Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

Author: Jim Kwik

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Author: By: Jim Kwik

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Book Notes:

• Often when you put a label on someone or something, you create a limit—the label becomes the limitation.
• Whenever I struggled to learn, did badly on a quiz, wasn’t picked for a team in gym class, or fell behind my other classmates, I would tell myself it was because my brain was broken.
• Mindset (the WHAT): deeply held beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions we create about who we are, how the world works, what we are capable of and deserve, and what is possible. Motivation (the WHY): the purpose one has for taking action. The energy required for someone to behave in a particular way. Method (the HOW): a specific process for accomplishing something, especially an orderly, logical, or systematic way of instruction.
• There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that if we never let our mind wander or be bored for a moment, we pay a price—poor memory, mental fog, and fatigue.
• Students in the closed laptop condition recalled significantly more material in a surprise quiz after class than did students in the open laptop condition.
• If you sit down to read a book over the course of two hours without taking any breaks, you might remember the first 20 minutes of what you read, then maybe you’ll experience a dip around the 30-minute mark, and then you’re likely to remember the end of what you read.