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Limitless
Jim Kwik
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What is Limitless about?
How to upgrade your brain in service of your goals. Jim Kwik, a coach to high performers and movie stars, walks through his Mindset, Motivation, Methods framework: faster reading, sharper memory, deeper focus. Practical, energetic, and based on neuroscience research applied at scale.
Key ideas of Limitless
The 3M Limitless Model
Peak performance comes from Mindset, Motivation, and Methods working together, and any one of the three at zero cancels out the other two.
Four Digital Supervillains
Deluge, Distraction, Dementia, and Deduction are four specific ways the modern digital environment quietly erodes thinking and focus.
Memory and Speed as Trainable Skills
Reading speed and recall are not fixed traits but learnable techniques, including the memory palace and visual pacing, that most adults were never taught.
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Limitless
*Jim Kwik (2020)*
A boy with a broken brain
A five-year-old boy is climbing on a radiator in his classroom, trying to look out the window. He slips. His head hits the cast iron on the way down. He blacks out. When he comes to, he is told he had an accident, but nobody uses the word that will follow him for the rest of his childhood. Traumatic brain injury. From that day forward, Jim Kwik cannot focus the way other kids can. He cannot read at grade level. He cannot finish a thought without it dissolving on him. School becomes a daily small humiliation.
The line that breaks him arrives a few years later in a regular elementary school classroom. He is struggling, again, with a lesson he should have understood. The teacher loses patience. She points at him in front of the other children and says, "That's the boy with the broken brain."
He is nine. He believes her. For most of the next decade he carries that label inside his own head like a verdict. When he fails a test, broken brain. When he is picked last, broken brain. When he reads a paragraph three times and still cannot tell you what it said, broken brain.
By his freshman year of college he is on the edge of dropping out. A friend invites him home for a weekend. The friend's father, a stranger, asks how school is going. Kwik bursts into tears in the man's driveway and tells him the whole boy with the broken brain story. The father walks him to a room lined wall to wall with biographies and personal development books and asks four questions Kwik has never been asked before. What do you want to be? What do you want to do? What do you want to have? What do you want to share? Then he hands Kwik a stack of books and asks him to read one a week.
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- Anyone who feels their focus and memory have quietly deteriorated in the age of smartphones.
- Anyone who wants to read faster and retain more without sacrificing comprehension.
- Anyone who suspects their limiting beliefs about their own intelligence are holding them back.
- Anyone who manages a heavy information load at work and needs practical tools to keep up.
About the author: Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik is a brain performance coach who has worked with executives and teams at Google, Nike, GE, Virgin, Harvard, and Caltech, as well as members of the cast of X-Men and the FBI. He built his methods after suffering a traumatic brain injury as a child that left him struggling to read and focus, and spent years self-teaching adult learning theory, mnemonics, and speed reading to rebuild his own cognitive performance.
He founded Kwik Learning and hosts the Kwik Brain podcast, one of the most widely followed brain training shows in the world. He has spoken at major global conferences and sits on the advisory board of the XPRIZE Foundation.
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