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life. Learning how to learn is the ultimate superpower, the one that makes every other skill and ability possible, and teaching this to you is this book’s goal.
foreword: main point of book: learning how to learn.
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. Yet this resource is also among the least tapped.
my life’s mission: to teach the mindset, motivation, and methods to upgrade your brain and learn anything faster so you can unlock your exceptional life.
book. I have not only kept my promise to read a book a week, but continue to serve and support everyone from children labeled “learning disabled,” to seniors with brain-aging challenges.
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There’s research that says our brains are more like a muscle, rather than a hard drive that fills up. That
Psychologist Jim Taylor defines thinking as, “The capacity to reflect, reason, and draw conclusions based on our experiences, knowledge, and insights.
your brain is. It generates up to 70,000 thoughts per day.
Research suggests that our natural ability to concentrate wanes between 10 to 40 minutes.
when you tie a feeling to information, the information becomes more memorable.
positive emotions broaden your sense of possibilities and open your mind, which in turn allows you to build new skills and resources that can provide value in other areas of your life.
Genius is not born; it’s made through deep practice.
For me, my life purpose is to create a world of better, brighter brains.
Our habits are a core part of who we are. Various studies have shown that somewhere between 40 and 50 percent of what we do every day is the product of a habit.
The most successful people in the world are lifelong students.
“We found that students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual questions than students who took notes longhand. We show that whereas taking more notes can be beneficial, laptop note takers’ tendency to transcribe lectures verbatim rather than processing information and reframing it in their own words is detrimental to learning.”12
There’s no such thing as a good memory or a bad memory; there is only a trained memory and an untrained memory.
Most of the time, when we fail to remember something, the issue isn’t retention but rather attention.
do you frequently find yourself dreaming in words? Probably not. Remember a picture is worth a thousand words!
Just as memory is foundational to nearly all brain function, reading is foundational to nearly all learning.
Memory and reading is key to brain development
For most of us, our minds think primarily in images, and not words.
words are just a tool we use to communicate our thoughts or pictures.
I make it a point to reassure my students that we are not aiming for perfection but for progress,
