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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Jim Kwik's Limitless Model: Mindset, Motivation, Methods for Faster Learning
- Jim Kwik argues that learning how to learn is the one skill worth mastering, and that how a person is smart matters more than how smart they are.
- He presents the Limitless Model, in which mindset, motivation (purpose times energy times small simple steps) and methods must all be present to get out of the box that holds a person back.
- He names four technology-driven supervillains, digital deluge, distraction, dementia and deduction, and says the book counters each with speed-reading, focus training, memory training and decision-making skills.
- Kwik shares personal stories, including his childhood brain injury and the label of broken brain, his severe sleep apnea, and lessons from his family, Will Smith and Jim Carrey, to show how questions and adversity shape people.
- The conversation closes with practical learning tips such as visualization, teaching others and trying new things three times, plus Kwik's three truths and his four Gs of greatness.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasKnowledge alone is only potential power.
Kwik says knowledge times action equals power, and he recommends three questions for anything you learn: how can I use this, why must I use this, and when will I use this.
The questions you ask yourself shape your focus and your life.
Kwik says the brain's filtering system, the reticular activating system, notices what your questions make important, as with his pug dog example. He contrasts empowering questions like Will Smith's with limiting ones like his own childhood question of why he was broken.
Motivation is sustainable when purpose, energy and small steps combine.
Kwik describes motivation as purpose times energy times small simple steps. He says you don't need to enjoy an activity to be motivated, and that tiny steps like reading one sentence or flossing one tooth keep people from stalling.
Mindset, motivation and methods must all work together.
Kwik says a person can have two of the three and still be stuck, and that the overlaps produce inspiration, ideation and implementation. All three together produce integration, which he calls the limitless state.
Old learning habits like subvocalization and regression slow us down.
Kwik says reading is limited to speaking speed when you silently say every word, and that regression can waste about 25% of reading time. He suggests using a finger as a visual pacer and says it can make reading 25 to 50% faster.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThe human brain does not learn by consuming, it learns by creating.
— Jim Kwik
Knowledge is not power. It's potential power. Applying it makes it powerful.
— Jim Kwik
I think you're doing too little of the things that make you feel alive.
— Jim Kwik
What if the only things you had in your life tomorrow were the things you expressed gratitude for today?
— Jim Kwik
Greatness begins from the inside.
— Jim Kwik
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Jim Kwik
guestBrain coach and learning/memory expert, author of “Limitless.”
Lewis Howes
hostHost of The School of Greatness podcast and interviewer.
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