Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

by Jim Kwik

Reasons that are tied to your purpose, identity, and values will sufficiently motivate you to act, even in the face of all of the daily obstacles that life puts in your way.

It’s likely that there’s a good reason behind every task you need to accomplish, even the unpleasant ones.

If you’re struggling to find motivation to learn, or to accomplish anything else in your life, there is a good chance you haven’t uncovered the why of the task.

Consider your passion, your desired identity, and your values: How can they create the basis for your reasons?

you’re much more likely to remember something when you’re motiv...

Right now, stop and consider three reasons that you want to learn better.

Motivation is a set of emotions (painful and pleasurable) that act as the fuel for our actions.

Motivation comes from purpose, fully feeling and associating with the consequences of our actions (or inactions).

Write down all the disadvantages you have to face if you do not learn to use th...

The key is to make sure you feel the emotions. Don’t make this an intellectual thing. We make decisions based on how we feel. Really feel the pain that you will have if you don’t do something about it.

Pain can be your teacher, if you use it and not let it use you. Use pain to drive you to make things happen.

Write down all of the benefits and advantages you will receive from learning the skills and techniques in this book. Make a list of things that will really get you excited and motivated.

my purpose is teaching other people to learn so they can unlimit themselves.

Instead of saying “I am broken,” I had to say, “I am a learner.”

I value growth and adventure.

Ultimately, motivation is a set of habits and routines, guided by your values and your identity, that you carry out every day.

what can keep you from doing so is fatigue.

Mental and physical vitality is the fuel needed to drive your actions.

“The human brain requires 45 distinct nutrients to function best.

Small simple steps repeated lead to habits.

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...

“Without habit loops, our brains would shut down, overwhelmed by the minutiae of daily life,”

Clear identifies the habit loop as having four components: a cue, a craving, a response, and a reward.

Fogg Behavior Model to identify the circumstances that need to be present for behavior change to occur.

“For a target behavior to happen,” he notes, “a person must have sufficient motivation, sufficient ability, and an effective prompt. All three factors must be present at the same instant for the behavior to occur.”

Pleasure/pain:

Hope/fear:

Social acceptance/rejection:

six categories of simplicity:

Time:

Money:

Physical effort:

Brain cycles:

Social deviance:

Nonroutine:

three types of prompts:

Spark:

Facilitator:

Signal

our growth, and we also know that the key to breaking bad habits is to replace them with more constructive ones.

But how do you make something a habit? Just remember WIN:

W is for...

Make sure you really...

It’s nearly impossible to turn something into a habit if you don’t w...

I is for Innate:

Does the new habit you’re trying to adopt align well with your innate abilities?

you’re unlikely to make something a habit when it is consistently difficu...

N is for Now:

your morning routine so important?