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by
Jim Kwik
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April 28 - May 8, 2020
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.
Your ambitions stay in your mind, because you lack the energy to do anything about them.
Limitless Motivation, you’ll discover why your purpose is your power and keys to unleash your drive and energy.
Modern-day supervillains get in our way and make life harder, keeping us from our potential. They hold us back and rob us of our productivity, prosperity, positivity, and peace of mind. And it’s up to us to recognize and defeat them.
Doesn’t that make you wonder what happens if you don’t have downtime? 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.
We no longer leave. We live here now. 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 Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
“And 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.
This is me
With tools like GPS, we don’t give our minds the chance to work. We rely on technology to do the memorization for us.
Forcing yourself to recall information instead of relying on an outside source to supply it for you is a way of creating and strengthening a permanent memory.
There’s research that says our brains are more like a muscle, rather than a hard drive that fills up. That the more you use it, the stronger it gets, and the more it can store.
down. Conscious awareness is the first part to solving a problem.
In learning, when you fail to remember something, view it as a failure to make a connection between what you’ve learned and what you already
know, and with how you will use it in life. For example, if you feel that something you’ve learned is valuable in the moment, but that you’ll never use it again, you are unlikely to create a memory of it.
you learn something but have no higher reasoning as to why it’s important to you or how it applies to your life or work, then it’s likely that yo...
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What does this mean for learning? Plasticity means that you can mold and shape your brain to suit your desires.
Here’s the bottom line: 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.
In the same way, the nutrients we take in are absorbed through our intestines. We rely on those nutrients to fuel our brains. While our brains take up very little of our total body weight, they use 20 percent of the energy we take in, so nutrients make a huge difference in the way our brains function on a day-to-day basis.
We were not taught how.
We must take charge of our own learning.
The first is how much added value a limitless mind can offer you and others. We’ve entered an expert economy in which brain power trumps brute strength. Where what you have between your ears is your greatest wealth-creating asset.
And that applied knowledge is not just power, it’s profit. Your ability to think, solve problems, make the right decisions, create, innovate, and imagine is how we add value.
The faster you can learn, the faster ...
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How do you install new software into your brain? One of my favorite ways is what you’re doing right now. It’s called reading.
Research suggests that our natural ability to concentrate wanes between 10 to 40 minutes.
suggest you use the Pomodoro technique, a productivity method developed by Francesco Cirillo based on the idea that the optimal time for a task is 25 minutes, followed by a 5-minute break.2 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.
