The School of Greatness - 115 3 Ways to Master Your Memory and Unlock Your Inner Superhero with Jim Kwik

Episode Date: December 15, 2014

"If knowledge is power, learning is a superpower." - Jim Kwik If you enjoyed this episode (and want to see the awesome videos we took during this interview!), visit www.lewishowes.com/115.

This is episode number 115 with Memory Master Jim Quick. Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howes, former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur. And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin. Do you know all those times you go to events and you get introduced to like three or four

people at once, and right after you get introduced to these people's names, you forget them instantly and you go absolutely blank. Do you ever have that feeling? Well, if you do, then today's episode is meant for you. This is going to be extremely powerful episode because we've got the man Jim Quick on who is the CEO of Quick Learning and founder of Superhero U. He is a widely recognized world expert in speed reading, memory improvement, brain performance,

and accelerated learning. And some of the things that we talk about in today's interview blew my mind, literally. And there's gonna be some links up on the show notes at lewishouse.com slash 115 with a video that, an extra video that Jim does with me. And he literally blew my mind. I couldn't believe what he was doing and how he remembered some of the things that he remembered.

But the cool thing is he shows you how you can apply this in your own life and how you can remember seemingly really hard and difficult things to remember in a very easy, light fashion. So I'm very excited to introduce you guys to Jim and make sure to watch the video. If you're listening to this podcast, you can go back again to the show notes, lewishouse.com slash 115. We've got a video interview at Superhero HQ with some cool Iron Man in the background and the Incredible Hulk and all these cool superheroes. So make sure to check out the video and the extra video where Jim blows my mind and all the different links to get Jim's information on memory and speed reading back at lewishouse.com

slash 115. Now, without further ado, let's go ahead and dive into this interview with the one and only Jim Quick. So I'm here with Jim Quick. Thanks so much for coming on, my man. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming to Superhero HQ. Yeah, this is an epic place,

and you're going to have lots of parties here, so I'm going to be visiting a lot soon. Now, Jim, for those who don't know, Jim is the master of memory, is kind of what I think of you. You're like this master of the brain memory. I remember watching on stage. I can't remember specifically where I think it was a summit series potentially.

And you just captivated me by your memory. You went on stage and you're like, okay, 50 audience members, um, you know, give me two different numbers each. And we all raised our hands and we said like 21, 15 or something. And it was like a hundred numbers. And then you recited it all back. And I was like, whatever he has, I need to learn how to have it. So very excited to dive into how to master the brain and memory and some different tools and tricks that we can do to become superheroes ourselves. Right? Cool. Well,

I'm a fan. So anything that has to do with greatness. Very cool. So let's start off with what really inspired you to hack the brain in the first place. Was there something that happened to you that wanted to do this? It was. A lot of people, when they see me do these demos where I memorize a room full of people's names or numbers, like you mentioned, or lots of words, I tell people, I don't do this to impress you. I do this more to really express to you what's really possible because anyone can do this because we've been, we've been told, we've been told a lie that our memory, our intelligence, our genius is fixed, kind of like our shoe size. And through my experience of doing this for the past two decades, nothing could be furthest from the truth. You know, people have unbelievable gifts inside them. They're just not shown how. I always thought it was interesting that school would teach us like what to learn, like the subjects that are important, math and history and science and Spanish, the what to learn, but never on how to learn, you know, how to focus, how to concentrate,

how to be creative, how to think for yourself, how to read faster, how to remember things. Maybe it should have been the fourth R. Remember reading, writing, arithmetic, but also recall, because there is no learning without remembering. And Socrates said that. But how I got started on this is I actually grew up with learning challenges. And a lot of people don't know that. But when I was in kindergarten, I had a really bad accident and I had a head injury and it left me feeling like I was broken, that my brain didn't work. And I had these focus issues. I couldn't remember things. And it took me extra two years to learn how to read. these focus issues. I couldn't remember things. And it took me extra two years to learn how to read. And I struggled, you know, privately and then also publicly. And, you know, when you're

that age, you, you know, you get very self-conscious. Sure. You know, you become very introverted, very shy. You don't want to connect with people because you feel like there's something wrong with you. And so that was, that was my academic life. You know, I just worked so much harder that I don't know if people watching this can relate, but just struggling with overwhelm or overload, too much to learn, too little time, and it stresses you out. And you're like, why can't I do this? Why is everyone else succeeding so much faster? And I have to do this, like not even fair. And that's what happened. So that's kind of early on made you want to then master it since you were having such a hard time. It did.

I mean, I think our struggles really could be some strengths. And you know this. Of course. You know, like, you know, when challenge, you know, with these kind of challenges come change, you know, and problems become, you know, help you progress. And so when I got to college, I remember first freshman year in college, I wanted to start fresh. And I thought that I could really make my family proud because they sacrificed a lot. And, uh, but I was doing so poorly and I took all these classes and I thought I would do better and have a clean slate, but I actually did worse. And, uh, and I remember I wanted to quit school. And, uh, at that time you'd appreciate this. A friend asked me to,

uh, to come visit him and his family out on the West coast. Cause I was on the East coast and he was like, I'd go out there. I was like, yeah, I'll just take a weekend, get a little space from school because I was thinking about quitting. And when I get there, the family is extremely successful. And I don't just mean financial. They had an amazing home on the water, but they were happy. They were givers. They were learning all the time. And the father before dinner asked me these kind of questions. We were walking on his property and he asked the kind of questions you would ask somebody who just started college, like, how's school? And, you know, that kind of stuff.

And I broke down crying. I was like, you know, and to a stranger I just met, like, you know, 10 minutes ago. I said, I'm ready to quit. School is just not for me. I'm not smart enough. And he's like, well, why are you in school? You know, what do you want to be?

What do you want to do? What do you want to share, if you will? And it's funny when people, when you're not asked a question in life, you know, it takes a moment to pause to come up with an answer. Do you know what I mean? Like when you're asking questions and no one's ever asked me those questions before. And when I started to answer, he paused. He said, wait. And he takes out out of his back pocket, I swear to you, like a journal and like a diary. And I always thought like 12 year old girls, diaries and he makes me write, tears out a couple of pieces of paper and it makes me write down all the goals

like of what I wanted to do in my life. And I've never, it's something very powerful about taking pen to paper and just writing like those dreams, your aspirations down. And after maybe 20, 30 minutes, he asked me if I'm done. And I maybe have 40, 50 things there, which is like a bucket list. It was before I knew what a bucket list was. And I start folding the sheets of paper thinking I'm done with the exercise, put it back in my pocket and he grabs it from me. And I was like, I freaked out because like on that was like,

like your life. Exactly. And I don't even know who this guy is and he's very successful. your life exactly and i don't even know who this guy is and he's very successful and he starts to just read it and i'm so intimidating i feel out no no in his mind and i and i feel this small because everything i just i didn't know somebody was going to look at it right and he looks at it and he says jim and i don't know what he was going to say because this guy's very successful he says jim you are this close to everything on that list and i'm just thinking there's no way how could it give me 10 lifetimes i couldn't put a dent on that list and then he goes like this oh yeah and he says like like as if this was you know the key here and he takes me into his home and it's this beautiful home he takes me into a room

i've never seen before and it's wall to wall ceiling He takes me into a room I've never seen before. And it's wall to wall, ceiling to floor covered in books. I mean, I've never seen like a library in somebody's house before. And he starts grabbing these books. You'll love this. He starts grabbing books and starts handing them to me and starts to pile up really, really, really high. And when I started looking at the titles, because I'm curious, there are these biographies of amazing men and women in history and some really early personal development books like Napoleon Hill, Thinking We're Rich and Power Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale and Psycho-Cybernetics and all these books. And then I kind of get an inkling of what he wants me to do with these books. And he asked me to read one of these books a week. And I'm just thinking thinking and i say to him there's just no way i just told you i have all this schoolwork and you're what 19 now i'm 18

years old yeah i'm like there's no way i have all these i can't even finish one book i have these reading challenges and i have these learning challenges and i have all this schoolwork and he was like jim he said he looked me right in the eye i said jim don't let school get in the way of your education oh that's powerful. And I didn't even realize that's a Mark Twain quote, but this is like a couple decades ago. And I'm just thinking, wow, and it hit me like that. But still, I'm like, you know what? I still can't do this because I have all this work I need to study.

And then you know what he does? He takes out that list, which he still has in his possession, my dream list, my bucket list. And then he starts reading it out loud. Every single thing, line by line. And I get chills thinking about it because there's something about watching a man who you just met, who's, you know, very, one of the most successful people that you've met and he's incanting and putting it out to universe out loud, you know, your dreams. Sure. You know, and it's very unnerving. And honestly, there was a lot of stuff that was on that list. And I think about it, it was things that I wanted to do for myving. And honestly, there was a lot of stuff that was on that list.

And I think about it. It was things that I wanted to do for my family. You know, these are all things that my family, you know, because I mentioned they sacrificed a lot, like a lot of hardworking people do. And I want to do things for them that they contribute for themselves. So with that leverage, I commit to reading one book a week. And then I go from that, I go back to school. And now I have this pile of stuff that I need to learn and then a pile of stuff that I want to reading one book a week. And then I go from that, I go back to school. And now I have this pile of stuff that I need to learn and then a pile of stuff that I want to learn. And that puts me over the edge.

Because in order to keep up, I have to sacrifice the things that you know are important to you. That your sleep, things like eating, things like working out, things like relationships. And so no one sees me. I'm just in the library all the time. I don't sleep. I don't eat. And you know that's a recipe for disaster. It is. And how how it came up how it showed up was i was at the library and my body actually it's the scariest time of my life it actually just gave out like like the battery just ran out and i just passed out and i fell down a flight of stairs i hit my head again

and i woke up in the hospital two full days later and I was down to, I was hooked up to these IVs because I was malnourished, dehydrated. I was down to 117 pounds and I thought I died. And when I had that thought, I was thinking, you know, what's going on here? You know, cause I was ready to check out, like check out of school, check out, check out, check out of life. And I was just like, cause I just, I was just like, I'm total failure. I can't do any of this, you know? And then when I was thinking about it, I was just, the nurse came in and she had the answer in the form of a mug of tea. And this is a true story. She gives me a mug of tea of like green tea. And it has a picture of a pretty smart guy. This is Albert Einstein. And there's a saying on there that you've heard a hundred times. It said the same level of thinking that's created the problem won't solve the problem.

The same level of thinking that's created the problem won't solve the problem. And it made me think just, you know, power questions. Did she bring that to you to say, hey, here's the answer? No, it was just like that. Yeah. And it's funny when you put things out in the universe, you know, ask a new question, you get a new answer. And it made me say, well, what's my problem? And I was like, you know, my problem is I'm a really slow learner. That's what I came up with. I was just like,

I'm a really slow learner. Is that your problem or is that your story? That was my, that was definitely my story and my perceived problem there. And so, and I was owning it too, because I was fighting, no one could tell me different because I was fighting my limb from like limitations. And so I got to keep them. And you became true every day. Yeah. And I was really, and you know, I had this whole story, I had this brain injury and everything, but I was like, limitations right and so i got to keep them and it became true every day yeah and i was really and you know i had this whole story i had this brain injury and everything but i was like well if my problem is i have a i'm a slow learner how do i think differently about it and it was like well you know how do i learn how to be a faster learner and then i thought about school and i was like no

school doesn't teach you those things much like you know school doesn't teach you a lot of things like the things that are most important a lot of things that you have in you know in in your podcasts right the things that are just you know move the needle't teach you a lot of things. The things that are most important. A lot of things that you have in your podcast, right? The things that are just, you know, move the needle in people's lives in terms of their joy and their health and relationships, their success, their finances. Most important things. Yeah. And so, and it is not like a diss on schools. I mean, I think they're, my mother's a school teacher and my aunt's a professor. I mean, the teachers work so hard, right?

It's just the system itself is a challenge, you know, because if you're, if you were watching this and they're stressed, they're overload, there's too much that people keep up with. It's not their fault. It's because we all grew up with a 20th century education that prepared us for a world that doesn't exist anymore. That 20th century world of working in factories and working on farms, doing manual labor, you know, like, you know, because the school system back then, which is now it's like one size fits all assembly line, cookie cutter, don't talk to your neighbors, sit quietly by yourself. That doesn't work in the digital age anymore. You know, so right now, like, you know, when we're talking about the brain,

how important the brain is, you know, we're not paid for our brute strength. We're paid for our brain strength. We're not paid for our muscle power. It's really our mind power, you know? And so the challenge is, is where, you know, your brain is this unbelievable supercomputer, but it doesn't come with an owner's manual. You know, it's not always user-friendly either. And so when I got out of that hospital bed, I decided to study this subject called learning, like learning how to learn. I started to pick up every single book I could on brain science, adult learning theory, multiple intelligences, focus and concentration, you know, things early works by, you know, like on flow and stuff like that. And in a very short period of time, 60 days, I swear to you, it was like a light switch just went on and I started to understand things for

the first time. I mean, I would sit in class and actually, cause I can't tell you growing up when someone's talking to you and not understanding, it doesn't make sense. You're not making the connection. Things there. And then all of a sudden you're focusing. All of a sudden you're remembering things. I start reading faster. And I started getting like better grades and less time.

And it started transforming my life. And the reason I teach this to this day, because it's two decades later, is after you have that kind of like awakening you can't help like with what you do share that greatness with other people and one of my very first students i'll never forget she's 18 years old a freshman she i teach a speed reading program to teach anyone to read two or three times faster with better comprehension but she struggled for a few days and then that same light switch went on and she ended up reading 30 books in 30 days. Whoa. Yeah. I mean, can you imagine like what books you would read if you go to Amazon right now, pick out 30 books and know in 30 days, you like you own that information as well as like those authors. Sure. Now what is it? You know,

I've always, this is my story. I've always had a hard time comprehending and staying focused in books. Now half of it is probably, I'm just not interested in the topic with a book or it's not well rented but what are some things that people can do just you know right away uh to increase their comprehension and just speed it up a little bit so that they are able to stay focused long enough throughout the book it's it's amazing what people could do because here's um here's part of it it's like motivation plays a big role first of all like you mentioned like things that you're interested in like this this girl i wanted to ask not how she did it but i want to know why she read 30 books in 30 days and i find out that she paused and she eventually told me it's because her mother was dying of terminal cancer and was given 60 days to live and the book she was reading were books to

be able to save her mother's life. Wow. Yeah. Talk about motivation. I just got chills. Wow. It's hard for me to even talk about because my memory is so clear of these events. And not just because I'm a memory expert. It's just, it takes me back because at that time, I'm 18, I just wished her luck. I'll say prayers and said, you know, but what do you do?

And then six months later, I get a call from this young lady, and she's crying and crying and crying for minutes. And I find out that there are tears of joy. And I find out that her mother not only survived, but her mother's really starting to improve. Doctors don't know why or how. The doctors actually call it a miracle. But her mother attributes it 100% to the great advice she got from her daughter, who learned it from all these books. I mean, whoa. And those kinds of things, that's where I really went into my body that, you know, the right, that learning that if knowledge is power, learning is a superpower. That's what I

was going to ask you next. Cause I saw that on your website. So can you speak more into that, the power of learning and, uh, you know, not just having knowledge, but being able to learn. Yeah. Why is that a superpower? I think that if there's one skill the master in the 21st century, it's the ability to learn rapidly It's it you know what it is. They call it in the military a forced multiplier a force multiplier is like Input goes in but you get exponential output from it It's like optimism being positive as a force multiplier output from it. It's like optimism. Being positive is a force multiplier. And Colin Powell said that.

And so certain things like learning how to learn like meta-learning or improving your memory improves everything. It improves your business. You could remember people's names. You could remember sales presentations. You could remember things about people. Because for example, it's hard to show somebody, for people who are watching this, they're entrepreneurs, right? And they're wearing a business development hat. It's really hard to show someone for people who are watching this, they're entrepreneurs, right. And they're wearing a business development hat. You know, it's really hard to show someone you're going to care for their business, their future, their family,

their health, their fitness, whatever you're selling them. If you don't care enough just to remember things like their name, you know, or something where the, or their, or their kid's name or their birthday, you know,

so that's a memory is a multiplier. They're a memory is a multiplier in their relationships, you know, like relationships, just remembering those, those moments, you know, like, you know, not even just remembering anniversaries remembering to take out the garbage that kind of stuff but remembering you know the first time you and your loved one you know took that walk on that beat you know what i mean those kind of moments that make everything worthwhile

yeah but it's it's wonderful for every area so yeah i do believe that two of the most costly words in business for example are i forgot you know I forgot to do it. I forgot to bring it. I forgot the meaning. I forgot your name. It's the worst. Forgetting someone's name, and I've seen this time and time again, it could hurt a relationship. It could kill deals. I've had people call someone by the wrong name and they've lost multiple million dollar deals just on that. I've had people email me and use a different name in my email. And it's frustrating. I'm just like, if you don't even, if you're trying to reach out to me and you use Mark, because you weren't even paying attention, you weren't being present, it leaves a bad taste in

people's mouths. You know, I know I'm not perfect. I've forgotten people's names and I've probably said the wrong name at times. So, um, you know, what are some things people can do to remember names? Yeah. Okay. So there there are there are three keys for improving your memory three keys right so if you're ever forgetting something you forget things you feel absent-minded like senior moments are coming a little bit early you're in the shower you can't remember if you shampooed your hair you know so you end up doing it twice you misplaced your wallet your phone keys your keys or your car you know you see the people like where did i park my car yeah you know these kind of and they waste a lot of time too. And they take away, you know, all the treasures. And I don't

mean just financial treasures. I mean, just the important things, you know, in our life, but there's three keys. And remember mom, M O M always remember mom. So if you're ever forgetting something, usually one of those three things are missing. All right. So let's take names. Because when people say, I want a better memory, I hear them say like, Oh, I want to be better at sports, you know, cause you're, you're just, I want a better memory, I hear them say, oh, I want to be better at sports. Because you're such an athlete. But it's like somebody comes to you like, well, what sport specifically do you want to be better at? Because there are different techniques and different training for different things.

So remembering names is different than learning languages. Different pin numbers and passcodes and all the different things you need to remember. So everything's different. Everything's different. But there's certain principles that are the same. So the M in mom is this. Let's say someone has horrible names, right? But let's say that there's a suitcase of a hundred thousand dollars cash. If you just remember the name of the next stranger you meet, how many

people are going to remember that person's name? Everyone, right? Everyone. And so that's the thing. The M stands for motivation. So it's interesting. So all of a sudden everyone's a memory expert, but it had nothing to do with their capacity or their potential. Everyone could do it. It's just whether or not they decided to do it or not, if they wanted to. It's almost like if it's worth it enough or the consequences are, uh, you know, that big or the stakes are that big, if you're going to miss out on a knot, right? It's like the motivation. Exactly. Because one of the things to learning, we know with human motivation, cause I did this presentation and Bill Gates was there. We're talking about wealthy individuals, right?

And so, you know, afterwards I talked to him and we were talking about the bridge between education and technology. And I was like, what's missing with the future of learning? And he was like, Jim, you know, the key is human motivation, really understanding what drives people. And I was like, wow, you know, that's really right. Because you know this, people can go out there and they can buy courses, but a lot of people Never open it. Exactly. Because it has everything to do with drive and reasons.

Because motivation is like, what is your motive for acting? What's the fuel? I believe there's a success formula called H-cubed that goes from your head to your heart to your hands. That people can visualize and affirm and see things here all the time and think about it, but if they're not acting with their hands, you know, actually doing something about it, then usually what's missing is the second H,

which is the heart, the emotion, the energy of motion. I had a martial arts instructor tell me years ago, you can't steer a parked car. You know, you need fuel. You know, where's the energy that's going to do that? And so what's people's motivation? So simple. When people are remembering people's names, ask yourself, why do you want to

remember this person's name? Because reasons reap results. I've always found that in life. Reasons reap results because you need a big enough why. You know, like Simon Sinek's book, you know, start with why. And so you want to get that drive first, right? So motivation. The O is something interesting. You know, I have people do this. I have them just kind of shake out their hand like this. And I say, make a fist. And I say, put it to their chin. And then I go like this and everyone puts it here. But I said chin. And this is the difference. The O stands for observation. And I find that a lot of people blame their memory issues and they think it's like a retention issue, but I find it's really

a attention issue. Okay. It's an attention issue. Present. You mean, but I find it's really a tension issue. Okay. It's an attention issue. Present, you mean? It is. That's a big part of it. It's like, you know, let's say everyone uses a search engine like Google every single day, but a lot of people, they use it 10 times a day. If I ask them, are you willing to bet your life you know what colors the letters are? Because that's an observation. You know, there's a difference between looking at something and seeing it, really seeing it. There's a difference between hearing something and really listening.

You know, like leaders, like for example, I had this whole escapade with the X-Men, which was insane. But I had to leave the set because I had to go to a charity event. And one of the people that I think leaders, independent of your political bent, who has an incredible memory, is President Clinton. Every single time I've met President Clinton, he's remembered my name. No way. He does. And how many people does Clinton meet on a regular basis? A lot.

And so that's a leadership skill, though, right? And so FDR was incredible with names. Also, he would walk around the White House and point people out and say hi to them, saying hi to their spouse and using by name. I mean, that's because think about the sweetest sound of a person's ears right it's their name right and so so anyway i ask him what's memory trick he uses he uses no memory tricks at all and he tells me this you know this amazing story yes and so he tells me this incredible story about how you know his grandfather you know in arkansas would get all the kids around tell stories to them but then he would quiz them.

They'd really need to listen and be present. And it's funny because I noticed that, like, he's, Bill Clinton is, regardless of how you feel politically, incredible communicator. Incredible charisma. Incredible connector. Right? And he also, this memory, I find, you know, he has this incredible presence, this powerful presence. But I find that his powerful presence and his memory comes from being powerfully present. His powerful presence comes from being powerfully present.

And here's the thing. When people are networking, because I know a lot of people, they're entrepreneurs, they're social entrepreneurs, they're millennials, they're going out there meeting people. Because really, it's what you know and it's who you know. But that's all memory. What you know, a lot of people go to a a seminar two days later. They'll forget everything right 80% There's some big forgetting curve, but also who you know and who knows you right? But what the challenge is they'll be networking and how many times you find yourself talking to somebody and then looking over their shoulder I hate that yeah, I think when people do that exactly like annoying because you're distracting yourself Although the all-time bar if you're not distracting yourself externally, you're like talking to yourself.

What am I going to say next? Exactly. So the people aren't even listening. Now, this is so key. When people are communicating, most of the times you find that they're not even really listening. What they are is they're thinking about how they're going to respond. Right, yeah. And if you look at the word listen and you scramble the letters, it becomes the word silent.

No. Yeah, isn't that crazy? If people would just do that. And we're talking about really fundamental things. That's one of the reasons I love your podcast is because some of these basics, those are the biggest things that move the needle. I mean, just understanding why you want to remember something, being present and paying attention and being silent and really listening.

I mean, that's not magic, but that's just like going to the gym. Right. I mean, think about the fundamentals. We're talking about exercise. We're talking about sleep. We're talking about, you know, a good diet. Yeah. That's like, that's basic.

Yeah. And the mindset, that's 95% of it right there. Yeah. That's incredible. And then finally, the third M is mechanics. Okay. You know, for mom. So M is motion.

The O is observation. And then the final M is mechanics. And these are not the person that's going to your car but this is the tips the techniques the hacks if you will the strategies on how to learn the language how to speed read how to remember that person's name how to give a speech without notes right you know but the M and the O motivation observation so what's the mechanics then for you know say I'm going to an event and there's 10 people that someone's introducing me to and i'm shaking your hand we've all done this before it's like hi hi hi hi what's the

mechanics yeah i mean we've all had the experience so relationship it's all proximity and it's all who you know right yeah and who knows you back yeah right and one of the most standout skills that i know of is walk into a room meeting 20 strangers and leaving saying goodbye to every single one of them with their name. Can you do that? Because who are they all going to remember when you walk out of the room? That's a standout skill. That's a skill. That's the thing that, because when you remember people's name, they feel like that you care because what's the opposite? If you forget someone's name, how do they feel? That you don't care. That you don't care. That they're not important. And you

know, this is what I've been, uh, you my whole life because i've never felt like i've had the book smarts yeah but i felt like i've cared more than you know 99 of people yeah and uh i feel like that's what's been able to get me to where i want to be by showing people how big my heart is as opposed to how much i know yes and i think that's could be the most powerful thing is like remembering and just being connected to people as opposed to Telling them what you know, and that's huge too because a lot of people a lot of traditional Networking or business advice will be like oh you have to you know When you're going to people tell them all these amazing stories and really be interesting to them I think is there's a difference between interesting and interested

You know what I mean when you meet somebody being interesting and talk. You know what I mean? When you meet somebody, being interesting and talk about, oh, I can do this. And then also being interested, sincerely interested in the other person. People love when they get to share and you listen. Yes. When you just allow people to share their story and what they're excited about and you remember their name, you don't even have to say anything. And they feel like you're the best person in the world. Completely. Right?

Yeah. You don't even have to say anything. And they feel like you're the best person in the world. Right? Yeah. The late Stephen Covey, who I had an opportunity to spend a good amount of time with and share a stage with, he has that, you know, seek first to understand, then to be understood. I mean, that's huge. That's huge.

So there's seven tips for remembering names. And this is what you want to do. Every time you want to go, you go to a wedding, you go to a conference, you go to a networking event, seven tips. You don't even have to use all seven. Just any part of this would be better than nothing. Okay. All right.

I want you to remember, be suave. Be suave. Like you are. That's how I live my life. I know. So when people are going out and they're checking the mirror on their makeup and their clothing, I want them to say, I'm going to be suave. So the B stands for believe.

Because you know this better than anyone. Believe you can or believe you can't. You're right. You're right. for believe, because you know this better than anyone. Believe you can or believe you can't. You're right. You're right. Right. And so here's the thing with beliefs. What I mean by that is you want to kill the ants. You know, our friend, Dr. Daniel Amen, the big brain doctor talks about killing ants, automatic negative thoughts, because here's the thing, like, you know, with a name like quick, I had to be a runner growing up, you know, like I always tell people, Jim quick, quick Learning, help people learn quickly. And they're like, Quick really is my last name?

Yeah, it's really my last name. Because with a name like Quick, your life and destiny is pretty much planned out. I had to be a runner back in school. I have to be careful when I'm driving because the worst name to be pulled over when you're speeding. All right, a little quick. Yeah, it's like, do you want to have that on your license? You're not going to talk your way out of that ticket. And I get to teach speed learning, you know, speed reading speed memory and stuff were you a distance runner

or a sprinter uh sprinter so so i was uh i was preparing for a marathon and i was really excited about it i was of course reading books on it and stuff like that because i read a book a day and i just had to learn it i was like oh it's like matrix scott style and everything i go to like barnes and noble i'll pick up a book and then just read it put it back on the shelf and save a lot of money that way um but i was reading this book on running a marathon and there's one chapter on the psychology of running a marathon. And that's what I was really interested in the mindset. And it opened up with this paragraph verbatim because I'm a memory expert. It said this, your mind is like a supercomputer and your self-talk is the program it will run. So if you tell yourself you are not

good with names, you will not remember the name of the next person you meet because you program your computer not to i was like wow powerful so b for b suave the b stands for believe believe you can believe you can't either way you're right because here's the thing that i've learned and here's the tweetable if you will is your mind is always eavesdropping on your self-talk your mind is always eavesdropping on your self dropping on yourself. So you want to monitor that. So I encourage everyone to spend a week, do a 30 day fast, no negative thoughts, or you have to regroup. Right. So that's the B the E and B swap stands for exercise. And I don't mean physical exercise, although people who are more physically active will always do better on mental acuity memory exams because anything that's good for your heart is really good for your head right but i mean practice because practice makes progress

practice makes progress it always does and so the bad news to remember names it takes effort the good news not as much as people think so bad news takes effort but any what's what's not valuable in your life that does that doesn't take effort, right? And so there's no magic pill, like there's no magic memory pill, but there is a magic memory process. And that's what we're talking about. There's no magic memory pill, there is a memory process. And so the E is exercise. And so it takes about 21 to 30 days. You know, we learn in psychology, the law of 21, practicing something for 21, 30 days, whether it's learning how to type or learning how to drive a car or what have you, until you get to be second nature with it. So you practice.

And where can you practice? Everywhere, right? Just any time you're flipping through the channels and people get introduced, you're meeting people all the time, you can practice all the time. Sure. And so it doesn't take that much. Grocery store, wherever you go. Exactly. The gym.

You can go to the grocery store and see three strangers and just make up their name. That's Bob, that's Sue, that's Mary. And then when you leave, like you have like get checkout and you're at the bar exactly yeah and then so that's the thing that's the difference right Tony Robbins talks about what you practice in private you're rewarded for in public you know so that that's what you do you practice so that's the e and B so be so B is believe he is exercise now the suave is the actual mechanics all right so the essence in suave

when you're meeting this person for the first time the S is you say the name all right you say the name so hi my name is Jim hey Louis Louis it's nice to meet you good to meet you too man if I was any better my name would be Louis Howe that's it yeah that's my statement so so here so I'll say the name right away and just by hearing the name again helps me so now I heard it twice one from you one for me. All of a sudden, I'm going to remember it better. My retention is going to go up. I also want to say it because I want to make sure, going back to mom, the O, I want to

make sure I observed it correctly. Sometimes you're networking, a lot of things going on. You meet someone named Ted. You say goodbye, Ed. You know, better to get corrected up front than later on. Right. So you say the name. The U in swaps means use it you want to

use the name very simple right you want to use it not abuse it but just you know because lewis thanks for coming lewis we don't talk about lewis is it gets creepy right that's like a sales right it's like sales exactly it's try hard and it's it's like a seinfeld episode where like the close talker you know or there was actually a seinfeld episode i haven't thought about this in years wasn't there a seinfeld episode uh like a rerun you might have seen, that he was dating somebody and was intimate with her, but he actually forgot her name? Oh, I hear it.

And every single time she would leave, he would try to go into her purse and get her driver's license and meet Kramer and try to get the name to come out. But here's the thing. It rhymed with a part of the female anatomy. And that was the famous episode. If people watching this remember what that is. So you want to make sure that you use it three or four times in the conversation. The A stands for ask. And this is a really big

one. Ask. Because what's everyone's favorite subject? It's like, it's not travel. It's not entrepreneurship. It's not even, you know, it's not shopping. It's themselves, right? And you ever meet somebody and their name is a little different than you're used to like you've never heard that name before you know probably 80 percent of the people you meet you know lewis and jim they're pretty pretty common names sometimes you meet someone named afsal or riddiger or isis or what have you you know then you ask about a person's name and what can you ask about a person's name you know you could ask like how do you spell it what does it mean what does it mean what does Who are you named after? Are you related to this person? You know, all these questions.

And, you know, for the most part, everyone gets very complimented. Because to name it, again, is the sweetest sound to a person's ears. Right? And think about why, though. Like, the psychology of it. You know, a child, what's one of the first words they learn how to write? Their name. Their name.

Their mom or dad. Exactly. And how much love were they given when they did it right? You know, and all that emotion tied into or dad. Exactly. How much love were they given when they did it right? You know, all that emotion tied into like, because I think, you know, one of the challenges people have, like one of the biggest fears people have is not being good enough. You know, that we're not good enough. And if we're not good enough, we're not going to be loved. And if we're not going to be loved, you know, we're not going to be, we're going to die

or something, you know? And so, but that name is like our identity, right? So you always want to be able to refer to us. You ask about a person's name and they're complimented. So like, for example, I was speaking at the country's largest life insurance company, about a hundred people in the room, training director was there and her name was Nankita. And I was like, wow, that's a really beautiful name. Sincerely. Right. And so I was like, you know, you know, how's this bell and where's it from? I said, what does it mean? And she paused and she looked at every, our coworkers and she says, it means graceful falling waters. And I was like, Whoa. And I got

like chills. And then, you know, like half the audience was like making these sounds and it made me just spontaneously ask, you know, how long have you worked here? You know, uh, she was like about four years. I was like with all these people, she was like, yeah, you know, like a lot of people, my good friends are at my wedding. It's like, that's nice. How many people in this room knew that's what her name meant? And out of a hundred people, how many people raised their hand? Zero. None. Wow.

None. And that was one of my biggest clients because this person was a training director. Sure. And so it brought me into all, but that name was a bond, right? So that was sincere interest. So you ask about a person's name. Okay. And then finally the V and the E in suave. The V is visualize. Visualize.

And this is a really simple memory tip where we tend to remember more of what we see than what we hear, right? You go to somebody, it's like their face. You know, I remember your face, but I forgot your name. You never go to someone and say, hey, I remember your name, but I forgot your face. That wouldn't make any sense, right? So you remember what you see. In fact, there's a Chinese proverb that goes, what I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. And what I do, I understand. What I hear, I forget. I heard the name, I forgot the name. What I see, I remember. I saw the face, I remember the face. What I do, going back to exercise and practice, I understand, right?

And so if you tend to remember what you see, then try seeing what you want to remember. So this is the trick that you meet somebody, you take their name and you turn it into a picture. So let's say you meet someone named Mike and then for a split second, you imagine them taking a microphone and singing karaoke on the tabletop, right? You meet someone named Carol and you imagine she's singing Christmas carols, right? You meet someone named Mary and imagine she's carrying these little lambs, you know, around and you do this in the privacy of your own mind. And people say, well, that's so childish. Who are the fastest learners on the planet?

Children. Children. How fast can they learn a musical instrument compared to that? How fast can they learn languages like that? So children, they do that. They're playful. They make fun of people's names. Kids could be in therapy for 10 years because their name was being fun of them.

They don't even know. So that's what you want to do. You want to someone's name turn into a picture so a person's name is david i use a slingshot for david and goliath you know someone named bob i imagine them bobbing for apples just something very see because here's the thing there's something called i call the six second syndrome six second syndrome is someone tells you their name you have six seconds to do something with that otherwise it's gone gone it's gone that's it if you don't practice it daily right you're gonna lose it and it's gonna exactly and so here at least you're focusing on the person and you're focusing on name so a person's name is john you could picture whatever do you remember what you used for me when we met when we first met so here's yes so yeah yeah so everybody has their their their own thing like

it's so funny because like i use okay so you come up with a picture that works for yourself so when we met i actually use it's a slinky and i don't don't ask why because it doesn't sound like it or anything like that but one of my best friends growing up as a kid was lewis okay and all he would do is play with this slinky like this little toy this iron all the time so i just think about him every single time i think about that so when i saw that i just picture it and i just remember now after you remember the person then the pictures just disappear but you need something just to hold it for six seconds right and then you have it right and choosing the other part of reason why it works is that left brain part of your brain does logic and words and sounds and

we'll talk about this with speed reading that that's only using part of your brain but your right brain is like pictures and imagination visualization and we'll talk about this with speed reading, that's only using part of your brain. But your right brain is like pictures and imagination, visualization and emotion. That's activating more of your brain. People say we use like 10% of our brain's potential. We use all our brain, but in terms of its potential, you know, like, you know, but no one shows us how to activate the rest of it. But part of it is just using your imagination because imagination is more powerful than knowledge. Wow. Yeah. Einstein said that. And so you want to turn it into a picture. And finally, E in suave stands for end. And that's going back to saying goodbye using their name.

Going to a room, meeting 10 strangers, leaving, saying goodbye to every single one so that they all remember you. Okay, let me see if I can remember this. Because I was trying to be present but also remember. So, B suave. The B stands for belief. E, I mean, exercise. Exercise. Practice.

S is say it. Say it. What's high suave? U is use it. Use the name. A is ask about the name. Ask about the name. D is visualize.

And E is end. Nice. Yeah, man. Dude. I'm picking it up as we go. Very cool. about the name. Ask about the name. V is visualize and E is end. Nice. Yeah, man. Dude. I'm picking it up as we go. Very cool. And this is,

so what I'm saying is when people, people, they, they experience this and they practice this, you'll see a big lift and that's what I love about it. And then all of a sudden

once you have that confidence, it increases your confidence. You show up differently when you're out there with other people. Yeah. You probably don't have to use every one of them.

Of course, you can just say it. I'm going to say it a few times. Maybe just say it and visualize it and then you're done. Yeah. You probably don't have to use every one of them. No. Of course, you can just say, I'm going to say it a few times. Maybe just say it and visualize it and then you're done. Yeah. You know, so any part of it is better

than most people, which is nothing. Because if I say, you tell me your name is Jim, I'm not going to say it. That's an interesting name. Right. You know,

tell me more about who called you that. But if you just imagine like me doing something funny with my, you know, like barbells or whatever, like the magic of Jim or whatever. Yeah.

And if people are motivated, they're asking like, they're asking why they want to remember a person's name. Like, like I would ask myself for motivation. Why do I remember the person's name? Maybe it's because I want to, I want to get some business or I want to show this person respect, or maybe I just want to practice these, these tips that I learned, you know, on this podcast. That's cool. I'm going to have a couple of questions left for this interview and we're going to have some extra videos, some more memory tips for people. I'll tell you guys where to go for those at the show notes after this interview. But I want to ask you,

what are some daily habits or rituals that you have to just sharpen your mind every single day that others can apply? Okay. So I think here's the thing when it comes to your memory, two thirds of it is, so people are concerned that they're growing older, but I could say you can improve your memory regardless of your age, your background, your career, your diet, your level of education, your financial situation, your gender, your health situation, your IQ, anything. It can be improved. Here's the thing. One third of your, of your memory is, is predetermined by biology and genetics, but that's so exciting because that means two thirds, the majority, but twice as much is completely in your control that's cool and so the things that

move the needle for example are like 10 things that i'm thinking about that's going to move the needle completely of that that that two-thirds so it's it's a good diet right so a good diet because you are what you eat right and so there's certain brain foods that we know is good for your mind it's good for your mind dr amon talked about that as well a lot a lot of that you know everything from from blueberries to walnuts and everything right so there's good diet and number two killing ants killing you the automatic negative thoughts which is a big for a lot of people remember your mind is always eavesdropping on your self-talk and it's a practice right so you want to be able to eliminate the negative talk and you can't just eliminate something you just you have to replace it with

something else right exactly you can't just stop smoking you have to be able to eliminate the negative talk. And you can't just eliminate something. You have to replace it with something else. You can't just stop smoking. You have to start doing something else. Because here's the thing that you want to avoid. A lot of people start taking pride in how bad certain things are in their life. It gives them significance. Very much so. You nailed it.

People start getting pride because they're there. My memory is so bad. If I don't write my grocery list in triplicates, I won't remember it. And like, oh, you think you're forgetful? This is how forgetful I am. Right. Or this is how bad. And people also have this with busyness.

It is so bad nowadays. Everybody has to be busy because that makes them. Oh, that person must be so important. Right. And so that we got to get off that cult of being busy. Yeah. Congratulations for being the most busy person. Right.

Exactly. Like that. Everybody has to do. Exactly. But people starting in pride, they start designing their life around being busy and they wonder why they're all stressed out all the time so automatic negative thoughts kill those ants number three that's good that you have to do daily is exercise yeah right because you know your body and your brain that's connected and there's actually certain exercises you could do to build your brain power so for example j example, juggling, extremely good for your brain.

It's been shown in Oxford last year. There was a study saying that jugglers actually have bigger brains. You could actually build more white matter. It's also a great tip for speed reading because as you're juggling three balls, your eyes, you only have two of them. You can't focus on all three. So you have to soften your gaze and take in more peripheral vision. It trains you that way. So you can actually take in more words as you're reading. but it's actually builds more white matter as you're doing it.

There's certain exercises. Also, we teach people this is a field called educational kinesiology where certain body movements actually helps build your brain power, which is these cross laterals and these kinds of fun things, even something simple, like, you know, like we're always on the computer all the time. So it's really important to kind of keep your, your, your hands and your fingers kind of stretched. But you know, can you do one twice as fast? Like,

like literally like this, you know, something like that, you know, or something like that. Yeah. Or, or like you're pulling an energy like this,

but what if you had to do one forward and one back, but there's been so many exercises for people like eating with the opposite hand is actually good for your brain. Brushing your teeth, the opposite hand, very, very good exercise to actually build your brain power. So exercise is really good, but I mean, just keeping physically is actually good for your brain brushing your teeth the opposite hand very very good exercise to actually build your brain power so exercise is really good but i mean just being physically fit is good for your brain right for it's good for staving off a lot of

brain challenges okay fourth thing that people need to incorporate is brain nutrients because a lot of people they're not getting from their soil or maybe their food so maybe a supplement in certain things right number five this is a big one and i I know you're big on this, a positive peer group. Because you are what you eat, you know, and you are, but you are also who you spend time with. Of course. Right? So if you want a bigger brain, you want your mind to be active and everything, be around people that challenge you, that support you, that teach you things, that encourage you, that are positive. Because we are the average of the five people, as you know, that we spend the most time with.

So positive peer group is good for your brain. Number six that's good for your brain is clean environment they find that you know this like when people start cleaning their desk that their external world starts reflecting their internal world and vice versa right so a clean environment helps you be more organized and inside also as well number seven that's good for your brain in terms of lifestyle what i do every single day is things like sleep sleep is so important people that's good for your brain in terms of lifestyle what i do every single day is things like sleep sleep is so important people that's where you're rebuilding you're rejuvenating restoring but we live there's this whole epidemic of sleeplessness and people aren't getting enough sleep and as i'm going through this list people should go through and this is common sense yeah but not common practice yeah that's the difference right people's like like there's a there's some zones here that

people like i'm not spending time with the right people or maybe you know i'm really not getting that much sleep or maybe my diet or my negative self-talk there's one or two things that if you fix it and you put energy there it'll just your your your business could double yeah because you're you're doubling that's number seven number eight is brain protection so important to protect your brain because you know people who are accident prone or they're doing like a lot of extreme sports you know they're active you want to make sure you wear helmets and just you know make because your brain is is resilient but it's you know it's it's this controls everything smash it you're done my father 10 years ago got in a car accident and he's still recovering he's not the same person he can't work anymore you know he's he forgets a lot it's a challenge and see that

that that's why i do what i do because i never want people to suffer the way that i was struggling every single day for like 15 years straight yeah you know and just because it reflects on you know when i was in that hospital bed going through all that and then it's so funny like not not funny as in haha funny but when this when this young lady who read the 30 books in 30 days and saved her mother's life, she gave me one of those books, and inside the book was this photograph, and she was using it as a bookmark, and it was her mother in the hospital. And it reminded me when I was in the hospital. And so, yeah, take care of your brain.

Number nine is new learnings. Learn something new every single day. Never let your head hit that pillow being the same as it was when I woke up. Ever. So, listen to podcasts. Listen to podcasts. Exactly. Watch your TED Talks. Take a online course.

Anything new learnings. Because here's the thing. We've learned more about your brain in the past 20 years than the previous 2,000 years. According to science, neurogenesis, that your brain can create new brain cells even as it grows older. And neuroplasticity is saying you can make new, your brain's like plastic. It's so malleable, but just having a new thought creates more connections. And so Einstein's brain wasn't any bigger than anybody else's, but he had more connections than people, than most people in certain areas. And those connections come from

new learnings. And that's all learning is, is connecting something you don't know to something you know, and making new connections like that. So always new learnings and that's all learning is is connecting something you don't know to something You know and making new connections like that So always new learnings and always challenge yourself and that's probably the most out of it And then finally number 10 what I try to practice every single day is stress management You know one if you want to know what the biggest obstacle is for people's brains is Stress stress creates cortisol adrenaline your body and it's really good for fight- fight or flight. It's not really good if you need to take a test. It's not really good if you need to study. You don't really have to read reports and journals and learn something brand new or learn a language because that'll shut down parts of your brain. So those are the 10 things that I focus on every

single day. That's what's going to move the needle more than anything. That's really powerful information. Thanks for that. We've got two questions left, but I want to ask you before those final two questions, tell me about the whole X-Men experience you had. Were you coaching the whole X-Men group? Yeah, so we have that photograph that's there with me and the cast. And the backstory for that,

in terms of like a school of greatness, speaking of school of greatness, is this. Last year, I had the privilege to go in and train the chairman of 20th Century Fox and his senior staff, about 20 people. And going down the hallway, I was lit up because I would see all these movie posters, you know, because I became a kid again. You know, Titanic and Star Wars and Aliens and Avatar.

I'm just like, and I go in and I'm really great. I like to be humble, but it was amazing. I mean, I got everyone. They doubled their reading speed and their focus and all their memory. Amazing, amazing stuff. As a thank you, the chairman took me around the studio. It's a closed lot, but showed me all the movie sets and television sets. And I was lit up like a kid because I'm still that kid.

And I think I was really great in that moment because I was like a child. I was playful and it was fun. I think that's the stage you want to learn in. Anyway, while we were walking in the studio, I saw this movie poster of the upcoming Wolverine movie with Hugh Jackman. And I'm a huge Hugh Jackman fan. And I was like, I can't wait to see that movie. And he picked up because it was coming out for a few weeks. He picked up the phone.

And five minutes later, I'm in the Fox Theater with 3D glasses and popcorn watching Hugh Jackman take on all these super ninjas. And it was awesome. And I'm the only one. And I'm just thinking, this is incredible. I have the control panel here and everything. I'm just thinking. And then afterwards, we're done.

He picks me up. He's like, how was the movie? You know, there's some late marker research i was like this was amazing and because i'm still like a seven-year-old i go back and i tell them you know you don't know this but i grew up with these learning challenges that i'll tell a lot of people and i couldn't read for two years but i learned how to read by reading comic books because something about the pictures and the stories really made sense to me and my favorite comic book growing up was the X-Men which Wolverine is an expert and I was like because the X-Men weren't necessarily the most powerful but they they didn't fit in there are mutants they were different and I felt like in

school I didn't fit in and and and the highlight I'm telling this the CEO and the chairman was when I was reading this comic book I found out they had a school of all these X-Men and it was in Westchester New York and that And that's where they all trained, you know, the school of greatness, if you will. And, uh, and I grew up in Westchester, New York. So I told him this, and this is true story. When I was seven and eight years old on the weekends, I would ride my little bike around my neighborhood, trying to find that school because I wanted to run away, leave my school, which I didn't like because I wanted, because they're different and I'm different and I want to learn my superpowers.

And what's my superpowers, right? And what's other people's superpowers? And I tell him this. Like, I'm a little kid. Like, I'm eight years old. And he's like, Jim, I didn't know you liked superheroes. Do you want to go to Comic-Con? And I'm like, oh, Comic-Con's the biggest conference in the country, right?

And I'm like, oh, when is it? He's like, it's going on now, this weekend. And I was like, all of a sudden, I go from an eight-year-old year old to an 88 year old. I'm thinking, oh, I have all these meetings. How many you get there? I don't have clothes. I have to wait on lines. There's going to be traffic to get to San Diego from LA. And I just make all these excuses, which is, that's, I think adults do. We become critics and we become, you know, like squelchers of our own dreams sometime. And he looks at me, he's like, Jim, do you want to go or not? I'm going tomorrow. I was like, oh, the chairman of Fox studios going, I want to go with you. So he picks me, he's like, Jim, do you want to go or not? I'm going tomorrow. I was like, oh, the chairman of Fox Studios is going.

I want to go with you. So he picks me up the next morning, Saturday, 8 o'clock. And we don't drive down. We get on the Fox plane. Sweet. Yeah, and I get on the plane. You're flying like a superhero. Literally.

And when I get on the plane, Lewis, there's the entire, I kid you not, cast of X-Men on that plane. And like Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman. Did he tell you that they were going to be on there? Oh, man. And I'm sitting in between Holly Berry and Jennifer Lawrence, right? And, you know, I want to put these pictures on Instagram, right? Because half my pictures are like pictures of like superheroes and stuff. But it's like, and I can't even believe it.

And we go there, spend the entire day with the cast at Comic-Con. We come back to L.A. that night on the plane and and he was like how was your day i was like this is the best day ever i was like oh my goodness this is incredible he was like well i have something else for you i'm like uh no what can i do for you i don't need anything else you're not gonna top this he's like well the cast really loved you how would you like to go on set i was like what do you mean he's like we have another month of filming x the new x-men movie and i was like oh yeah i totally want to do that and he was was like, well, I was like, what can I do for you? I was like, oh, just share these tips.

Teach them how to speed read scripts and memorize their lines and be focused on. I was like, oh, yeah, I could do that. So the next morning, we're on the Fox, they call it the X-Jet. And I'm answering their questions on brain and brain performance and focus and memory and reading. And I get to spend an entire week with them on set, 12 a day eating with them working out with them and watching my childhood heroes come to life oh my god it was just like I can't even describe it sounds like a seven-year-old the entire time like I'll be sitting here and Bryan Singer director was here the entire time I was just like here and when I get home and

this is what a class act I get home and there's a packet waiting for me about the plasma TV. And I open it and it's this photograph of me and the entire cast of the X-Men. Yeah, I saw it over there. We're going to link that up in the show notes. And it's like, I won't take it off my Facebook cover picture. But here's the thing, even better than that was the note from the chairman. And the note said this verbatim. It said, Jim, thank you so much for sharing your superpowers with us.

It said, I know you've been looking for your school. Here's your class photo. Oh, my goodness. That's amazing. I just want to cry. That's so cool. So I just, it just, that's the story there. But the lesson there is twofold.

I would say this. It came from being, for tapping, I think there's this childlike learner genius inside all of us. And because I was that authentic, I kind of let that out. It kind of led to that. So in what areas of our life can we be more playful and be more authentically us? Especially when we're, you know, because I don't think age really is not chronological age it's more of an age of you know our mind and our heart you know like um i'm friends with uh stanley and he's like for me living disney spider-man x-men iron man avengers and one chance i had an opportunity to introduce him and another one of my heroes richard branson for

dinner and i pick him up here just down the street and a 10-minuteminute ride takes an hour. And I'm in the backseat with Stanley. And I'm asking him, like, who's your favorite superhero? And he's like, you know, it's Iron Man. I'm like, oh, I love Iron Man. And he's like, who's your favorite? I was like, Spider-Man. And I say, Spider-Man. He says, with great power comes great responsibility.

I was like, you know, the opposite is also true, Stan. With great responsibility comes great power. You know, when we take responsibility, we have the power to really change things. But Stan has two passions. He's 92 years old, and he still goes to work here, right down the street, 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. He loves telling stories. And his other passion is his wife, who's a year older.

And what a role model. And he learns. He's one of the youngest, oldest people I know at 92. And his other passion is his wife, who's a year older. And what a role model. And he learns. He's one of the youngest, oldest people I know at 92. And that's what I mean by a state of mind. So I want to finalize this interview with two final questions. And the first one is, what are you most grateful for recently? What am I most grateful for?

In your life. Just what are you most grateful for? In my life. My friends, my family. There's nothing more important to me. My values are love, growth, contribution, and adventure. I think the people you spend time with is what makes life worth living. And then I think the secret to life is growing and giving. Growing, because I used to be just giving and giving,

and you and I share some of the same pursuits in terms of how we give. But I find that if we're not growing, then we don't have as much to give. And a lot of people are out there, they kind of martyr themselves and they're always there for everyone. They're there for their friends and their family and their clients and their business, but they're not taking care of themselves. So I think that's important. So yeah, my friends and family are everything.

Awesome. Awesome. So the last question is what I ask all of my guests and it's, what's your definition of greatness? That's a great question. I would define greatness as people who become the superhero that they were meant to be. I call it the superhero you, and a superhero has two things. They've developed and discovered their own strengths and everybody has a unique power, you know, unique, a unique gift that no one else has, but they don't just have a superpower, they use their power for some kind of purpose.

They use it to be able to save the world, to be able to add value to their community. So I would say be that superhero, be that superhero you. Very cool, Jim Quick, thanks man for coming on. Thanks Louis. Appreciate it. And there you have it guys do you remember anything from this episode hopefully you remember all of it after the things that jim talks about on the ways that you can remember things and if you want to get more make sure to check out lewishouse.com slash 115 again there's going to

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