November 29, 2024 • 31 mins
Our host Darriel Roy interviews brain coach, entrepreneur and New York TImes Best selling author of the book, Limitless, Jim Kwik. Jim is a world leading expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance and accelerated learning.
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
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advice to help you to feel inspired and energized to
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of our standing. This concept raise your standards, change your life.
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The reality is the quality of our lives roots in
the standards we have for ourselves. When we have high
standards for ourselves, we set a baseline of what we
will and will not accept. We set boundaries for ourselves
that reflect our self love. For example, when we have
high standards for ourselves, we attract other people who see
themselves as high value individuals. Having standards is a sign
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ourselves that we are able to see our inherent value
and are able to raise the bar in every area
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If our expectations in these areas are low, we are
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every decade worth looking forward to. Next up on the show,
we have American brain coach, entrepreneur, and New York Times
bestselling author of the book Limitless, Jim Quick. Jim is
a world leading expert in speed reading, memory improvement, brain performance,
and accelerated learning.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Jim, thank you so much for being on the show today.
How are you doing.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm doing outstanding. Thanks for having me, and thanks for
everyone who's tuning in.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, well, thank you for being here.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I was just telling you that I'm such a big
fan of your work, so it's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
To chat with you.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But before we get into your success and you being
a worling expert in brain performance as well as a
New York Times bestselling author, I want to take it
back to the beginning. I know that you had a
brain injury as a kid that kind of started you
on this journey, So tell us what happened.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sure, like many people, my inspiration was my desperation. And
when people see me speak at conferences, if there's time there,
I'll do a demonstration. We'll pass around a microphone in
an audience and maybe fifty sixty eighty people will introduce
themselves and I'll remember all their names, or the challenge
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me and to memorize one hundred digit number or one
hundred random words, and I'll remember them forwards and backwards.
And I always tell people I don't do impress you.
I do the express to you what's possible, because the
truth is, each and every one of you could do
that and a lot more, regardless of your age, your background,
your education level, your gender history IQ. It's just we
weren't taught. And the reason I know it's possible is
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because I had very severe learning difficulties up to age eighteen.
And when I was five years old, I was in
kindergarten class and I took a really bad fall, had
a traumatic brain injury, rushed to the hospital, was knocked unconscious.
And where it really showed up was in learning. And
if your viewers have challenges with focus or from overload
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or forgetfulness, I struggled every day. I had migrains every day.
I took poor focus, poor memory. It took me three years,
three and a half years just to learn how to
read like the other kids. That really, you know, was
an attack on my self esteem. I had very low
self esteem, self confidence, a lot of self doubt because
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I just didn't know the answer. It's very embarrassing. When
I was nine years old, I was being teased by
the rest of the class because I just didn't understand
the lessons and the teacher would have to repeat herself
over and over again, and they called me slow even
though my last name was quick. And a teacher came
to my defense. She pointed to me and said, leave
that kid alone. That's the boy with the broken brain.
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And that label kind of became my limit. So every
time I did badly in school or wasn't pick for
sports or whatever, I would always say, oh, because I
have the broken brain. And so you know, the story
ends up nice. But I did struggle every single day.
My two biggest challenges were learning and public speaking. I
had the worst fear of public speaking because I never
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knew the answer. You know, I was the dumbest one
in class. And life has a sense of humor, because
what do I do for a living? I have public
speak on this thing called called learning. But just a
reminder that which challenge comes comes change. That was struggles,
we get stronger.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And through that you went on a mission to help
others enhance their brain performance. So tell us about that
mission and why it's so important for you.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, I just know what it's like nowadays, with especially
with our devices, where we're all drowning in information. You
go out and buy a book and it sits on
your shelf on read become shelf help, not self help, right,
you know? You forget simple things like where you put
your keys, or something larger like your car. You see
the people out in the parking lots using their car
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alarms like GPS, trying to figure out where they parked
that day, you know. Or we forget what we just read,
or we forgot what we just heard I believe to
the mo costly words in our life. Or I forgot
I forgot to do it. I forgot to go that appointment,
I forgot that meeting, I forgot what I was going
to say, I forgot that person's name. And on the
other side, if knowledge is powered, then learning is our superpower.
And the reason it's a mission is because I believe
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our number one wealth building you know, gift that we
have is between our ears called our brain. That just
isn't coming to an owner's manual. It's not very user friendly.
And so that's why I wrote the limits list to
be a user manual for your brain. Right. Every piece
of technology comes with some kind of instructions. But when
I learned these techniques when I was about eighteen years old,
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and I'm in my fifties now, so this is, you know,
thirty plus years ago that I've been coaching, I couldn't
help but help other people. I felt a moral obligation
because shame on me if other people are struggling with
their learning and I didn't help them. And one of
my very first students I tutored, she was a college freshman,
and she read thirty books in thirty days. Can you
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imagine that? Can you imagine it online? Buying thirty books
and not skim or scan, really read them. And I
wanted to find out not how I taught her how
to read faster and how to understand it better, and
I wanted to know why, like what was her motivation?
And I found out her mother was dying of terminal
cancer and the doctors, yeah, the doctors gave her mother
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only sixty days two months to live, and the books
she was reading were books to save her mom's life,
you know, And I wish her love prayers. I don't
hear from her for half a year, and one day
I get a call and she's crying profusely, and when
she stops, I get a little choked up thinking about it.
I find out their tears of joy that her mother
not only survived, is really getting better. The doctors don't
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know how or why. The doctors are calling a miracle,
but her mother attributed one hundred percent to the great
advice she got from her daughter, who learned it from
all these books. And that's when I realized, if knowledge
is power, and then learning is of superpower. And the
second thing I discovered was my mission. You know, because
your brain controls everything you do, the key to your learning,
decision making, relationships, your contributions to the world. Yet no
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one hands us, you know, an instructor guide. So my
mission is to create, you know, that that blueprint, to
empower people to unleash their brain's full potential so they
can live their most limitless lives.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Speaking about limitless, I know that you have a best
selling book called Limitless, So talk about the book and
what people can learn from it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah. So, I mean, I think, you know, if people
see pictures of me on social media, if we're connected
there with Oprah or Elon or whoever. You know. People
always want to know how we bonded and and tell
you we bonded over books, right, you read to succeed.
If somebody that's decades experience they put into a book
and you can sit down and read that book in
a few days, you get download decades in the days,
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you know, and that's the greatest short shortcut, you know.
Limitless is deeply personal to me. It's a bush book
I wish I had when I was struggling and I
felt stuck in life. It's a guide to unlocking your
mental potential that is the genius for every single one
of us. And my hope is that this book will
provide a very proven, step by step blueprint to help
anyone break free of just focus issues, memory issues, mental
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fatigue and really kind of free themselves with limitations to
achieve extraordinary results.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't think people really understand how important our brain is,
and that you know, as.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You said, our brain dictates our whole life.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And our experience in the world, right, how we feel,
how we think, our perception. So obviously the big question
is what are some techniques that you teach that can
help people optimize their brain performance.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, so I would remind people first take care of
your brain. Right, There's two parts to improving your performance.
There's a hardware and the software. So the software is
what we have in our books, are podcasts, you know,
how to remember names, how to learn another language, how
to read faster, you know, in our courses and such.
But do you also take are the hardware. So that's
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I think that's a good place to start, something easy
that everyone could do. And just simple acronym is to
take your meds meds. And it's an acronym the M
not pharmaceutical but MS meditate. You know, we hear a
lot about it, but I think it's important to disconnect,
to reconnect, and it reduces stress. Chronic stress has been
shown the shrink your our brains. It also allows us
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to you know, mentally energize and to consolidate information. The
E in meds are a meds is exercise. And I
just want to remind you that as your body moves,
your brain grooves. You know, when when you move your
body you exercise, you create dopamine, serotonin, endorphins. These neurotransmitters
are so important for your cognitive health. And performance. Also,
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you create something when you exercise called b D and
F brain derived neurotropic factors, and what is it. It's like
fertilizer for your brain for neuroplasticity and so. And I
don't just mean going to the gym three times a
week or plots class. I mean moving throughout the day.
They say sitting is in new smoking. And I just
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want to remind everyone to take a brain break, you know,
a handful of times a day, just to just to
move your body. It'll help you in so many different ways.
And then the D in meds is diet. You know,
what you eat matters, especially for your gray matter. There's
a whole chapter in the book on neuro nutrition. Your
brain is only two percent of your body mass, but
it requires twenty percent of nutrients. And some of the
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nutrients are different than the rest of your body. So
some of my favorite brain foods and everyone's a little different, right.
You should talk to your doctor, your nutritionists to find
something that works for you. You might be allergic to
some of these things. Avocados are wonderful monoline saturated fat.
The blueberries, I like to call them brain berries, a
wonderful snack. Very nutrient protective, neuroprotective. Also broccoli, there's something
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active ingredient in there called sulfur fane, which is really
good for your cognitive health. Olive oil is a wonderful
for your food your brain. If your diet allows eggs,
the coaling and eggs leads to acetocline, which is very
important for your cognitive health. Green leafy vegetables like kale, spinach,
fatty fishes like sardines or salmon. Maybe get some flax
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for your omega threes. So these are just some of
the things you could incorporate for diet. And finally, the
s in meds is just make sure you prioritize your sleep.
You know, like have you ever had a bad night's
sleep and your brain just not working the next day,
get easily distracted, You can't remember anything, you have no energy,
it can't solve problems or make good decisions, you know.
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And so sleep, and when you sleep you consolidate short
to long term memory, which is so very important. So
you have a long term memory issues, might want to
get a sleep study. It's also when you sleep the
sewage system and your brain kicks in and you clean
out the debta amyloid plack that coul lead the brain
aging challenges like dementia. We donated all the proceeds from
Limitless to charities to build schools around the world for
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children and Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya, and also Alzheimer's research in
memory of my grandmother who I lost when I was
seven years old, and so just very very passionate about
bringing this to more of the world.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Speaking about charities, I did see that Stan Lee, the
founder of Marvel, that he wrote a testimonial on your website.
Great testimonial, I tell us about how was it working
with him?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, I get to work with a lot of people
in Hollywood. You know, maybe the actors want to speed
read scripts, or focus on camera, or or memorize their lines.
You know, stan was a mentor for me for for
many years, and I would say a simple lesson, like
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one day he wants he and somebody else and I
knew wanted to meet each other. So I arranged, you know,
to take for him to come to dinner with us.
And it was Richard Branson and stan Lee and we're
in the car are and I I was so nervous.
This was years and years ago, but I wanted to
ask this question, and I asked him, got the nervous
I said, Stan, you created all the amazing superheroes. Who's
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your favorite? And he says Iron Man? And he says, Jim,
who's your favorite? And if you saw this on social media,
it was a he had a tie with Spider Man
on it. So I say Spider Man, and without a pause,
he goes in his iconic voice, with great power comes
great responsibility. Right, And it's something just now. Maybe because
I hit my head too many times, I I tend
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to revers thing sometimes when I read or when I
hear them, and I heard something different, I was like,
you're right, Stan, with great power comes great responsibility. And
the opposite is also true. With great you know, responsibility,
we have great power when we take you know, responsibility
for something, we have great power to uh to make
things better. And and so that's just a reminder. But
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there's so many, so many things I learned from from
Stan and terms of the power of storytelling. I'm passionate
about comic books because I mentioned I couldn't read as
a child. I taught myself how to read by reading
comic books late at night when my family thought I
was sleeping, I'd be underneath the covers with my flashlight. Just,
you know, something about the pictures brought the words to
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life and also a reminder that you know, superheroes, and
I think there's a superhero in all of us. I
know it's kind of like kumbaya, but I would say that,
you know, just not just having superpowers make you a superhero.
You know, we all have superpowers. We have a trade,
we have a skill, we have a you know, a
strength somewhere, a talent, but that doesn't make you superheroes.
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When you use your power for purpose, you know off
and superheroes offer hope and they offer help. And even
I modeled the Limitless book. You open it up and
I show you the stages of Joseph Campbell's Heroes Journey,
and we take people where you are the main character.
You are the superhero of your own mind, and we
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could redraw the borders and boundaries of what's possible.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Mm hmm. I love that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And speaking about superpowers, I'm curious what's the average percentage
that most people use their brains, because I know that
Albert Einstein used more than ten percent and he was
considered a genius.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, So it's it's interesting there's different you know, thoughts
about about this that when we talk about limitless are
lies l ie and it stands for a limited idea,
entertained limited idea because everything for me is like an
acronym kind of little shortcut that would just you know,
remind you of like what the lesson is. But I
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would say the ten percent is actually a myth that
we actually use one hundred percent of our brain, just
like we actually use one hundred percent of our body.
Right if you're hiking a hill, we're all using all
of our body. It's just some people use their bodies,
you know, differently. They're more well trained or more more
more fit, if you will, And so you know, our
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goal is to get people mentally fit. You know, I
always wear shirts like brain on my shirt and photos.
I'm always pointing to my brain just as a reminder
that you know, what you see you take care of
and you see your skin or your car, your clothes,
you take care of it because it's in your constant awareness.
But our brains aren't, right, and so the truth is
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the idea that that we use ten percent of our brain.
There's a common belief system. But now neuroscience says virtually
we use all parts of our brain. And what's exciting
about We've learned more about the human brain in the
past twenty years than the previous two thousand years combined,
and we found is grossly underestimate our own capabilities with
the science of neuroplasticity our brains and ability to make
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new connections to the day we die, you know, And
how is it? How do you create plasticity through two
things novelty and nutrition. Just like if you want to
grow your physical muscles, you give it novelty, you give
it exercise, you work it out, give it stimulus, and
then you feed that muscle for it to grow. Yeah,
but it's we use all of it. And the idea
here is how can we just make get more fit
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and healthy?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What's something that you use to kind of, you know,
switch your mindset. I know, for me, I always remind
myself that it's my reality, so I'm in charge, and
just that little shift in my brain really helps me
to take control of my life and go from being
a victim.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
To feeling really powerful.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Right Like when you feel powerful, then you make better decisions.
So for me, it's just reminding myself, as you said,
the superhero of your own reality. Right, we're the director,
producer of our own lives and we're in control.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So what's the meaning that you do. I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, I want everyone just imagine your brain is like
this incredible supercomputer, and your self talk is the program
that will run. So if you tell yourself you're not
good at remembering names, you won't remember the name and
the next person you meet, could you program your computer
not to? You know? At these same events where I'm
doing these demonstrations and I'm teaching, people, invariably pull me
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aside in private and say, Jim, I'm so glad you're
here as a memory coach. I'm just too old, or
I'm not smart enough, I'm kind of dumb, or I
have a horrible memory. And I always say the same thing.
I say stop and I put my head on, always
say stop. If you fight forr limitations, you get to
keep them. If you fight for limitations, you get to
keep them. They're yours. Right. If people truly understood how
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powerful their mind is, they wouldn't say or think something
they didn't want to be true. And that's not to
say you have a negative thought and ruins your life
anymore than if you just ate a doughnut will ruin
your life. But if you ate thirty donuts a day,
every single day, there would be a consequence. So if
you find yourself having a negative thought or belief, find
like I don't have a great memory, you could just
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add a little word like yet at the end, right,
catch yourself, I don't have a great memory yet, and
it just opens up the possibility and more of the potential.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And I want to talk about your podcast. You have
the number one brain performance podcast. Let's talk about some
of the guests that you have.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, we have a podcast. It's short form. It's called
quick Brain. You can just search my name in any
podcast app. It's fifteen to twenty minutes max. Because I
know how help people are, so it's designed to give
listeners bite sized, actionable tools they can immediately apply to
enhance their mental performance. So whether you're a student or
an entrepreneur, parent, lifelong learner, there's something really for everyone.
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And you know, my goal is to bring in the
top experts in the world. We've done over four hundred episodes,
closing in on one hundred million downloads. We've had everyone
from doctor Mark Hyman to Jay Shetty to do some
amazing individuals in the area of mindset, learning, memory, brain health,
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sleep experts, you know, And so we really cover the
gambit on how your brain could could really help you
win the day. And I feel like it's so popular
because it's a quick tips format. You know. MY goal
is to make learning fun, engaging, something people will look
forward to. And I think that's another reason it resonates
people because because I emphasize action. I think another lie
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is that knowledge by itself is power, you know, I
think it's potential power. It only comes power when we
apply it. So at the end we have every episode,
we get people a solid takeaway, and we have a community,
a probably Facebook group a couple hundred thousand people where
we have accountability and so, you know, I really believe
there's a version of ourself that's patiently waiting, and the
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goal is we just show up and we're learning and
until we're introduced, you know, to that special person.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Sometimes it's just that one little thing that you hear
that can totally change your mindset. Right, you hear a podcast,
you hear one little piece of information that completely changes
your perception.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So I think that's amazing. And you know, Jim, I.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Created my platform to inspire, to uplift and really to
showcase that anything is possible.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
By showcasing stories like yours.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So for anyone that's watching that's going through a hard time,
maybe they need that, you know, shift in their mindset
to really boost them out of a difficult time.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
What would you say to inspire that, Well.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
What a beautiful mission that you have. I feel like
inspiring others to see that anything is possible with a
dream and a vision is really one of the most
powerful gifts that you could you know, we could offer
the world. So for anyone going through like kind of
a low period, the way forward always begins. You know.
I feel like in our mind, while you can't always
control your circumstances, you can control you know, how you think,
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and you know and what you're going to do, and
you have to control the controllables, right, and then the
most important thing is to keep the most important thing,
the most important thing like even this, something simple everybody
could do to regain their focus and their locus of control.
Going back to you know, with great responsibility comes great power,
because I think the most important thing to be responsible
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for is our own mind. Is we have about sixty
thousand thoughts a day, and a lot of those thoughts
come in the form of questions. And there's there's one
question that we ask ourselves more than any other question,
and I just feel like it's your dominant question, and
that question determines what It shines a spotlight because our
brains primarily is they act like the leashing devices. We're
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trying to keep information out because there's a billion things
we could be paying attention to. So what we pay
attention to are the things that are important to us
that we have questions about. So, for example, we have
an exercise in the book and I would walk a
friend through it, and her dominant question that she asks
all the time, which she knows it or not, is
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how do I get people to like me? And Wow,
you don't know anything about her, what she looks like,
her ethnicity is, how old she had, where she lives,
what she does for a living, but you know a
lot about her life. Right. If somebody's obsessed with asking themselves,
how do I get this person to like me? You know,
how would you describe like their their personality, they would
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be more more shy they or they'd be people take
advantage of them. Their personality might change depending on who
they spend time with. Right, because there are people, please
are a syco fans if you will, you only know
one question. You know all this about this person, and
you only know one question. So my question for everyone
here is what's your dominant question? What's the question you
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ask yourself hundreds of times a day, probably hundreds more unconsciously.
Like for example, for me growing up with a broken brain,
is how do I become invisible? Because I never knew
the answer, so I would always sit all the way
in the back so no one would see me and
I won't be bullied or called on, or i'd sit
behind the tall kid in class. I would always be
shrinking down. That was my dominant question. And later on,
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when I went through so much pain and I felt
like I was broken, I asked, oh, how do I
fix myself? Right? How do I? And then of that
evolve to how do I make this better? So when
we choose the questions, I think questions really are the answer,
even if we don't. When we're reading something, have you
ever read something got to the end and just forgot
what you just read. Yeah, and maybe if we ask
more questions about what we're reading, then it'd be like, oh,
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there's an answer, there's an answer, there's an answer. So
I feel like a good takeaway is like being conscious
of the questions we ask. Like, if you're overloaded, you
could ask yourself, what is the tiniest action I could
take right now that will give me progress towards my goal?
Right or what's the best use of this moment? You know,
if you want to take knowledge and turn into more power,
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you could ask yourself while you're listening to this conversation,
how can I use this or when will I use this?
I think our number one productivity performance tool that we
have is our calendar, you know, and we schedule our
doctor's appointments, our parent teacher meetings, or work zooms, whatever.
But are we scheduling our implementation of what we're learning?
You know? I think I have a rule where every
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hour I spend learning something, reading something, listen to a podcast,
I want to dedicate an equal hour applying it. Because
the truth is if somebody goes out and reads a
book and doesn't use any of it, their life is
no better off than the person who couldn't who's illiterate
and could read the book to begin with.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I love that asking yourself better questions. I think so
many people are on autopilot because you know, just being
scrolling all the time, and just you know, our thoughts
are repetitive, right, so we keep thinking the same thoughts,
and until we change that and we start thinking differently,
we stay in the same place. Right, So I like
that asking better questions. And also I guess having thoughts
that are more empowering. Right, if we're recycling the same thoughts,
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it might as well be thoughts that are empowering and
believing we can do things, we can be anything we
want to be honest, as you said, like your book,
we could be limitless, and we are limitless.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
So I totally believe that. And limitless is not about
being perfect lemitless is about advancing and progressing beyond what
we currently believe is possible. And so you know, out
of I think a lot of people they shrink what's
possible to fit this certain you know this, to fit
the current situation, you know, to fit their minds. When
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instead of shrinking your dreams to fit your mind, all
that's possible to fit our minds. Maybe we could expand
our minds to fit all that's really possible.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And for our viewers that want to get coached by you,
where can we do so?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
So we have online programs. It's most popular way and
we have students in every country in the world. It's
the largest platform for brain. If you if you want
a better brain and you want to learn faster, read, faster, focus,
better improve your memory. It's all there for all ages
and stages. You can just go to quick brain dot com.
That's k w I k brain dot com. We have
a big conference for about five thousand people in Los Angeles,
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shortly and our podcast you know, our YouTube we have
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we put more of extended versions and you know video
of me on stage teaching and you know I'm not
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hard to find online. You know, if you want to
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more people who have better brains and educated because of
You know, I think you learn to earn to return, right,
But it's hard, right, you know, change is hard and
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growth can be scary, but nothing is as hard and
scary as being stuck somewhere that you don't belong.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
When I was told I was limited when I was
only nine years old, You know, that doesn't have to
be like your prognosis, you know, or you take a
test when you're eight and that's your potential when you're
eighty eight. Your brain is not fixed like your shoe size,
and through practice, nutrition and lifestyle learning and reading, we
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could upgrade our brain and and upgrade our life.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, that's the beautiful thing about our brains is that
we can always change our thoughts, right, and then change
our reality by just changing how we think.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
And we can do that at any time.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
It's always available to right, and you're an example of that, right,
Like at one point this, you know, this show was
was a thought in your mind. Right, you took the
invisible and you made it invisible because I feel like
that's what the world needs. If I think the future
belongs to the creators that you know, if you're watching
this right now, I'm going to remind you that you
are a thermostat and you're not a thermometer. If you
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think about a thermometer, the only function of a thermometer
off the wall is that it just reacts to the environment.
Whatever the environment is, it reacts. But a thermostat doesn't
do that like sometimes the human beings. We react to politics,
we react to how people treat us, the weather, to whatever.
But the people who are truly happy, right and more fulfilled,
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they don't react. A thermostat doesn't react to the environment.
Gage is. It's following what's going on with the world,
you know, in their world. But what does it do.
It sets a temperature, a new temperature, or a standard,
a vision, a dream, a goal, right, and then the
environment reacts to you, right, And maybe it starts in
the mind, because it's hard to create a A negative
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mind can't create a positive life, right. It just it
just when you because as you mentioned, those thoughts become
become real things. And I just feel like, you know,
now's the time to remember that we are the pilot
of our minds. You know, we're not the passengers, and
then we could do so much more. And we're writing
our story every single day and we can't compare you know,
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our chapter two to someone's chapter you know, twenty four.
That would be quite fair, you know, because especially on
social media right there's not only digital delusion, digital distraction,
digital dementia, but there's also digital depression where people are
just like scrolling all the time and they're doom scrolling
and seeing the lives the highlight trailer of everyone else's
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life and nice one' remind everyone that everyone is fighting
a battle that nobody sees. And that's why kindness, now
more than ever, is so very important. You know, one
one kind gesture or words or anything, it just ripples
out like that butterfly effect. And I feel like that
there's a world that exists solely because you're in it,
not because you bought something or taught something or created something.
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It's just you matter and you always will and in
this world exists because you know, we're all in it together.
You know, someone's gonna ask how you become limitless in
a limited world? We do? We do it together?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Well, I truly believe in your message about everyone having
the superhero within. I think it's just a matter of
finding it and believing that it's possible. And once you
believe it, you get to experience that in your reality.
So I love everything you're doing. Jim, thank you so
much for being on the show today. It's really an
honor because I'm such a big fan of your work,
so it's really an honor to have you on the
show and chat with you.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
So thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Can I challenge everyone to do one quick thing?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah. Can Maybe they take a quick screenshot on point
to my brain, but take us quick screenshot and just
tag us both when you post it, and just share
one thing you're going to do for a better brain.
You know, we talked about meditation, maybe moving more, you know,
maybe trying some of those brain foods, maybe prioritizing your
sleep whatever, right, and I would just are just monitoring
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your thoughts a little bit more. Coming up with your
dominant question because when we share it, when we teach it,
we get to learn it twice. One of the best
ways of learning something is it to teach it to
somebody else. It takes advantage of something called the explanation effect.
So you can screen capture this post is so we
get to see it. I'll repost some of them and
then we'll gift a bunch of copies randomly to people
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of our book, just as a thank you. But if
you don't tag us, we won't see it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
So I think that's a great challenge. Yeah, we're going
to put the information below. Thank you so much, Jim,
thank you everyone,
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thank you so much for watching. This shows all about
giving you insights and showcasing brands that help you to
live your best life and give you confidence. As always,
I want to cast out your morning with some motivational
advice to help you to feel inspired and energized to
start your day today. I don't talk about the importance
of our standing. This concept raise your standards, change your life.
(00:23):
The reality is the quality of our lives roots in
the standards we have for ourselves. When we have high
standards for ourselves, we set a baseline of what we
will and will not accept. We set boundaries for ourselves
that reflect our self love. For example, when we have
high standards for ourselves, we attract other people who see
themselves as high value individuals. Having standards is a sign
(00:47):
of self love because it is only when we love
ourselves that we are able to see our inherent value
and are able to raise the bar in every area
of our lives. As Greg Anderson quotes, let us be
about setting high stand in life, love, creativity, and wisdom.
If our expectations in these areas are low, we are
not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards mixed every day,
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every decade worth looking forward to. Next up on the show,
we have American brain coach, entrepreneur, and New York Times
bestselling author of the book Limitless, Jim Quick. Jim is
a world leading expert in speed reading, memory improvement, brain performance,
and accelerated learning.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Jim, thank you so much for being on the show today.
How are you doing.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm doing outstanding. Thanks for having me, and thanks for
everyone who's tuning in.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, well, thank you for being here.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I was just telling you that I'm such a big
fan of your work, so it's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
To chat with you.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But before we get into your success and you being
a worling expert in brain performance as well as a
New York Times bestselling author, I want to take it
back to the beginning. I know that you had a
brain injury as a kid that kind of started you
on this journey, So tell us what happened.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sure, like many people, my inspiration was my desperation. And
when people see me speak at conferences, if there's time there,
I'll do a demonstration. We'll pass around a microphone in
an audience and maybe fifty sixty eighty people will introduce
themselves and I'll remember all their names, or the challenge
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me and to memorize one hundred digit number or one
hundred random words, and I'll remember them forwards and backwards.
And I always tell people I don't do impress you.
I do the express to you what's possible, because the
truth is, each and every one of you could do
that and a lot more, regardless of your age, your background,
your education level, your gender history IQ. It's just we
weren't taught. And the reason I know it's possible is
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because I had very severe learning difficulties up to age eighteen.
And when I was five years old, I was in
kindergarten class and I took a really bad fall, had
a traumatic brain injury, rushed to the hospital, was knocked unconscious.
And where it really showed up was in learning. And
if your viewers have challenges with focus or from overload
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or forgetfulness, I struggled every day. I had migrains every day.
I took poor focus, poor memory. It took me three years,
three and a half years just to learn how to
read like the other kids. That really, you know, was
an attack on my self esteem. I had very low
self esteem, self confidence, a lot of self doubt because
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I just didn't know the answer. It's very embarrassing. When
I was nine years old, I was being teased by
the rest of the class because I just didn't understand
the lessons and the teacher would have to repeat herself
over and over again, and they called me slow even
though my last name was quick. And a teacher came
to my defense. She pointed to me and said, leave
that kid alone. That's the boy with the broken brain.
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And that label kind of became my limit. So every
time I did badly in school or wasn't pick for
sports or whatever, I would always say, oh, because I
have the broken brain. And so you know, the story
ends up nice. But I did struggle every single day.
My two biggest challenges were learning and public speaking. I
had the worst fear of public speaking because I never
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knew the answer. You know, I was the dumbest one
in class. And life has a sense of humor, because
what do I do for a living? I have public
speak on this thing called called learning. But just a
reminder that which challenge comes comes change. That was struggles,
we get stronger.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And through that you went on a mission to help
others enhance their brain performance. So tell us about that
mission and why it's so important for you.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, I just know what it's like nowadays, with especially
with our devices, where we're all drowning in information. You
go out and buy a book and it sits on
your shelf on read become shelf help, not self help, right,
you know? You forget simple things like where you put
your keys, or something larger like your car. You see
the people out in the parking lots using their car
(04:53):
alarms like GPS, trying to figure out where they parked
that day, you know. Or we forget what we just read,
or we forgot what we just heard I believe to
the mo costly words in our life. Or I forgot
I forgot to do it. I forgot to go that appointment,
I forgot that meeting, I forgot what I was going
to say, I forgot that person's name. And on the
other side, if knowledge is powered, then learning is our superpower.
And the reason it's a mission is because I believe
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our number one wealth building you know, gift that we
have is between our ears called our brain. That just
isn't coming to an owner's manual. It's not very user friendly.
And so that's why I wrote the limits list to
be a user manual for your brain. Right. Every piece
of technology comes with some kind of instructions. But when
I learned these techniques when I was about eighteen years old,
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and I'm in my fifties now, so this is, you know,
thirty plus years ago that I've been coaching, I couldn't
help but help other people. I felt a moral obligation
because shame on me if other people are struggling with
their learning and I didn't help them. And one of
my very first students I tutored, she was a college freshman,
and she read thirty books in thirty days. Can you
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imagine that? Can you imagine it online? Buying thirty books
and not skim or scan, really read them. And I
wanted to find out not how I taught her how
to read faster and how to understand it better, and
I wanted to know why, like what was her motivation?
And I found out her mother was dying of terminal
cancer and the doctors, yeah, the doctors gave her mother
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only sixty days two months to live, and the books
she was reading were books to save her mom's life,
you know, And I wish her love prayers. I don't
hear from her for half a year, and one day
I get a call and she's crying profusely, and when
she stops, I get a little choked up thinking about it.
I find out their tears of joy that her mother
not only survived, is really getting better. The doctors don't
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know how or why. The doctors are calling a miracle,
but her mother attributed one hundred percent to the great
advice she got from her daughter, who learned it from
all these books. And that's when I realized, if knowledge
is power, and then learning is of superpower. And the
second thing I discovered was my mission. You know, because
your brain controls everything you do, the key to your learning,
decision making, relationships, your contributions to the world. Yet no
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one hands us, you know, an instructor guide. So my
mission is to create, you know, that that blueprint, to
empower people to unleash their brain's full potential so they
can live their most limitless lives.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Speaking about limitless, I know that you have a best
selling book called Limitless, So talk about the book and
what people can learn from it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah. So, I mean, I think, you know, if people
see pictures of me on social media, if we're connected
there with Oprah or Elon or whoever. You know. People
always want to know how we bonded and and tell
you we bonded over books, right, you read to succeed.
If somebody that's decades experience they put into a book
and you can sit down and read that book in
a few days, you get download decades in the days,
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you know, and that's the greatest short shortcut, you know.
Limitless is deeply personal to me. It's a bush book
I wish I had when I was struggling and I
felt stuck in life. It's a guide to unlocking your
mental potential that is the genius for every single one
of us. And my hope is that this book will
provide a very proven, step by step blueprint to help
anyone break free of just focus issues, memory issues, mental
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fatigue and really kind of free themselves with limitations to
achieve extraordinary results.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't think people really understand how important our brain is,
and that you know, as.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You said, our brain dictates our whole life.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And our experience in the world, right, how we feel,
how we think, our perception. So obviously the big question
is what are some techniques that you teach that can
help people optimize their brain performance.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, so I would remind people first take care of
your brain. Right, There's two parts to improving your performance.
There's a hardware and the software. So the software is
what we have in our books, are podcasts, you know,
how to remember names, how to learn another language, how
to read faster, you know, in our courses and such.
But do you also take are the hardware. So that's
(08:59):
I think that's a good place to start, something easy
that everyone could do. And just simple acronym is to
take your meds meds. And it's an acronym the M
not pharmaceutical but MS meditate. You know, we hear a
lot about it, but I think it's important to disconnect,
to reconnect, and it reduces stress. Chronic stress has been
shown the shrink your our brains. It also allows us
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to you know, mentally energize and to consolidate information. The
E in meds are a meds is exercise. And I
just want to remind you that as your body moves,
your brain grooves. You know, when when you move your
body you exercise, you create dopamine, serotonin, endorphins. These neurotransmitters
are so important for your cognitive health. And performance. Also,
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you create something when you exercise called b D and
F brain derived neurotropic factors, and what is it. It's like
fertilizer for your brain for neuroplasticity and so. And I
don't just mean going to the gym three times a
week or plots class. I mean moving throughout the day.
They say sitting is in new smoking. And I just
(10:02):
want to remind everyone to take a brain break, you know,
a handful of times a day, just to just to
move your body. It'll help you in so many different ways.
And then the D in meds is diet. You know,
what you eat matters, especially for your gray matter. There's
a whole chapter in the book on neuro nutrition. Your
brain is only two percent of your body mass, but
it requires twenty percent of nutrients. And some of the
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nutrients are different than the rest of your body. So
some of my favorite brain foods and everyone's a little different, right.
You should talk to your doctor, your nutritionists to find
something that works for you. You might be allergic to
some of these things. Avocados are wonderful monoline saturated fat.
The blueberries, I like to call them brain berries, a
wonderful snack. Very nutrient protective, neuroprotective. Also broccoli, there's something
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active ingredient in there called sulfur fane, which is really
good for your cognitive health. Olive oil is a wonderful
for your food your brain. If your diet allows eggs,
the coaling and eggs leads to acetocline, which is very
important for your cognitive health. Green leafy vegetables like kale, spinach,
fatty fishes like sardines or salmon. Maybe get some flax
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for your omega threes. So these are just some of
the things you could incorporate for diet. And finally, the
s in meds is just make sure you prioritize your sleep.
You know, like have you ever had a bad night's
sleep and your brain just not working the next day,
get easily distracted, You can't remember anything, you have no energy,
it can't solve problems or make good decisions, you know.
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And so sleep, and when you sleep you consolidate short
to long term memory, which is so very important. So
you have a long term memory issues, might want to
get a sleep study. It's also when you sleep the
sewage system and your brain kicks in and you clean
out the debta amyloid plack that coul lead the brain
aging challenges like dementia. We donated all the proceeds from
Limitless to charities to build schools around the world for
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children and Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya, and also Alzheimer's research in
memory of my grandmother who I lost when I was
seven years old, and so just very very passionate about
bringing this to more of the world.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Speaking about charities, I did see that Stan Lee, the
founder of Marvel, that he wrote a testimonial on your website.
Great testimonial, I tell us about how was it working
with him?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, I get to work with a lot of people
in Hollywood. You know, maybe the actors want to speed
read scripts, or focus on camera, or or memorize their lines.
You know, stan was a mentor for me for for
many years, and I would say a simple lesson, like
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one day he wants he and somebody else and I
knew wanted to meet each other. So I arranged, you know,
to take for him to come to dinner with us.
And it was Richard Branson and stan Lee and we're
in the car are and I I was so nervous.
This was years and years ago, but I wanted to
ask this question, and I asked him, got the nervous
I said, Stan, you created all the amazing superheroes. Who's
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your favorite? And he says Iron Man? And he says, Jim,
who's your favorite? And if you saw this on social media,
it was a he had a tie with Spider Man
on it. So I say Spider Man, and without a pause,
he goes in his iconic voice, with great power comes
great responsibility. Right, And it's something just now. Maybe because
I hit my head too many times, I I tend
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to revers thing sometimes when I read or when I
hear them, and I heard something different, I was like,
you're right, Stan, with great power comes great responsibility. And
the opposite is also true. With great you know, responsibility,
we have great power when we take you know, responsibility
for something, we have great power to uh to make
things better. And and so that's just a reminder. But
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there's so many, so many things I learned from from
Stan and terms of the power of storytelling. I'm passionate
about comic books because I mentioned I couldn't read as
a child. I taught myself how to read by reading
comic books late at night when my family thought I
was sleeping, I'd be underneath the covers with my flashlight. Just,
you know, something about the pictures brought the words to
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life and also a reminder that you know, superheroes, and
I think there's a superhero in all of us. I
know it's kind of like kumbaya, but I would say that,
you know, just not just having superpowers make you a superhero.
You know, we all have superpowers. We have a trade,
we have a skill, we have a you know, a
strength somewhere, a talent, but that doesn't make you superheroes.
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When you use your power for purpose, you know off
and superheroes offer hope and they offer help. And even
I modeled the Limitless book. You open it up and
I show you the stages of Joseph Campbell's Heroes Journey,
and we take people where you are the main character.
You are the superhero of your own mind, and we
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could redraw the borders and boundaries of what's possible.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Mm hmm. I love that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And speaking about superpowers, I'm curious what's the average percentage
that most people use their brains, because I know that
Albert Einstein used more than ten percent and he was
considered a genius.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, So it's it's interesting there's different you know, thoughts
about about this that when we talk about limitless are
lies l ie and it stands for a limited idea,
entertained limited idea because everything for me is like an
acronym kind of little shortcut that would just you know,
remind you of like what the lesson is. But I
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would say the ten percent is actually a myth that
we actually use one hundred percent of our brain, just
like we actually use one hundred percent of our body.
Right if you're hiking a hill, we're all using all
of our body. It's just some people use their bodies,
you know, differently. They're more well trained or more more
more fit, if you will, And so you know, our
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goal is to get people mentally fit. You know, I
always wear shirts like brain on my shirt and photos.
I'm always pointing to my brain just as a reminder
that you know, what you see you take care of
and you see your skin or your car, your clothes,
you take care of it because it's in your constant awareness.
But our brains aren't, right, and so the truth is
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the idea that that we use ten percent of our brain.
There's a common belief system. But now neuroscience says virtually
we use all parts of our brain. And what's exciting
about We've learned more about the human brain in the
past twenty years than the previous two thousand years combined,
and we found is grossly underestimate our own capabilities with
the science of neuroplasticity our brains and ability to make
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new connections to the day we die, you know, And
how is it? How do you create plasticity through two
things novelty and nutrition. Just like if you want to
grow your physical muscles, you give it novelty, you give
it exercise, you work it out, give it stimulus, and
then you feed that muscle for it to grow. Yeah,
but it's we use all of it. And the idea
here is how can we just make get more fit
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and healthy?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What's something that you use to kind of, you know,
switch your mindset. I know, for me, I always remind
myself that it's my reality, so I'm in charge, and
just that little shift in my brain really helps me
to take control of my life and go from being
a victim.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
To feeling really powerful.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Right Like when you feel powerful, then you make better decisions.
So for me, it's just reminding myself, as you said,
the superhero of your own reality. Right, we're the director,
producer of our own lives and we're in control.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
So what's the meaning that you do. I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, I want everyone just imagine your brain is like
this incredible supercomputer, and your self talk is the program
that will run. So if you tell yourself you're not
good at remembering names, you won't remember the name and
the next person you meet, could you program your computer
not to? You know? At these same events where I'm
doing these demonstrations and I'm teaching, people, invariably pull me
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aside in private and say, Jim, I'm so glad you're
here as a memory coach. I'm just too old, or
I'm not smart enough, I'm kind of dumb, or I
have a horrible memory. And I always say the same thing.
I say stop and I put my head on, always
say stop. If you fight forr limitations, you get to
keep them. If you fight for limitations, you get to
keep them. They're yours. Right. If people truly understood how
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powerful their mind is, they wouldn't say or think something
they didn't want to be true. And that's not to
say you have a negative thought and ruins your life
anymore than if you just ate a doughnut will ruin
your life. But if you ate thirty donuts a day,
every single day, there would be a consequence. So if
you find yourself having a negative thought or belief, find
like I don't have a great memory, you could just
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add a little word like yet at the end, right,
catch yourself, I don't have a great memory yet, and
it just opens up the possibility and more of the potential.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And I want to talk about your podcast. You have
the number one brain performance podcast. Let's talk about some
of the guests that you have.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, we have a podcast. It's short form. It's called
quick Brain. You can just search my name in any
podcast app. It's fifteen to twenty minutes max. Because I
know how help people are, so it's designed to give
listeners bite sized, actionable tools they can immediately apply to
enhance their mental performance. So whether you're a student or
an entrepreneur, parent, lifelong learner, there's something really for everyone.
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And you know, my goal is to bring in the
top experts in the world. We've done over four hundred episodes,
closing in on one hundred million downloads. We've had everyone
from doctor Mark Hyman to Jay Shetty to do some
amazing individuals in the area of mindset, learning, memory, brain health,
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sleep experts, you know, And so we really cover the
gambit on how your brain could could really help you
win the day. And I feel like it's so popular
because it's a quick tips format. You know. MY goal
is to make learning fun, engaging, something people will look
forward to. And I think that's another reason it resonates
people because because I emphasize action. I think another lie
(20:01):
is that knowledge by itself is power, you know, I
think it's potential power. It only comes power when we
apply it. So at the end we have every episode,
we get people a solid takeaway, and we have a community,
a probably Facebook group a couple hundred thousand people where
we have accountability and so, you know, I really believe
there's a version of ourself that's patiently waiting, and the
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goal is we just show up and we're learning and
until we're introduced, you know, to that special person.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Sometimes it's just that one little thing that you hear
that can totally change your mindset. Right, you hear a podcast,
you hear one little piece of information that completely changes
your perception.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So I think that's amazing. And you know, Jim, I.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Created my platform to inspire, to uplift and really to
showcase that anything is possible.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
By showcasing stories like yours.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So for anyone that's watching that's going through a hard time,
maybe they need that, you know, shift in their mindset
to really boost them out of a difficult time.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
What would you say to inspire that, Well.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
What a beautiful mission that you have. I feel like
inspiring others to see that anything is possible with a
dream and a vision is really one of the most
powerful gifts that you could you know, we could offer
the world. So for anyone going through like kind of
a low period, the way forward always begins. You know.
I feel like in our mind, while you can't always
control your circumstances, you can control you know, how you think,
(21:23):
and you know and what you're going to do, and
you have to control the controllables, right, and then the
most important thing is to keep the most important thing,
the most important thing like even this, something simple everybody
could do to regain their focus and their locus of control.
Going back to you know, with great responsibility comes great power,
because I think the most important thing to be responsible
(21:45):
for is our own mind. Is we have about sixty
thousand thoughts a day, and a lot of those thoughts
come in the form of questions. And there's there's one
question that we ask ourselves more than any other question,
and I just feel like it's your dominant question, and
that question determines what It shines a spotlight because our
brains primarily is they act like the leashing devices. We're
(22:07):
trying to keep information out because there's a billion things
we could be paying attention to. So what we pay
attention to are the things that are important to us
that we have questions about. So, for example, we have
an exercise in the book and I would walk a
friend through it, and her dominant question that she asks
all the time, which she knows it or not, is
(22:28):
how do I get people to like me? And Wow,
you don't know anything about her, what she looks like,
her ethnicity is, how old she had, where she lives,
what she does for a living, but you know a
lot about her life. Right. If somebody's obsessed with asking themselves,
how do I get this person to like me? You know,
how would you describe like their their personality, they would
(22:49):
be more more shy they or they'd be people take
advantage of them. Their personality might change depending on who
they spend time with. Right, because there are people, please
are a syco fans if you will, you only know
one question. You know all this about this person, and
you only know one question. So my question for everyone
here is what's your dominant question? What's the question you
(23:09):
ask yourself hundreds of times a day, probably hundreds more unconsciously.
Like for example, for me growing up with a broken brain,
is how do I become invisible? Because I never knew
the answer, so I would always sit all the way
in the back so no one would see me and
I won't be bullied or called on, or i'd sit
behind the tall kid in class. I would always be
shrinking down. That was my dominant question. And later on,
(23:32):
when I went through so much pain and I felt
like I was broken, I asked, oh, how do I
fix myself? Right? How do I? And then of that
evolve to how do I make this better? So when
we choose the questions, I think questions really are the answer,
even if we don't. When we're reading something, have you
ever read something got to the end and just forgot
what you just read. Yeah, and maybe if we ask
more questions about what we're reading, then it'd be like, oh,
(23:54):
there's an answer, there's an answer, there's an answer. So
I feel like a good takeaway is like being conscious
of the questions we ask. Like, if you're overloaded, you
could ask yourself, what is the tiniest action I could
take right now that will give me progress towards my goal?
Right or what's the best use of this moment? You know,
if you want to take knowledge and turn into more power,
(24:15):
you could ask yourself while you're listening to this conversation,
how can I use this or when will I use this?
I think our number one productivity performance tool that we
have is our calendar, you know, and we schedule our
doctor's appointments, our parent teacher meetings, or work zooms, whatever.
But are we scheduling our implementation of what we're learning?
You know? I think I have a rule where every
(24:36):
hour I spend learning something, reading something, listen to a podcast,
I want to dedicate an equal hour applying it. Because
the truth is if somebody goes out and reads a
book and doesn't use any of it, their life is
no better off than the person who couldn't who's illiterate
and could read the book to begin with.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I love that asking yourself better questions. I think so
many people are on autopilot because you know, just being
scrolling all the time, and just you know, our thoughts
are repetitive, right, so we keep thinking the same thoughts,
and until we change that and we start thinking differently,
we stay in the same place. Right, So I like
that asking better questions. And also I guess having thoughts
that are more empowering. Right, if we're recycling the same thoughts,
(25:19):
it might as well be thoughts that are empowering and
believing we can do things, we can be anything we
want to be honest, as you said, like your book,
we could be limitless, and we are limitless.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
So I totally believe that. And limitless is not about
being perfect lemitless is about advancing and progressing beyond what
we currently believe is possible. And so you know, out
of I think a lot of people they shrink what's
possible to fit this certain you know this, to fit
the current situation, you know, to fit their minds. When
(25:50):
instead of shrinking your dreams to fit your mind, all
that's possible to fit our minds. Maybe we could expand
our minds to fit all that's really possible.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And for our viewers that want to get coached by you,
where can we do so?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
So we have online programs. It's most popular way and
we have students in every country in the world. It's
the largest platform for brain. If you if you want
a better brain and you want to learn faster, read, faster, focus,
better improve your memory. It's all there for all ages
and stages. You can just go to quick brain dot com.
That's k w I k brain dot com. We have
a big conference for about five thousand people in Los Angeles,
(26:29):
U in March. So if you if you're honor follow
us on social media, well now it's it details there
shortly and our podcast you know, our YouTube we have
one point seven million people and subscribe on YouTube where
we put more of extended versions and you know video
of me on stage teaching and you know I'm not
(26:49):
hard to find online. You know, if you want to
go support limitless, you know again we donate the proceeds
to a worthy cause. So not only do you get
your education and better brain, but there be you know,
more people who have better brains and educated because of
You know, I think you learn to earn to return, right,
But it's hard, right, you know, change is hard and
(27:13):
growth can be scary, but nothing is as hard and
scary as being stuck somewhere that you don't belong.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
When I was told I was limited when I was
only nine years old, You know, that doesn't have to
be like your prognosis, you know, or you take a
test when you're eight and that's your potential when you're
eighty eight. Your brain is not fixed like your shoe size,
and through practice, nutrition and lifestyle learning and reading, we
(27:39):
could upgrade our brain and and upgrade our life.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, that's the beautiful thing about our brains is that
we can always change our thoughts, right, and then change
our reality by just changing how we think.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
And we can do that at any time.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
It's always available to right, and you're an example of that, right,
Like at one point this, you know, this show was
was a thought in your mind. Right, you took the
invisible and you made it invisible because I feel like
that's what the world needs. If I think the future
belongs to the creators that you know, if you're watching
this right now, I'm going to remind you that you
are a thermostat and you're not a thermometer. If you
(28:15):
think about a thermometer, the only function of a thermometer
off the wall is that it just reacts to the environment.
Whatever the environment is, it reacts. But a thermostat doesn't
do that like sometimes the human beings. We react to politics,
we react to how people treat us, the weather, to whatever.
But the people who are truly happy, right and more fulfilled,
(28:36):
they don't react. A thermostat doesn't react to the environment.
Gage is. It's following what's going on with the world,
you know, in their world. But what does it do.
It sets a temperature, a new temperature, or a standard,
a vision, a dream, a goal, right, and then the
environment reacts to you, right, And maybe it starts in
the mind, because it's hard to create a A negative
(28:56):
mind can't create a positive life, right. It just it
just when you because as you mentioned, those thoughts become
become real things. And I just feel like, you know,
now's the time to remember that we are the pilot
of our minds. You know, we're not the passengers, and
then we could do so much more. And we're writing
our story every single day and we can't compare you know,
(29:19):
our chapter two to someone's chapter you know, twenty four.
That would be quite fair, you know, because especially on
social media right there's not only digital delusion, digital distraction,
digital dementia, but there's also digital depression where people are
just like scrolling all the time and they're doom scrolling
and seeing the lives the highlight trailer of everyone else's
(29:39):
life and nice one' remind everyone that everyone is fighting
a battle that nobody sees. And that's why kindness, now
more than ever, is so very important. You know, one
one kind gesture or words or anything, it just ripples
out like that butterfly effect. And I feel like that
there's a world that exists solely because you're in it,
not because you bought something or taught something or created something.
(30:02):
It's just you matter and you always will and in
this world exists because you know, we're all in it together.
You know, someone's gonna ask how you become limitless in
a limited world? We do? We do it together?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Well, I truly believe in your message about everyone having
the superhero within. I think it's just a matter of
finding it and believing that it's possible. And once you
believe it, you get to experience that in your reality.
So I love everything you're doing. Jim, thank you so
much for being on the show today. It's really an
honor because I'm such a big fan of your work,
so it's really an honor to have you on the
show and chat with you.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
So thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Can I challenge everyone to do one quick thing?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah. Can Maybe they take a quick screenshot on point
to my brain, but take us quick screenshot and just
tag us both when you post it, and just share
one thing you're going to do for a better brain.
You know, we talked about meditation, maybe moving more, you know,
maybe trying some of those brain foods, maybe prioritizing your
sleep whatever, right, and I would just are just monitoring
(31:01):
your thoughts a little bit more. Coming up with your
dominant question because when we share it, when we teach it,
we get to learn it twice. One of the best
ways of learning something is it to teach it to
somebody else. It takes advantage of something called the explanation effect.
So you can screen capture this post is so we
get to see it. I'll repost some of them and
then we'll gift a bunch of copies randomly to people
(31:22):
of our book, just as a thank you. But if
you don't tag us, we won't see it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
So I think that's a great challenge. Yeah, we're going
to put the information below. Thank you so much, Jim,
thank you everyone,
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