Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - How does Jim Kwik Remember Numbers and Names? - Making Sense of Memory Recall with Jim Kwik - Episode 63

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. J.C. Dornick podcast. This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness and performance. On the Make Sense podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is a subjective and acquired taste. What we know is that when you change the way you look at things, the things that you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. J.C. Dornick podcast.

Starting point is 00:00:37 Makes sense. First of all, we're at my buddy's house here. I just want to say a couple of things because what you're about to experience is unique. And I think it's probably me taking advantage of my friendship with him because I'm getting our buddy Jim Quick here that everybody knows so well. He's going to be just giving it away today. He's going to just give you a giveaway. Give away so much amazing stuff.

Starting point is 00:01:02 Just on a personal basis, what I can say about Jim. You can find out everything you want to know about him, what he's done in the world and how many people he's helped, his heart. But I know him as an actual human being, you know, off the cameras. 25 years. 25 years, yeah. He's a real person. He's a good friend. He's a dad.

Starting point is 00:01:21 He's a husband. He's a son. He's human. A lot of people don't think Jim Quick is human, but he's actually human. And what he's done for me as a friend, obviously he's been there for me all the time, as I am for him. When I first came across what Jim was doing, and he's been doing this for a long time, but he's just completely leveled it up to this limitless level. I was always interested in this idea of how two people could come from the same circumstances and go after the same thing and get different results.

Starting point is 00:01:52 That's always been fascinating to me. And what I realize when you do some deep work there is that it's who you are, and for the sake of this conversation, how well your brain has been trained and how well it works, but it's who you are that determines how well what you do works. So what's so fascinating about my experience is Jim's taught me how to speed read, my daughter as well, to the point where I consume 50 plus books a year, which is something I never thought I would do where I'm addicted to reading. But also, the memory retention of the books, that's one thing. But to gain access beyond this, what I was trained to think, our brains work at a certain capacity. You know, I saw that movie with Bradley Cooper Limitless. It's almost like I took NZT 17 or whatever it was called. Sure, I stopped forgetting things and I started remembering people's names. And I've seen Jim stand at a door in front of a pack room that's walking in 300 people and he remembers everybody's names. And I said, teach me how to do that because I wanted to see how it would relate to myself. But, Jim's coursework, and you're going to hear just nuggets from it today that you can apply right now,

Starting point is 00:02:59 is going to take you and position you as a different version that will set goals, but now start getting goals. And here's why. This is why I think it's so relevant that we're doing this live here in November, 2004. Right about now is when you're starting to make your decisions. Actually, it starts in October, where we start to decide what we want to see change in 2025. But at the same time, we will notice the oscillating illusion that can't do the same thing and expect different results. You know that scenario. So Jim is going to help you change that situation to the point where you're going to be able

Starting point is 00:03:37 to become the person that has a much higher chance of succeeding. So remember, who you are determines how well what you do works. Jim is going to actually teach you how to level up the hoop. Jim, I want to start off by addressing a question that a lot of people say, oh, I want to take Jim Quicks memory recall and a speed reading. Because you're looking at a guy that actually was at a disadvantage with a brain injury as a child. He had to learn how to learn. He didn't know he's going to teach you guys that. But people don't have bad memories.

Starting point is 00:04:07 They just have untrained brains. So maybe we can start off from there. I appreciate it. So I met Dr. J.C. when I was a patient of his a couple decades ago. And so, yeah, he's been so supportive. So I love doing things with him and being part of the community. Let's jump into it. Let's turn us into a master class.

Starting point is 00:04:28 I recommend everybody takes notes. Everyone knows there's a learning curve, right? And we have the chats open also as well. Or if you're watching the recording, I look forward to seeing your comments. People don't realize that we could grow older, but we could grow better. You know, me being in my 50s, everything is measurable. And that's the thing I like about it. You can measure reading speed, reading comprehension,

Starting point is 00:04:48 You could take tests on your ability to remember names or numbers or client information, product information, and see before and afters. And I have to say, I'm scoring above anything that I've done in my 20s, 30s, and 40s. So, you know, I just want to put that out there. The science of neuroplasticity, you could really train your mind to do remarkable things. And so that's what limitless is all about. It's not about being perfect. Limitless is about advancing and progressing beyond what you currently believe is possible.

Starting point is 00:05:15 As JC mentioned, and if there's time with an audience, I'll do demonstrations where I'll memorize, let's say, a room of people's names, or they'll challenge me and make up 100 random words or 100 digit number, and I'll recall it forwards and backwards. But I always tell people, I don't do this to impress you. I do this to express to you what's possible, because the truth is each and every one of you, you could do this too. And if automatically something in your mindset said, there's just no way, then that's a mindset issue, which we could talk about in this session. Just like there's a learning curve, there's a forgetting curve. You know, when you hear something once or read it once, within 48 hours, do you know how much you forget on average? It's upwards of 80%.

Starting point is 00:05:57 So four out of five pieces of information is just gone. And so I advise everyone to take some notes. One of my favorite ways of taking notes. Some of you like digital note-taking. Some of you like handwriting notes. Handwriting notes actually scores better. And when students at universities are tested, they score better for comprehension.

Starting point is 00:06:14 they score better for memory retention. Digital's great for storing information, for sharing information. But if you can handwrite the notes first before you digitize them or some people get clever, they have those things on their tablets where they can draw on it. One of my favorite ways of taking notes, as you're watching this on video, is a whole brain note-taking technique that we teach where you put a line right down the page. Very simple. And on the left side, you capture.

Starting point is 00:06:39 And on the right side, you create. So as we're teaching accelerated learning in memory, I want us to be doing it also. I feel like we don't know it unless we could do it. Capture, create. So on the left side is very logical, just like your brain. Your right side is more visual, more imagination. And it's an oversimplification by far.

Starting point is 00:06:58 But so what are you capturing on this side? Things like how to remember names and faces. Where are the best foods for a better memory? How do you read faster? You're capturing. What are you writing on the right side, your impressions of what you're capturing? So things like, what questions do I have? How does this relate to what I already know?

Starting point is 00:07:16 When am I going to use this? And so if your imagination is going to distract you, which we're all guilty of when we're on Zooms or some kind of pro we're there, then I'd rather distract you on the right side of the page. So another way of saying it on the left side, you're capturing or your note taking. On the right side, you're creating or your note making. No, taking, making left and right brain. And it's a great place to start.

Starting point is 00:07:40 So let's go into why I know it's possible. Just real quick. Maybe some people could relate. JC mentioned that I had a brain injury when I was five. So I fell on a windowsill and ricocheted to a radiator. Both had, you know, impact and it rushed to the emergency room. I got knocked out. There were all these fire trucks outside of kindergarten,

Starting point is 00:07:59 and we couldn't see outside the windows. Everyone grabbed their chairs. And I stood on the chair, and unfortunately, I lost my balance. And, you know, because of it, I've had a lot of challenges. As a kid, I would have migraines every day. I would have balanced coordination issues, poor focus, poor memory, which I'm going to teach you techniques that I've learned, improved focus and memory in this session. It took me three and a half years just to learn how to read, and that was very embarrassing. Like the other kids could read. They would pass around that book.

Starting point is 00:08:27 For me, just think about the self-doubt, think about the lack of confidence, think about the low self-esteem. I remember when I was nine years old, I was slowing down in class and I was being teased because I just didn't understand the lessons and teacher would have to repeat herself to help me and kids were teasing me because of it. And teacher came to my defense. She pointed to me in front of the whole class and said, leave that kid alone. That's the boy with the broken brain. That label really became my limit, if you will, because I didn't know. Like when we're born, you're a blank slate. Adults have to be very careful of their external awards because they often become a child's internal words. So every single time I wasn't picked for sports, which was every week, or every

Starting point is 00:09:08 single time I did badly in school, which was every day, I would always say to myself, oh, because I have the broken brain. You know, at events that JC was mentioning, we shared this, had the blessing of sharing the stage together. People invariably pull me aside before, after my presentation in the lobby and say, Jim, I'm so glad you're here as a memory coach. I'm just too old. Or they'll say something like, I'm not that smart. I have a horrible memory. And I always say the same thing. I'm I put my hand up and I say, stop. If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them. They're yours.

Starting point is 00:09:39 Your brain is this incredible supercomputer. Your self-talk, your belief system are the programs it will run. So if you tell yourself, I'm not good at remembering people's name, then you're not going to remember the name of the next person you meet because you program your supercomputer not to. Does that make sense? Let me ask you a question about that. So what does that say for things like affirmation?

Starting point is 00:09:59 Some people say that's a waste of time, but self-talk. I think when you take. self-talk and you add to components. So the self-talk is verbal, but when you could add a visual and you could add a kinesthetic aspect to it, meaning you're saying the affirmation, but you're visualizing it too, and you feel like grateful or you feel excited. It's a way of combining, I think the ultimate success formula is h cubed, your head, your heart, and your hands. Your head, your heart, your hands. When things align, everything just changes. One of the most important parts of her memory or I think the process of manifestation is so you have a trium brain all right

Starting point is 00:10:40 and I know we're going to go into tactics if you make a fist like this you see like this I know you know a lot about human anatomy and the nervous system your wrist would be your reptilian brain and your reptilian brain and this is certain functions that keep you alive it makes your heartbeat it maintains your core body temperature it maintains your breathing very very primal your fist is the middle brain all right so that's middle brain. And then if you put your other hand on top of it, like a cap, that's your neocortex. So when we hear about your left and right brain, that's the top hat, left and right brain. And splitting it is something called your corpus colossum, which is a network of fibers that facilitates communication between your left and right brain. So, and it's much more

Starting point is 00:11:23 sophisticated in this. Obviously, your brain is you're the most valuable, well-filling asset we have. It's the most complex, but it doesn't come with an owner's manual. It's not user-friendly. And that's why we wrote Limitless. That's why we have our podcast to educate people on how to use your brain. Because you know how to use your brain, you know, everything changes. And I want people to really know their brain. I want people to trust their brain. I want people to love their brain.

Starting point is 00:11:47 And most of all, I want people to use their brain. You notice I'm wearing a brain on my shirt. I'm always pointing to my brain in photographs because I feel like what you see, you take care of. You see your car, your skin, your hair, your whatever, your clothes. Because you know when it's deteriorating. but we don't see the thing that takes care of us. So I always want to bring attention to your brain,

Starting point is 00:12:06 which for all of you, it's your number one treasure because it controls everything. And part of my message to all of you today is you don't have to be the passenger of your brain. You could be the pilot of that. I love that idea. Let me ask you a question. You were kind of pushed into this

Starting point is 00:12:20 with what happened at the time to you, but it ended up for you. What does that say without you throwing this education system under the bus? But what does that say about an education system where we're going through it and not finding out until we meet Jim quick that nobody's taught us how to learn? And I always thought it was interesting. And please put in the chat, if you feel the same way, that school teaches you what to learn, math, history, science. Which makes you just take it for what they say.

Starting point is 00:12:48 Right. Yeah. Especially if you don't have taught critical thinking skills and analytical skills. But school teaches you what to learn, but there are no classes on how to learn. And part of our message here for all of you. is it's not how smart you are. It's actually how are you smart. It's not how smart your spouses or your kids are,

Starting point is 00:13:06 your coworkers are. It's how are they smart? And we all have different ways of expressing and developing our own genius. And like even when you think about standardized tests, we took you here in the United States, it's like half of it is verbal. The other half is math.

Starting point is 00:13:22 And that's, you know, the proxy for helping you get into universities and everything else. But there's so many other forms of intelligence. There's visual, spatial intelligence. People are just really great artists. And these are future architects, you know, graphic designers, painters. But there's also kinesthetic intelligence. People are just amazing.

Starting point is 00:13:41 They have this genius with their body, you know, whether they're martial artists or their choreographers. And then also there's musical intelligence. There's interpersonal intelligence. People like yourself who just really have this gift of connecting with other people, intrapersonal. And that's where interpersonal is self. to others, interrupt personal and self-to-self.

Starting point is 00:14:02 These are individuals that have a deep connection with themselves. They have this self-awareness and they have this understanding. And so, yeah, there's so many different ways of expressing our genius. And does IQ play? What is IQ? Yeah. So IQ is this antiquated way of measuring intelligence. The idea when it was created was like you take this test.

Starting point is 00:14:29 your potential when your aid is the same as it is when it's 88. And that's absolutely not true. We know, we've learned more about the human brain in the past 20 years than the previous 2,000 years combined. And what we found is we're grossly underestimating your own capabilities. You know, this phenomenon of neuroplasticity, which is your brain's ability to make new connections as you age through novelty and nutrition, it changes everything. So you could change the pathways of your thinking, your feeling, the way you understand

Starting point is 00:14:58 things. And so I'm very excited about that. But going back to, you know, the human brain, I mean, think about 86 billion brain cells, neurons. And each one has upwards of 10,000 synaptic connections. And if you would extrapolate that, that's more connections than there are in the known universe. So it's very exciting. But school teaches you what to learn, but they don't always show you how to learn. There's no class on focus or flow or concentration. Certainly not a class on speed reading or memory. I always thought it should have been the fourth are in school. All right. They teach reading, writing, arithmetic. Obviously, spelling is not one of them. But what about recall? What about retention? Socrates said learning is remembering.

Starting point is 00:15:39 And there's a quote in limitless that's highlighted a lot that says life is the letter C between the letters B and D. Life is C between B and D. What does that mean? I would write it down, please. B stands for birth, D stands for death, life C, choice, that your life is a a reflection of all the choices you've made up to this point. Where are you going to live? What are you going to focus on? What are you going to feed your mind? What are you going to eat? Who are you going to spend time with? All these decisions. And I believe these difficult times, they can distract you. These typical times, they can diminish you or these difficult times they can develop you. We always decide. And I think one of the most important things to decide is

Starting point is 00:16:18 that you are a thermostat. You're not a thermometer. What does that mean? Think about the functionality of a thermometer. There's a thermometer on your wall. What is its function? What is it, what's its job? What does it do? Let's you know what the temperature is. Yeah. It just reacts to the temperature of the room. Sometimes as human beings, we react, right? We react to how people treat us. We react to politics. We react to the weather, right? We have a young son. And I caught myself the other day because it was kind of foggy and drizzly outside. And I was like, oh, it's a bad day out today. And I realize the subtext of what I was saying to my son is your happiness is based on the weather, right? When a thermostat is different, it doesn't react to the environment. It gauges. It knows

Starting point is 00:17:06 what's going on. So you can know what's going on in politics. You can know what's going on in the world. But what does a thermostat do that's different than a thermometer? It sets a temperature, right? And then what happens the environment, the environment reacts to you. I think that's one of the goals of leadership in knowing that reminding yourself that you have more power and then you realize that you have. Because that

Starting point is 00:17:27 temperature on that thermostat, that could be your goal. That could be your vision. That could be, you know, your KPIs. It could be, you know, some kind of aspiring, you know, a reality and taking the invisible and making it invisible. That maybe it's like Wayne Dyer said. It's not that you'll believe

Starting point is 00:17:45 but when you see it, maybe it's the opposite. You'll see it when you start believing it also. And so, yeah, I love to spend the rest of time really going into tactics. Yeah, we're going to... Let's take a quick break to hear from our sponsor. The Make Sense podcast is sponsored by the Make Sense Academy, co-created by both myself, Meeker, aka The Chicken, and The Dragon. The Make Saints Academy is a live interactive community.

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Starting point is 00:18:45 Now, back to the Make Sense podcast. Jim's courses are available everywhere, but specifically through quick learning and all of that. But we're going to offer you something that is very, very unique. We should give it to them now and then we could get into the tips. We'll let them see what it looks like now. People go. So JC has asked me if we can do something very special for the communities.

Starting point is 00:19:06 And your success is our success. And, you know, I will go and deliver. deliver as many tips as possible that are practical and pragmatic and proven. But there's a difference being tips in training. Yeah. And so we have the largest online academy in the world for accelerated learning and students in every country in the world. And we would invite you to join us. It's just at Jim Quick. You had the spell array. Quick really is my last name. KW.I.K. It's my father's name, my grandfather's name, Jimquick.com for slash dragon, and you'll get an exclusive, a special, reduced, discounted rate as a thank you for just being part of the community.

Starting point is 00:19:45 That's our way of just being supportive of you and, you know, my history with JC. I guilted him into it. Yeah. But one thing I want you to know is when Jim created that for the community and so many people have already taken advantage of it, like my close friends, I looked up just to see. I mean, he's my friend. So I'm like, what kind of a deal is he giving us? It's a deal.

Starting point is 00:20:06 So I looked up and of course, I googled as well and I'm like, wow, you know, so. I think the reason why whether it's the courses or, you know, and it's not mandatory at all for this session, the most important skill to master in the 21st century, whether it's for your health, even your happiness, you're certainly the treasures of your life financially is your ability to learn rapidly. your ability to learn rapidly and translate that learning into action is the ultimate competitive advantage. You know, if you've seen photos of me online with Oprah or Elon Gates, whoever, people always ask how we connected. We connected over books, right? You read to succeed.

Starting point is 00:20:45 If somebody has decades of experience like yourself, like JC does, and he puts it into a book and you can sit down in a few days and read that book, you could download decades in the days, decades of insight, wisdom. Very matrix. Yeah. It's the fastest way to upgrade your brain, right? Your brain, we upgrade all our technology. You get a new phone when it comes out. You update your apps, you know, television, computer, whatever.

Starting point is 00:21:10 But once the last time we upgraded our most important technology that has created all technology, which is your brain. Let me say something just in the experience because I don't know about you guys, but I hated reading. Like, I think I read like Catcher in the Rye and that was it. And we're in a world right now where you can watch like five minute videos and think that you've encompassed everything. So I was the guy that would read so that I could fall asleep because I wouldn't even get through one page. So when I got to take Jim's course, I was very frustrated with what I thought I could accomplish. And by the way, my daughter has done this too. She's 14 years old.

Starting point is 00:21:49 And we not only mow through books and retain them on a new level, you know, we're constantly upgrading our brain. And Jim goes much further and he teaches you about brain foods and all this stuff. You're going to get access to all of that. I'm almost addicted to it. This is what's interesting about learning is once you learn how awesome it could be, I almost get like anxiety if someone takes it away from me. You know, how many people here, you know, you make steps to learn, you buy books and they sit on your shelf on read and it becomes shelf help, not self-help.

Starting point is 00:22:21 You know, what we teach people is not just how to read faster. It's also how to read smarter, how to understand. even if you're not reading faster, how to understand what you read, how to retain what you read. I think two of the most costly words in life are I forgot. Think about the consequences of saying, I forgot to do it, I forgot to go to that meeting or appointment, I forgot that conversation, I forgot what I was going to say, I forgot that person's name, I forgot what I just read. Every single time you have those thoughts, you lose time, you make errors, you can hurt a relationship.

Starting point is 00:22:48 And on the other side, when you could easily remember client information, product information, I mean, how many of you would love to give a speech without notes? public speaking. That was my biggest fear was my two base challenges, Jay C, growing up, were learning and public speaking. We built our whole friendship on that. Yeah, yeah, that's funny. We hosted a bunch of events together early on and viewings and, you know, it's one of those things. And the universe has a sense of humor because what do I do all day? My public speak on this thing called learning. But that's interesting how our struggles can become strengths. That would challenge comes change. When somebody gains the identity, like you did at five, but it's another one,

Starting point is 00:23:26 when you're an adult. Yeah. And you just kind of submit to this idea that you're at a disadvantage. What do you have to say to somebody like that? What's possible? I would say that, you know, as I mentioned, your brain is this incredible supercomputer and your self-talks, the program that will run.

Starting point is 00:23:41 So we tell yourself I'm not good at whatever remembering names. You won't remember the name and the next person you meet. And I say it even review it just to be able to part of our memory improves by repetition, right? But also it just puts the onus on us. I just want to remind everybody. that so many people out of fear are shrinking their goals or dreams to fit their minds. What if we expanded our minds to fit all that's possible? And the reason why I say your ability to learn rapidly, to learn, to unlearn, to relearn things,

Starting point is 00:24:10 is because today, the faster you learn, the faster you earn. Knowledge today is not only power, knowledge is profit. Because when you have more knowledge and wisdom, you can make better choices or decisions. But that means you retain that information. They're skipping that. They're skipping that. They're going straight for the earn and wondering why it's not working. Yeah, I think there's a sequence of success where you B, do, have, share. And if you try to shortcut it, a lot of people play the lottery to get to the half part. Let's say someone wins the lottery and has tens of millions of dollars.

Starting point is 00:24:43 Or I know people watching this internationally, whatever, your currency, they jump there. But what happens over time to the lottery winners? They lose all the money and more because they jumped from the B do have share. They jumped to the have, but they were never being a millionaire. So they were never doing those financially wise things that they should do to save, to invest, to grow. And they lost it. So yet the B do have and share because you learn to earn to return. For anyone who purchased limitless over the past few years, I want to thank you.

Starting point is 00:25:15 We donated 100% of the proceeds to charity. You know, in this time, we've built schools for children in need who have no access to education. In Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya. We've also supported research for Alzheimer's for women. Women are twice as likely experienced Alzheimer's than men. Yeah, most of the research is done on men and treatments on men. When I was seven going through all my biggest challenges, my superhero was my grandmother because my parents,

Starting point is 00:25:43 when they immigrated here and, you know, my parents well, like they're very hardworking, so they have many jobs. We live in the back of a laundromat that my mother worked at. So the person who took care of me was my grandmother. When I had my accident, she started showing early signs of dementia. She would call me by my father's name. She would repeat something. She just said a minute ago.

Starting point is 00:26:05 And any of you have a family member or someone close to you that has brain aging challenges, it's hard to see, you know, emotionally very difficult because your memory is kind of the tapestry of who you are. Somebody loses their memory. You know, they're not the same person. One quick question, because Alzheimer's is a big concern. If somebody's worried about Alzheimer's and they hear this, what's the number one thing you would tell them to do right now?

Starting point is 00:26:31 Yeah. There's no magic limitless pill, but there is a process. While Limitless is endorsed by the number one Alzheimer's researcher in the world, Dr. Rudy Tansy at Harvard, I also am by the Cleveland Clinic Center for Brain Health, the director there. And when I speak at these institutions, we know that about one third of your brain

Starting point is 00:26:54 predetermined by genetics and biology, but two-thirds is in your control. Now, if you've done research and looked into other areas of this, then some people say 100% in terms of how the genes express themselves. The analogy I've heard recently is like for Alzheimer's, your genetics loads the gun, but it's your lifestyle that will fire it off. And so, you know, regardless, we have a lot of influence. And so I would say if there's one thing, take your meds. And I don't mean pharmaceutical.

Starting point is 00:27:27 Just it's an acronym. So let's get into it. Meditation. And I know you have a meditative practice for years. And for me, it's not a should have. It's a must have. I feel like I'm at a disadvantage. How many of you meditate or have some kind of process?

Starting point is 00:27:42 A number of you. Like it's one of those things where just 10, 20 minutes of time where you disconnect so you can reconnect. And somebody the other day told me, I don't have 10 minutes to meditate. If you're so stressed and busy that you don't have 10 minutes, you should probably meditate for an hour. Yeah, you need it more.

Starting point is 00:28:01 Yeah, there's so much research and everything from stress management. Chronic stress has been shown to shrink the human brain. Most of us are living in fight or flight, that sympathetic kind of space and just taking time to relax. When you're in fight or flight, you're in your survival brain and just kind of hold you hostage to your executive functioning, to your creativity, to your ability to solve problems, make good decisions. So meditation is the M. The E and meds stands for exercise. And so notice is all free, right, meditation, exercise. And I don't just mean doing

Starting point is 00:28:37 CrossFit or Pilates a few times a week. I mean moving throughout the day. One of the most important things somebody could do if they're concerned with brain aging challenges is to move your body. I always tell people as your body moves, your brain grooves. When you exercise, you create dopamine, you create serotonin, you create endorphins. We are this neurochemical soup that improves your mood and your cognitive health and performance. And also when you exercise, you create something called BDNF, brain-derived neurotropic factors. And what is it? It's fertilizer for neuroplasticity.

Starting point is 00:29:08 And so movement's so important, yet most of us spend time on screens all day and they say sitting is a new smoking. I just want to encourage people every few times a day, take a brain break. And what are you doing that brain break? You're hydrating, as I've done like six times during this session, because your brain is mostly water. And just being dehydrated could even 2% could affect your cognitive performance. Staying hydrated has been shown to prove your reaction time, your thinking speed upwards of 30%. So during my brain break, I will hydrate and do some breathing. Clean out those mental cobwebs.

Starting point is 00:29:42 Your brain, again, is only 2% of your body mass. requires 20% of the nutrients and oxygen. And a lot of times people complain about being tired or having mental fatigue and they think they need calories, but really they need oxygen. And most people when they're like even reading, you're talking about speed reading. If you're slumped when you're reading that book, you're going to get tired because the lower one third of your lungs absorbs two thirds of the oxygen. So just maintaining your posture is so very important.

Starting point is 00:30:09 So during my brain break, even if it's five minutes, I will hydrate. I will do a series of like maybe 30 breaths, and then I will move, maybe doing some jumping jacks, calcetics, take the dog out for a few minutes. So very important. They've shown also that people, when they listen to your podcast or just any audio book or whatever, and they're doing something rhythmic, like they're on a treadmill, going for a brisk walk. You'll actually understand the information better, and you'll retain it better also as well. So very, very important. So that's the E is exercise. And then the D in meds are X, the D stands for diet.

Starting point is 00:30:46 I just want to remind people what you eat matters, especially for your grain matter. There's a whole area of science we talk about in limitless called neuronutrition. Some of my favorite brain foods, avocados, blueberries, broccoli, olive oil. If your diet allows eggs, the coline in eggs leads to acetylcholine, which is very important for cognitive health, green leafy vegetables, some kind of omega-3s, whether you get through salmon, sardines, flax. very important for your brain, turmeric. The active ingredient curcumin is anti-inflammatory. So it's a brain food. And then walnuts, high in vitamin E, very neuroprotective.

Starting point is 00:31:23 And probably everyone's favorite dark chocolate, dark chocolate, not milk chocolate. But those are, and on the other side, highly processed food, fried foods with all the chemicals, you don't even know what those things are, high sugar, right? Those glucose spikes could wreck havoc on your nervous system. I'm a coach, but I also have coaches. And in the beginning, when I couldn't afford a coach or trainer, books would be my coach. You know, they'd be my mentors of my mind. So diet, very important.

Starting point is 00:31:51 Finally, the S and meds, obviously, everyone could guess, it's sleep. And I'll say two things for your brain when you sleep. Because what we're talking about here to improve your memory, and I'll go into the process. But the process is like the software, how to remember names, how to learn a language, How to remember, I train a lot of actors or TED speakers to memorize their lines. That's the software. But the hardware is your brain itself. So what we're talking about with meds are things you could do every day just to take

Starting point is 00:32:21 care of the hardware, the brain. So the S is sleep. And for your brain, how do you perform mentally when you get a bad night's sleep? How's your ability to think, solve problems? How's your brain energy? How's your ability to focus? Remember things. So when you sleep, you can solid a short-to-long-term memory.

Starting point is 00:32:37 And I'm giving you the why to give you a little bit of extra incentive to prioritize your sleep. So if you have long-term memory issues, check your sleep. You can do an overnight sleep study. Any general physician could send prescriptions, send you a unit at home. You no longer have to go to a sterile sleep center, which I've done many times. When you sleep also, the sewage system and your brain kicks in. And you clean out that beta amyloid plaque that can lead the brain aging challenge. is again this this session is not meant to treat or diagnose any health condition right when we're

Starting point is 00:33:15 talking about Alzheimer's or tbIs it's just my personal experience that you know i read a lot i spend a lot of time with clients dealing with these issues this is my 30 third year of teaching um time flies and then so the sleep also besides the cleaning out of your brain and also the consolidating short and long to long-term memory, it's also where you dream. And just what I want to say on that in 15 seconds, so many things in the world were created in dream states. And that's in our culture. Mary Shelley created Frank Stein in her dream. Paul McCartney created yesterday, the song yesterday in his dream. A chemist created the periodic table in his dream. Elias Howe created the sewing machine in his dream. So what are you dreaming about? You know, I talk people in this program that many of you will join,

Starting point is 00:34:04 again, at jimquick.com, postage dragon. We teach you how to remember your dreams because there's gold to be mined in your dreams. But most people have a dream, but they forget it. How many of you have challenges in this area? You can't remember what you dreamt about. My favorite sleep hacks, and I can write a whole book on this, and please in the comments, let us know how your sleep is and your best sleep tip. Number one, get direct sunlight first thing in the morning. So every morning, my son and I go outside and just sun come up. And even if it's hazy or foggy, you'll still get the benefits because your eyes are the only part of your brain that's outside of your skull. And what this does is reset your circadian rhythm to help you sleep better that night.

Starting point is 00:34:44 Not sunlight through your window because the glass could filter out a certain spectrum of light. Now go outside if you can, five or ten minutes. Second thing, if you're sensitive to coffee like I am, like caffeine specifically, it gets in your system like 10 plus hours. So I kind of lay off the tea at 12 o'clock. And then probably three biggest ones, you have an alarm to wake up, highly recommend you use that alarm to go to sleep. So your brain, as you know, your nervous system loves a schedule even on the weekends.

Starting point is 00:35:16 No one gets this perfect. I certainly don't. But to the degree you could go to sleep at the same time and wake up at the same time. We'll improve your overall sleep long term. And then the last two things for sleep. Thousands of years ago, you would know instinctively it was time to sleep because the environment would tell you. There would be a decrease in two environmental factors. What are they? Temperature and light.

Starting point is 00:35:38 It gets cooler and it gets darker. So as best you can in your residence, in your home, darker and cooler. Now we're so cold, you're shivering, you know, because that's going to keep you up. But maybe you can take a warm bath. And if you use Epsom salt, you'll absorb the magnesium, which helps you to be able to relax. Take a warm shower, do a sauna. But when you step out of the shower, your core body temperature drops. And that's a signal for you to create melatonin, which is the hormone to help you relax.

Starting point is 00:36:05 And also you create melatonin when it's dark at night. And you know what the culprit is? Our devices, right? I have a video with Simon Cynic 10 years. I just saw there, like 10 years on Facebook. And it was just me saying, don't touch your phone in the first 30 minutes a day or the last 30 minutes a day. Because it will disrupt your focus, your sleep, your memory, and make you more reactive and distracted. So those are the kind of challenges.

Starting point is 00:36:30 So your devices, maybe put the setting on night mode. me overall don't use it because you would never invite 500 strangers to come into your bedroom at night, right? But that's what we're doing kind of like when we open up our phone. So darker and cooler, the better. So those are your meds. If you want to improve it, RX, meds RX, ours relationships and who you spend time with, it matters. Where they say they're the average of five people we spend time with because we have these things in our system called mirror neurons. Like when you look in your reflection, we imitate the people around us.

Starting point is 00:37:04 And so that's probably the biggest needle mover. We had on our podcast, the director of the largest study at Harvard for happiness and longevity. And he was saying, yes, diet's important. Yes, exercise is important. But for long life and a half your life, it's your social. But it's not just your neurological networks. It's your social networks. And having those deep relationships.

Starting point is 00:37:24 It doesn't have you a spouse. It's just deep relationships. Because we mirror the people around us also. Here's another acronym. Watch, W-AT-C-H. Your words, we have. copy other people's words and language. A is actions. We behave like other people. The T is thoughts we think like people we spend the most time with. And then the C is character. We tend to have the same

Starting point is 00:37:45 moral compass as the people we spend the most time with. And the H habits, right? Like whether you smoke has less to do with your biology and more do your friends smoke? Or do your friends work out? Do they read? Do they meditate? You're more likely to eat healthy. You're more likely to do those things. Remember, first you create your habits, then your habits create you. So meds are X. And the X is just the extras. The extras are coal plunging, right? Pulse electromagnetic field therapy.

Starting point is 00:38:15 If you struggle with trauma, looking into something like EFT or EMDR, right, these are the extras, neutropics. In the book, we list dozens of the science-back substances that it will improve your focus, memory, mood, mental energy. We put that at brainnutrition.com. If you don't buy the book, you can get the list and I linked all the studies. But that would be the extras. But I would always do the first few before the extras. So focus on meditation, exercise, diet, sleep, and the R relationships. This gives everybody a different perspective on your 2025 goals.

Starting point is 00:38:53 You know, typically we're very narrow-minded about like it's weight loss or make more money or stuff. But it's be, do have who you are determines how well what you do works. So I'm just going to encourage everybody to take this wake up call, maybe not add everything, but add those things in there so that you can also take the step of becoming the person that will actually succeed. So let's go over some mechanics, those things they're ready for. Let's go. So we talked about the hardware, you know, the sleep, the diet, the meditation, everything that's good for your brain. There's three keys to a better memory. And I want you to remember mom, MOM.

Starting point is 00:39:30 And I'm using a lot of acronyms as shorthand just because, again, these are tips, not the training that most of you will join. So let's say, let's play a mental experiment. Let's say JC has a suitcase for you, has a million dollars cash or whatever the equivalent is in your, where you live. If you just remember the name of the next stranger you meet, who's going to remember that person's name for a million dollars? Everybody, right? So as your coach, at least in this time, your brain coach, I want to remind you. I'm going to call you on your BS, your belief systems. It's not true you can't remember names.

Starting point is 00:40:05 You're going to remember a name for a million dollars. So it had nothing to do to your capability. It has everything to do with the first M and mom, which is your motivation. What is your motive for taking action? So a simple thing you could do to remember names, ask yourself. And I did this for a few weeks and now I just do it automatic. Ask yourself, why do I want to remember the person's name? Because remember the formula, head, heart, hands.

Starting point is 00:40:26 If you don't have a why heart, some kind of emotion, you're not going to remember it. Because you don't remember all names, but I promise you you don't forget all names. And genius leaves clues, even for yourself. When you were doing something, there is a method behind what looks like magic. And I would suppose the names you remember are people you're attracted to, people that could be good for your business, right? There's some kind of why. So reasons reap results. As Simon Sinek, I mentioned them earlier, you wrote a great book, I'll start with why.

Starting point is 00:40:57 So ask yourself, why do I remember this person's name? Maybe to show the person respect. Maybe it's to practice these things I learned from JC and Jim. That makes a good podcast, JJ. Maybe it's to show the person of respect, get a referral. Again, just coming up with a reason will help you. The O and Mom, and let's do this. I want everybody to shake out your hand, do this.

Starting point is 00:41:18 Everybody do this, make a fist, and put it to your chin. Where's your chin, right? This is your cheek. This is your chin. But my point in doing it, and I don't know if I caught you on that, is the oh and mom is observation, paying attention. And the art of memory is the art of attention. And we live in the attention age where with technology, we're always driven to distraction. But your focus, your attention is a muscle. It's use it or lose it. One of the reasons I don't like

Starting point is 00:41:45 people touching their phone the first 30 minutes a day is not only doesn't make you reactive, right? You get one voicemail message, email, text message. It puts, you know, hijack your mood. But the other reason, it doesn't just drive you, wire you for reaction. It wires you for distraction. Every like, share, comment, cat video, you know, every app notification, social media alert. First thing in the morning, your brain is very susceptible, right? You're in the most relaxed state. You will be in the entire day.

Starting point is 00:42:14 And so, you know, if you're flexing your distraction muscles first thing, how you do anything is how you do everything. You wonder why you can't focus with the kids or focus when you're in a meeting. Your mind just wanders. And that's why you meditate. It's not that you stop thinking. It's that when you think about something that takes you out of the present, the bills, work, dry cleaning, and you pull it back using a mantra or you pull it back using your breath.

Starting point is 00:42:37 You practice building your focus muscles. And then when you're distracted later in the day, because life happens, you have flexed the strength and you could bring it back to the present. And so very, very important, I think, an important aspect to all. all of this. So the O is observation. Just listen. In fact, as you're taking notes, write the word listen down, and here's some brain exercise. Scramble the letters in the word listen, and it spells another word perfectly. It spells the word silent. You have this incredible genius of a brain. You can remember a name. It's one word, maybe two words. But we were just never taught. There was no class

Starting point is 00:43:18 teaching people how to improve their memory. And that's why we, you know, we created this special course. we're inviting you to join us because this is the most comprehensive 30-day program and 15 minutes a day to triple your memory, whether you want to learn a language in a third of the time, remember things three times better. Let me say something about that. I have the luxury of like having access to this guy for so long. But when you hear him say something like that, like triple your memory or triple your speed reading and stuff like that, I want you to understand something he doesn't say, but I can say this

Starting point is 00:43:50 as a course taker. It doesn't take 30 days for you to realize how much better it's getting. Like, even the first day, the first day you learn something, it unlocks. I think one of the best ways of changing belief systems, negative beliefs, is getting yourself to do something you never thought you could do. So in the first day, you know, I show you how to memorize 20 random words. You know, we start with words and we go into like speeches and languages and everything. And it's fun. And it works for everyone, regardless of your age.

Starting point is 00:44:22 your background, your career, your diet, your education level, your financial situation, gender, history, IQ. Just we need the training. And then that's it. So going back, three keys for better memory. You need the motivation. So ask yourself why. In the case of memory names, why do I remember this person's name? The O observation. Just listen. Just pay attention. And that's what all people want is your presence, right? That's the ultimate gift. That's why it's called present. So the idea here is just listen for it. And then the M are the methods. And I'll give everybody one for memory names, suave. Just very, very simple. S, it's an acronym again. So you remember a lot.

Starting point is 00:44:56 You say it. The U is use it. The A is you ask about it. How do you spell it? Who are you named after? What does it mean? Where is it, you know, from? It works really well for unusual names. Names you don't hear all the time. The V is visualize. Just visualize like the person's name on their forehead. Like you're drawing in a marker. Or if person's name is Mark, imagine just putting a checkmark on their forehead. Right. Kind of silly. You don't share this with Mark. But it overcomes what I, what I call the six second syndrome. People tell you something like their name.

Starting point is 00:45:25 You have six seconds at max to do something with it. Otherwise, the name just disappears. So the visual person names Mike. Imagine they're singing karaoke on this microphone. All right. Someone's name's Carol. You can imagine them singing holiday Christmas carols. The person's name is Mary.

Starting point is 00:45:41 Imagine she's holding two lambs like Mary had a little lamb. And once you know that person's name, the pictures disappear. It's just a way of observant. So the V is visualized. And then the E and swab end. leave saying goodbye and the conversation saying their name. Because how remarkable is that? Because I know you've done it, J.C.

Starting point is 00:45:57 You walk into a room, let's say, 5, 10, 20 strangers, and you leave saying goodbye to every single one using their name? Who are they all going to remember? I don't remember you. Back in the day when I didn't really know, I just thought he was like some sort of a genius. We're all geniuses. I just thought Jim had this ability to hear something and recall it.

Starting point is 00:46:16 But it wasn't until I started taking the course, that I started paying attention to what he was doing. to do that. And then all of a sudden, I mean, I still think he's a genius, but it started makes sense. I love it. So those are the methods. So we've talked about like meds RX, you know, we talked about M-O-M, and we talked about swab. These are simple things you can do to make your life easier. That's really my goal is to build better, brighter brains. And again, regardless of your age, your background, the stage you are in life, this is something that everybody can improve. Just like if you want someone to lose weight or get healthy, there's a certain

Starting point is 00:46:54 protocol that's universal. And everyone's a little bio-individual. So we tailor, you know, a lot of our training based on your brain type. The memory is a force multiplier. When you improve your memory, every area of your life gets better. And it's just, I mean, everybody wants to keep their brain sharp. It's something else. Like there was a study, it's on its cover of Time magazine. The book was written called Aging with Grace, where they had these nuns living 80, 90, and above. And They wanted to find out was the secret to longevity. They said half of it was their faith and, you know, their gratitude, emotional fulfillment. But the other half, they were lifelong learners.

Starting point is 00:47:28 They were debating. They were doing research. They were having these great conversations or reading and so on. And they say that's what they attribute to adding years to their life, but also life to their years. If you want to look up the books called Ageing with Grace, but keeping your brain active. The two big dips we see in cognitive performance is usually when people, when they graduate school because people associate learning with their education and they think that their education's done, their learning is done. And the second time is when people retire, because often when people retire,

Starting point is 00:48:00 they retire their minds. And then unfortunately, their body isn't far behind. So it's always use it or lose it, absolutely. And one of the best ways of training your brain, reading. Reading is to your mind, what exercises to your body. Or if you want to train it even deeper, we invite you to join. We have a bundle where you could, our two flagship programs is quick reading and quick recall. Quick reading in 15 minutes a day, you could triple your reading speed with better comprehension and better retention in 21 days. You'll improve the first day 50%. So my goal is for people to stack benefits right as soon as humanly possible.

Starting point is 00:48:35 But what the team did talking to your team was we did a sale exclusively for this community. The reading and memory you could get at a discounted rate, even less expensive than one of the program. So we invite you to join that. And there's be some special bonuses that you'll just be surprised with. Yeah, one thing I want to say about that, because I know that sometimes people, and I understand why they would take the speed reading course, but they'll to learn how to retain and recall. Or skip the speed reading course and just say,

Starting point is 00:49:08 oh, I just want to learn how to improve my memory and my recall and then say, well, are you satisfied with what you already have? only as something. So me personally, just as somebody that's done it and my children have done it, I always say whatever it is that we consume with regularity ends up being what we assume with regularity. So choose your books wisely. By the way, one of the most difficult things in the entire world is to buy Jim a book, by the way, just as a side. Oh, he's like I already got that one. If you take the speed reading and you learn how to consume more efficiently, just think about how cool that is to be able to learn recall on that.

Starting point is 00:49:48 You know, I had when I was years, decades ago, I get a call on a Friday evening from a number I didn't see. And back then you answer the phone. Nowadays, you just don't, right? But I did. And it was, I didn't know the person, but they referred to me by a very, very close friend. So I had the conversation.

Starting point is 00:50:05 And this person was frantic. He was like, Jim, we have a speaker that's coming, supposed to come in tomorrow. It's our keynote speaker. And he's not able to make it. can you fill in for him in New York City? And I was just like, well, I normally book my speeches six months a year ahead of time. It's not how it works. But it came from a very close friend, right? And so I say, well, if I can make it work, what's the topic? And he tells me the topic.

Starting point is 00:50:29 And I was like, why are you calling me? I don't know anything about that topic. There must be other experts that really could fill in better. He's like, yeah, I know, but he wrote a book. And I'm like, so a lot of speakers write books. He's like, yeah, but you're a speed reader. And I put it two to two together, right? And so he's like, can you come a little bit early, read a book and then give the keynote? And I said, okay, this is really going to cost you. So the speech was at like around noon. I show up at 10.15, 1030. I read this book and then I give a presentation on it. And humbly, you know, when they send surveys out to events, like in terms of what people liked or whatever, it was the highest rated talk of the conference. And it's not because I think I'm

Starting point is 00:51:12 and create speaker. I've never taken a minute of public speaking training, but I do know how to teach in a way that's memorable. And I did understand the book. When you learn how to smart read something, we've had people be able to remember things better than the authors did than in terms of their knowledge. So, yeah, reading and memory just kind of go hand in hand. So I just love a good book. And it's a great exercise for your brain. But yeah, going back to this, though, one of my first students, when I learned this information a few decades ago, I started, I couldn't help it help other people. And I started to tutor. And one of my clients, she was a college freshman, she read 30 books in 30 days. How many of you would love to go to the bookstore, Amazon, get 30 books, and not skim or scan, but really read it, right?

Starting point is 00:52:02 I mean, how you get books on finance and health and whatever, productivity, you could get a PhD in any category as a book a week, right? I know you're reading. like, what do you are going to know, like 50 books a year? That's a huge advantage. And I'm reading, I'm reading complicated books, too, like that I normally would back off of. And I'm finding myself, like, like vocabulary's gotten better. Yeah, this is amazing. Like, there's so many benefits to reading. And nonfiction and fiction reading also, because fiction reading, there's so many brain benefits also. But going to back to this, I wanted to find out what, you know, this young lady, she read 30 books in 30 days, not skimmer scanned.

Starting point is 00:52:40 And I wanted to find out not how. You'll learn exactly how in the program in the 21 days. I want to know why. Like, what was her motivation going back to MOM? And I found out her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was only given two months to live. Think about it, just 60 days. And the books she was reading were books that save her mom's life.

Starting point is 00:53:00 I wish her love, prayers. I don't hear from her. Six months later, I get a call from this young lady, and she's crying profusely. And I don't know how much time goes by. Well, when she stops, I find out there, tears of joy that her mother not only survive was really getting better doctors know how they don't know why they were calling it a miracle but our mother tributes 100% to the great advice she got from her daughter

Starting point is 00:53:21 who got it from these books and in that moment i realized two things if knowledge is power learning is your superpower and we could all be better learners the second thing i realized was my my my my mission in life to build better brighter brains really no brain left behind because I know what it's like to feel overloaded, to feel distracted, to feel forgetful, to feel like mentally drained. There's simple things that I really wish was taught back in school, you know, or part of an onboarding for work or university or what have you. But, you know, we have the responsibility.

Starting point is 00:54:00 We have to do our part. And I feel like the information that we're learning is always going to change. The half-life, you know, it's getting is updated, you know, the amount of information. So our ability to learn something, unlearn it. relearn it is so very powerful. And it's a gift you give yourself. Because I feel like you give someone an idea in a session like this. You can enrich their life.

Starting point is 00:54:19 But if you teach a person how to learn, they can enrich and empower their own lives. Forever. Forever. Forever. Well, this has been wonderful. And I just want everyone that's watching, you know, if you are part of the Make Sense Academy, you've got a lot of fun treats coming to you already. That's awesome.

Starting point is 00:54:39 We're not only. I love the energy in the live chat. So many support. It's fun. There's so many good people out there that make this all so much fun. So there's going to be a recorded video that will not live long on YouTube. So there's that. You're also going to get the audio version so you can listen to this conversation in your car and your iPod or something like that.

Starting point is 00:55:05 Did I just say iPod? What's an iPod? What's an iPod? Is that like a CD-ROM? And then also the transcript. You know, a lot of you have been, you know, messaging me, what did he say, all that? So we'll provide all of that stuff. So if you're a ticket holder already for the Creative Con event, by the way, Julie, the organizer said,

Starting point is 00:55:25 Thank you, Julie. Said, Jim, you can come to CreativeCon. We won't make you read anything. But anyway, ticket holders for CreativeCon, you're going to get all those goodies as well as Make Sense Academy. But if you're somebody that wants to get access to those things, and a couple of little fun treats, just put the word limitless in the chat, in the comments, DM me, and just let us know that you'd like to receive that stuff as well,

Starting point is 00:55:51 or at least most of it. Or check out CreativeCon or Make Sense Academy, which is hosted on the school platform. You can find out information about that, right? Make sense or create or something like that, and we'll make sure you get that. But any, you know, Jim, this is a really crazy world we're living in. right now. And one of the things that can very easily distract people is distractions. What would you say is,

Starting point is 00:56:19 because we're coming to the end of the year, we've got holidays, we've got a whole host of things that people will use to justify and excuse themselves from doing the work. Do you have any suggestions on how people can close out this year, but position themselves, more importantly, to make 2025 the year they break the chains of insanity and actually go through with what they're said they're going to do. Do you have any like advice? I love this. Great question. So I think there's a science to manifestation taking the invisible and making it, making it invisible. And I love being around creators. I think the future belongs to the creators. You know, everything you see is created by by something and somebody.

Starting point is 00:57:10 So I would go, I would say this, there's a difference between goal setting and goal getting, for sure, that there is three things you could always control, which is your mindset, your motivation, and the methods you're using to achieve anything. You know, but somebody learns methods for making money or social media marketing, but they're not really, but their mindset is,

Starting point is 00:57:32 money is the root of all evil, or money doesn't grow on trees, or in order to make money have to hurt people. they're still going to be stuck in a box, right? And so I feel like what we're doing together is redrawing the borders and boundaries of possibility. And sometimes it's hard. Like growth is hard. Change can be scary.

Starting point is 00:57:51 But nothing is as hard and scary as being stuck somewhere you don't belong. And so I would say in the new year, or even in today, setting your mind right, it's not just about time management. It's about mind management. So, like, as an example, since you don't touch your mind. your phone the first 30 minutes a day. And the easiest way of doing that is to put your phone in the bathroom or somewhere else, right? Where it's not. The key for habit design, make the things that are good for you easier and make the things that are not so good for you more difficult, right? But the challenge here is, you know, is getting our focus right. So instead of grabbing your phone

Starting point is 00:58:28 being distracted and reactive, what I recommend you do is you don't have to wait for new years. you could just, when you wake up, stay in bed. I challenge you tomorrow through this exercise. I promise you would change your life. Ask yourself, imagine yourself coming back to bed that evening. And that whole day happened. And let's say somebody, a family member asked you how your day was. And I want you to imagine you say, today was an incredible day.

Starting point is 00:58:55 Wow, crushed it today, whatever. Then ask yourself what had to happen in order for you to feel that way, to say those words. And I want you to come up. with three things personally and three things professionally because how big is your to do list really hundred 200 plus different things we're never going to be able to get all those things done i really think people should have a not to do list that's a different story um but i feel what should be on your to do list is you cannot get everything done but you can focus on six things three things personally three things professionally and that's your target to thrive that day if you want to win the day

Starting point is 00:59:31 you have to win the first hour of the day. And if you just spend two minutes visualizing yourself having a happy day and then asking yourself reverse engineering, what three things personally, three things professionally. And you can do this for your life, right? There are some lot of people have vision boards and they have a target for their goals. I would highly recommend the gratitude board for the things you're grateful for. Like if you want to feel truly wealthy,

Starting point is 00:59:53 count all the things you have in your life that money can't buy. Or another thought experiment, you want to feel truly wealthy. What if the only things you had in your life tomorrow, were the things you express gratitude for today. Express it, not just think about it, but really expressed it. And it's one of the sciences of just realizing you're not separate from the things that you want. You don't want to be desperate or coming from a place of lack. But the idea what we're talking about is train of your mind to think about the three things you want,

Starting point is 01:00:20 work-wise and personally, and focus on that. I get so much done that way. Thank you so much, my brother. Yeah. I hope to see many of you in a live event. or also, you know, if you're able to join our, this bundle. Is this huge event that you have sold out? We have an event, March 6th, 7th, and 8th called Limitless Live.

Starting point is 01:00:43 It's a big one. 25 speakers, 5, 6,000 people, 100 exhibitors there in Los Angeles. We opened it up to our students. We know, over 2,000 people already signed up for it. But we'll launch that. So we follow us on social media. We'll put that in the follow-up as well. well. Yeah. The website will be limitlesslive.com. I think the site's coming up in a couple weeks.

Starting point is 01:01:05 But we have Dr. Wendy Suzuki, who's top brain doctor. We have, I want to give you, Dr. Gabriel Lyons, like the experts and the masters. It would be fun. So jimquick.com forward slash dragon. There are all the details. I would just say in final words, life is hard for one of two reasons. Either we're leaving our comfort zone, right? We're learning something new. We're facing some of our fears. life is difficult or life is difficult because you stay in your comfort zone and that could be even more difficult because the comfort zone might be a nice place to visit but nothing grows there so i appreciate all of you you know willing to make it this far you realize that you're CEO of your own brand and if you want to raise you know you feed your business your brain until it

Starting point is 01:01:52 feeds you back i just feel like that there's a version of yourself that's patiently waiting and the goal is we show up every single day, ourselves and others, until we're introduced. Give yourself a raise in 2025 by learning how to learn, leveling up your brain. What you've been taught your whole life is not necessarily true. It's just what you've been taught. You're going to start teaching yourself how to learn. And the skies are limitless when you have that. So thank you so much for having me over.

Starting point is 01:02:26 We're going to go shoot the you know what now for a little bit and play with his little toddler, which, by the way, during this whole thing, just to give you guys that are Jim Quick fans, you know, he's got this beautiful studio here. But what you can't see that I can see is he's got these beautiful videos and pictures of him playing with his little boy here at the same time. That's why I kept smiling. So thanks so much, Jim. Thanks, everybody. Have an amazing day.

Starting point is 01:02:52 We'll see you next time. Bye, bye now. Makes sense.

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