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Learning and the ability to learn faster and more easily makes everything else in life possible, which means that it’s never been a better time to train your brain the way you do your body.
you are struggling to reach a goal in any area, you must first ask: Where is the limit? Most likely, you’re experiencing a limit in your mindset, motivation, or methods—which means that it’s not a personal shortcoming or failure pointing to any perceived lack of ability.
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.
no matter where you come from, no matter what challenges you face, you have incredible potential that’s just waiting to be tapped.
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.
All of us can be the heroes of our own story, dipping into the well of our potential every single day and never having that well run dry.
PART I FREE YOUR MIND
1 BECOMING 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.
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
It was in that moment that I realized that if knowledge is power, then learning is our superpower.
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.
The Limitless Model
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 ...
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2 WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
DIGITAL DELUGE
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.
DIGITAL DISTRACTION
“Modern technology may be wonderful, but it can easily sidetrack us and take away from the special moments we have with friends and family in person,”
KWIK START Go to the notification settings of your phone and turn off all unnecessary and distracting pings and dings. Do this now.
DIGITAL DEMENTIA
KWIK START Take a minute to exercise your memory: Memorize the phone number of someone you communicate with regularly.
DIGITAL DEDUCTION
“The capacity to reflect, reason, and draw conclusions based on our experiences, knowledge, and insights. It’s what makes us human and has enabled us to communicate, create, build, advance, and become civilized.”
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.
KWIK START Think about a decision you need to make. Schedule some time to work on that decision without the use of any digital devices.
Like fire, technology has changed the course of human history. However, fire can cook your food or burn your home down—it’s all in how you use it.
KWIK START 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.
3 YOUR LIMITLESS BRAIN
The brain has three major areas: the brain stem, the cerebellum, and the cerebral cortex (both the cerebellum and cerebral cortex start with cere, Latin for “wax,” because of its waxy appearance).
The brain is made of fat and water, weighs approximately three pounds, and facilitates incredible power and ability.1
The brain stem moderates the basic functions we need to live, such as breathing, maintaining a regular heart rate, impulses to eat or have ...
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The cerebral cortex is the largest part of our brain, where the majority of our complex thinking, short-term memory, and sensory stimulation take place.
The brain is split into two halves that are connected by the corpus callosum, which acts like a bundle of telephone wires between the lobes, sending messages back and forth.
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.
That superpower plant of a network between your ears is your greatest gift and greatest advantage. All we have to do is upgrade your brain the same way you upgrade your phone. 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.
4 HOW TO READ AND REMEMBER THIS (AND ANY) BOOK
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.
The acronym FASTER stands for: Forget, Act, State, Teach, Enter, Review.
F is for Forget
KWIK START 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.
A is for Act
KWIK START What is one thing you will do to make reading this book a more active experience? Write it down.
S is for State
All learning is state-dependent. Your state is a current snapshot of your emotions. It is highly influenced by your thoughts (psychology) and the phy...
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Remember, all learning is state-dependent. Consciously choose states of joy, fascination, and curiosity.
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?
