Limitless By Jim Kwik
This book by Jim Kwik teaches how to unlock your mind’s potential and enhance cognitive abilities. The key is to make reading a habit to improve memory, focus, and imagination. By learning how to learn effectively, you can unleash your limitless potential.
Highlights
The nature of this of the book is transcending—ending the trance: the mass hypnosis and lies that we learned from our parents, programing, media, or marketing, that suggests we are limited. That, somehow, we are not enough, not capable of being, doing, having, creating, or contributing.
It was in that moment that I realized that if knowledge is power, then learning is our superpower. And our capacity to learn is limitless; we simply need to be shown how to access it.
When you do what others won’t, you can live how others can’t.
Compared to the 15th century, we now consume as much data in a single day as an average person from the 1400s would have absorbed in an entire lifetime.
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.
we pull out our phones and train our distraction muscles. What happens when this is our constant way of being, when every loose moment is filled with shining stimulus?
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Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
One of the reasons children learn rapidly is because they are empty vessels; they know they don’t know.
Remember that your mind is like a parachute—it only works when it’s open.
Remember, all learning is state-dependent. Consciously choose states of joy, fascination, and curiosity.
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The human mind is always generalizing in order to make sense of the world. Here, there, and everywhere, we can find evidence to confirm our beliefs.
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What is one dominant question you ask yourself? Write it down.
what can i be appreciative of in this moment?
“In other words,” Clear noted, “when you are experiencing positive emotions like joy, contentment, and love, you will see more possibilities in your life.”