Youtube accidentally showed me a video of Brain trainer Jim Kwik. I was very impressed with in a few mins from the video. I searched for the training session with Jim Kwik and watched the video Unleash Your Super Brain To Learn Faster And Work Smarter. As I watched it, took some rough notes for me to recall the key points later. Sharing them below. Will continue to learn more and publish some notes later in the week.
- Art of learning is an art of attention
- Children are the faster learners. They learn quickly since they have
- FOCUS
- CURIOUS
- PLAY all the time — Playing more” creates
- Neurogenesis – new brain cells
- Neuroplasticity – More connectivity
- Einstein did not have a bigger brain but more connected one
- Information combined with emotion = Long-term memory
- Trade your cleverness with bewilderment
- We are not logical, we are bi-logical
- All learning is state dependent — The emotional state that you feel anchor to the learning.
- Shelf help not a self-help
- Ability to learn quickly — it does not mean frantic speed
- 7 habits of highly effective people – 7th habit – Sharpen the saw
- Superpower does not make you superhero – you have to use it to do something good
- Three Supervillains
- Digital overload – Supervillains
- Information fatigue syndrome
- Digital Distraction – Mind is so distracted and you cannot focus on just one thing anymore.
- Faster you learn faster you can improve Health, Relationship, Career
- Digital overload – Supervillains
- Play – Batman, Superman, Wonder women
- Who is in charge of emotional state?
- ME
- Jim’s superhero’s – Richard Branson and Stan Lee (Co-creator of spiderman, x men, Avengers). Fav – iron man
- With great power comes great responsibilities
- Why would you delay things that are imp to you? Or that will help you to reach your goal?
- State and strategy
- Those people who procrastinate are in a state of procrastinating — poor strategy of getting things done
- Best way to move your state is by moving your body — As your body moves, your brain groups.
- Novelty (exercise) and nutrition make more brain connections
- The highest level of state?
- Peace, love, joy, passion
- Common sense is not often common practice
- How to spread joy? — Hugs, kiss, love
- INFORMATION + EMOTION = LONG TERM MEMORY
- Thermometer and Thermo-state
- One reacts to the environment – we react to how people react to us.
- Regulate the environment – set the vision and regulate the environment
- Being responsible – how you feel and focus on this.
- 6 keys to learning anything faster – BE FAST
- BELIEVE – if you believe you can or you cannot, either way, you are right – henry ford
- Excercise
- Take your right hand up and move it on right
- Try again after visualization and it moved way further.
- Were you physically capable of it first time – Blocker was in my mind.
- All behaviors are belief driven
- Always believe you can
- Creativity is not something you have, it is something you do
- The focus is not something you have, it is something you do
- Energy is not something you have, it is something you do
- Memory is not something you have, it is something you do
- We have control over it – we can define strategy – it is a verb, not a noun.
- There is a strategy to remember names. There is a strategy for reading faster or having focus
- There is no good memory or a bad memory. There is train memory or untrained memory.
- BELIEF has to change. The strategy you can learn.
- Your brain is like a supercomputer, your self-talk a program it will run.
- If you say you will not remember names, you will not remember the next person’s name
- MONITOR your self-talk
- If you fight for your limitations you have to keep them
- AND self-guard to your mind because the mind is always eve dropping on your self-talk
- Why you don’t remember Phone numbers
- Challenge here is digital overload
- Villon1- DIGITAL OVERLOAD
- Digital information is increasing, things we try to remember is even less.
- This gap is increasing and create stress that we feel on an ongoing basis
- How do we get ahead
- Villon2 – DIGITAL DISTRACTION
- The first hour of the day NO touching your phone.
- Brainwaves
- Beta is when we are awake
- Delta is when we sleep
- Theta is right above delta – that is the state of creativity we talked about (when we are in the shower. So relaxed and very creative)
- In between beta and theta (when we are most awake), there is a state called alpha – state you go in when you meditate or deep breathing or watch television.
- Alpha state is when the conscious mind is set aside and we are not filtering.
- Alpha state is a great state to learn facts or languages or information like presentations and scripts
- Villion3 – DIGITAL DEMENTIA – We are outsourcing our brain to smart devices
- We are so much dependent on our smartphones that our smartphones are making us stupid.
- We are using phone for names, calculators
- GPS for directions
- Smart devices could be extremely convenient but they could be crippling also. So it could be a balance
- Dr. Daniel – change your brain and change your life
- Self-awareness – an expert is not the person on stage but you
- You can learn better by looking at you and see what works for you.
- Visualize, belief and do it as a superhero
- The same level of thinking that created the problem would not solve the problem – Albert Einstein
- There is no learning without remembering – Socrates
- BE FAST
- BELIEF
- EXCERCISE- super brain yoga – as your body moves, your brain grooves
- FORGET – we don’t learn since we think we know this already. We don’t empty our cup. Need a beginner’s mind. Forget about anything else you are thinking except learning
- ACTIVE – Learning is not a spectator sport. Learning is engagement – the human brain does not learn from consuming information. It learns by creating information. Take notes, stay active
- STATE – all learning is state dependent. Never learn in bore state. LEARNING + EMOTION = long-term memory.
- Many people think reading is seductive
- Reading is falling sleep or 0? Anything * 0 = 0
- So control your state
- TEACH – Learning with the intention that you are teaching someone else.
- Ask better questions
- Take better notes
- Children are the faster learners.
- We all have an inner child that is genius
- Days of future past
- If you could go back to the child inside you that younger self and right now tell them something they need to hear what would that be?
- AND if you have to go to future (10 years ahead) -> what is your current self-need to hear from you for future.
- Egg and stress
- Your egg is like your life. If an egg is broken by an outside force life ends but if an egg is broken by inside force life beings – all great things begin on the inside
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