Watch Jim Kwik Memorizing Numbers 😮

I always start with everything around mindset and belief because all behavior is belief. If you want to create a new result in your life, you need to do a new behavior. In order to do that behavior, you need a belief that allows you to do it, right? Because here's, here's the thing: your brain is this incredible supercomputer, and your self-talk is the program it will run. So if you tell yourself, I'm not good at remembering people's names, You will not remember the name of the next person you meet in this room because you programmed your supercomputer not to. Like, we've discovered more about the human brain more in the past 10 years than the previous 1,000 years combined. And what we found is we're grossly underestimating our own capabilities. We don't even know what's possible. Let me show you what your mind is capable of. Let's do an experiment together. I want to give you a quiz, all right? Now, how many of you honestly start feeling a little bit anxious when I say that word quiz, right? And so these are all behaviors belief-driven, the anxiety, Because all learning is state-dependent, and we're going to talk about that a little bit. I want to do a little experiment. Let's talk about memorizing things like— in Limitless, I talk about the 4 Horsemen of the Mental Apocalypse, and it's driven by technology. And technology is not good or bad, it's just amplifying some things like distraction. How many of you feel more distracted than ever? Right? Digital distraction, digital deluge. How many feel like overloaded and overwhelmed trying to catch up? Another one we talk about is digital dementia, which is where we're outsourcing our brains to our devices, and that becomes our memory, right? But we don't have— it's use it or what? Lose it. Now, if I put my— just like your body, if you put your arm in a sling for a year, would it grow stronger? Would it even stay the same? What would happen to it? Atrophy. It would atrophy. And that, that's what digital dementia is, the high reliance on technology. Your phones keep your calendars, your to-dos, your phone numbers. How many phone numbers did you used to know? Yeah, all of them, right? How many phone numbers do you know currently today? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, probably like— You could count it on one hand, right? You probably remember the old phone numbers though, right? And that's amazing how your memory works. So let's, let's do, let's do a number. Now, I don't want to memorize 500 phone numbers, but it should be concerning that we've lost the ability to remember one, or a PIN number, or a passcode, or a conversation we just had. I believe 2 of the most costly words in life and business Your work? I forgot. I forgot to think about the damage it caused. I forgot to do it. I forgot to bring it. I forgot that meeting. I forgot you know what I was going to say. I forgot that conversation. I forgot that person's name. Every single time we have these thoughts, we lose respect. We lose opportunity. We lose trust. We lose sales. And on the opposite side, having a great memory is a multiplier. It makes everything in your life a whole lot easier. So let's test our memory. All right. We said numbers are a little bit challenging for for some people. Let's come up with a number for the group and try to memorize it. All right? So we're going to just go around and just raise your hand, shout out a number. Let's do a 2-digit number. And then actually, can somebody— can you write it down in a notepad or something like that? Or perfect. I'll write it down. Yeah. Or else everybody could do it if you'd like. You can even look at it and do your best you can to memorize this string of numbers. OK? And do the best you can. And so pretend we're back in school, and then I'll give you some tips on how you could do it even better. Is that fair? So at least you have a base rate, just like in— let me— they do all these metrics because in order to be able to manage something, you have to be able to measure it. Because how are you knowing you're improving unless you have a starting place? So this will be our kind of our starting place. All right, so let's do this. Just raise your hand and just— yeah, I'll point to you so that I'll repeat it just so everybody's writing this. Every— so we're not doing 100 different numbers. Mm-hmm. We're doing one number collectively. Great. All right. So everyone write these numbers down. Yes? 27. 27. So everyone's writing down 27. Everyone gets the idea? Yes. All right. Perfect. Let me just get some water. All right. Raise your hand. 19. Or 9. Yeah. 19. Perfect. 19. 22. 22. Anyone wanna play bingo? Bingo? These could be the lottery winner, the lotto numbers. So last one was 22, right? Does everyone have that? So we've done how many numbers so far? 3. All right, 3. Or single digits, how many? 6. 6. All right, so we're doing 2 digits just to speed it up a little bit. But 22, great. How many— if we're having trouble coming up with numbers, we have to go in a totally different direction in this conversation. Back here? 14. 14. All right, 14. Yes? 10. 10? Okay, very good. How many single digits are we up to now? Single-digit numbers. 10. All right, 10 numbers, right? So far? Okay, so that's more than a phone number, it's more than a 7-digit number, so we're getting up there for sure. Let's go a little bit further. Let's break through some limits. Yes? 79. 79. All right, 79. How many of you are getting a little— like, you're studying this, right? Trying to do this? Okay, 79. Yes. 63. 63. I should probably be memorizing this myself also. Okay, it's 63. All right. More? Yeah. 23. 23. Number 23. Yes. 46. 46. 46. We're getting— you see the number getting a little bit bigger, right? So the last one was 46, is that right? All right, another one? Yes? 17. 17. All right, how many single digits are we up to now? 20. Are we up to 20 already? Let's do a few more, okay? Yeah, good, good, good. That's the exact reaction we're looking for. 14. 14. We can do it again. 14, that's fine. 14 is good. All right, tough crowd. All right, next. Somebody who hasn't raised their hand yet. Yes? 99. 99. All right, 99. Yes? 28. 28? All right, 28. A couple more. Let's just do 2 more. Like, let's— yeah, 2 more at least. 28. Yes? 35. 35. All right, 35. And finally, yes? 36. 36. All right. How many sing— I'm not writing these down. So how many single digits is that now? 30. 30? All right. So how would you go about memorizing— how do most people go about memorizing this list, would you say? Jingle. A jingle with numbers? Sports jerseys, maybe? Yeah? Breaking numbers up in groups of 2. Breaking it up a little bit? Yes? I was going to say that, breaking it up into groups of 7. Chunking. Yeah, very, very good. All right, so let's see. Don't— actually, let me see if I remember this list. I'll do the best I can to memorize all the 30 numbers. Can I have some encouragement a little bit, please? I haven't spoken live in quite— it's been some time. All right. I'll do the best I can. Cover your paper— your phones, and then you can do the best to test me. All right. I'll do single digits. Ready? From the beginning? All right. 2, 7, 1, 9, 2, 2. How am I doing so far? Good. 1, 4, 1, 0, 7, 2. 9, uh, 6, 3, 2, 3, 4, 6, 1, 7, 1, 4, 9, 9. Was it 2, 8? Yes. Yes? Okay. Um, almost there. 3, 5, 3, 6. Yeah. What's that? Oh, backwards? I could try it backwards. How many of you want to see me try to do this backwards? No? Yeah? All right, I need definitely some encouragement on this one. All right, ready? 30 numbers backwards. Here we go. Actually, let me try doing it backwards. Okay, six three five three eight two nine nine four one seven one six four three two three six nine seven zero one four one two. 29172. All right. All right, I'm done. There you go. So I do this really quickly, honestly, not to impress you, really more to express to you what's possible, because the truth is you all could do this and more. And if you have something in your mind saying there's just no way, Right? That's belief. That's what I talk about, belief issues. So even this turning exercise we did, it's not just mental. It's the athletes do it too, right? They don't just do physical training. What do athletes do? They do mental training. They do visualization, right? They see the ball going into the basket, into the hole if you're playing golf, whatever it happens to be. Because you have to see it first, right? What did Roger Bannister do in 1954? Broke the 4-minute mile. He broke the 4-minute mile. No one throughout human history could run a mile in less than 4 minutes. And then if you saw it, right, like the belief back then was it wasn't even possible, right? But he was able to do it because if you saw the ESPN special, he would visualize himself crossing the finish line, looking at the clock, the timer says 3 minutes, 59 seconds. Because he knows what you know. It has— success is an inside-out process. You take what's inside. My mentor, one of my mentors, Wayne Dyer, he said, it's not, it's not that you'll believe it when you see it, it's you'll see it when you believe it. You'll see it when you believe it inside, right? So he saw it inside his mind and all of a sudden he was able to do it. Now that wasn't the interesting part to me. The interesting part on the documentary was what happened afterwards. Nobody could do it for thousands of years. One person does it. What happens after that? Everyone can do it. Right. Others start breaking that record. Was there a lot of advancement in shoe technology and nutritional support and training methodology? No. What was the shift in? Beliefs. Because what was the belief before? It's not breakable. Not only could it not be done, it was You would die. The human heart can't sustain a sub-4-minute mile and would explode in your chest. Now, I'm a runner, right? That wouldn't keep me from breaking a 4-minute— that would keep me from like jogging in my neighborhood, right? If I thought that— Because all behavior is belief-driven, right? So if you believe you can't— so your brain is this incredible supercomputer and your self-talk is a program it will run. So if you tell yourself you're not good at remembering names, you won't remember the name, as I mentioned, right? So always be Be conscious of your self-talk.