BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast - 443: 10 Ways to Learn Anything Faster with Jim Kwik

Episode Date: February 14, 2021

During childhood, Jim Kwik experienced a traumatic brain injury. As a result, he lacked focus in school, wasn’t able to read properly, and at one point, a teacher told him that he had a “broken brain”. So how did a kid with a “broken brain” become the leading mental coach for athletes, CEOs, and movie stars? Simple: Jim looked into how to learn instead of what to learn. Soon enough, Jim was reading faster, memorizing with higher accuracy, and doing well in school. His friends asked him for some tips so they could improve their grades as well. With some success in his inner circle, he decided to make a flyer for speed reading and memory improvement classes. He put up the flyer at his college hoping one or two people would show up to his impromptu class. Over 100 students showed up, of which 71 signed up for a full course with Jim. After that, Jim knew it was his life mission to help those who wanted to learn, memorize, and live better. So why is it so hard for some people to memorize things? We forget details all the time, whether it be names, addresses, phone numbers, or other important information. Jim goes through a simple method to memorizing any piece of information, called the M.O.M system. He also outlines 10 tips for a limitless brain, many of which you can implement soon after you finish this episode! Even something as simple as reading slightly faster can allow you to save weeks worth of time each year. So if you’ve been beating yourself up over forgetting that one seller’s name, check out Jim Kwik’s podcast and his new book Limitless. As Jim puts it, increasing your memory and reading power not only adds years to your life, but life to your years! In This Episode We Cover: How Jim recovered from a traumatic brain injury as a child Why school teaches us what to learn, but not how to learn Increasing your reading speed so you can finish tasks faster How to remember important things like names, addresses, and phone numbers The 3 keys to a better memory The 10 tips for a limitless brain (including diet, exercise, and learning) How to learn anything faster (no matter what it is!) And SO Much More! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets book store Jim Kwik’s podcast Limitless by Jim Kwik Click here to check the full show notes: https://www.biggerpockets.com/show443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What's up, man? How you doing? I'm doing really good. We did a fantastic interview today. This is one of the best we've done, I think. Yeah, this is an amazing guest, a guy named Jim Quick. You may have heard about him.

He's kind of a big deal. Like, he's like, is the guy that, like, you see him, like, hanging out with, like, Will Smith. and Oprah and Stan Lee. And I really wanted to ask him today on the show. We never got to it. But I wanted him to explain his story of hanging out with Stan Lee, you know, Stan Lee from like the Marvel comics.

Because it's just a phenomenal story. So here's what I'm going to say. He wrote a book called The Limitless. I devoured it this weekend. It's amazing. If you want to hear the Stan Lee story, you're going to have to read the book. So that's my tease to get you to read the book because it is so good.

Today's show is all about the brain and how to make the brain work better so we can get better things out of life. like our real estate or our wealth or our finances or our business or our family life. But all like all of that stuff is improved or hurt by what's going on between our ears. And so Jim is like the guy. Like he's the guy in the world for training your brain to work better. So today we cover things like how to read faster with greater comprehension, how to remember more things, how to remember people's names.

We talk a little bit of identity on like, you know, the words that we like how we talk about ourselves. And we just cover a lot of, a lot of ground today. So I think you guys are going to love this interview. But before we get to that, let's get to today's quick tip. Very simple quick tip today. I want you to listen to this show with a pencil and paper. If possible, I mean, if you're driving to work, whatever, that's fine. Don't like turn it off. But if you have the ability to listen to this with a pen and paper, please do it, especially at the end. Jim lays out 10, like, final tips. And the last like 10 minutes of the show, maybe or 20 minutes of the show, they don't like 10, like do these 10 things. if you want to increase your life, improve your life,

because this is what's going to help your brain. Everything from, like, he actually names like a bunch of foods that you should be eating to just like a lot of good stuff. So the quick tip is listen with a pen and paper if possible. And also, he at the end of the show also talks about, he's going to give away one of his books to somebody for sharing this on their social media. So, you know, go listen for that as well and do all that good stuff. For decades, real estate has been a cornerstone of the world's largest portfolios.

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That's what it is. Yeah, personal trainer for your brain. And I don't think until we talk to him that I ever. realize how important it was to have something like that. So I'm very excited to bring this to the masses. Yeah. And I don't want people to think of those. Some people might be thinking right now, well, I want to learn how to buy a duplex or I want to learn how to multifamily or raise money. I don't need to learn how to learn. I'm going to skip this episode and go to something else. I just like caution you to like remember that everything we have, it's our like our brain drives it.

So this is, I would say more important than the tactics of like how to buy that duplex, how to raise money, all that. This is the thing that's going to drive every other area of your business. So listen up, enjoy this interview with Mr. Jim Quick. Mr. Jim Quick, it is amazing to have you on the show today. It's a huge honor. And I want to just start by jumping right into things and wondering, like, how did you become this guy? Like, you teach celebrities and movie stars and athletes and CEOs, all about how do you increase their brain power? Like, how did that happen?

Where did that passion come from? Well, you could say my inspiration was my desperation. If people see me on stage or on YouTube videos, I do these crazy demonstrations where maybe I'll have 50 or 100 people stand up in an audience and introduce themselves and I'll memorize all their names. Or maybe they'll give me 100 words or 100 numbers and I'll recall it forwards and backwards in and out of order. And I always tell people afterwards, I don't do this to impress you. I really do just to express to you what's really possible because the truth is every single person who's listening to this, they could do that and a lot more. And you're thinking, no way, I can't do that.

But regardless of your age, your background, your career, your education level, your financial situation. gender, history or IQ, any of that, none of that matters. There's no such thing as a good or bad brain. There's a trained brain and untrained brain. The reason why I know it's possible is I grew up with some pretty severe learning challenges. When I was five, I was in school and I had a very bad fall, had traumatic brain injury. I was rushed to the hospital. And before my parents said I was very, I was very energized, pretty curious, very playful. He said afterwards, I was just shut down. And where showed up the most was in school. I had a very, very bad focus. I couldn't remember anything. Teachers would repeat themselves over and over again. And I would have like this early imposter

syndrome where I would just pretend to understand, but I didn't understand anything. It took me an extra up three years just to learn how to read. And that was really, you know, when they passed around those books and again, those circles and that book got closer and closer and closer. I mean, that was just nerve wracking in general. But when it came to me, I would look at it. It wouldn't mean anything, I would just pass it on. And so the biggest thing was like when I was nine years old, I was slowing down the class being teased for it and the teacher came to my defense. But all I remember her saying, she was going to me from the whole class, said, that's the boy with the broken brain. And I was just like, wow, from there, that label became my limit, right? As children,

you're not born with this idea, you're a blank slate, you know, your environment, expectations, get imprinted on you. And for me, every time I did badly in school from then on, I would say, oh, because I have the broken brain. You know, that became my inner talk, you know. And so that was a big challenge. And, you know, all the way through 18, you know, I struggled with this. And eventually I hit a wall, you know, and I just said, this is crazy. You know, school is teaching me what to learn, math, history, science, Spanish.

But there are no classes on how to learn. There are no classes on focus, concentration, on study skills, on reading faster, on memory. And I always thought it should have been the fourth hour in school. They teach you three hours, reading, writing, arithmetic. obviously spelling wasn't one of them. But what about recall? What about retention? What about remember?

Socrates says learning is memory, right? But you'll look at a kid, you know, say, study or concentrate, you know, or remember this. But that's like looking at a kid and say, play the ukulele, who's never taken a class on the ukulele. We've never taken classes on these things. The school taught us what to learn, not how to learn, you know. And the school system hasn't improved as much as the world has. You know, we live in an age of autonomous electric cars, spatial. ships that are going to Mars. But our vehicle choice when it comes to learning is like a horse and

buggy. And so my mission really is, you know, my path, you would say my struggle became my strength, you know, and with challenge comes change. And now my mission really is build better, brighter brains to leave no brain left behind. That's awesome. So you basically, you went from the person that struggled with learning to the one who's now world famous for teaching it. Can you tell us a little bit about what your transition was like to go from one extreme to the other. Yeah, I don't share this usually in interviews, but maybe it's useful for people on their, on their success journey. When I was 18, I learned all these skills and I turned and transformed my, my brain and my grades. First time I ever did anything well. And when you're like that,

you can't help it all the popular people, right? I believe passion is what lights you up. Purpose is how you take that passion to light other people up. So my passion quickly became learning where it wasn't before, and my purpose is teaching other people how to learn. And I didn't know how to do it. And I had to have a lot of money in school. I had to work all these part-time jobs. And I said, oh, well, friends, like, why don't you tutor? You're tutoring us.

Why don't you tutor what you've learned other people? I was like, okay, I don't know how to do that. But when I had that thought, I was walking past a classroom that wasn't being used. And I was like, okay, next week, same time, same place. I'm going to do like a little information in session. I'm going to teach. I put five or ten people in that room and teach some speed reading memory tactics and maybe one or two of them wants to be tutored. And I go home and this is my first marketing guys.

I take it a scrap piece of paper and I take a marker. I write free speed reading memory tips, get better grades, less time, you know, classroom, Thursday, 7 o'clock. Next morning I make some photocopies on the way to class, put on some bulletin boards, not a lot. Fast forward to Thursday 7 o'clock. I'm walking there. I'm getting nervous. I'm like downing myself. I'm like, I hope five people like show up.

I turned the hallway. There's a crowd of people outside the room. And I'm thinking, honest to God, I was like, I hope whatever's going on end soon. So I could do my thing, right? I'm not thinking why they're there. And then I go there and as I mentioned a crowd there. I can't even get in. It's like, what's going on inside?

This guy looks at me. He's like, there's a speed reading class. And honest God, I said, wow, what a coincidence. What are the chances? There's another speed reading class, the same room, the same time, the same date. And this is like, you can only see what you believe is possible. right? And they say, I'll believe it when I see it, but it's also, you'll see it when you believe it. I didn't believe it. So I went inside, I pushed my way in, and there's a crowd of people. And lo and behold, nobody's teaching. And it takes my slow brain. It's embarrassing to admit all that time to realize why they're all there. And I count to a head count instead of five people or 10 people, there's 110 people. And just as background, I'm, you know, I'm 18 years old. I look really young. There's graduate students, teaching assistants. and I'm phobic of public speaking.

I have nothing prepared to say. And I'm phobic of public speaking because I grew up with learning challenges I couldn't read, as I mentioned, but I taught myself how to read by reading comic books. And I felt like my superpower was like being invisible growing up because when you feel like you're broken, you don't want to be called on in class.

You don't want to give a book report. So I would lie and say I didn't do the broker report to the teacher and I would just throw it out on the way out. You know, I was phobic. So I'm freaking out in that room. And my heart's being on my chest. I can't even speak. and I leave.

I would love to say I didn't, but that's the truth. And I go to this fountain and something about the water. I don't know about you guys, but like showers, water, it just kind of calms you down a little bit. And, you know, I'm just kind of like sitting there, I'm like meditating and I can't even go back to my dorm room. My friends are going to make fun of me. And I'm doing this walking meditation and I stop.

And I was like, I heard this voice in my head is my mom's voice. And I won't tell you exactly what she said. But essentially it was like, hey, all these people came out. So listen. You're something you promise. You're disappointing them. You're disappointing me.

And I take one step in another direction. And I've noticed back to the classroom. And it's funny, one step in another direction can completely change your destination or your destiny. You know, in Limitless, I have a quote from a French philosopher saying, life is C between B and D, B is birth, D is death, C is choice. That I believe these difficult times can define us. These difficult times can diminish us. Or these difficult times can divide us.

us. Ultimately, we decide. And one little choice in our direction completely changes your destination. And I would remind everybody that these small, simple steps that you could take that we're going to talk about in this conversation, just one of them could unlock an incredible and different future. And sometimes when we're working or persevering, we don't see the doors that your perseverance and your learning is going to unlock, but it's there, it's coming. And so I go back to the classroom room. And I don't remember for two hours what I said. And that's tough to say as a memory expert. But after I'm done, I remember, I was like, I don't not help everybody, but I need about 10 hours to teach you when I know. I could spend two hours a week for the next five weeks. I get $30 an hour. That's what

I got teaching tennis when I was back in high school. And I'll be in the students at tomorrow to answer your questions at noon. And I promise you guys, all these people just stood up and left. Nobody talked to me. And I'm so, I have these two overwhelming emotions. Number one, totally. confused, like what just happened and total exhaustion. Have you guys ever done something you never thought you could do? It's like a big, big fear and then you do it. And then afterwards, I like emotionally, mentally, physically spent. And I end up falling asleep on the floor, right on the carpet. And I got woken up the next morning, looking up at the next class coming in the morning, really embarrassing, really on myself. And I run back, you know, to my dorm room, shower,

or breakfast, go to class, 12 o'clock comes. I was like, oh, I promised to I'd be there, answer questions. I'm going running the student center. hoping one person shows it just one. I get to the student center, there's a crowd of people there, same crowd. And after not even two hours, 71 people, 71 of those 100 kids signed up for a program that didn't even exist yet at $300 a person, $30 an hour times 10 hours. Because I didn't realize that kids could go to an ATM machine and take up $300 cash. I didn't have an ATM card.

And now I'm not even 19 years old and I have $21,000 cash. in my backpack and what do i use it for part of it i used it for food because i was very underweight and wasn't eating really well um but the other most of it i used to feed my mind you know i i read this quote long time ago so said don't let school get in the waiver education yeah mark twain quote but i just thought i started using my money and invested in my own education learn every speed reading memory adult learning theory you know every ancient in the mind everything i could further my career the reason why i'm here with you today is one of those students, she was a freshman in college,

who read 30 books and 30 days. Now just kind of get that. If you have books on your shelve, you haven't read yet, go to Amazon, pick 30 books and you read it, not skimmer scan, but really absorbed it. And I wanted to find out not how. I know how. I taught her.

I want to know why. Like, what's her motivation? And I found out her mother was dying of terminal cancer. And doctors gave her mom just 60 days, two months to live. And the book she was reading, what books to save her mom's life. And I wish her luck, said prayers. We said prayers together, and then six months goes by, and I get a call from this young lady,

she's crying. She's crying and crying. And when she stopped, I found out their tears of joy, that her mother not only survived, which is really getting better. Doctors don't know how, they don't know why. They called it a miracle, but her mother attributed 100% to the great advice she got from her daughter who learned it from all these books. And in that moment, I realized something, that if knowledge is power, learning is your superpower.

That if knowledge is power, learning is your superpower. and this is the superpower we all have. That moment I dedicated my own life to showing people how to unlock that superpower inside of them. And that's what I really believe we're here to do. We're here to the life we live or the lessons we teach. We all have this genius inside of us. It's just our brains doesn't come with an order's manual.

It's not user-friendly. And we're not taught in school how to access it. And so I made that my mission in life. That's amazing, man. Really, really good stuff. Okay, so I want to get into some more like tangible stuff here. specifically maybe we could cover like reading like memorization uh you know stuff that we can do to improve our brain obviously today so when we start with reading the first thing like um why do

do people the question i have is why do people struggle so much with reading reading reading fast understanding what they're reading and how can they improve both their speed and comprehension i'll give you a reason why it's a challenge when it comes to actually reading is a sub vocalization sub vocalization meaning it's like have you ever when you're reading notice you hear that inner voice inside your head yeah hopefully its own voice it's not like somebody else's voice the reason why it's a challenge that they call it sub vocalization if you have to say the words inside your head you can only read as fast as you could speak that means your reading speed is limited to your talking speed not your thinking speed but we could actually think a lot faster than we could

like how many people do you know listen to a podcast or an audiobook had to you faster speed. Yeah. Right. And they can understand it, but they can't speak that fast. You know, the challenges, a lot of people, they feel like in order for them to understand it, they have to say the words because the way they learned. Teacher said, sit quietly by yourself, you know, like read quietly to yourself,

read silently yourself. That's where you took that external voice and you internalize. It's been there ever since. So how do you get over some of these obstacles? One thing I would say to help everybody here be a better reader that will instantly boost your reading speed and focus will be, you do. use a visual pacer. So when you read using a visual pacer, and a visual pacer could be something as simple as using a pen or a highlighter, a mouse on a computer, your finger, probably the easiest,

but you're always carrying it with you. Underlining the word, not skipping anything, will boost your reading speed 25 to 50 percent across the board. Just trying it, just trying to even now. I'm not taking a time here, but if everyone just picked up a book, read for 60 seconds, how they normally would read, count the number of lines, and then continue reading with your finger, just underlining, not touching the screen, not touching the paper, but just right above it, using your eyes and just kind of pacing back and forth, and count the number of lines in 60 seconds with your visual pacer. That second number would be about a 25, 50% lift, which is incredible, right? How many people would love to get 50% on their investments, you know,

last year, right? But reading takes time and time is money, right? And so using this will help not only with your speed, because a lot of times people are slow because they back, skip. They reread words, you know, which is really bad habit. So this gets you to go through the information. And because you have better focus, you tend to understand the information better and also retain it better also as well. You know, I actually, in my Instagram profile, I just put a link there. I'll make sure it's there at the time of this broadcast where people can take a free masterclass. Absolutely free. They just bring a book online, schedule it, do it, and I'll walk you through this process. That makes sense. I think like when I was younger, I used to read, yeah, like every

single solitary word on the page. And today, like, even reading your chapter on speed reading in the book, I got realized I do a lot of that. And so, like, my speed, like, I mean, I probably read, I don't know, 500 words a minute now because, like, I'm using that exact same philosophy and that exact same thing. And it really works. Yeah. The average person reads about 200, 250 words per minute.

And if you could do with something at 500 words a minute, that means when the average person has to read about four hours a day, just think about all that, what you have the process in a day. Not just books, but email, social media, like all that you're reading, you can save two hours a day like you're doing over a course of a year. That's like 730 hours. Even if you save one hour a day over the course of the year, 365 hours, how many 40-hour work weeks is that? Like nine? Get over two months of productivity, saving one hour a day and so ubiquitous like reading.

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like how to remember more things like people's names. You know, in real estate especially, like we're always networking, talking to people trying to put together deals. And I am, I know, there's an I am statement, right? I'm terrible at remembering people. names. I've always, I've said that for years and as a result, I am terrible at memory of people's names. And so I just, I'm like the guy that will never say somebody's name, right? I was like,

hey, bro, what's up? Dude. Because even people I know, I'll like hardly ever say their name just in case I screw that up and I don't want them to think bad about me. Yeah. So what tips you have for that? Yeah, we want to erase that for sure. You know, like I believe that a name is the sweet of sound or person's ears. We've heard that, you know, like through the ages. And, and what's the we send to somebody when we forget their name. You don't matter. Yeah. Yeah.

They don't matter, that they're not important. And it doesn't, and really, people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. But if you're communicating to them, like, we don't care enough just to remember their name. How are we going to show us where somewhere I care for their future, their family, their finances, their property, whatever it is we have to offer them if we don't care enough just to remember them. And here's the thing, people remember people who remember them.

So it's not even just what it's what you know. The success is three things. Success is what you know. So that's why learning faster is such an advantage. But it's also who you know, right? And who you remember. But it's not only that, it's also who knows you, right? And when you could walk into a room and meet 20 strangers and leave saying goodbye to every

single one of them by name, who are they all going to remember? They're going to remember you, right? And that's a standout skill. It's such a rarity nowadays because everybody suffers from digital dementia, meaning like you put everything in your phone, it keeps your to-dos, your calendars. I mean, how many phone numbers do you have in your, how many phone numbers do you guys know growing up?

Yeah, yeah. Like how many phone numbers did you use them? Yeah, a ton. A lot. How many phone numbers do you know like right now, the current numbers? I know my wife's number. That's it. Right.

And most people even don't even know that, right? And so, and not that here's the thing. Because I train at Facebook at Google and Nike, I call these places, at Google out, I'll say this. And they're like, well, Jim, why do I have to remember you know, all this, we created the search engine you might have heard of.

You know, they're organizing the information. But here's the thing. We talked about your life is a reflection of all decisions you've made to this point, but we can only make a good decision based on the information that we know.

And that presupposes we remember it. Right. And that's why losing things could cost us a lot. You know, I'm very passionate about this because I lost my grandmother with Alzheimer's, right?

And to dementia, and she was my caregiver growing up as a child because my parents, you know, had all these jobs and everything. So we donated 100% of the proceeds of this book to Alzheimer's research and then to build schools for children in need 100%. We just did another 50K for pencils of promise, builds a higher school, classrooms, teachers,

everything because that's our mission in doing this, right, in the work that we do. But going back to the power of your memory, memory is not just remembering facts, figures, foreign languages, as we talk about in the book. It's a memory, not remember your life. You know, it's remember your loved ones. You know, if you anyone got, you notice somebody who has dementia or Alzheimer's, when you lose your memory, it feels like they're losing, like, their humanity, the thing that binds their world in our world together. So what I've discovered is there's no such thing as a good or bad memory. There's a trained memory and an untrained memory.

And this book is endorsed by, like, the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Brain Health, right? The top Alzheimer's researcher at Harvard University, I train at these institutions. and we found that one third of our memory is predetermined by genetics and biology, but two thirds is in our control. So what I would love to do is tell you about that two thirds, that will move the needle for all of us, especially to be able to remember names, to remember supplying information, right,

product information, property information, and so on. So here are three keys to a better memory, everyone. And if they can, take notes, because there's a learning curve, but there's also a forgetting curve. So this is kind of like a little master class on a big brain upgrade for everybody. But within two days, the forgetting curve says that you're going to lose upwards of 80% of something you hear once, which is tragic, guys, right? If you hear a podcast, you read something within two days, 80% of it could be gone. And so how do you mitigate that through these techniques?

And start by taking notes, right? So everyone remember mom. If you want a better memory, M-O-M-N. I'm going to pull out the acronyms and a lot of them, ready? Let's say somebody has trouble remembering names, right? So Brandon, you have your trouble remembering names. You're like, and that's 90% of the population, right? But let's say there was a suitcase, $10 million cash for you, it's from Ed Milit.

For you or your favorite charity, if you just tax free, if you just remember the name of the next stranger you meet, right? Who's going to remember that person's name for $10 million? Yeah, for sure. Everybody. Everybody listening is going to be able to do that. Now, how come everyone's a memory expert all of a sudden or before they said they're horrible with names? It's because what technique did you use? Nothing.

The M and mom stands for motivation, right? And I really do believe that a big part of success is understanding your own motivation and the motivation of the people around you, motivating your team, motivating your kids could be motivating a prospective client to buy something, right? And so motivation, when we talk about a whole section of the book, the key to overcome procrastination, everything, fundamentally motive for action is your why. So ask yourself, why do I want to remember this person's name? Simple thing, like asking yourself, why do I want to remember the person's name?

Maybe to show the person respect. Maybe it's to do a deal. Maybe it's to practice these things I learned, you know, on this podcast. Because if you can't come up with the reason, you won't get the results. Reasons, reap results, right? And I'll tell you, like, if somebody's listening to this and they are making excuses and they are complaining, you know, where's your why? You know, what's tapping your heart?

What's your purpose? Who's counting on you to play your A game? today. And sometimes we disassociate, we try to distract ourselves by, you know, whatever, you know, whether we eat or we watch or whatever. But the reality is, here's here something. I'm going to drop a couple names here, not to name drop, but because it'll be memorable for everybody. Years ago, I get a call. There's a big fight. You guys know it. It's Mayweather Paco. And I get a message from Sylvester Stallone. And he's like, do you want to watch the match together? I'm like, do I want to watch the biggest, you know, like boxing match in history with Rockia?

Definitely. I go to his home and I'm sitting on his couch and get this. I'm sitting here and Sebastian Stolen's sitting right next to me. And to his left on the other side is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, wow. I swear to God, if somebody took a picture of that couch, people would be like, who Photoshop that Asian dude like in that picture? Because it just doesn't belong, right? But I watched, you know, the match and everything, I was like, you know, and you know, you guys saw it.

It was what it was. But then I was just like, what does it take guys to be like that good? You know, $300 million like playing. What's it take to be a champion? And I'll always remember what Arnold said. He said, Jim, the difference between a champion and an amateur is a champion is willing to push past the pain period. You know, I was just like, that's interesting how you talk about pleasure and pain

because I remember asking Stallone right after that about something I was, he asked me what I was working on. And I told him out of a project. and I said, should I do it? And he had the same language. He said, will the rewards or the pleasure be worth the pain? Right. And you think about building a muscle or anything else.

And it's always those last reps that we at least want to do, but we get the most growth out of. And sometimes finding your reason will give you enough purpose to get through those hard times to develop grit. So purpose. So motivation, first thing, I want to remember something I read or listen to on a podcast or someone's name, ask myself why. Right. And then if you don't come with reason, you probably shouldn't be doing it or you're definitely not going to get the results. The O and mom, if people are watching us on YouTube.

Yeah. Yep. Yep. Okay. So do this with me guys. Shake out your hand like this. Okay. You guys both feel like shake out your hands and make a fist and then put it to your chin.

Yeah. Where's our, where's our chin? Oh, yeah. And it's funny because like, and I do it in an audience, to people listening on audio, I put it to my cheat. But it's interesting because the O and mom stands for opposite. observation. And a lot of times people blame their retention when they forget a name. When it's not your retention, it's us paying attention. The art of memory is the art of attention. The art of memory is the art of attention. But often we're not really listening to somebody. We're thinking about how we're going

to respond to the promise. We're waiting for our turn to speak. Right. And even if you write down a simple word like listen and scramble the letters, it spells another word perfectly. It's like a brain teaser. It spells the word silent. And I feel like a lot of people, they don't want even family friends, they don't want our gifts, but they want our presence, right? And I think those that I've noticed that have a powerful presence, they also have an incredible memory because they're powerfully present. And so their incredible memory and their powerful presence comes from being powerfully present with people. And who could do that? You know, we could all do that and show the person, you know, more presence and that people feel that, right? Maya Angelou,

the famous poet, she said, people will forget what you say. They'll forget what you did, but they'll always remember how you made them feel. So the O is observation. So your motivation observation. And the last am and mom methods, methods for doing it. And I put it last only because you want to just have 80% of success. I don't know what you'd be found in your industry is really psychology. For sure. Right. That mindset is their drive and motivation. You know, the mechanics, people know. I mean, how many podcast people have listened to? to know how to do this or even to have six-pack abs. I mean, it's not like the methods are clear.

But common sense is not common practice, right? Because knowledge, you talk about lies. Another lie is knowledge is power. And it's not. At best knowledge is potential power. It only becomes power when we utilize it. But the truth is all the podcasts, all the books online programs, all the coaching, none of it works unless we work.

And so the methods are really simple. I'll give it to people right now and you can write them down. I'll give you 10 tips for a better brain. And this will be worth it right here. I feel like that if people just got this part of it, you could change everything. It could take you the next level of your learning and also your life. So remember I said two-thirds of your memories predetermined by genetics,

I mean, is by lifestyle, is in your control. I'm going to share with everyone really quickly, 10 keys for having a limitless brain. And again, when you upgrade this software here, this operating system, you could everything your life improves not just the financially but all the treasures your life so what i'm going to ask everyone to do is turn this into an assessment you know i believe self-awareness is a superpower and that it rate yourself on a scale of zero to ten how much energy are you putting

to these ten things all right i'm going to give you everyone 10 quick tips for having a better brain and i promise people a difference also in a better life all right so the first one is a good brain diet All right. So at scale, zero to 10, how good is your diet? Now, people could search this, and I teach people how to memorize these lists and everything else like this online.

We have our own podcast and all these downloads for it. But I would say that some of the most famous ones in area of nutrition, avocados, blueberries, I call them brainberries, broccoli, olive oil, it's good for the brain. Eggs, if your diet allows, the coline and eggs, good for your brain. Green leafy vegetables, like kale and spinach.

Wild salmon, sardines. Your brain's mostly fat, so those fish oils are big. Tumric. And helps the lower inflammation. To make like an almond milk with turmeric, it's just, it's really good for you. Walnuts, good for the brain. It looks like a human brain. And dark chocolate.

Not milk chocolate, but dark chocolate's good for your brain. Number two, besides a good brain diet, on the opposite side, the things that are bad, processed foods, you know, fried foods, high sugar foods, really bad for the brain. what you mean matters especially for your brain matter so zero to ten how good your your brain diet number two we've talked about killing ants killing ants is actually clinically proven to be good for your brain ants obviously is an acronym i got this from yeah okay dr daniel amman who wrote change your brain change your life ants stands for automatic negative thoughts so on a scale of zero to ten how good and positive encouraging your thoughts and i would just remind

everybody thoughts are things that if you think you can think you can either way you you're right. Henry Ford said that. So that's zero to 10, 10 being great. Third one, exercise. This is a big one. And I don't just mean like crossfit three times a week or Pilates, whatever, moving. We're stuck behind screens all day.

They say sitting is a new smoking, no judgment. But it's just we're not getting the movement. And you know that Steve Jobs was famous for doing his walking meetings, very creative, right? You know, come up with solutions. We know as your body moves, your brain. grooves. That if you listen to this podcast or an audio book when you're on something like going on and walking on the beach or walking in the park or something elliptical that's rhythmic, you'll actually retain it and I understand it better, right? When you move, you create brain-derived

neurotropic factors, fancy words, BDNF, which is like fertilizer for your brain. So on a scale of zero to ten, how much you're moving? I recommend every 30 minutes an hour, just get up and just stretch. You some jumping jacks. What's good for your heart? It's going to be good for your head. So So number four, brain nutrients. And I always prefer you get your nutrients from food. But talk to your health practitioner, nutritionist, functional medicine doctor, get up in nutrient profile. But if you're lacking certain key vitamins and minerals, your brain's not going to be working

at best. The number one nutrient, I would say omega-3s, DHA. That's what we talked about, that fish. Yeah. Right. So your essential fatty acids, omega-3s. That's number four. All right, the rest really fast.

Number five, positive peer group. And you've heard this. Many of your guests have talked about this. You are the average of the five people you spend time with. I'll tell you from a brain perspective why that's true. We have these things called mirror neurons. Mirror neurons are your, like a mirror imitates. And so if you ever notice, like people who have been together for a long time,

they tend to look like each other. Because they start adapting the same gestures and same language, the same habits and behaviors. I always tell people to watch WATCH. W stands for words. We start using the words of the people around us. A, actions. The T, thoughts, thoughts are things.

C, your character and hate your habits. First you create your habits, then your habits create your habits of moving and breathing and hydrating and meditating and those habits create you back. But we start adopting, adopting those five things from people around us too. So that's why they say, if you spend time when nine broke people, be careful because you're in number 10. And so we're spending time with it. Sometimes our friends and family are the ones that pull us down because we give them the power to do so.

It's not necessarily true, but they maybe have good intentions. They don't want you to get hurt. They're like, why always listen to that podcast with those two guys or like, you're writing those books or whatever. But maybe they have good intent. They don't want you to get your hopes up. They don't want to lose you because you're growing. But the truth is like they can be sincere, but they can be sincerely wrong too.

Right. And so monitor your positive peer group. We all need people to encourage us, challenge us, cheerily for us. And if you haven't found that person yet, be that person for somebody else. You know, especially be that person for yourself. So that's number five, zero to ten. Because if you're around energy vampires, people stealing your dreams, stealing your energy, you know, you're still, you're going to be stuck.

Number six, clean environment. Your brain loves a clean environment, meaning that when you make your bed, I have this video, millions of views. It's just Jim Quicks, morning. Oh, really? very popular podcast episode that I do. Tim Ferriss has his, Oprah has hers. Mine is about getting your brain right and different things I do in the morning.

Don't take a lot of time you do with your kids, but making your bed, right? Because you train the first thing, excellence. And then you take that excellence into other things in terms of your calls. It's like how you do anything, how you do everything. Exactly. And excellence is a habit. And also clean environment, your brain loves that clean environment.

Because imagine you come back at the end of the day to well-made bed. You come back to success. Right. In the military, you make it that bad impeccable. Like it's like centimeters and angles, right? And so we take that same level of discipline and pride until the things we do. So clean environment. You clean your desktop.

All of a sudden, your clarity of thought, right? Everything's where it needs to be. Number seven, big one for everyone, sleep, sleep, all right? Because how's your brain the next day when you get a bad night's sleep? How's your focus? How's your building to make your decisions to solve problems? How's your memory? So prioritize your sleep.

in the book we talk about extensively how to optimize your sleep. It's where you clean out plaque, at least a brain-aging challenge is like Alzheimer's. It's where you consolidate short to long-term memory. Long-term memory issues, check your sleep. It's also where you dream. Do you know, like Paul McCartney created yesterday in his dream? Oh, no. Like, yeah, like Mary Shelley created Frankenstein in her dream.

Right. It's amazing. Like your dream is your dreams, your brain doesn't shut off at night. That's why the first thing I do is I remember my dreams in the morning. but I show people how to do that and people to find that free online also as well. And then finally, after sleep, eight, nine, and ten, eight brain protection, right? Protect your brain, even though I love competitive sports and UFC and everything else, I'm just like, oh, man, that guy's brain is getting like, those concussions aren't good for your brain.

It's very resilient, but it's also very fragile. And so wear helmets on a scale of zero. I had three traumatic brain injuries before age of 12. So, you know, it's just take care of your brain. And then finally, nine to ten, nine is new learnings. And, you know, people ask, what's the through line behind all success? I mean, these people are dedicated to lifelong learning. You know, they're avid readers.

I just did an instant story with Will Smith, who did the cover quote for the book. And I was like, what's two things you do to keep you at your best? And he was like, he's like, I run and I read. I have to do something physical and something mental every single day. And I would say the human beings are the ultimate adaptation machine. We adapt to stress. We adapt to challenge. With challenge comes to change and the challenge yourself each day, especially with your learnings.

There's a study done on longevity with these nuns. They were living 80, 90, and above. They said the secrets of longevity. Half it was their emotional faith, their gratitude. But the other half, they were lifelong learners. And because of it, it added years to their life and life to their years. It was on the cover of time baggageing. This thing is called Aging with Grace.

Very, very beautiful. A lot, a lot of faith there. So that's number nine. And finally, 10, stress management. All right. If we could talk about this, what's going on with the world and chronic stress drinks your brain. It puts you in fight or flight or freeze, but you're not going to build your real estate empire. You're not going to get to the next level if you're just stressed all the time because you're your flight or freezing, right?

And so what are you doing to cope with stress on a scale of zero to 10? How well are you coping? My go-to is like 10 to 20 minutes of meditation. People are like, I don't have 20 minutes to, then you need to, if you don't have 20 minutes, you have to meditate for like an hour. then you're like so, so busy like that. And meditation just by the way, and I talk about my process in there, online you can find it, to quick meditation. It's not about controlling your thoughts.

That's what people think it is, but you can't control your thoughts anymore to control your heart from beating, right? The goal is not to control your thoughts. The goal is not to let your thoughts control you. Right. And when you're quiet and you focus on your breath or some kind of word or mantra,

you exercise your focus, right? You bring it back from the world of distractions. And that shows up when you need to read or when you need to do sales calls or presentations or investor meetings and so on. So those are 10 keys for having a limitless brain. And you can do all of them. If you're neglecting your sleep, you're not going to get. You're going to wonder why you're not getting the results.

If you're around like a lot of energy vampires, are you eating a big processed meal and you're in a food coma, you know, like everything has to, they don't want to know what the magic pill is. There's no pill, but there is this process. That's so good, man. That's so good. that's one of those. I want everyone to rewind the last five or ten minutes here and listen to those 10 again. Put those in the practice. You will be a different person. You talked about earlier, Jim, like just this like when you, you see, I used your name there. That's pretty good. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. But I had this fear for half a second. Like, oh, what if I got a name wrong? Happens. But like you mentioned like if you would have taken a step in the other direction, you would have ended up something that were totally different, right? Like, I like to think, if you put those 10 things in the practice right now and none of them are super complicated things. There's like good advice. Like if you put that in five years from now, you're going to be completely different person. It's amazing with those little changes we'll do. Very cool, man. You know, I think something I really like about what you share, Jim, is you talk about the brain, very similar to how athletes talk about the body. If I didn't know that you were speaking about the

mind and I was just listening to this podcast, I could absolutely believe that you were talking about ways you break down muscles and they build up stronger and form your body to form specific functions, right, by the way that you train yourself and the way that we respond, challenge brings change. you have to put yourself under stress and you will adapt. I think it's fascinating and it's an incredibly empowering concept that if you don't like your body, we all know you can change it. And that's because it can be seen. Well, you can't see what your brain is doing,

but you can see the results that come from it. And this is very similar. I love that so much. That's such a powerful observation, because it's one of those things. Like, I wear a brain. If people watch this on video, I have a brain on my shirt, right?

Oh, yeah, you're right. And I always have this in any, like, most photos, everything. And the reason why I do is because they're exactly right. What you see, it's in our awareness. Because if it's in our awareness, we tend to take better care of it. You know, so some people could see, you know, their skin. They can see their car. They can see their clothes.

Whatever you see, you tend to, you know, take care of. But we don't see the thing that controls everything. So I always kind of wear these shirts. Just, you know, you can wear your motions on your sleeves. Maybe you wear your genius on your chest. But I absolutely. People have been calling me a brain coach from, you know, for years. And it's like, wow, that's, that's really accurate because a personal trainer,

what does a personal trainer do? They get your muscles, they get your body stronger, fitter, more agile, more energized, more flexible. Well, how much your mental muscles to be stronger, more energized, greater endurance, more, more flexible also as well. I want to be faster at these mental muscles. And so I like to take people to the mental gym, if you will. And so, and the brain is part of the body, right? It works. The brain is, it acts, It's an organ, but it acts more like a muscle, right? You know, I says here, use it, my shirt is use it or lose it. But if I put my arm in a sling for six months, it wouldn't grow stronger.

It wouldn't even stay the same. It would, it would attribute for weaker. And that's where people's cognitive decline comes from. Usually when they graduate school, because then they think, all my learning is done, because my education is done, there's a dip. And when they retire, because often when people retire, they retire their minds also as well. and then their body's not far behind. That's such a good point because most of our bodies do fall apart at the old age.

We got out of the sport we played or we got out of whatever we were doing. We got in a relationship. We got content. You let your body fall apart. It would make sense the mind would do the same thing. Well, thank you, Jim. I mean, this has been, pardon the pun, mind blowing to get to talk to you here today and some of the information you shared.

For people that are at the edge of their seats and they just want to know more, where can they find out more about you? For podcast listeners, we have our own podcast. It's 15 minutes long, and you can just search Jim Quick on their podcast app, and you'll see it there, where you can go to Quick Brain. Most people go to Quick Brain. You just have to spell it right. Quick really is my last name, but it's spelled K-W-I-KBrain.com. And there, they'll also get access to videos where I'll take people on stage and show you how I remember their names through different techniques. That's awesome. And then on the book, Limitlessbook.com, if you're interested, or you like to read,

audiobook, e-book, or printbook, on Limitlessbook.com, we donate the process. It's a charity. And so it's just like an owner's manual for your brain. And then the last thing is on social media. If we're connected, I would challenge actually everybody here to take a screenshot of whatever you're watching and listening to. Let's give you the last brain hack. If you want to learn any subject or skill faster, and I'd be where he talked about is the

ultimate advantage. You can apply. You can learn faster. You apply it there's money Mandarin, martial arts, music. Everything gets easier, right? You know, mobile home, everything gets easier. So what you do is learn it with the intention of teaching somebody else, right? Because they call it the explanation effect.

The explanation effect says that if you learn something to explain it to somebody else, you'll learn it twice as well. And so I encourage everyone to take a screenshot of this episode, you know, and tag the three of us on social media and post it. And then, but also post what you got out of this. One thing you're going to do for a limitless brain. What's one thing? Maybe it's that brain food.

I'm going to go out and get some of dark chocolate or avocado. knows. Maybe I'm going to troll a bit more of my thoughts. Maybe I'm going to do 10 minutes of exercise a day, you know, just to kind of break it up, some jump ropes and jumping jacks. Maybe I'm going to get those those brain vitamins, those omega threes. Maybe I'm just going to kind of like as we start, you know, another month or whatever. I'm going to kind of unsubscribe to the negativity of some of these peer groups, you know, that I see now that I'm in. I'm going to clean my room. Maybe small, simple steps. Remember this little by little, a little becomes a lot, right? inch by inch, it's a inch. You are by art is too hard. You don't have to do everything, just something. And so post it, tag us in it. And that way, I can see it. And I'll repost some of my favorites. And I'll actually send a copy of the book to one person. Just as a thank you.

This is a thank you. You know, because I really appreciate anyone who watches this. I know you have a very, you know, dynamic community. Everyone hears a radio lifelong learner. They wouldn't be listening to this, you know, if they weren't. And I believe that we're all on this journey together. You know, and the journey we're on together is to reveal and to realize our fullest potential and I believe there's a version of you that you haven't met yet and our goal is to

keep showing up until we're introduced to that person you know I always tell people that's the most quoted thing I say on like Twitter and everything but life is like an egg if an egg is broken by an outside force life ends but it's broken by an inside force life begins you know great things begin on the inside you know I believe everybody's listening you know you're listening you're listening to your greatness inside of you you have genius inside of you and you know now's a time to let it out. You don't want to downgrade your dreams to meet this current situation. You want to upgrade your mindset, your motivation, your skills to be able to meet those grand dreams. That's so good, man. Well, thank you so much for being a part of this today. This is

awesome. I encourage everyone go pick up a copy of Limit List. It is amazing. And I mean, it's one of those like, it's if you change the fuel that goes into your body, it's going to affect every part of your life. This is the fuel that goes into your brain. Like, this is how we improve our brain. And so if you're trying to improve your relationships, your parenting, your wealth, whatever it is, your body, all that stuff is improved by fixing and improving your brain. So thank you for writing this. And thanks for joining us today. Thank you both so much. All right.

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