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Coming up next on Passion Strike.
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You know how there s like personalized medicine based on your genetics or personalized nutrition based on a test like your microbiome?
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Well, we created a model for personalized learning because everybody learns a little bit differently, right?
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They have a different style based on their brain animal, and that informs how they could read better, remember names, learn another language, focus when they need to, and so much more.
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It literally affects every area of your life.
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Welcome to Passion Struck.
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Hi, I m your host, John R. Miles, and on the show, we decipher the secrets, tips, and guidance of the world s most inspiring people and turn their wisdom into practical advice for you and those around you.
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Our mission is to help you unlock the power of intentionality so that you can become the best version of yourself.
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If you re new to the show, I offer advice and answer listener questions on Fridays.
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We have long-form interviews the rest of the week with guests ranging from astronauts to authors, CEOs, creators, innovators, scientists, military leaders, visionaries, and athletes.
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Now, let s go out there and become PassionStruck.
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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to episode 372 of Passion Struck, consistently ranked by Apple as the number one alternative health podcast.
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And thank you to all of you who come back to the show every week to listen and learn how to live better, be better, and impact the world.
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If you re new to the show, thank you so much for being here.
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Or if you simply want to introduce this to a friend or a family member, we now have episode starter packs, which are collections of our favorite episodes that we put into playlists.
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Give any new listener a great way to get acclimated to everything we do here on the show.
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Either go to Spotify or passionstruck.com slash starter packs to get started.
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In case you missed it, last week I had three great interviews.
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First was with retired United States Army Staff Sergeant and New York Times bestselling author Travis Mills.
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Travis is not just a war hero.
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He s one of only five quadruple amputees to survive the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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His journey from the battlefield to where he is today is nothing short of awe-inspiring.
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In his latest book, Bounce Back!
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12 Warrior Principles to Reclaim and Recalibrate Your Life, Travis lays out a powerful roadmap for how to face life s challenges head-on and emerge stronger on the other side.
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I also had a captivating conversation with Andrew McAfee, author of the enlightening new book, The Geek Way.
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Andrew is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Lastly, I interviewed Dr. Kate Bowler, whose life-altering battle with cancer reshapes our understanding of faith and the fragility of human existence.
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In my interview with Kate, we explore the profound insights from her life s unexpected journey and best-selling works, illuminating the beauty and complexity of the human experience.
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I also wanted to say thank you for your ratings and reviews, and if you loved today s episode with our special guests, or any of those three episodes I just mentioned, we would so appreciate you giving it a 5-star review and sharing it with your friends and families.
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I know we and our guests love to see comments from our listeners.
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I m genuinely thrilled about today s episode.
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It s one that s been in the making for quite some time, especially since so many of you have asked for it.
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And the truth be told, I absolutely share your enthusiasm because today s guest is not only a fan favorite, but also one of my personal favorite authors.
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We have the distinct privilege of having Jim Quick with us.
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Jim is more than just a mentor to the masses in the realm of cognitive performance.
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He s a guide who s dedicated three decades to teaching the art of using our minds to their fullest potential.
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Jim s work, particularly his book Limitless, has opened doors for many to rethink their mental limits.
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He s here to discuss his expanded edition, which goes even deeper into the essence of what it means to break mental barriers and embrace learning, growth, and change.
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Throughout this conversation, we ll transverse topics that resonate with all of us, from confronting learning myths to adapting to various work environments, enhancing focus, and managing the onslaught of digital noise that can dominate our lives.
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Jim s teachings also extend to nurturing our brains through proper nutrition, understanding the cognitive boost from nootropics, and leveraging unique learning strategies like the Brain-Animal Code.
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Plus, he ll share insights on speed reading, memory enhancement, and the harmonious stance between AI and human intelligence.
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We re in an era where the potential for cognitive advancement is vast.
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Jim is here to illuminate the path forward and give us the first steps towards transcending what we thought was possible.
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It s a conversation that promises to enlighten, inspire, and perhaps even transform how you engage with your own intellectual abilities.
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So let s embark on this journey together and welcome the incredible Jim Quick to the show.
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It s time to get Passion Struck.
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It s time to get Limitless.
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Thank you for choosing Passion Struck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life now.
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Let that journey begin.
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I am absolutely honored and ecstatic to have one of our most requested guests on the podcast, Jim Quick.
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Welcome, Jim.
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John, thank you so much for having me.
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I ve been looking forward to this.
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Thank everybody who s tuning in to this conversation.
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I can t wait to have this discussion because your book, which I m holding up here, is one of my all-time favorite books I ve ever read.
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And I know it s something that our audience has talked to me about repeatedly.
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I wanted to get us started in a unique way because our backgrounds actually intersect in a unique way.
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We both experienced childhood incidents that impacted our cognitive functions.
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My own encounter with a brain injury at the age of five led to learning disabilities and various other challenges, and you had a very similar trial to overcome.
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Could you walk us through how you navigated the aftermath of your brain injury and what drove you to dedicate your life to mastering and now teaching these intricacies of brain performance?
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Absolutely, John.
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I know a little bit about your history and I love having these conversations because it brings awareness to our brains are very resilient, but it s also very fragile and something like an incident like a brain injury early on in childhood.
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I had processing issues, sensory issues.
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I had a lot of pain growing up, headaches and just disorientation, poor focus, poor memory.
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It took me three years longer to learn how to read like all the other kids.
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And that was really in the beginning when you re forming your personality, it really
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It made me insecure, a lot of self-doubt, a lot of embarrassment.
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And when they pass around the book and you had to read it and I just would get it and I look at the page and nothing.
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I would just pass the book on.
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And I think that s where a lot of fear of public speaking comes from is those early impressions and experiences that we have were put on the spot.
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And all attention is on you and we just don t perform very well.
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And you associate that to a massive insecurities and in other areas of your life.
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And that was me.
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I remember a defining day at when I was nine years old, I was being bullied and teased pretty harshly because I was slowing down the class.
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Teachers would have to repeat themselves over and over again for me to get the lesson.
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And that was embarrassing enough, but.
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Because I was being teased, a teacher came to my defense and she pointed to me in front of the whole class and said, leave that kid alone.
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That s the boy with the broken brain.
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And I didn t realize until that moment that I was broken, but that label became my limit.
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We talk about becoming limitless and redrawing the borders and boundaries of what s possible.
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But that s really the core of my work is to help people liberate themselves mentally from these limitations that were imposed on us or self-imposed on us, especially in the area of learning when we re just developing and maybe we don t feel like we re that smart.
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And I just felt like I just didn t fit in.
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I remember one incident I don t talk about very often, but I would always spend time with, cause I would want to escape, right?
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And so I would escape in comic books or Dungeons and Dragons, and I would bond with the kids that had good grades, frankly.
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I don t know if you call them the nerds or the geeks or the dorks, but I was a part of that, but I just didn t have the grades as everybody else.
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or wasn t as smart as everybody else, I thought.
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And one day, a teacher came in and said, good news, everybody.
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You are an exceptional group of children.
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We re creating this special program that we re piloting called MASP, M-A-S-P.
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And they were like, what does that stand for?
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It stands for More Able Student Program.
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And I was me and this other kid who was a little bit awkward also named Joey.
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We were the only ones not invited into this group because I thought I was going to be part of that group because these were the people I was spending time with.
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And Joey and I created a group called LASP.
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It s less able student program, but that was like where my headspace was back then.
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And it wasn t just something that was short term.
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It was something I struggled with all through school, elementary school, middle school, junior high school.
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I was on the other side of the bell curve that, and it wasn t because of lack of effort.
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I worked very hard.
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But I just couldn t make it.
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And eventually I found a mentor around age 18 and I was exposed to books and understandings and some insights about the power of the human brain.
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I got very curious about just how my brain works so I could work my brain better.
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And it was a tough time in my life, but eventually I learned how to compensate.
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and do better.
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And I really just went all in, I wanted to learn.
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Since I was a slow learner with a broken brain, I want to learn how to learn faster and fix my brain.
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And I started to find some
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answers.
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And I ve been teaching it now for 32 years full time as a brain coach, helping people with distraction, with memory loss, forgetfulness, helping them make better decisions, solve problems, helping them be a faster reader, understand what they read.
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I think these are certain skills that aren t taught in school.
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that really prepare us to not only survive in the 21st century, but really thrive, to be able to catch up, keep up and get ahead.
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So through this, I really found more of my calling and my mission and my purpose.
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I believe that what you re passionate about is what lights you up.
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And you can have a lot of those things that you re passionate about that make you come alive.
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And how you use one of those passions to light other people up is more of your purpose.
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And so learning in the brain, I m really passionate about it.
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I live and breathe this.
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And teaching people how to learn and improving their brain is to light them up is my purpose.
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I know you talk a lot about passion.
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I m just very excited to have this conversation because my message to everybody who s listening or watching is that regardless of our age or background, career, education level, financial situation, gender history, IQ, we all could have more of a limitless mind, if you will, and do things that would absolutely astonish ourselves.
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Well, one of the things I love to do, Jim, is watch the way you do keynote speeches, because you absolutely are up there not serving yourself, but you re serving the audience.
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And it really comes out in spades in the way that you deliver your talks.
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So that enthusiasm and passion are right there front and center.
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And I know exactly what you re talking about and the way you grew up, because I suffered through the same things and would see my classmates, just whether it was learning a language or math,
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or reading, it would become my turn and I would mix words up.
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I would mispronounce things.
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My mind would just not move as fast as they did.
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And so it really caused me when I was younger to pull back a lot.
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And then I ended up working through it.
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And then after I graduated from the Naval Academy, I had a couple of combat related traumatic brain injuries that brought all the symptoms back.
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So I ve had to retrain my mind multiple times now, completely understand where you re coming from.
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Yeah, we re kindred spirits on that.
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But it s interesting how you ve taken your struggles and you ve made them your strengths.
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And I really do believe that anyone going through adversity right now, there s some things we can only learn in a storm.
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And some storms come to clear your path and give you clarity on certain things.
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As hard as it was for those 13 plus years that I struggled every single day with my self-esteem and my capabilities and my confidence,
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I wouldn t trade it.
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We hear a lot about post-traumatic stress.
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We don t hear a lot about post-traumatic growth, which is this phenomenon where maybe some of your listeners could relate that they ve been through something that they wouldn t wish upon anybody.
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And yet, they wouldn t change what happened because going through this difficult situation or experience, they found something, they found a strength, maybe they found a passion, a purpose, they found some traits or they got clarity about something and there was this massive growth.
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My two biggest challenges were learning and because my learning was so difficult, public speaking was a big challenge because I wouldn t want the spotlight because I just never knew the answers, right?
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I would do a book report, but if a teacher asked me to go in the front of the class and talk about it,
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I would just, it wasn t even just a fear, it was a phobia of public speaking, where my heart, even thinking about it, my mouth is getting dry and my heart s beating faster and I relive it.
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But it s interesting, public speaking and learning being my challenges, because what do I do every single day?
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I m on stage, public speaking on this thing called learning, right?
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And I think adversity sometimes can be an advantage.
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I don t want to spoil it, but in the book, and this is just a teaser for the audience, Jim lays out a situation where he had a chance to make up a great grade, wrote this incredible research paper, and then doesn t present it.
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But I will let you read the book to understand that story in more detail.
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Well, speaking of setting the stage, I think an incredible way to do it would be to unpack the foundational elements of the limitless model.
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And I m going to put this book back up here for those who are viewing this, because this is a picture of the limitless model that has three concentric circles, but it consists of mindset, motivation, methods, and momentum one in this framework.
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And I was hoping you could walk us through them.
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Yes.
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So we could turn this into a little workshop for everybody.
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I believe when I teach, people need to understand what s relevant because sometimes in school, when we re learning all this information, we don t see how it s important to our lives and how it relates to some things like the sine, cosine, tangent, X. People, children, they re trying to think like, why do I need to learn this?
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And I think we always have to start with that reason.
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to get better results, that things have to go from your head to your heart to your hands.
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And that s really the Limitless model.
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I ll draw this out if you happen to be watching this on video.
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If not, I ll try to explain it so everyone can imagine it.
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I want everyone to think about, so Limitless is not about being perfect.
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Limitless is about advancing and progressing beyond what you re currently demonstrating or what you believe is possible.
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So if you re not advancing or progressing, just think about where you re in a box.
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Like what area in your life do you feel stuck in a box?
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And you can even take a piece of paper and draw out a box and I ll do the same, like a 3D, like a cube, if you will.
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So I just draw like a box on a little piece of paper here.
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But where do you feel like you re not growing?
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Where do you feel like you ve stalled out?
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It could be in your income, maybe your personal growth.
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Maybe it s an area of health, a relationship, your impact.
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Maybe there s a gap between where you are, where you want to be in your life or your learning.
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Maybe you feel like you re stuck in being a slow reader or a poor memory.
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Where do you feel like you re stuck?
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In that box, it s three-dimensional, obviously.
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The three forces.
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you could imagine containing you in there.
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And these are the same three forces that will liberate you out of that box.
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And everybody wants to get a little bit unstuck.
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And as you mentioned, it s represented by these three circles.
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It s a Venn diagram, Mickey Mouse, two ears that overlap and a face, right?
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So you could picture it that way.
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And so each of these circles represent the three dimensions that keep you stuck, but that will also get you to where you want to go.
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And I tend to alliterate a lot, so I m gonna make them all the letter M s.
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And so you see the M s there, you can imagine each one starts with an M, and you said what these are.
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The bottom one are the methods.
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And everybody wants to know the methods for, I don t know, starting a business, or social media marketing, or maybe sales, or the methods for having great health, a great relationship.
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But I realized, John, that a lot of people know what to do, but they don t do what they know they should do.
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And that knowledge is not
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power, it has the potential to be power, only goes power when we put it to use, when we apply it.
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And so, why don t we use the methods?
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We have to look at the first, the ears, the two circles that precede it.
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And the first one, as you mentioned, is your mindset.
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Now, let s unpack this.
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Your mindset, for me, the definition are the set of assumptions and attitudes you have about something.
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So, at events,
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I ll do these demonstrations if there s a little bit of time, and we ll pass around a microphone to the audience, and they ll introduce themselves, and I ll memorize their names, maybe like 50 or 100 people s names.
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And I don t do this to impress them.
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I do this to express to them what s possible, because the truth is, every single one of your listeners right now, they can do that too.
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regardless of their age or their background.
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It s just we weren t taught.
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Automatically when I say that, some people are like, that s no way.
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I can t do that.
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I can barely remember what I read or remember one name.
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And it s total BS.
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There are belief systems, right?
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And I call them lies.
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L-I-E, and I use a lot of acronyms, so it s easy short form to memorize it.
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L-I-E is a limited idea entertained.
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It s a limited idea that you re entertaining.
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You re giving energy to, right?
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And one of those is that genius is born, and people think that.
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And
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After doing this for a few decades, and we have students in every country in the world, we get a lot of feedback.
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And it s been my experience that genius is not born, it s actually built.
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That there s no such thing as a good or bad brain, there s a trained brain and an untrained brain.
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And unfortunately, school didn t really teach you that.
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They teach you what to learn, math and history, science, maybe Spanish.
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but there are not a lot of classes on how to learn those subjects.
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And I realized that when you go to somebody and you say, Hey, at work, focus, or you go to your kids and say, study, or remember, that s like going to somebody saying, play the didgeridoo or play the ukulele, who s never taken classes on how to do those things.
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Well, we certainly haven t had those classes either.
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And that s why I wrote this book, because I think the most important skill set to master
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today is learning how to learn.
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Because if you can learn how to focus and read faster and understand what you read and retain information and apply it, you can apply it towards everything in your life.
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Every area of your life gets better because it s that lead domino that makes everything after it easy, right?
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Once you put that into place.
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So we start though, with our mindset, because at these events, people often pull me aside and say, Jim, so glad you re here as a memory coach.
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I have to tell you, and they re whispering and I just feel like, I just, I don t feel like that and I m smart.
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Or they ll say, I have a horrible memory, or I m too old.
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And I always say, stop, if you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them.
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Because these are assumptions and attitudes of mindset about what they believe is possible for them, what they believe they re capable of, what they believe that they deserve.
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So someone can learn a great method for
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I don t know, relationships, but their mindset is that they don t deserve to be loved, right?
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And they re still stuck in that box where they can learn a great method for making money online or something like that.
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But if their mindset is you have to hurt people to make money or money is the root of all evil or whatever, they re still gonna be contained.
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So that s why we start with mindset and give them strategies to be able to unlimit those, that negative self-talk, because it s been my experience, John,
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If people fight for the limitations, they get to keep them, right?
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That they re theirs.
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Meaning that your brain is this incredible supercomputer and your self-talk and your beliefs are the program that will run.
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So if you tell yourself, I m not good at remembering names, you won t remember the name of the next person you meet because that s how powerful your mind is.
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You program your mind to not remember that.
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And so we start with mindset first and in mindset, it s
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The idea here is all behavior is belief-driven.
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If you want to do a method, a behavior, then you need to believe it s possible, right?
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If someone wants to create a new result in their life, they have to do a new behavior.
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If they want to do new behavior, they need a belief that says, that could work, and I could work it, and I deserve it.
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And so part of it is understanding that mindset.
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Then I could come back to it in the conversation.
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The second M, which is the first one is mindset, the last one are the methods.
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I realized I could keep people in a box and keep them stuck as motivation.
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They lack motivation.
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They procrastinate.
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So they re stuck in that box because they re not motivated to get themselves out of that situation.
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And so for me, motivation is just three things.
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The formula for limitless motivation to get yourself to, I don t know, exercise is great for the brain.
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Reading is great for the brain, right?
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is P times E times S3, three S s.
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So we can break this down.
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I want people to think about an area where they re procrastinating and not moving forward.
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They don t have drive or motivation to do it.
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Now, I realize that we don t have motivation, we do it.
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Just like we don t have a memory, we do it.
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We don t have focus.
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There s a process for focusing.
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We don t have people hope and hope it s not a great strategy that they wake up and they have creativity so they can write or make videos or do something, podcasts or something else.
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But creativity is not something you have.
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It s something you do.
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So one of the first principles in Limitless Expanded is taking the nouns in our life and turning them into verbs.
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So you don t have focus, you do it.
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It s a verb.
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There s a process for focusing.
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You don t have a memory.
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There s a process for remembering something.
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You encode it, you store it, you retrieve it.
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So just like that, there s also a process for motivating yourself.
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And it s P times E times S3.
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So we could break it down.
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P stands for purpose.
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You need a reason, right, to get the result.
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And purpose for me is like a set of emotions.
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So I m touching my heart right now, because you can have a goal in your head and KPIs and vision here.
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But if you re not acting with your hands, three H s, head, heart, hands, then check it with the second H, which is our heart, right, which is symbol for emotions.
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Because we re not logical.
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We are certainly biological, though.
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you think about dopamine and oxytocin and serotonin, all these endorphins, we re this chemical feeling soup, and that provides the fuel to move forward.
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So purpose is something a lot of people say, oh,
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Maybe they see me on social media with Oprah or Elon, and they re like, the question I always get is like, how did you connect?
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How did you bond with these individuals?
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And the answer is that we bonded over learning.
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We often bond over books, right?
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Because they are where they are because they re relentless readers and learners.
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And so even Warren Buffett reads like 500 pages a day.
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So knowledge today is not only power, it s profit, but you can know that intellectually that it s good, that learning more is good for your brain, for your career, for your income.
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But still, if you don t feel it, you re not likely to do it.
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And so I just want to remind people that pain and pleasure could be signals and be useful support to be able to give you purpose.
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Like who s counting on you to be at your A-game today?
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What are the rewards that come from following through and remembering this name or reading this book?
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And what s the pain that comes from forgetting things?
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If you lack purpose, what s the pain that comes from not being educated on your industry?
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And if you allow yourself to feel it, you re more likely to do it.
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Now, somebody can have limitless purpose and still be not motivated because they lack E, which is, of course, energy.
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If, let s say,
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I think reading is so important because that s a wonderful way to create.
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I know you talk about neuroplasticity in your show.
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Neuroplasticity is your brain is very malleable and then you can make new connections even as you age.
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So you could grow older, but in a lot of ways you could grow wiser.
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And the key for neuroplasticity is the same as building your body.
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If you want to build your muscles, you give it two things, novelty and nutrition.
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And so same thing with your mental muscles.
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You give it something new and then you give it nutrition.
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But if you re not reading, for example, each day, maybe you had a big processed meal and you re in a food coma and you re tired.
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And somebody who s tired is not going to be very motivated to work out.
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or to read or to make those sales calls.
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And so in the book, we talk about the 10 levers for brain energy and who doesn t want, if people suffer from mental fatigue, we talk about the best foods for your brain, how to optimize your sleep and so much more.
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And then finally, you could have limitless purpose and limitless energy and still not be motivated because you need the final part, which is often neglected, which is S3, small, simple steps.
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Because the other thing that could make you procrastinate, even if you have purpose and you feel the reasons and you have lots of energy,
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is this thing that you re going for might be too intimidating.
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It might be too big, like I want 100,000 followers or I want to create the next unicorn or have this perfect six-pack body.
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For somebody, it can be too big of a leap and confusing, and a confused mind doesn t do anything.
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How do you simplify it?
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Small, simple step.
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Maybe it s not exercising an hour a day too big, so that s why people procrastinate if they don t do it.
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Small, simple step is like putting on your sneakers.
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right?
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Your workout gear, that s a small, simple step.
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Maybe reading 30 minutes a day is a big jump.
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So small, simple step, opening up a book, reading one line in a book.
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We have our own podcast also as well, all about brain performance.
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It s a 20 minute show.
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And we had a biological dentist on recently talking about oral hygiene, good for your brain health.
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And we re talking about flossing.
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And I know you John have a big love and interest in behavioral
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You want people to make behavioral change, which is where I really respect that because I feel like we don t know it unless we re doing it.
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A lot of people know what to do, but they re not doing it.
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So, I don t feel like they really understand it unless they could implement it.
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But if they re not flossing or kids aren t flossing, maybe a small simple step, flossing one tooth because nobody s going to stop at one tooth.
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And how you find your S3, and I ll wrap it up here.
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One magic question that I ask myself probably a good five to 10 times a day, whenever I feel stalled, I ask myself this question, what is the tiniest action I could take right now that will give me progress towards this goal where I can t fail?
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That s a big question, let s break it down.
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What is the tiniest action I could take now, operative work now, not putting it off, that will give me progress towards this goal?
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So I m getting some traction and direction towards this goal, not away from it.
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and where I can t fail.
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It s so small that I can t fail.
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And so flossing a tooth, getting your kids to put one sock in a hamper, reading one line in a book, putting on your running shoes, those are small, simple steps.
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And I believe inch by inch, it s a cinch.
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Yard by yard is just too hard.
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So you could think big, but you need to act small, right?
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Small little things add up to big things because little by little, a little becomes a whole lot, because consistency compounds.
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And so this works for yourself, motivating yourself, but it also works for motivating people to do things, right?
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Maybe somebody is not buying a prospect.
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Do they have purpose in their heart, right?
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Because people buy emotionally and they justify logically, or do they lack the energy?
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They re exhausted, or maybe they lack energy.
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Money could be a form of energy.
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Are you making it too hard for them?
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Maybe you need to make a simple opt-in on your funnel so it s a small
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commitment, a small, simple step that can lead to bigger things down the road.
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But I put this limitless model here because the intersection points is what s interesting to me.
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There s four eyes.
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You ll notice that when you make this, these three circles intersect.
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It creates like four empty spaces where they converge and where mindset and motivation crossover.
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You have the first eye, which is an inspiration.
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What does it do?
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It changes your mindset and gives you a little bit of motivation, but you re not including the methods.
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So you re inspired, but you have no instruction.
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Where mindset and methods intersect is the second eye.
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is ideation.
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You have the mindset that is possible and that you re capable of it and you know what to do the methods, but it just stays an idea because you lack the motivation.
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So that s ideation.
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And then where motivation crosses over with methods is a big one is a third eye, which is implementation.
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You re motivated, you have purpose and energy, and you have the method, you know what to do.
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So you re going to implement, but you could still be stuck in that box because that box is containing you, your mindset.
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You might not think it s possible that you deserve it or some kind of constraint there.
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And then finally, right in the middle where all three Ms intersect, you have the fourth I, and I call that integration.
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This is where you re truly limitless, you re integrated.
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It s just your identity could be another word you could use for that fourth eye.
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It s just who you are.
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And so the reason I put this here is because I believe to be truly limitless, right?
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And to light up your passions and your purpose, that you control what you can control.
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You control the controllables.
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And the three things you could always control, your mindset, your motivation, and the methods you re using.
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So many people nowadays, out of fear of what s going on in their current situation, they downgrade their dreams to meet their current situation.
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When instead, you could flip it and say, what if I don t downgrade my goals and my dreams?
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What if I upgraded my mindset, my motivation, my methods?
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And when you do that, you create the fourth M,
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which is the focus of the new book, the expanded version of Limitless, which is momentum.
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Mindset is like you release the brakes.
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You believe it s possible, that you re capable, that you deserve it as opposed to the brakes would be, I can t do this.
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That s for somebody else to do and you self-sabotage or you don t deserve it.
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Those are the brakes.
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The motivation is the gas.
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right?
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And giving you the fuel, the high fuel that s going to get you to your destination, your goals.
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And then the methods are how to drive.
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But some people are using old methods of social media marketing or old methods for negotiation or old methods for health and wellness or old methods for reading.
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What I teach, like the last time people took a class called reading, there were six or seven
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And people are still reading like they were last trained, which was how many decades ago, but the world has changed a lot.
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So much information, but how we read it and learn is the same.
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So that growing gap creates that stress.
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So this conversation in this book really is about showing people tactically how to unlimit themselves in the area of their mindset, their motivation and their methods so they could have greater velocity and momentum in the new year.
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Jim, thank you for that extensive overview.
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I think that really does a lot in helping the listener understand your whole model.
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And for those of you who haven t read Jim s book, let me just tell you how it s organized.
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He has an initial portion of the book where he sets up the need to have a limitless mind.
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And then in part two, he goes into explaining these three circles that he was just talking about.
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The first is the limitless mindset, or the what.
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The next portion of the book, part three, is limitless motivation, the why.
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And he just discussed chapter seven, eight, and nine, which are really your purpose and
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How do you guide someone to discover their true purpose, energy, and what are some practical tips for someone looking to boost their mental energy?
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And then chapter 9, which is small, simple steps, which he just went through in detail.
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And then the fourth portion of the book is Limitless Methods, which he was just discussing, the how.
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And then he gets into the fifth portion of the book, which is the new expanded part, Limitless Momentum, the when.
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So that s how the book is organized.
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I have a model that s a little bit different than yours, Jim, and mine.
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I have mindset behaviors.
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and deliberate action as the three circles with momentum going around it.
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And I think that your mindset drives your behavior, but nothing happens with your behavior unless you re taking actions to change your habits to form new behaviors, which then is intertwined with your motivation to take those steps.
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I wholeheartedly agree with that because especially in the motivation section, not only do we have a chapter on purpose and energy and small, simple steps, there s a chapter in there on habit design, right?
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So people can make behavioral changes that are consistent.
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Also how to access flow states, that state where you feel your best and you perform your best and you lose sense of yourself, sense of time.
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and things almost become effortless.
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So these are accelerators for motivation that could help unleash more fuel for that momentum that we all want.
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And then in the momentum part, we talk about new chapters on, hey, these are nootropics.
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I ve never talked about brain supplements in my 30-year career, but we highly research this and list all the human studies about nootropics, brain supplements that could actually
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positively affect your focus, your memory, your mood, so you feel better, and also give you mental energy for people who struggle with brain fog or mental fatigue.
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We had a section on artificial intelligence, how to use AI to enhance your HI, your human intelligence, because that can provide more momentum.
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We talk about learning agility at work.
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So you can be more like you re physically agile, quick and fast, and you re flexible.
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But how do you do that mentally at work?
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So you can get more done in less time.
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We talk about the brain types, which I m most excited about.
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I feel people get them from the book.
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It s going to be the biggest takeaway.
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We introduced a new model for cognitive types where they re associated fun animals, which represent the four different brain codes.
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And once you know your brain animal, you have so much power to be able to navigate this world of this fast pace where you need to adapt based on your strengths and how to hire based on brain code, how to communicate based on your brain code, how to learn and read.
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It s how there s like personalized medicine based on
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your genetics or personalized nutrition based on a test like your microbiome.
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Well, we created a model for personalized learning because everybody learns a little bit differently, right?
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They have a different style based on their brain animal, and that informs how they could read better, improve, remember names, learn another language, focus when they need to, and so much more.
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It literally affects every area of your life.
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Yeah, such a great chapter.
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And what I wanted to do was to sporadically go through a few of the concepts from the book.
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So I m going to start out with Why This Matters Now, which is the title of chapter two, which seems especially pertinent now in our fast paced world.
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You start this chapter off by saying that you re a firm believer that we all have incredible superpowers waiting
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to be awakened.
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And I know, and anyone who follows you knows, you re a huge fan of comics and superhero movies that all have these supervillains in them.
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What are the modern day supervillains that are keeping us from our potential?
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So we talk about in the book four, and I call them the four horsemen of the mental apocalypse, right?
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They re driven by technology.
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Technology hasn t created them, but it has surely amplified them exponentially.
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And these are the things that hold you back in your productivity, your performance, your profitability, and certainly your peace of mind.
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So the first one is digital deluge.
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And this is the information overload we talked about.
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The amount of information is doubling at dizzying speeds, right?
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But how we learn it and retain it, read it, it s the same.
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So that growing gap creates something called information anxiety.
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Symptoms of this are things that we could all relate to, higher blood pressure, a compression of leisure time, more sleepless nights, because we re just drowning in information.
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You buy books and they sit on your shelf unread and it becomes shelf help, not self-help, right?
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We re buried in emails and messages and reports and research.
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It s like taking a sip of water out of a fire hose.
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So the methods chapter fixes that because it shows you how to
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accelerate your learning, how to study better, how to read faster and understand what you read to overcome digital deluge.
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The second one is digital distraction.
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And this is a big one.
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How do you maintain your concentration in a world full of rings and pings and dings and app notifications and social media alerts, right?
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And so we talked about how to fix that in the methods by talking about harnessing the superpower of focus and there s a whole chapter on how to have incredible laser like focus to catch up, keep up and get ahead.
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digital dementia.
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And this is a term in healthcare.
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I didn t make it up.
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It s the high reliance on our external devices to do the remembering for us.
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Like John, how many phone numbers did you use to know growing up?
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Probably 15 to 20.
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Yeah.
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So like a lot.
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How many do we know currently today?
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Current numbers?
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Maybe a handful.
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Yeah, and I don t want to memorize like 100 or 200 or 500 phone numbers, but it should be concerning that most people think that they ve lost the ability to remember one number, or a PIN number, or a passcode, or a seed phrase, or something that is read.
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I believe two of the most costly words in our life
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I forgot.
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Think about the consequences of saying, I forgot where I put it.
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I forgot that to go to that meeting.
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I forgot what I just read.
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I forgot what I was going to say.
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I forgot that conversation I had.
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I forgot that person s name.
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It just goes on and on.
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We lose time.
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We lose productivity.
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We can hurt a relationship, lose a sale.
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On the other side, memory, which is the largest chapter, how to remember in the book.
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Memory can be as a force multiplier.
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Memory can make you money.
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If you can easily remember names and faces, client information, product information, sales scripts, give presentations without using notes or a teleprompter.
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In the expert economy, knowledge is not only power, it s a lot of profit.
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So we fix it with the chapter on memory.
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And finally, the fourth supervillain after digital deluge, digital distraction, digital dementia is a term I coined called digital deduction.
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And this is where technology is, a lot of times it s doing the thinking for us.
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So we go on autopilot.
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Even a simple example, getting from here to there, before there was a GPS and our phones, we would need to build a visual spatial intelligence, right?
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To know where we are in time and space.
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Yet how many people automatically they go to their phone or they go to Waze and they just didn t be able to get there, but it s convenient.
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Technology, absolutely.
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It allows this conversation you and I are having to happen.
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I love technology, but you have to balance out the convenience with how it could cripple you.
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A simple example is if you have to go to the bank and it s eight blocks away, a lot of people jump in their car when they could have got their steps in.
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There s a physical toll because if you put your arm in a sling for a year, it wouldn t grow stronger.
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It wouldn t even say the same atrophy, right?
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And so your brain is like a muscle.
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It s use it or lose it.
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If you, if your office is on the fourth floor or your apartment s on the fourth floor and you use the elevator every single time, you don t get those steps in.
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Yes, it s convenient.
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Absolutely.
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But there s also a physical toll that we re paying also as well.
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So in a world full of AI and technology and internet, what I m saying is.
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You want to keep mentally sharp more than ever.
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You want to cultivate your focus, your memory, your critical thinking skills, your ability to process information rapidly, because that s how you re going to really catch up, keep up, and get ahead in the information age.
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Well, I m going to jump to the topic you just covered, which is focus, because one of my favorite interviews I ve done on the show was with our mutual friend, Don Dapani.
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And I love that the number one thing that he learned when he was a monk was the power of intentional focus and how it becomes a superpower that governs everything else you do.
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In this era of constant distractions that you were just talking about, what s your number one strategy for maintaining focus?
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I ll give you a couple because focus precedes everything.
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A lot of people, they re not forgetting a name.
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They re just not paying attention and focused and hearing the name.
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So they blame their retention when it s really their attention, right?
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And so a few things to think about.
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First of all, your brain is mostly a deletion device.
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It s trying to keep information out because there s at any given time, millions of stimulus you could pay attention to.
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And if we let everything in, we would go insane.
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We would be overloaded.
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We won t be able to process all of it.
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So the gatekeeper
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part of your brain, they call it their reticular activating system, the RAS.
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And the RAS determines where you re going to shine a spotlight, where you re going to put your awareness.
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And one of the ways to really harness your focus and your RAS is asking questions.
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So when you ask a new question, it shines a spotlight on what s relevant to that question, right?
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The example I give in the book is years ago, many years ago, my sister would send me emails and
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postcards, images of a very specific breed of dog, a pug dog.
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And she was seeding a birthday I was coming up.
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She s a good marketer, right?
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And because I was asking why she s sending me these photos of this dog.
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And the funny thing happened, John, I started seeing this pug dog everywhere in my neighborhood.
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I would be at the health food store and someone in front of me at the checkout line is carrying a pug dog.
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I d be running in my neighborhood and somebody s walking six pug dogs, right?
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And my question for everyone listening is, did those pug dogs just naturally manifest and teleport into my neighborhood?
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No, they were always there, but my brain was deleting it because it wasn t important until I started asking the question, then I started seeing them everywhere.
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Much like when you buy a new car, you start seeing that car everywhere, right?
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And so the idea here is when you re reading something, you re not focusing.
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Your mind is wandering.
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You could ask a question like,
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How can I use this?
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How does this relate to what I already know?
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You could ask more questions and you ll stimulate your RAS.
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And then when you re reading a page, a lot of people get to the end and forget what they just read because they have no focus.
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If you have questions, you re like, Oh, there s a pug dog.
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There s a pug dog.
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There s a pug.
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There s an answer.
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There s an answer.
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There s an answer.
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Right?
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So questions are the answer.
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So I want to be conscious even with your focus, you can always even bring it back right now.
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Three of my favorite questions to ask to turn knowledge into action, behavior.
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How can I use this?
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So when you re listening to your show, when your audience is listening to your show every week, how can I use this?
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Right?
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Why must I use this?
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When will I use this?
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One of the best ways of focusing is to schedule your focus.
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One of the most powerful productivity tools we have is our calendar.
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And we might put like meetings in there or doctor s appointments, parent teacher meetings, whatever.
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but are we scheduling our implementation?
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Are we scheduling the things that we need to focus on?
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Even if you ruminate about things that you wanna worry about, then schedule that.
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Hey, at 4.15 today, I m not gonna worry about this thing that I really need to focus right now on this project with my team, and yet I m ruminating about this other thing.
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Hey, at 4.15, that s when I ll focus on that.
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And it allows you to release and freeze up that energy and that mental bandwidth to do something else.
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The other thing I would say about focus is focus is a muscle.
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Right?
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My interview with Dandapani has over a million views on our YouTube version and I would say it focuses a muscle.
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That s why you meditate, right?
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I don t meditate to get enlightened.
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I meditate because when my thoughts go somewhere, I think about the dry cleaning or my trip I have to make tomorrow.
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When I pull it back to my breath or I pull it back to a word like a mantra or phrase, then I exercise my focus.
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And how you do anything is how you do everything.
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So if you do a little exercise each day, one or two times a day, do a little 10 minute, 15 minute meditation to just be there with your thoughts, then you re exercising, you re working out your concentration, and it ll show up later in the day when you re with your kids, or when you need to focus on a zoom call, or something else.
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So I would say ask better questions and also
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build your focus, do exercises.
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Even when you re eating, don t multitask, right?
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And work and everything else.
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Just enjoy the food.
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Mindfulness is not regulated to just meditation.
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We could bring mindfulness into brushing our teeth and eating each day, small little things.
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And that harnesses that and we re flexing those focus muscles.
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So it shows up in other times of our life.
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Thank you for sharing that, Jim.
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And I m going to jump to the last portion of your book.
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But before I do, I just wanted to mention that Chapter 13 is a great chapter that I love because it s on your memory.
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And it s something I use or refer to a lot because as I m preparing for a keynote speech or I m thinking about what I want to say on a podcast episode where I m being interviewed, I use Jim s approach of thinking about my living room.
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As I m doing the tour around the room, I use different objects along that tour to help me remind myself of the major points that I want to cover.
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I appreciate that, John.
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Like what you re talking about is something called the mind palace or a memory palace where we teach people a fun exercise they ll see in the book.
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For people who want to give a toast at a wedding, or they have to give a presentation on a stage, or go into an interview, or client a sales call, that we take the maybe 10 or 20 points to your speech, and we strategically place them using our imagination.
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in different parts of our home.
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And then we walk you through your home when you need to give the presentation and you remember all the different points.
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And it s a 2,500-year-old memory technique credited to ancient Greece, where orators and poets would remember things based on where they placed them, on their body, or you could do it for your office, you could do it in your car, take places you re extremely familiar with, take the idea that you want, turn it into a picture, and place those pictures around your environment.
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And it s a wonderful way to keep the notes inside your mind.
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And it s a wonderful way
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way to learn.
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I find it extremely helpful.
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And like you, I read a lot.
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You have to, if you re a podcast host, I read probably 100 to 120 books a year.
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Speed reading is something that s extremely important to me.
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I thought I read fast until I read that President Kennedy used to read between 500 and 1200 words per minute, which is insane.
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But chapter 14, Jim covers everything that you would need to know on how you speed read.
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But then
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In part five, he really goes into the new sections of the book.
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And one of the chapters I liked a lot was this chapter 16 on limitless at work, because so many people are disengaged right now.
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And I wanted to ask you, Jim, how can someone apply the limitless model in a professional setting to align their work ambitions with this new workplace environment that so many of us find ourselves in?
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The chapter on Limitless at Work is all about learning agility, being mentally flexible.
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So if you re working remote, or you re working in an office, or you re doing like a hybrid, how do you maintain your level of energy and focus in those environments?
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I ll give you one, one idea on this, right?
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The idea here is, let s go back to the power of questions.
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And we talk about in the book as the dominant question, and the dominant question is,
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The idea here is you have 60,000 thoughts a day.
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And a lot of those thoughts come in the form of questions.
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And there s certain questions we ask more than any other question.
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And we all have it is a question we all ask.
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And but the challenge is a lot of people are asking questions that are taking them out of their learning agility.
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It s making them more static.
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They re asking questions like, why does this always happen to me at work?
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Or why am I always treated this way?
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Or why can t I ever get anything done?
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And then all of a sudden you light up, you shine a spotlight on all the reasons and they re not the most useful.
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answers, right?
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As opposed to what s the best use of this moment right now?
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Like a good thing to become more learning agile is to be flexible with your thoughts and your questions.
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So there s a great book, Zero to One by Peter Thiel, who s a famed angel investor.
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And here s a question.
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What if you had to reach your 10 year goal and you only had six months to do it?
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So you can t possibly doing it by working harder at work, right?
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You have to be learning agile and think in a different way and be more creative.
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Another way is integrating this with the brain types that we talk about.
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Understanding your brain type at work will allow you to be more agile.
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So I don t know which one you identify with most.
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People could take this quiz.
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We put it, so this is a model I use with coaching clients one-on-one for years.
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And for the first time in this book, we release it to the public.
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and there s four animals and you can find out yours at mybrainanimal.com.
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It s a four-minute quiz.
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It s kind of like what Game of Thrones character are you and it ll give you personalized learning based on your animal because it s not how smart you are at work.
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It s how are you smart at work.
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And so, once you know your animal, remember C-O-D-E.
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The C are the cheetahs.
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And the defining trait for a cheetah at work is they act, right?
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They are full implementers.
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They thrive in fast-paced environments.
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They have very strong intuition.
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The O in code are your owls.
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And if you re an owl, your defining trait is logic.
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You love data, you love facts, you love figures and formulas.
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The D, now notice the cheetah and the owl
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operate different at work, right?
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They ll buy different, they ll invest different.
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One will be just fast going on to which when other people want to do their research and have enough facts to back up their decisions.
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The D are dolphins, and these are your creative visionaries.
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These are people that could see a future that maybe other people can t yet see.
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They re great pattern recognizers and problem solvers.
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They re very passionate about what they do.
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And finally, the E are your elephants, and they have high levels of empathy.
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And it s interesting because these are your collaborators.
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These are your community builders.
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These are the loyal teammates, right?
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And so all four of these, what your brain type, your brain animal, if you will, it ll inform how you can be more agile at work.
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And here s an example.
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We had our entire team take the assessment, the same one at mybrainanimal.com.
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A hundred percent, John, of our customer service team are elephants.
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High levels of empathy.
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They want to be supportive.
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They re extremely loyal.
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They re community builders.
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Our CFO, financial advisor, is an owl.
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Happens because you go to where you re the role and responsibility of your strength naturally, because that s your element.
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Are my business partner of 20 years?
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Our CEO is a dolphin, holds the vision for the whole company, right?
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And so it s interesting once you understand your brain type, because it takes the judgment off of yourself.
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because you know how you re smart and your strengths and you could hire and surround yourself by other animals who compliment you also.
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And then also informs, a cheetah reads differently than an owl who s looking for all the details.
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Cheetahs kind of sprinting through and skimming.
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A dolphin visualizes what they read.
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An elephant is feeling where the author s coming from different points of view.
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So based on your animal type, we give you a map per animal on how to maximize your animal traits.
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So that all the research is in the book, we pull from areas that you ve studied, like positive psychology, personality types like Myers-Briggs, left brain, right brain dominance theory, multiple intelligence theory out of Harvard, introvert, extrovert, learning styles, visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
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So we melded and synergized it into this one kind of quick quiz.
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And yeah, I would challenge everyone actually to take the quiz and we give you some nice AI art based on your animal type and they could post it.
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and tag us both on it, on social media, and I ll repost some of my favorites.
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I m curious like what your listeners are mostly.
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So I d love to be able to see that.
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Yeah, I love it.
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And the we re almost out of time here.
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And the thing I loved about Jim s book and the thing that makes it so difficult to interview him about it is I could do an interview with him on each and every chapter in the book.
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So to boil this down is really difficult, especially these four new chapters that he has.
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Jim, if someone wants to know more about you, and I know you are everywhere, where s the best place for them to go?
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Jim Quick Central.
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So I believe that there s just small, simple steps that hopefully this is not the end of this conversation.
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There are three things I would recommend that everyone could easily do.
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We have a podcast.
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You can just search my name in any podcast app, Jim Quick.
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You just have to spell it right.
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K-W-I-K.
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It s my real last name, my father s name, my grandfather s name.
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I didn t change it to be a speed reading teacher.
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On YouTube is probably the funnest place because we put new content there and podcasts.
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Number two, the book, limitlessbook.com.
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When you get it there, we have links to Amazon and Barnes and Noble everywhere there.
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But when you submit your receipt there, we give you a 13 day speed reading memory program as my gift.
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So highly recommend you go there to get it.
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We donate a hundred percent of the proceeds to charity to build schools for children around the world.
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And the third area is mybrainanimal.com.
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Take that simple quiz and share with the community what animal you are.
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And I ll actually repost some of my favorites and gift out a couple copies of the book to your community randomly, just as a thank you for having me on your show.
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Well, Jim, it was such an honor to have you.
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Thank you so much for being here today and congratulations on this updated version of your incredible book.
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Thank you so much, John.
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I appreciate you.
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Be limitless, everybody.
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What an incredible interview and honor it was to have Jim Quick today.
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And I wanted to thank Jim Hayhouse and Alyssa Fortunato for bringing him on today s show.
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Something I ve had so many requests from the audience to do.
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So I was so happy we could do this today.
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You re about to hear a preview of the passion strike podcast.
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I did with Dr. Lynn Matterson, who s the chief science officer, the pancreatic cancer action network known as pan can.
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And in that interview, we go through some very important topics, including the importance of early diagnosis and new ways that early diagnosis is being done for pancreatic cancer patients.
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Some of the new novel treatments that are coming out and advancements that are being made almost weekly to help combat this deadly disease.
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We ll discuss the importance of educating high-risk communities and why your advocacy matters so much.
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immunotherapy, the KRAS targeted therapy, and then things that disrupt that dense stromal that is characterized
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of pancreatic cancer, things that will loosen that up and let drugs in better and let things work better.
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I was a third area of research.
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And I think if we can learn how to use those three approaches, those things that make pancreatic cancer so difficult to treat, then we can get to the point where we can really start to control it and see good, lots of cases of long-term survivors,
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