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

by Jim Kwik

It’s critical to identify your limiting beliefs, stories, and deeply held beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions about yourself and what’s possible.

“What do you want to be? What do you want to do? What do you want to have? What do you want to share?”

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.

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.

“Asking the brain to shift attention from one activity to another causes the prefrontal cortex and striatum to burn up oxygenated glucose,

more than half of the participants searched online first without trying to come up with the answer themselves.7

thinking as, “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.”

You can be, do, have, and share anything when you optimize and rewire your brain.

optimal time for a task is 25 minutes, followed by a 5-minute break.

“when you are experiencing positive emotions like joy, contentment, and love, you will see more possibilities in your life.”7

Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.

It’s not your job to like, love, or respect me. It’s mine.

eighth lie is that you have motivation —that you wake up and feel motivated every day. The reality is that you do motivation.

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

you don’t rise to the level of your expectations, you fall to the level of your training.

never make a decision with less than 40 percent of the information you are likely to get,