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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast. George Nori with you,
Speaker 2: Jim Quick with us. His book is called Limitless, the
Speaker 2: Expanded Edition. Tell me about the title, Jim Limitless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Limitless is an owner's manual for our brain.
Speaker 3: You know, our brain. You know, we're talking about space.
Speaker 3: This is the space I'm talking about is between our years.
Speaker 3: You know, we upgrade, you know, think about technology and
Speaker 3: you know, we have autonomous electric cars and spaceships that
Speaker 3: are going to Mars or to vehicle choice. Often when
Speaker 3: it comes to learning is like a horse and buggy,
Speaker 3: a horse and carriage. So Limitless, upgrade your brain, learning
Speaker 3: thing faster. Our Lucker Exceptional Life. The expand Edition is
Speaker 3: really it's not about being perfect. It's about advancing and
Speaker 3: progressing beyond what you currently believe is possible. Can we
Speaker 3: discovered more about the human brain more in the past
Speaker 3: twenty years and the previous two thousand years combined, and
Speaker 3: we found as we're grossy underestimating our own capabilities, regardless
Speaker 3: of your age, your background, your career, educational level, financial situation,
Speaker 3: gender history, IQ you know it's so much more potential inside.
Speaker 3: It's just we're not shown how to be able to
Speaker 3: access it. And that's that's why, that's why I wrote
Speaker 3: this book.
Speaker 2: You talk about the seven lies of learning, Tell me
Speaker 2: about that, then we'll get into these seven.
Speaker 3: Sure, So a big part of what holds us back
Speaker 3: is our mindset, you know, the set of assumptions and
Speaker 3: attitudes about something. So you can someone learn a great
Speaker 3: method on let's say, making money, but if their mindset is,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't deserve it, or I have to
Speaker 3: hurt people in order to be able to you know,
Speaker 3: access that, then you're probably still going to be stuck,
Speaker 3: you know, in that area. So all behavior is belief driven.
Speaker 3: And so for me, a lie and for a limited
Speaker 3: idea entertained, it's not true. It's just something we're giving
Speaker 3: energy to. So, you know, to be able to unlimit yourself,
Speaker 3: you have to address these line like So, for example,
Speaker 3: one of them is intelligence is fixed. Right, It's one
Speaker 3: of those things where people believe that somehow your potential
Speaker 3: is fixed or your memory is fixed, like your shoe size,
Speaker 3: and that's absolutely not true. But the problem is if
Speaker 3: you believe it's true, you know, if you believe you
Speaker 3: can or can't either way, You're right, right, Henry Ford
Speaker 3: said that. But the truth is it's not how smart
Speaker 3: you are, it's how are you smart? There are multiple
Speaker 3: types of intelligence. Howard Gardner, you know, talked about this,
Speaker 3: you know, researches at Harvard University. So like so many things,
Speaker 3: intelligence is a combination of attitudes and actions, and it's
Speaker 3: really dependent on contexts. You know. A better belief is
Speaker 3: that intelligence is fluid. You know, I talk about in
Speaker 3: my work, we created a brain quiz at hundreds of
Speaker 3: thousands of people have gone through that talks about four
Speaker 3: different brain types, and I use it. I modeled it
Speaker 3: after elephant like els, and some dolphins and owls and cheetahs.
Speaker 3: It's just an illustration that, you know, we are smarter
Speaker 3: than we think. Another another lie that some people believe
Speaker 3: is that we only use ten percent of our brains.
Speaker 4: And I hear that a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's something that we've all heard this myth. You know,
Speaker 3: some of us heard it the first time in the classroom,
Speaker 3: some of us sort of from maybe a friend, some
Speaker 3: sort of through media, maybe documentary and TV show. And
Speaker 3: it's not true. In actuality, we use one hundred percent
Speaker 3: of our brain, just like we use one hundred percent
Speaker 3: of our body. Right, It's just some people use it differently,
Speaker 3: you know, more effectively or more efficiently than others. So
Speaker 3: the more the truth is, you know, is that you
Speaker 3: have all the power of your brain. It's available to you,
Speaker 3: and it's available to you now you know the utopia
Speaker 3: that each of us, you know, in these movies and
Speaker 3: television shows that depicts, it's already possible, you know, for us.
Speaker 3: And while we use all our brains, some people use
Speaker 3: their brain better than others, just says, you know, most
Speaker 3: people one hundred percent of their body. You know, there
Speaker 3: are somebodies that are faster, that are stronger, that are
Speaker 3: more flexible, that are more energized than others. And the
Speaker 3: key is to learn how to use your brain effectively efficiency,
Speaker 3: you know, as possible as you can, right, And that
Speaker 3: that's why I wrote the book. A new belief could
Speaker 3: be instead of you know that you use ten percent,
Speaker 3: is that I am learning how to use my whole
Speaker 3: brain in the best ways possible. You know. Another lie
Speaker 3: is mistakes are failures. You know. That's that's something I
Speaker 3: think a lot of people unconsciously believe and you know,
Speaker 3: it's my belief that that could hold you back because
Speaker 3: you're not going to do things if you're scared of,
Speaker 3: you know, making mistakes. I think we make mistakes. The
Speaker 3: mistakes don't have to make us, you know, the mistakes,
Speaker 3: you know, that's just nos. So there's no failure, there's
Speaker 3: only failure to learn something.
Speaker 2: As long as you learn from your mistakes, it's it's
Speaker 2: worth it's worthwhile to try.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe that, George. Just a lot of people think,
Speaker 3: you know, failure is the opposite of success, you know,
Speaker 3: and I think failure is part of success, right, you know,
Speaker 3: and so like I feel like failure like getting the feedback,
Speaker 3: feedback is the breakfast of champions, so you know, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's it's interesting the children, Like we have a
Speaker 3: newborn nine months and you know, he's like learning how
Speaker 3: to crawl and help propping himself up. And you know,
Speaker 3: if people fall, like children fall, they'll fall hundreds of
Speaker 3: times and they always get back up. But sometimes as
Speaker 3: adults where you know, we could try something, we'd take
Speaker 3: a salsa class or a coding glass something, and we
Speaker 3: don't do well at it the first time, which you
Speaker 3: know is normal and we just stopped right because we
Speaker 3: don't want to look look bad. And so I think
Speaker 3: there's no such thing as failure, is only failure to
Speaker 3: learn something.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: In another lie that I think is pervasive in the
Speaker 3: performance space or self improvement space is that knowledge is power.
Speaker 3: Like we've all heard the phrase knowledge is power, and
Speaker 3: I don't think it's really accurate. I think knowledge has
Speaker 3: the potential to be power. It only comes power when
Speaker 3: you utilize it. So many people know stuff, but they're not,
Speaker 3: you know, use utilizing that information. So I think knowledge
Speaker 3: times action is power. And so you know, these kind
Speaker 3: of lies, it's nice to make it more conscious as
Speaker 3: opposed to unconscious, because in order to change anything, you
Speaker 3: need a level of self awareness, right, you need to
Speaker 3: be able. You can't change something unless you know that
Speaker 3: it needs to be changed and you recognize that. So
Speaker 3: in the book we talk about some of the lives
Speaker 3: of learning and then how to be able to reframe them,
Speaker 3: and you know, to take care of your mindset. You know,
Speaker 3: I believe your brain is this incredible supercomputer and your
Speaker 3: self talk is a program and that will run. So
Speaker 3: you tell yourself, I'm not good at I don't know
Speaker 3: we're remembering people's names, you will not remember the name,
Speaker 3: and the next person you meet program your supercomputer not
Speaker 3: to people. Exactly. If people truly understand stood Georgia, like
Speaker 3: how powerful their mind is, they probably wouldn't say or
Speaker 3: think something they didn't want to be true. And that's
Speaker 3: not to say that you have one negative thought and
Speaker 3: ruins your life anymore than eating that donut ruin your life.
Speaker 3: But if you hate that doughnut dozens of times in
Speaker 3: a day, every single day, you know there will be
Speaker 3: an effect. And so I just want to remind people
Speaker 3: that your thoughts, your thoughts matter, and you don't have
Speaker 3: to believe everything that you think.
Speaker 4: Line number five is learning new things is very difficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think some people stop. You know, the two
Speaker 3: challenges is where people where we see and we have
Speaker 3: students in every country in the world in our online
Speaker 3: you know Accelebrated Learning Academy first Futerating Memory IM programs.
Speaker 3: We see the biggest decline usually when people in their
Speaker 3: covenant performance. When people graduate school, but somehow they associate that,
Speaker 3: you know, their education is done so as their learning right,
Speaker 3: they've learned everything that they need to learn. And then
Speaker 3: when people retire, because often when people retire, they stop
Speaker 3: using their brain, you know, actively, and unfortunately their bodies
Speaker 3: usually aren't that far behind. So instead of believing that,
Speaker 3: you know, learning new things is difficult, it can be.
Speaker 3: Certainly sometimes it's hard to learn new things, but that's
Speaker 3: where you grow. Right when you're listing, if somebody's exercising,
Speaker 3: it's the it's the novelty and the demand you have
Speaker 3: on your muscles that force it to adapt. And same
Speaker 3: thing with learning. You know, sometimes it is hard to
Speaker 3: learn new things, but what's more accurate is to understand
Speaker 3: that learning is a set of methods. It's a process,
Speaker 3: and you can certainly do it easier once you know
Speaker 3: how to learn right. My book Limitless They Expanded is
Speaker 3: all about metal learning. Meta learning is the science and
Speaker 3: the art of learning how to learn. When you learn
Speaker 3: new ways on how to learn the challenge of learning
Speaker 3: new things, it actually could be fun. You actually get
Speaker 3: easier and it's certainly more enjoyable. Line number six is
Speaker 3: one talking about criticism, that the criticism of other people,
Speaker 3: you know, matters, because people over index how important other
Speaker 3: people's opinions are, you know. And I spent a lot
Speaker 3: of time at senior centers, maybe because I lost my
Speaker 3: grandparents at an early age and I help them to
Speaker 3: improve their memory, polish off their memory. And I also
Speaker 3: hear some amaze so much, so many nuggets of wisdom
Speaker 3: and insights. I also hear a lot of regret, you know,
Speaker 3: And I just want to remind listeners that when we're
Speaker 3: taking our final breaths, you know, in those moments, none
Speaker 3: of them people's opinions or their expectations will have matter
Speaker 3: to us. Well, what will mattered is you know, what
Speaker 3: was most important. You know, maybe how you laughed and
Speaker 3: how you learned, and how you loved and how you lived.
Speaker 3: You know, I really think and you just to frame
Speaker 3: it in a different way, you know, I don't think
Speaker 3: we should take criticism from people. We wouldn't take advice
Speaker 3: from you know, maybe that could help reframe it for people.
Speaker 3: You know. The new belief is something like, it's not
Speaker 3: your job to like, love or respect me. It's mine, right,
Speaker 3: And so, you know, I feel like a lot of
Speaker 3: people are limited, They limit themselves because they're afraid of
Speaker 3: what people will think, you know. So I just like
Speaker 3: to put some healthy dose of perspective there. And then
Speaker 3: the seventh lie is that This is something I think
Speaker 3: a lot of people buy into, is that genius is born.
Speaker 3: You know, you're either born with you know, genius, or
Speaker 3: you're not.
Speaker 4: Just developed, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really think that genius is built, you know,
Speaker 3: more and more than anything that genius leaves clues and
Speaker 3: there's always a method behind what looks like magic. And
Speaker 3: that's been the nature of my work. When I perform
Speaker 3: in front of audiences, and I could be in front
Speaker 3: of a quarter million people totally in a year. You know,
Speaker 3: I travel a lot. I could be in three continents
Speaker 3: in a week, and if there's time, I'll be these
Speaker 3: demonstrations where I'll have like one hundred people stand up
Speaker 3: in an audience and pass around a microphone and introduce
Speaker 3: themselves and I will recite all of their names from
Speaker 3: memory that I do that, yeah, or an audience. You know,
Speaker 3: I just got out of a program at Google. I'm
Speaker 3: here in northern California right now, traveling on tour, and
Speaker 3: you know, and I'll have they'll challenge me. They'll may
Speaker 3: be fifty or one hundred digit number and I would
Speaker 3: call them forwards and backwards or one hundred random words.
Speaker 3: But I always tell people I don't do this to
Speaker 3: impress you. I do this express to you what's possible,
Speaker 3: because the truth is, again, we could all do this,
Speaker 3: we just weren't taught. You know, there was no class
Speaker 3: called memory. You know, they teach you three rs in
Speaker 3: school reading, writing, arithmetics. But what about retention? Right Socrates?
Speaker 3: Learning is remembering? And so you know, I feel like
Speaker 3: if you go to somebody and say, hey, play the ukulele,
Speaker 3: you know that'd be ludicrous if people have never taken
Speaker 3: a class well, going to somebody like a child or
Speaker 3: one of your coworkers and saying focus study, they've never
Speaker 3: taken classes on that. So I truly believe that genius
Speaker 3: is not so much born, but it's built. It's made
Speaker 3: through deep, deep practice like anything else.
Speaker 2: And what about the possibility of brain foods? What are
Speaker 2: some of the best.
Speaker 3: You know, I think the whole area of science. I
Speaker 3: do a whole chapter on the best foods you could
Speaker 3: eat for your brain health.
Speaker 4: You like guacamole, don't you?
Speaker 3: I really do avocados, A monoon saturated fat is good
Speaker 3: for the brain. This is a whole area of signs
Speaker 3: called neuro nutrition. Some of my favorite ones I don't
Speaker 3: give you everyone a memory eight on how to do this,
Speaker 3: so we can make such. It's a little memory masterclass.
Speaker 3: So some of my favorites that are researched to be
Speaker 3: neuroprotective Avocados, blueberries I have to call the brain berries.
Speaker 3: You know, the antoxins are very good for your brain. Broccoli,
Speaker 3: the sulfur fame in there is is very good for
Speaker 3: your brain. Number number fourth one is olive oil. You know,
Speaker 3: we hear a lot about mediterrane diet. It's very narrow
Speaker 3: protective if your diet allows. Eggs are like nature's multi vitamin.
Speaker 3: The coalen and eggs is very good for cognitive health
Speaker 3: and performance. Green leafy vegetables like kalen spinach is good
Speaker 3: for the brain. Your brain is mostly fat, so that's
Speaker 3: where you get the omega three's or the dhas like
Speaker 3: from fish. You always hear about eating uh, you know,
Speaker 3: wild salmon or sardines, those are definitely brain foods. I
Speaker 3: would add turmeric their curtains.
Speaker 4: I take that every day every day, So good for.
Speaker 3: You, George. It's it's anti inflammatory. Some people will take
Speaker 3: the turmeric and mix it with some almond milk and
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit of pepper and just make like
Speaker 3: a like a like some kind of golden milk for themselves.
Speaker 3: Walnuts are very good for the brain, high inviting and
Speaker 3: eating or protective walnuts. Interesting, they look like a human brain.
Speaker 4: They do.
Speaker 3: You're you're right, Yeah, it's something like a little memory aid.
Speaker 3: Like it's interesting. Certain foods support the organ that they
Speaker 3: look like. If you cut a tomato in half, it
Speaker 3: has four chambers, and tomatoes are good for the heart,
Speaker 3: right if you and these are kind of not based.
Speaker 3: These are more memory, uh, you know, kind of associations.
Speaker 3: If you kind of carrot and it looks like the
Speaker 3: human eye, and they say carrots are good for the eye,
Speaker 3: and on so on. And then finally the tenth one
Speaker 3: is dark chocolate, not milk, chocolate, not high sugar, but
Speaker 3: dark chocolate is very good for the brain also as well.
Speaker 3: What's good for your mood is generally good for your minds.
Speaker 3: So you know, these are ten foods and you could
Speaker 3: take a bunch of them even thrown into a blender
Speaker 3: and make a brain power smoothie. You know, the avocados,
Speaker 3: the green leavy vegetables, you know, chocolate powder, maybe you
Speaker 3: know some berries. I probably wouldn't put.
Speaker 4: The fish in there, not in the berries.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, what you eat matters, especially for
Speaker 3: your brain matter.
Speaker 2: Before we had the internet going Jim, I had a
Speaker 2: friend of mine who had a poor memory, and she
Speaker 2: saw a television commercial for a kit which would improve
Speaker 2: your memory, except she forgot the toll free number.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I believe too. The most coffee words sometimes in life
Speaker 3: or in our work, or I forgot. If you think
Speaker 3: about the consequences and saying I forgot to do it,
Speaker 3: I forgot to bring it, I've got what I'm going
Speaker 3: to say, I forgot what they said, I forgot to
Speaker 3: go to that meeting, I forgot that person's name. I mean,
Speaker 3: just goes on and on. Every time we have those lapses,
Speaker 3: we could lose time, we could you know, compromise of relationship.
Speaker 3: But on the other side, memory can make you can
Speaker 3: make you the money, certainly because the faster you can learn,
Speaker 3: the faster you can earn. Because knowledge is the only power.
Speaker 3: Knowledge is profit Today most people listening, it's not like
Speaker 3: what's hundreds of years ago agricultural age or what work
Speaker 3: on assembly lines, where it's more boot strength. Today it's
Speaker 3: brain strength, right, It's not your muscle power. It's say
Speaker 3: it's online power. And again, the faster you can learn,
Speaker 3: the fast you can earn. If you can remember client
Speaker 3: information or product information, can a speech without notes, learn
Speaker 3: another language, improve your your vocabulary, remember what you read.
Speaker 3: I mean, all of these are real assets. And again
Speaker 3: it's everybody, regardless of your age and stage of life,
Speaker 3: can do it. They just need a guidebook. Right, and
Speaker 3: your brain is Your brain is amazing, right. You know,
Speaker 3: it only weighs about three pounds, but it is the
Speaker 3: most intricate and one of the most extraordinary things in
Speaker 3: the entire universe.
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