Being Distracted Wastes Your Potential, Do This To Sharpen Your Mind & Become Limitless | Jim Kwik

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Published 2024-04-30
Jim Kwik, Bestselling Author and #1 Brain Coach shares an effective guide in helping us transcend limits and unlock our brain’s full potential. At a young age, Jim adopted the identity of having a 'broken brain' after a traumatic brain injury damped his ability to learn. In this episode he shares the mindset and tools that helped him to overcome this label and become a master of his mind.
He and André discuss simple hacks to harnessing your attention and improving your memory, revealing the information essential to learning faster and expanding your mental capabilities.
They also discuss the mindset essential to having a fulfilling life: Jim explains that the reason most people are burned out is not because they are doing too much, but because they're not doing enough of what they love. He shares how he personally created a life of alignment, joy, and fulfillment from the inside out.


André's Book Recommendations: www.knowthyself.one/books

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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:00 Becoming Limitless: From Brain Injury to Super-Brain
8:16 Harnessing Our Challenges as a Super Power
12:39 Transcending Self-Imposed Limitations
18:48 The Secret to Fulfillment
22:54 Drawbacks of our Digital Age: Overwhelm & Distraction
29:10 #1 Hack to Harnessing Your Attention
33:23 The Key to Learning How to Learn
45:45 Improving Memory Through Emotion
54:42 Understanding Your Own Unique Way of Learning
1:06:03 AI & Digital Dementia's Impact On Our Brain
1:15:47 Knowledge vs Wisdom
1:16:22 Cultivating the Perfect Environment for Wellbeing
1:19:19 Advice For My Childhood Self
1:20:14 Biggest Failure of our Education System
1:23:07 The Value of Flowstate & Meditation
1:30:12 Gaining The Courage to Be Yourself
1:35:23 Conclusion
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Jim Kwik is a world-renowned expert in memory improvement, brain optimization, and accelerated learning. After a childhood brain injury left him learning-challenged, Kwik created strategies to dramatically enhance his mental performance. He has since dedicated his life to helping others unleash their true genius and brainpower. For over two decades, he has served as a brain coach to students, seniors, entrepreneurs, and educators. His work has touched a who’s who of Hollywood elite, professional athletes, political leaders, and business magnates, with corporate clients that include Google, Virgin, Nike, Zappos, SpaceX, GE, 20th Century Fox, Cleveland Clinic, Wordpress, and such institutions as the United Nations, Caltech, Harvard University, and Singularity University.

Through keynote speeches, he reaches in-person audiences totaling more than 200,000 every year; his online videos have garnered hundreds of millions of views. Kwik is regularly featured in media, including Forbes, HuffPost, Fast Company, Inc., and CNBC. He is the host of the acclaimed “Kwik Brain” podcast, which is consistently the top educational training show on iTunes. KwikLearning.com’s online courses are used by students in 195 countries.

Kwik, an advocate for brain health and global education, is also a philanthropist with projects ranging from Alzheimer’s research to funding the creation of schools from Guatemala to Kenya, providing health care, clean water, and learning for children in need. His mission: No brain left behind.

Animal Quiz: start.kwikbrain.com/quiz
Book "Limitless": start.kwikbrain.com/limitless-expanded
Website: www.jimkwik.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jimkwik/

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All Comments (21)
  • @JimKwik
    Thank you for having me! Limitless appreciation. 🙏🧠
  • @BostonT33
    I took notes. I took the quiz (I'm a Dolphin). I cried. I laughed. And I took these words deep into my heart. This particular podcast episode was a message sent directly from the Universe. Thank you—from the depths of my Being, thank you. 🙏🏻♥️
  • Andre giving Jim the sign was the best ending to an amazing conversation. Thank you both.
  • @MsMetalandEarth
    @jimkwik @knowthyself I’m a 68 yo woman who’s living in a van on public land, w/SS as my income. And one of the great gifts of this experience of sovereignty is that I get to listen to these podcasts!! I was in tears at the end of this show….especially when you gifted Jim at the end!! The spontaneity of the gift was such a summary of your Spiritual practice in a statement! Jim’s response was so wholesome & timeless!! Watching the 5 yo boy receive that gift in his wholeness….BLISS! 🙏🏽❤️🌈😊
  • @peacejoylove
    Thank you Andre for bringing another brilliant thought leader, Jim Kwik to your wonderful podcast! This entire episode is wholesome and impactful. Love, love, love! Thanks again.
  • It's actually a testament to André's wisdom & sagacity that he manages to have awesome humans in front of him - & still derive even more (sometimes unique) value from those people. Such an amazing conversation technique. He could have God in front of him & get Him to say, "Actually - I never quite looked at it like that before!"
  • This video was indeed no coincidence. Spoke directly to my recent feelings of not feeling fulfilled which has alot to do with not exercising my mind with learning and reaching our highest potential on a regular basis. So much we can take from this video to be a little better each day. Thank you!
  • I have spent most of my life distracted. I unfortunately had to lose my family to ask myself the serious heartfelt questions. What is most important? What is the priority now? Question each reason and thought and ask if the narrative is limiting or freeing you. In each moment, check in and ask your ❤️‍🔥, not your mind, is this what I need to be doing right now. Overtime you will literally feel energetically the truth. May ALL beings reach their highest potential. 🕊️
  • @Regulus1999
    Another 20 star 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟podcast!!! Thank you André. Your podcast guests are so brilliant and Jim was no different. I had chills, truth bumps and even tears at the end when you gave him the sign. So much heartfelt love here ♥ xx
  • @Lisa543-_-
    😍💡I wish there were a subject, in my school days or now for our younger generation, called "know thyself"❣️ Jim, you are a beautiful, humble soul. I'm so happy that you didn't stay invisible. There were so many lightbulb moments in this conversation. Thank you, Andre, for this inspirational conversation🦋
  • @heksedansd.2919
    Your guest this time has a very calm and beautiful voice....that in it self is healing to me!🙂 I love this channel, it's allways interesting!!!❤
  • @intrespekt
    My Prolonged Concussion Symptoms (PCS) were treated about a month and half ago with a procedure called the Stellate Ganglion block. It took 30 seconds and fixed 20 years of symptoms. Single largest impact in my life.
  • @Asis4God
    As someone with ADD, I prefer listening or video to books.
  • @lizziel8266
    The discussion beginning around 25 minutes about information anxiety and just the feeling of overwhelm from all the information we are taking in, I feel this so much in my own life!!!! Thank you for talking about this ❤ loving the conversation so far!
  • @mary2al
    I disagree with Jim‘s opinion of the value of taking notes. Personally, I went to nine different colleges and switched majors a lot, so it took me a while to graduate, which was no problem because I was switching majors to subjects and fields I was interested in and wanted to explore and after a year or two I had had enough of that and wanted to switch again 😅 finally in my last college I could design my own major according to my passions and take classes and do research based on that major, so I was very interested in all my classes, reading and related research. During classes/lectures I realized that I didn’t need to take notes because I was so intensely interested I was going to retain it — at the same time I discovered how distracting the taking of notes had been in the past. So now I was sitting in the lecture and absorbing everything, soaking it up and making connections because of my intense personal interest because I had chosen the classes from my deep passions! I also realized that the taking of notes distracted me from listening to previous lessons and lectures because I had been taking notes — Not just soaking it up!
  • @SDTarotReadings
    I had never heard of Post Traumatic Growth until today!!!! Thank you!! Total reframe that I absolutely love ❤️
  • @starfire555
    I’m leaving this episode with a deeper desire to keep learning 💎🐬
  • @sharonshrum8693
    When the pain of remaining the same exceeds the pain of change... then a person might feel more encouraged to make a change 🙏