Being Distracted Wastes Your Potential, Do This To Sharpen Your Mind & Become Limitless | Jim Kwik
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Jim Kwik, Bestselling Author and #1 Brain Coach shares an effective guide in helping us transcend limits and unlock our brain’s full potential. At a young age, Jim adopted the identity of having a 'broken brain' after a traumatic brain injury damped his ability to learn. In this episode he shares the mindset and tools that helped him to overcome this label and become a master of his mind.
He and André discuss simple hacks to harnessing your attention and improving your memory, revealing the information essential to learning faster and expanding your mental capabilities.
They also discuss the mindset essential to having a fulfilling life: Jim explains that the reason most people are burned out is not because they are doing too much, but because they're not doing enough of what they love. He shares how he personally created a life of alignment, joy, and fulfillment from the inside out.
André's Book Recommendations: www.knowthyself.one/books
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:00 Becoming Limitless: From Brain Injury to Super-Brain
8:16 Harnessing Our Challenges as a Super Power
12:39 Transcending Self-Imposed Limitations
18:48 The Secret to Fulfillment
22:54 Drawbacks of our Digital Age: Overwhelm & Distraction
29:10 #1 Hack to Harnessing Your Attention
33:23 The Key to Learning How to Learn
45:45 Improving Memory Through Emotion
54:42 Understanding Your Own Unique Way of Learning
1:06:03 AI & Digital Dementia's Impact On Our Brain
1:15:47 Knowledge vs Wisdom
1:16:22 Cultivating the Perfect Environment for Wellbeing
1:19:19 Advice For My Childhood Self
1:20:14 Biggest Failure of our Education System
1:23:07 The Value of Flowstate & Meditation
1:30:12 Gaining The Courage to Be Yourself
1:35:23 Conclusion
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Jim Kwik is a world-renowned expert in memory improvement, brain optimization, and accelerated learning. After a childhood brain injury left him learning-challenged, Kwik created strategies to dramatically enhance his mental performance. He has since dedicated his life to helping others unleash their true genius and brainpower. For over two decades, he has served as a brain coach to students, seniors, entrepreneurs, and educators. His work has touched a who’s who of Hollywood elite, professional athletes, political leaders, and business magnates, with corporate clients that include Google, Virgin, Nike, Zappos, SpaceX, GE, 20th Century Fox, Cleveland Clinic, Wordpress, and such institutions as the United Nations, Caltech, Harvard University, and Singularity University.
Through keynote speeches, he reaches in-person audiences totaling more than 200,000 every year; his online videos have garnered hundreds of millions of views. Kwik is regularly featured in media, including Forbes, HuffPost, Fast Company, Inc., and CNBC. He is the host of the acclaimed “Kwik Brain” podcast, which is consistently the top educational training show on iTunes. KwikLearning.com’s online courses are used by students in 195 countries.
Kwik, an advocate for brain health and global education, is also a philanthropist with projects ranging from Alzheimer’s research to funding the creation of schools from Guatemala to Kenya, providing health care, clean water, and learning for children in need. His mission: No brain left behind.
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Thank you for having me! Limitless appreciation. 🙏🧠
✨️you are a kind beautiful soul, a respectful ✨️inspiration✨️
Your work, experience and honesty has changed my life in the way I view my brain and similar struggles. Your rhymes, the way you communicate is so beautiful. Thank you for your gifts and stepping forward, Jim. Blessings to you
Thank you for the wealth of information and how to apply it to a creative but far too busy mind as I have always seen dozens of possibilities at once and then don't know in which direction to turn. I felt such a resonance to your story, only I didn't have the excuse of hitting my head. Being highly creative and a visionary I could see life playing out and into people and their feelings, and my heart ached for many, but I also felt stupid because vision nor creativity was honored in my schooling. Struggle is what I remember about school and what a waste of time it was--although I did have lots of fun with friends from Jr High on. Thank you for the visionary tools and I will look into and apply as much of your 'work' gifts as I can. I came up a Dolphin. (In Human Design I am a Splenic Projector 5/1) I have run companies and gave that up because of the male dominance at the time and they had no issues with stealing my ideas, visions, and presenting them as their own. I ran my own businesses in interior and landscape design, but now I am at a strange space at almost 70 and the world doesn't seem to value life experience. It is OK as I know life is in cycles and I have incredible trust in perfect timing and I still hold a vision close to my heart that could change communities forever. Blessings Jim and heart filled gratitude.
PS I also posted on Instagram which I don't often do.
Humble , deep and incredible conversation . Brilliant synchronised energy between you both . Thank you very much . Deep gratitude to you both .
I took notes. I took the quiz (I'm a Dolphin). I cried. I laughed. And I took these words deep into my heart. This particular podcast episode was a message sent directly from the Universe. Thank you-from the depths of my Being, thank you. 🙏🏻♥️
Where did you take the quiz ?
I came to say the same thing.
Yeah = Speak up Boston!?
I one's fell in to the darkest place one could fall in, and was sitting around doing nothing. I took out my phone and tipped in the search engine, "how to fix my brain"... This dude came popping up and thank god he did, it was profounding, the impact Jim made on me!
So lots of love Jim, you saved lives doing what you do
Iv watched many of these, and began to cry listening to this one as well. I dont really know why🐬
@jimkwik @knowthyself
I’m a 68 yo woman who’s living in a van on public land, w/SS as my income. And one of the great gifts of this experience of sovereignty is that I get to listen to these podcasts!! I was in tears at the end of this show….especially when you gifted Jim at the end!! The spontaneity of the gift was such a summary of your Spiritual practice in a statement! Jim’s response was so wholesome & timeless!! Watching the 5 yo boy receive that gift in his wholeness….BLISS! 🙏🏽❤️🌈😊
When the pain of remaining the same exceeds the pain of change... then a person might feel more encouraged to make a change 🙏
Facts
Andre giving Jim the sign was the best ending to an amazing conversation. Thank you both.
It's actually a testament to _André's_ wisdom & sagacity that he manages to have awesome humans in front of him - & still derive even more (sometimes unique) value from those people.
Such an amazing conversation technique.
He could have _God_ in front of him & get Him to say, "Actually - I never quite looked at it like that before!"
So intuitive empathetic emprhic sensitively gt
Teach .. be personally involved and faster.
Believe theirs more
This video was indeed no coincidence. Spoke directly to my recent feelings of not feeling fulfilled which has alot to do with not exercising my mind with learning and reaching our highest potential on a regular basis. So much we can take from this video to be a little better each day. Thank you!
I have spent most of my life distracted.
I unfortunately had to lose my family to ask myself the serious heartfelt questions.
What is most important?
What is the priority now?
Question each reason and thought and ask if the narrative is limiting or freeing you.
In each moment, check in and ask your ❤️🔥, not your mind, is this what I need to be doing right now.
Overtime you will literally feel energetically the truth.
May ALL beings reach their highest potential. 🕊️
I disagree with Jim‘s opinion of the value of taking notes. Personally, I went to nine different colleges and switched majors a lot, so it took me a while to graduate, which was no problem because I was switching majors to subjects and fields I was interested in and wanted to explore and after a year or two I had had enough of that and wanted to switch again 😅 finally in my last college I could design my own major according to my passions and take classes and do research based on that major, so I was very interested in all my classes, reading and related research. During classes/lectures I realized that I didn’t need to take notes because I was so intensely interested I was going to retain it - at the same time I discovered how distracting the taking of notes had been in the past. So now I was sitting in the lecture and absorbing everything, soaking it up and making connections because of my intense personal interest because I had chosen the classes from my deep passions! I also realized that the taking of notes distracted me from listening to previous lessons and lectures because I had been taking notes - Not just soaking it up!
Jim's journey from struggling with a traumatic brain injury to becoming a brain coach is truly inspiring! 💪 His insights on the power of learning and overcoming challenges resonate deeply.
Thank you Andre for bringing another brilliant thought leader, Jim Kwik to your wonderful podcast! This entire episode is wholesome and impactful. Love, love, love! Thanks again.
My Prolonged Concussion Symptoms (PCS) were treated about a month and half ago with a procedure called the Stellate Ganglion block. It took 30 seconds and fixed 20 years of symptoms. Single largest impact in my life.
😍💡I wish there were a subject, in my school days or now for our younger generation, called "know thyself"❣️
Jim, you are a beautiful, humble soul. I'm so happy that you didn't stay invisible. There were so many lightbulb moments in this conversation. Thank you, Andre, for this inspirational conversation🦋
Knowledge is exterior. Wisdom is interior.
Knowledge without Wisdom is meaningless.
Goosebumps (ha! He just said truthbumps!) from intro alone. His voice frequency is so beautiful.
Looking forward this deep dive.
I really liked "Truthbumps" too !!
As someone with ADD, I prefer listening or video to books.
4:24 I was young when my rolled our truck 3 times into a ditch. I was airlifted to a hospital. I was sleeping when it rolled and hit my head hard on the dash. gave me two black eyes. I was just entering preschool. For many years of my life this was a major roadblock. To my recollolection in seemed like PTSD. I would have mograines and couldnt concentrate in class. My grades got so bad they hired a counselor who literally tried to tell me my issues stemmed from my parents being split up. which was a little of it I'm sure but he made it the primary focus. I didnt start really reading till I was 13 years old when I decided to move in with my dad. Im now 38 years old and can say my knowledge seems to surpass the average individual. The issue often for me now is knowing what to do with it once I have it besides just obsessing over it.
Two beautiful souls, thank you ❤❤
Another 20 star 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟podcast!!! Thank you André. Your podcast guests are so brilliant and Jim was no different. I had chills, truth bumps and even tears at the end when you gave him the sign. So much heartfelt love here ♥ xx
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We are drowning in information as Jim said, and yet we are still thirsty for useful, profound and substantial knowledge.
Thank you Andre for being a thirst quencher by being conscious about the content you share in your platform.
Keep up the good work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I took the quiz and am an elephant which doesn't surprise me because I'm a highly sensitive person and an empathy. I really want to help others and wish I could pursue my purpose as a healer/teacher but I work in IT. I don't know how to make the switch and still pay the bills and live comfortably. Thanks for this podcast!
The discussion beginning around 25 minutes about information anxiety and just the feeling of overwhelm from all the information we are taking in, I feel this so much in my own life!!!! Thank you for talking about this ❤ loving the conversation so far!
I’m currently trying to help my kids release the idea they are ‘stupid’ when they don’t do great on school tests…it’s heart breaking to witness. I’m so grateful to this information - thank you both 💗
The school system as we know it - basically across the World - is based on military training techniques, learned from the Prussian Army - and implemented in the US initially. Cue - all forward-facing, the 'authority' figure at the front, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮. It's not a coincidence.
Further - it's very openly-stated purpose was to 'create a nation of workers - not thinkers'.
If a child is 'struggling' at school - it's because they have a level of creativity which simply will not permit the curtailing of their true creative potential.
Many (most?) of the true creative movers & shakers of our World did _not_ get on well at school.
'The other kids' have either had their creativity hammered out of them by the age of 5 to 7 - or have learned how to park it, and learned how to navigate the nonsense of the school system.
I went to a British private school - and all exam-time boiled down to pulling out the last 10 years of examinations, applying pattern-analysis - and pretty accurately predicting which exact questions/areas will come up in a given year (this was for GCSEs and A-Levels too). The kids good at school get on with 'exams' & gaming the system - that's all.
As a parent in 2024 - I wish for you to discover the likes of Neville Goddard, 'Bashar', & more currently Aaron Doughty (barring all his finding-love phase!), Adeel Aslam (awesome clarity & penny-drops) - & - just for you - life-advice from Healthy Gamer GG.
Ideally we will have already absorbed these paradigms - such that transmission to our kids is natural - but there's nothing wrong with it being World-changing & new for you too.
Your guest this time has a very calm and beautiful voice....that in it self is healing to me!🙂 I love this channel, it's allways interesting!!!❤
there is a new calm, serinity and less urgency in his voice, tone and deminer than his past self. i think its Andre. or Jims soul self is breathing in each moment. Somethings shifted in Jim and I like it too! TY to both of you!!
So happy I discovered your channel
Thankyou two very wise young men for your fine encouragement! Hopefully, more and more young people will be listening. Your work is very important and needed at this time--especially since you are so young!
Truth bumps!!! ❤ this is rapidly becoming my most favourite podcast! Soo much gratitude André and Jim for your hugely positive contributions and energy in this earthly realm. Amaaazing podcast! 🙏🏽💕
I had never heard of Post Traumatic Growth until today!!!! Thank you!! Total reframe that I absolutely love ❤️
Like something I've heard before, "don't just talk about it, be about it."
What’s fascinating about this interview was that I spent yesterday rewatching the Matrix series and felt aligned with this conversation today. I love that the sign was gifted at the end. So beautiful.
"what kind of zoo are we building here fam? " so sweet. and joyful - and i notice a small contraction - connected to needs of FREEDOM but joyful to feel part if the "fam" meets needs of RESONANCE and BELONGING
I will also do the same. If I have the opportunity to see the 9-year old me, I would teach her mindset is super important throughout your life✨✨Thank you for making this video🙏🏻 Blessings to you all💖
I’m leaving this episode with a deeper desire to keep learning 💎🐬
This was gold! Thank you for introducing me to Jim Kwik! I am going to share this podcast with my teenage sons - so many nuggets for self-improvement and betterment.
Grateful and inspired! Thank you both 🙏🏻
I was also someone that wanted to shrink. Collapse. I realized when it manifested in my neck as a herniated disk that my facia in my body had literally done this to my ribs, pulling them in and tight to my body.
WOW. Yet another video I would have never clicked on fi I hadn't found this channel. Literally EVERYTHING you decide to share with your channel resonates with me Andre, EVERYTHING.
I think when I began this spiritual awakening I was always seeking that 1 video, 1 book, 1 article that made me go "OHHHHHHHhhhh I GET IT", but you've shown me that it just doesn't work that way.
BUT, I've learned real quickly to stop assuming ANYthing, bc ya just don't know what ya just don't know. I can simply take any title of an interview, go look the being up, and have weeks worth of eye opening awesomeness.
Bro. THANK YOU Andre. THANK YOU🌀🌀
My cousins once handed me a crystal and suddenly nobody could see me. This crystal gave me the power of invisibility. A part of me knew they were simply playing with me but another part of me held on to that magic. When I got to highschool and was desperately depressed I went back to my grandma's and searched everywhere for that crystal. I craved the ability to be invisible as I once had. I could not find it anywhere, and I felt distraught. Now as an adult I have many crystals with magical powers. None of which grqnt me invisibility but I use all these others to help me feel authentic so I can truly be seen. Such a beautiful shift to heal and find the things we most wanted to escape were pointing the direction to our most prominent actions to heal ourselves.
There was a spike of ADD after Covid. I feel a lot of people need to reset their brains from what we asked our brains to do, during that time.
Incredible!!! So blessed to be a part of this family!
Thank you, Andre, for these wonderful and amazing interactions with Jim Kwik. He is so fascinating. You asked all the right questions, as you do. 😊
There is so rich in information I listened, rewined, played again, took notes. I feel more enriched from this interview !
I first read all these comments about André 'giving Jim' the sign' - & was watching super-eagle-eyed, looking out for some obscure hand-signal, or facial gesture - or something.
Lo & behold - _he really does give him a literal sign!!_
When i started believing the universe would feed my knowledge in the best order I could grow.. videos like this started finding me as I could absorb
Super impressed that André got young Mantak Chia on the pod!
I have been amazed with the lineup of people you had on, and so far Jim Kwik is my favorite. His speaking as eloquent as it it so simple to understand. Thank you for this podcast
Everythink that make you loosing yourself or addicted is working agains your awarness. Its a distraction Thank you
My man Jim with the Kwik Brain!! 🙌🏾🧠⚡️
Thank you, Jim. Your thirst for self-discovery through self-awareness is infectious. It is so easy to turn away from ‘yourself’. A couple of resources that your perceptions triggered for me was polyvagal theory (Steven Porges work) and Gabor Mate’s work on compassionate inquiry.
Steven, a neuroscientist, recently authored ‘Polyvagal World’ with his son, Seth, a film maker, a non neuroscientist, who helps to ground the theory. I believe you would find this very interesting. I too had considerable uncertainty as a child, growing up in an ‘unsafe’ emotional deprived environment, which affected my childhood learning capability. Safety is central to effective learning as children and beyond.
Gabor Mate’s brilliant work on childhood trauma and impact on us as adults are captured in his books; most recently, also co-authored with a non health professional son (to ground the ideas), is titled (The Myth of Normal. Trauma, Health and Healing in a Toxic Culture’. These have been exceptional resources that have assisted my ongoing growth. Professor-Elizabeth
Thank you 🦋Thank you 🦋I unexpectedly wept happy tears of joy and gratitude witnessing you lovingly gift Jim the sign and Him so graciously accepting your dream come true .. You’re incredibly beautiful souls … Thank You 🙏🏼
Only recently found André’s videos - the first one with Hitomi (whom I love) and then this incredible one. I am so thankful to be exposed to this content and be a part of this community! This podcast has been eye opening. Thank you 🙏🏻
A big ol dolphin up in this zoo of divinity ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
I’ve never considered post traumatic growth ❤
Beautiful. When you gave Jim your sign, I got the goosebumps everywhere & thought yep, yep this is how it's done. Made me upset about what the teacher said out loud, but as Jim said this moved him to be who he is. LOVED IT! ... as usual.
Amazing podcast, he is such a brillant and empathetic person! He brings a unique light into the world, sharing his experiences and his expertise to help others! Thank you both, Andre and Jim. I got so much value out of this interview
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and gifts with us
What a fantastic podcast!
Meeting Jim here for the first time feels like a true honor.
I started watching this podcast last night and I swear something happened to my left brain.
While I write this I am feeling so much gratitude.
Bless your heart, Jim, your family, relatives, and ancestors.
Thank you, Andre, for the commitment to the service. Un abrazo
This one was life-changing!! Thank you so much. Everything Jim said resonated so deeply and applies to my children. Thank you for giving me ways to be a better parent ❤️
What a soulful and thoughtful interview ... thank you for having Jim as a guest on your show.
That’s awsome post / past tramatic growth syndrome healing .. that’s great! We can learn and heel each other. Thanks for this !
Dolphin over here 🙋🏽♀️🫶🏽🥰
Adhd struggle is challenging af 🔥
Yes to much stimulus in this current time. 🙌 I always say I need some down time. But I never have time because the next thing is hitting and we must problem solve. 😊
A no brainer, to watch this 😅
I call it bigger brainer watch 😋
i freaking love you both
Bruv this podcast is so special, the two are interconnected, sharing more light and insights
I ve been searching for my next big leap in growth... Grant and Braden led me to it... it being a him
Thank you! Much love
Same. I love your being. I understand
Loved this episode so much! ❤ Both of you are 2 of my favorite people to watch and learn from! 😊
I took that quiz, as well. My result was: the Dolphin 🐬 💞
One of the absolute best podcasts I’ve ever listened to!!!! Thank you!
Thanks for all your amazing podcasts André. They are incredibly inspiring. Great guests, great host! ❤
"At the end of life, you get to meet the person that you could've been." 🤯🤯🤯
Im truly grateful for this podcast. Thanks Andre and jim.
Truly this is not a coincidence! Gratitude is the lesson i have learnt
I can relate I fell from eighth feet right on my face busted me up after that i wasn’t the same it’s funny that you mention that I can one with it and begin to teach myself everything I couldn’t learn in school round 2007 wow
I’m a cheetah! I’m an acupuncturist with my own office. Yes, I’m going from patient to patient and am doing a lot of right and left brained multitasking. I work with herbs and give nutritional and lifestyle advice. I also do my own billing and much of the work of managing the practice. There is also another acupuncturist working on my office now. There is a lot to keep track of and I recently hired an office manager for the first time. I think I also have a lot of elephant qualities but my cheetah-ness serves me well, or else my schedule of patient appointments would always fall apart.
Thank you Andre and Jim for sharing your Wisdom. There are so many Gold Nuggets that were shared during the Podcast. The one that stands out is life is C (Choice) between B (Birth) and D (Death). I did the Quiz and I am an Elephant, I had a pretty good idea that was my Animal from the breakdown that Jim gave. I hope to be able to get a copy of Limitless in South Africa.
I'm cheetah ! (I was writing it straight while thinking "but also very much dolphin", so funny! As Jim said, this is the dominant one. So the conclusion is YES I really am a cheetah ahaha! straight to the point 😄 By the way, thank you so much for this episode, so rich and heart oriented, fascinating, motivating , stimulated, and so much more. Thank you 💜
I believe he would agree with you on this he was talking about when your first learning and you became better and than passionate which is when the notes are not needed I did this in college too it became less and less as I got closer to my passion, I hope this helped…
I took the Quiz 🐬 💦
Thank you for the opportunity to Learn! I Love this discovery about "Dolphin" this is so inspiring! Blessings and Gratitude!
Such a great session/video! Thank you 🙏
I Love His Words as they really are applying to me at this point in my life ("My Desperation Became My Inspiration"). Thank you so much sir. You hit the nail on the head ,and my life at some points was just like yours in some ways so you really do inspire me. 😂
This was a beautiful conversation. Thank you both! ❤❤❤
I am a cheetah which I sorta already guess going into it. I definitely feel as if I have some strong bases in owl and elephant, and visualizing meditation is probably one of my favorite so the dolphin is there too 😂. I just want to say thank you to Andre and Jim. I am a 24 yr old that came from some pretty confusing background that I didn't understand and I remember when I was young and I struggled so much with my mental health and I always said to myself that my brain was going to fast. I wouldn't sleep much as a child had a lot of migranes and sadly I went to substance as a 15 yr old to try and find some relief. So I want to say thank you because once again by keeping my mind open I am finding more clarity and relief from internal battles because with this information we can understand how we are smart and not how smart we are. Love you so much so thank you gang. Ps been listening to andre for a min and you outro music gets me lit up everytime, it'd be amazing g to have a full song or a place to find it.
Hands down one of my favorite conversations to date. I'm a cheetah
Thanks for this wonderful interview ❤🕯🙂
Recently found this podcast and it has been amazing. I love the guest and their insights. I would love to see you have Paul Chek on.
Dolphin is my Animal. This was ultra cool. Lots of new data to analyze.
Thanks
Great Conversation!! Thanks For Sharing. 💛😁🙏👍
♥ wonderful interview!!!! So much truth and useful information!!!! I had "truth bumps"!!!!♥ I absolutely love this channel... Tytyty Andre ♥
Thank you Jim, love your work, you practice what you preach. ❤ your dialogue is soothing engaging and consuming.
I ❤ this channel! Greatly appreciate your work! 10 minutes in and I feel I’m being spoken to directly!
Your work, experience and honesty has changed my life in the way I view my brain and similar struggles. Your rhymes, the way you communicate is so beautiful. Thank you for your gifts and stepping forward, Jim. Blessings to you
Wow this is right on time. Thank you….
This is really interesting, Jim.
Im really learning alot !😊
I had Goosebumps shoot up the entire left side of my body as you spoke about giving that sign to someone in your dream Andre, then you gave Jim that sign.
I thought that was a really great moment.😊 I also loved when Jim said if we were absorbing something we would absorb it in a different way, or much better if we were going to be tested on it, so we should absorb the information as if we are going to share it.
Even though Jim is a brain training master, he is truly all heart! ❤❤❤
Thank you both for this inspiring conversation/knowledge🙏 I am so grateful to have come across this video, in a time I really needed to hear all of this.
Beautiful! Filled with useful information throughout! 😍
Andre I find a lot of my synchronicities in license plates. Well just now as I turned on your podcast and then I looked up at the car in front of me and a license plate says SUP BLU. I don't believe I can upload photos into comments but please do tell Blu I said hello