain functions.
Neuroplasticity, also referred to as brain plasticity, means that every time you learn something new, your brain makes a new synaptic connection. And each time this happens, your brain physically changes–it upgrades its hardware to reflect a new level of the mind.
Plasticity means that your learning, and indeed your life, is not fixed. You can be, do, have, and share anything when you optimize and rewire your brain. There are no limitations when you align and apply the right mindset, motivation, and methods.
Research suggests humans forget approximately 50 percent of what they learn within an hour, and an average of 70 percent within 24 hours.1
Each 25-minute chunk is called a “Pomodoro.”
As you read this book, I suggest that you read for one Pomodoro and then take a 5-minute brain break before continuing.
KWIK START Set a timer for 25 minutes right now and concentrate on what you’re reading in this book for that amount of time. When your alarm goes off, bookmark this book and close it. Then write down what you learned within that 25-minute period.
Some people who claim to have twenty years of experience have one year of experience that they’ve repeated twenty times.
As you are reading this book, when your mind inevitably wanders into something else—and that something else is important but not urgent—don’t try to not think of it. What you resist persists. Instead, keep a notebook close by to capture that thought or idea by writing it down. You can thus release it temporarily, to be addressed after the task at hand is complete.
What is one thing you will do to make reading this book a more active experience? Write it down.
Jag gör en kapitel sammanfattning efter varje kapitel, ifall jag inte kan göra det så går jag tillbaks och kollar om i kapitllet. Detta gör så att jag inte bara läser utan att läsa aktivt. Jag blir tvingad att vara fokuserad.
In fact, when you tie a feeling to information, the information becomes more memorable.
when you take control of your state of mind and body, you can shift your experience of learning from boredom to excitement, curiosity, and even fun. To achieve this, you might try shifting the way your body moves in a learning environment or piquing different moods before you sit down to learn.
KWIK START How motivated, energized, and focused are you at this moment? Rate your current state on a scale of 1 to 10. What is one thing you will do right now to increase that number?
När jag läste detta så kände jag mig endast 4/10 motiverad. Så jag satte mig och tänkte, Hur kan jag göra mig mer motiverad. Jag hittade ångra grejer,
1. Drick ett glas vatten.
2. Gör några ”jumping jacks”
3. Förändra din andning/posture eller något hur du sitter eller vad du än gör nu.
When you teach something, you get to learn it twice: once on your own, and then again through educating another person.
I, _________________________________, commit to reading this book in 10- to 25-minute increments until it is finished. I commit to focusing by forgetting my prior understanding, distractions, and limiting beliefs of what is possible. I commit to being active in the process. I will do all the Kwik Start exercises, take notes, highlight, and practice asking myself relevant questions as I read. I commit to manage my state of being as I read, checking in regularly with my energy levels and being proactive in adjusting my motivation as needed. I commit to teaching what I learn to others, so we may
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How can I use this? Why must I use this? When will I use this?
These are your three magic questions: How can I use this? Why must I use this? When will I use this? They will help you integrate the knowledge from this book into your head, heart, and hands. Ingrain them. Write these questions down where you can see them—on your desk or in your phone.
Think of a young elephant tied to a stake in the ground. When it’s a baby, the elephant isn’t strong enough to pull the stake up, so it eventually stops trying because it learns the effort is futile. As the elephant grows, it gains more than enough power and strength to pull out the stake, but it remains tied up by something as inconsequential as a rope and a flimsy piece of metal because of what it learned as a baby. In psychology, it’s called learned helplessness.
Most of us behave like that elephant.
“We come into this world not knowing if life is hard or easy, if money is scarce or abundant, if we’re important or unimportant. We look at two people who know everything: our parents,”
What would you say is your genius? Write it down.
Så fort jag läste den första ”dynamo genius” så tänkte jag att det var den som jag var innan jag han läsa klart.
One of the fundamental tyrannies of limiting beliefs is that, in so many cases, they’re just plain wrong. Are you really terrible at speaking in public? Are you really bad at leading a group? Are you really the least interesting person in the room wherever you are? What’s the evidence to support that? How many times have you actually been in these situations, and what have the results been?
Rather than focusing on how you felt in these instances, consider how things went. Were you booed off the stage? Did people come up to you afterward to laugh at you and tell you how awful you were? Did your boss sit you down the next day to say that you might want to consider a career where you never had to utter a word?
So, when you’re examining the facts behind your limiting beliefs, be sure to consider two things: whether there is in reality any evidence to prove that you are truly hampered in this area and whether even that evidence was tainted by the noise in your head.
LIE NO. 1: INTELLIGENCE IS FIXED
