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
• 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