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Jim Kwik
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August 29 - August 30, 2020
The effect of primacy is that you’re more likely to remember what you learn in the beginning of a learning session,
The effect of recency is that you’re also likely to remember the last thing you learned (more recent).
FASTER stands for: Forget, Act, State, Teach, Enter, Review.
The key to laser focus is to remove or forget that which distracts you.
The first is what you already know.
Remember that your mind is like a parachute—it only works when it’s open.
The second thing is to forget what’s not urgent or important.
your brain doesn’t ...
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What you resist persists.
forget about your limitations.
If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them. Your capabilities aren’t fixed, and it’s possible to learn anything.
The human brain does not learn as much by consumption as it does by creation.
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All learning is state-dependent.
Your state is a current snapshot of your emotions.
It is highly influenced by your thoughts (psychology) and the physical condition o...
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when you tie a feeling to information, the information becomes more memorable.
Information times emotion helps create long-term memories.
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.
all learning is state-dependent. Consciously choose states of joy, fascination, and curiosity.
If you want to cut your learning curve dramatically, learn with the intention of teaching the information to someone else.
When you teach something, you get to learn it twice: once on your own, and then again through educating another person.
Learning isn’t always solo; it can be social. You may enjoy this book more if you invite someone else to learn with you.
What is the simplest and most powerful personal performance tool? Your calendar.
If it’s not on your calendar, there’s a good chance it’s not getting done.
One of the best ways to reduce the effects of the forgetting curve is to actively recall what you learned with spaced repetition.
The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted that, “Life is C between B and D,” meaning that the life we live is the choices we make between the “B” of birth and the “D” of death.
Every second, your senses gather up to 11 million bits of information from the world around you. Obviously, if you tried to interpret and decipher all of them at once, you’d be immediately overwhelmed. That’s why the brain is primarily a deletion device; it’s designed to keep information out. The conscious mind typically processes only 50 bits per second.
One of the ways to guide the RAS are the questions we ask ourselves. These tell that part of our brain what is important to us.
So often the answers we want are there, but we’re not asking the right questions to shine a spotlight on them.
The human mind is always generalizing in order to make sense of the world.
Thinking is a process of reasoning through something, during which we ask and answer questions.
these questions direct our focus, which directs how we feel, and how we consequently spend our lives.
Questions direct your focus, so they play into everything in life—even reading comprehension.
Because people typically don’t ask enough questions when they read, they compromise their focus, understanding, and retention.
If you prep your mind with the right kinds of questions before you read, you’ll see answ...
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These are your three magic questions: How can I use this? Why must I use this? When will I use this?
the power of neuroplasticity: Every time you answer a question and do a new activity, you rewire your brain.
mind·set (noun) The 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.
Mindset, which is the mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations.
Mindset is made up of beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes we hold about ourselves and the world around us.
we must first address the underlying beliefs we hold abou...
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We’re not born with pre-installed mindsets about what we’re capable of achieving—we learn these fixed and limited ways of thinking from the people in our liv...
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In psychology, it’s called learned helplessness.
we are responsible for our assumptions and attitudes.
when you accept that all of your potential is entirely within your control, then the power of that potential grows dramatically.
on May 6, 1954, Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds,
what I’d perceived my brain’s capacity to be was so much less than what it really was.
from the moment of that dinner I had a model for what was possible.
to permanently change my perceptions of my own restrictions.
