Expand your Mind to fit your Goals - not the Other Way Around | Jim Kwik

How do you have limitless mindset, motivation, and methods? I wanna welcome you back to this episode. I am your host, Jim Kwik, a Kwik Brain, and I wanna thank you for every single time you listen and you watch one of our videos. Now, in our last episode, I described to you our limitless model, the 3 essential elements To be able to unlock, to be able to unleash and upgrade your brain, learn anything faster, and really have an exceptional life. If you haven't listened to that episode, I encourage you to do so. Now, this is based on my brand new upcoming book called Limitless, and I want to thank everybody who pre-ordered already on the site limitlessbook.com. This is 28 years in the making. It really is an owner's manual for your brain, the most important technology in the world, to be able to learn and achieve anything faster in your life. I believe that you and I are on the ultimate quest, the incredible adventure, your hero's journey, to be able to reveal and realize our fullest potential and share that with other people to inspire them to do the same. So in the last episode, I described the limitless model and how when it's integrated, you have inspiration, you have ideation, and most importantly, implementation. And when you have all 3 of them, you have this thing called integration. Now I'm going to go a little bit more into specifics in these 3 Ms in this episode because this is really 3 books in one. And remember, if you pre-ordered this book on limitlessbook.com, we are going to gift you an extensive 10-day quick start program. That's me mentoring you for 10 days on how to upgrade your brain, learn anything faster, and really become Limitless, and it's great. So that way you could supercharge your mind so that when the book arrives, you could get so much more out of it. And you don't even have to wait. You could apply that before the book actually appears in your, in your mailbox. All right. So let's go into it. As you recall, we covered 3 parts to the Limitless model: mindset, motivation, and methods. That if there's a gap between where you are and where you want to be, or there's a gap between what you want to learn and where you are right now, you do not want to shrink your goals or your dreams or the possibilities to fit your mind. You want to expand your mind to be able to, to fit all the possibilities and potential that you have in your life. The key though is you can't do that if there's constraint or constriction in one of these areas. All right, so let's go through these 3 areas. The first one is your mindset. Now, in this book, I talk a lot about your mindset. These are the assumptions, the attitudes you have about what is possible, what you believe you're capable of, what you feel like you deserve, how you believe the world works, what you believe also is possible in your learning, not only in your learning, but in your life, 'cause beliefs matter. And include your self-talk. In there, I talk about 8 lies, literally the 8 lies. And LIES stands for Limited Ideas Entertained. These are your limited ideas that you're entertaining. They're not necessarily true, but we give it energy, and all behavior is belief-driven. So in the book, we talk about strategies on how to dispel the spell of beliefs, really because these BS belief systems are holding you back. I could teach you the method on how to remember names or how to learn a language or how to read faster, read a book a week even. But if you believe it's not possible, or you believe you're not too smart, or you believe you're too old, that's gonna hold you back. That's self-talk. Your brain is like a supercomputer, and your self-talk is a program it will run. So if you tell yourself you're not good at remembering names, you will not remember the name of the next person you meet because you program your supercomputer not to. So the whole section in here on mindset talks about the 8 lies or BS, the belief systems that hold you back from tapping into your true genius. Things like intelligence is fixed, that if you take an IQ test, that's your score from when you're 5 years old or 6 years old to when you're 50 or 60. And we know that's not true. So in the text, in this book, and also in this 10-day program, the Quick Start program we're gifting you for pre-ordering our book at limitlessbook.com, we talk about the lies, the 8 lies Then I give you the facts, the science, and the research that dispels it. And then I give you a new belief to empower you to get the results that you desire and honestly you most really deserve. So essentially in the book, what we're doing is we're showing you the beliefs that are holding you back from learning and achieving, and then we're going to dispel it and replace it with a more empowering belief. Isn't that exciting? Now the The second M that's very important to become limitless is you could have the mindset and believe everything's possible, believe that you deserve it, believe that you are capable of it, but if you're not motivated to do the action, you're not going to be able to get the result. So you can believe you could remember names, you could believe you could be a speed reader and read a book a week or 52 books a year, but if you're not motivated to do the work, what's missing? So in the book and in this 10-day quick start program, I'm going to outline for you a simple formula for motivation. I do not believe motivation means you have to get excited about the thing that you want to do or that you have to do. You don't have to be excited about working out. You don't have to be excited about taking cold showers. You don't have to be really excited about journaling every single day, but the key to being motivated Is you need a reason. And I call that your purpose. And I'm not talking about your life purpose, although you'll get some really deep insight in this book on how to discover your life purpose and the passions that fuel it. But what I'm talking about is having a reason. That if you don't have a reason to read a book a week, if you don't have a reason to remember someone's name, if you don't have a reason to work out or do the difficult things, you will not get it done. All right? Because it goes from your head to To your heart, to your hands. So you can have the right mindset, but if you're not acting with your hands, check the second H, which is your heart, and ask yourself why. Ask yourself why. What are all the benefits I get from reading this book? Why do I want to remember this name? Why do I want to learn this language? So the first part of the formula is purpose. Motivation equals purpose. The second part though is an important part that is often neglected Which is energy. When I'm talking about mindset, the assumptions and the attitudes or beliefs around what you believe is possible and you're capable of, what you deserve. When I'm talking about motivation, we're talking about your motive for taking action. We're talking about having a purpose for something. We're also talking about having the ample energy to do that thing. The second part to being motivated, to tapping your motivated state, the fuel that drives the car. And in this book, I outline 10 things you could do to clear brain fog and give yourself mental energy. Because you could know what to do, the right method, which is coming on, again, how to do these things, how to focus, how to be a critical thinker, how to study better for meetings or in school. And I give you the best tactics on how to do so. But if you didn't sleep the night before, or if you're eating a substandard diet, or you are stressed out of your mind, or you have energy vampires in your life that's stealing vitality from you, You're not going to feel motivated. All right? So again, motivation equals purpose times energy. And the third part of tapping your motivation are small, simple steps. Small, simple steps. And in this chapter of the book, I talk about the key to motivation is energy management. When you have a purpose and you have clarity, you have energy. Because if you're confused, you're not going to do that thing. A confused mind doesn't do anything. So clarity gives you energy and the 10 things we talk about, how to have mental energy and overcome cognitive fatigue. You need the energy to do so. But then also when we're talking about small, simple steps, these are the smallest increments you could take where you cannot fail because it requires very little effort. And very little energy. Some people do not feel motivated because in their mind, the thing they need to do is too big. They need to start a business. They need to have a perfect relationship or the perfect body or make that whole business plan. Too big of a chunk.

Here's the key.

Inch by inch, it's a cinch. Yard by yard, it's way too hard. So So in this chapter of the book, I show you how to create what I call quick starts. Quick starts. What's something you could do in less than 60 seconds to be able to start the process and engage the Zeigarnik effect? The Zeigarnik effect is a memory principle where if you start something, you tend to remember the things until you close that loop. So if you start it, you're more likely to finish that thing. So the question you ask yourself is, well, maybe working out is too big in my head. What's the smallest step I could take? Maybe it's putting on your running shoes. So in this book, I share with you some of the greatest lessons I learned in our podcast. And so in this chapter, we talk about habits, and I share with you the lessons that I've learned from interviewing James Clear of Atomic Habits, from interviewing people like BJ Fogg, Stanford University researcher who wrote Tiny Habits, and part of their process is breaking things down to the smallest part. If you have to floss your teeth and you're not able or feel motivated to do so, think about flossing just one tooth. If you need to be able to read 45 minutes a day to read one book a week, or 15 minutes a day if you're a speed reader, do it in a third of the time. Don't think about that 15 minutes, think about reading One sentence or for one minute. Inch by inch, it's a cinch. So that's the key to motivation, is to be able to, number one, tap into your reason or your purpose. Number two, you want to be able to generate sustainable energy because motivation is not something you have, it's something you do. Energy is not something you have, it's something that you do. The 10 keys for unlocking that unlimited energy reserves that you have. And then finally, make it easy for yourself. Small, simple steps. S3. 3 S's. Small, simple steps. What's the smallest action I could take to get me closer to that goal where I cannot fail, that takes very little effort and very little energy? One step at a time. Because little by little, a little becomes a lot. And that's the key to motivation. Now, in this book, it is filled with those quick starts, those tiny little things you could do throughout the entire book. Every few pages, I challenge you to just take one little step, one little step, so you— by the time you finish the book, you have transformed, you have integrated, you have transcended above. You had ended the trance for those limiting beliefs that held you back. And then finally, the key is Once you have unlimited your mindset, and I take you through a whole unlimiting process, and then you have unlimited your motivation, then the key is unlimiting your methods. Because you can have the right mindset and believe it's possible, and you can be motivated and sustain that motivation, but if you're using old tactics, techniques, and strategies for learning, like how you learned how to read when you were 5 or 6 years old, Or repetition and rote. That's going to take way too much time. So in the methods section, I'm going to share with you the 5 areas of quick learning. We're going to talk about unlimiting your study, unlimiting your focus, unlimiting your memory, unlimiting your reading abilities, and unlimiting your ability to think, to solve problems, to make good decisions. Because we were not taught any of those classes back in school. School taught you what to learn, what to think, what to remember, but not how to learn, how to think, and how to remember. And that's what we share with you in the methodology. It's not about shrinking our goals and our dreams to, to fit our current reality. It's about expanding our mindset, our motivation, and our methods to be able to meet our destiny, to be able to meet This desired state that we want to be able to create for ourselves. And that's the essence of the book. So if you haven't already done so, go to limitlessbook.com. You could preorder it there. And I would recommend you get 2 copies, one for yourself and one for your learning buddy. And then when you have gotten that, make sure you let us know, submit the receipt to us. I'm going to share with you our free 10-day quick start program where I'm going to mentor you every single day for a week and a half to upgrade the most important technology. And it's not your phone, it's your mind. And that's the promise of Limitless. It is not about being perfect. It's about progressing and advancing beyond what you believe is possible, not only in your learning but in your whole entire If you have any questions about this, make sure you reach out to our team. You could go to our site, kwiklearning.com, jimkwik.com, or you could text me directly. Text me directly at 310-299-9362. That's 310-299-9362.

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