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Have you ever wondered what it takes to transform your brain from being your biggest obstacle to your most powerful ally? Let's dive into the world of Jim Kwik, a renowned brain coach whose life-changing journey from a childhood brain injury to becoming a global leader in accelerated learning and brain performance offers invaluable lessons. In our chat, we discuss the power of meta-learning, and navigating the digital deluge. Our conversation also ventured into the areas of brain nutrition, nootropics, and the fascinating concept of identifying your "brain animal type." This is one episode you don't want to miss!
About Our Guest:
Jim Kwik, the founder of Kwik Brain, is a world expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. After a childhood brain injury left him learning-challenged, Jim created strategies to dramatically enhance his mental performance. He has since dedicated his life to helping others unleash their true genius and brainpower to learn anything faster and live a life of greater power, productivity, and purpose.
Thrive Global Article:
Your Brain is Your Superpower: Jim Kwik's Guide to a Limitless Mind
Connect with and learn from Jim Kwik:
Website: JimKwik.com
Instagram: @KwikLearning
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/JimKwik
Facebook: facebook.com/KwikLearning
Twitter/X: @JimKwik
YouTube: youtube.com/c/JimKwik
Book: Limitless EXPANDED: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
About Lainie:
Lainie Rowell is a bestselling author, award-winning educator, and TEDx speaker. She is dedicated to human flourishing, focusing on community building, social-emotional learning, and honoring what makes each of us unique and dynamic through learner-driven design. She earned her degree in psychology and went on to earn both a post-graduate credential and a master's degree in education. An international keynote speaker, Lainie has presented in 41 states as well as in dozens of countries across 4 continents. As a consultant, Lainie’s client list ranges from Fortune 100 companies like Apple and Google to school districts and independent schools. Learn more at linktr.ee/lainierowell.
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Twitter - @LainieRowell
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Transcript:
Lainie Rowell: [00:00:00] Well, hello, Jim. Thank you so much for being here.
Jim Kwik: Lainie, so good to be here.
Looking forward to this conversation.
Lainie Rowell: Oh, me too. By the way, is it okay if I call you
Jim Kwik: Jim? Yeah, yeah, of course.
Lainie Rowell: You know, I always like to hear people's backstory. There's no one that's more important to ask this question to than you, and I want to frame it in a way that is very specific to you. I'd love for you to share a little bit about your origin story.
Superheroes have, right? Superheroes have stories, and I think you're a superhero, so.
Jim Kwik: Oh, you do your research for sure. Yeah, I mean, my inspiration was my desperation. You know,, by trade, my mission really as a brain coach is to help people have their best brain possible.
I didn't have one for a good part of my life. When I was five years old, I had an unfortunate accident, or fortunate, depending on how you look at it. In kindergarten class, I took a very bad fall headfirst into a radiator, and I had this traumatic brain injury. And from it, I had these what people labeled as learning disabilities, processing issues.
At the age of five, six, seven, I would get these migraines every single day, really poor balance, poor focus. Teachers would repeat themselves over and over again, and I would just pretend to understand, but I didn't really, nothing really registered. It took me three years longer to learn how to read, and when I was nine years old, I remember slowing down in class, and I was being teased by the other kids, because I just didn't understand the lessons like everybody else.
And a teacher came to my defense. She pointed to me for the whole class and said, leave that kid alone. That's, That's the boy with the broken brain. And so that really became my, my moniker, that label became my limit. And it's something I heard on a, on a regular basis. Not only being teased using that, you know, broken brain, but I said it to myself all the time.
So every single time I did badly in school or wasn't picked for sports or you name it, I would always say, Oh, cause I have the broken brain. And eventually when I was 18, I met a mentor that turned me on to some more resources and resourcefulness. And I really got curious about how the brain works so I could work my brain.
Like, how does my memory work so I could work my memory? How do I learn how to learn as opposed to just learning what to learn? Like math and history and science all the classes they teach in school And so really what I'm known for the past 32 years is teaching people two things, Brain optimization in terms of really taking care of the hardware that three pound matter between our ears, which is our number one wealth building asset that we have and Also the software which is how to focus how to concentrate how to how to memorize things how to read faster and understand more how to think more clearly how to solve problems.
I want this world to be just better and brighter one brain at a time.
Lainie Rowell: I've read your book, Limitless Expanded Edition just released in November, which I really encourage people to read my five star Amazon review already out there.
It just is such a compelling story, and even if someone hasn't had something to the extreme of the brain trauma that you experienced, I think there's a good portion of us that can relate on some level to school not working for them. And, there's such importance in your work, and particularly, this, learning how to learn.
And you overcame such tremendous struggles. And I even just talked to you about the migraines, like migraines are so debilitating. It's such a lot to overcome. And then you made it your mission to help everyone. Can we talk a little bit more about meta learning and how important it is to learn how to learn?
Jim Kwik: Yeah, so meta learning is the art and science of learning how to learn. So Limitless really is a book on brain optimization, mindset, and learning how to learn with chapters on memory and focus and studying. And I just always thought it was interesting. And again, in school where they teach you what to learn, but not how to learn, you know, you go to somebody and say, like a teammate or your children, or whatever, say focus, or remember, or study. It's like, kind of like going to somebody saying, play the ukulele, who's never really been taught how to do that. And I think if there's one skill to master today, it's our ability to learn rapidly, and translate that learning into action is an incredible competitive advantage.
In a world where there's so much information, I believe the faster you can learn, the faster you can earn. Because knowledge, today, is not only power, knowledge is profit. And I don't just mean financial, that's kind of obvious. When you can easily remember client information, product information, and give sales scripts or speeches without notes.
When you can read substantially faster and absorb more information, clearly you have a big advantage in your career, in school, in life. But I also mean just like all the treasures and, you know, for your relationship, everything gets better when your brain is better and everything gets better in your career and your personal health and your productivity and your overall performance.
So yeah, and it's one of those things in school where I feel like they take it for granted, where you just assume, you know, how to be able to memorize something. It's really hard nowadays, especially with technology to maintain your focus with our devices, right? With every ring and ping and ding and app notification, social media alert, we're like, driven to distraction.
We're also driven to overwhelm. Nowadays, to keep up with, you know, your industry or your schooling, your subjects that you're studying, it feels like you're taking a sip of water out of a fire hose. And it's just gonna get worse, that distraction, that deluge, you know, that Another thing about forgetfulness, they call it digital dementia, where we're outsourcing our memories to our devices, and it's storing everything you need to remember.
It's keeping your to dos, it's keeping your schedules, it's memorizing, it's holding all your phone numbers, all that stuff. And again, I don't want to memorize hundreds of phone numbers, but it should be very concerning when we've lost the ability to remember one, or remember our PIN number, our passcode, or something we just You know, we're going to say, or something we just read, or something that was said to us, or somebody's name.
I feel like when we, we have these lapses, we lose time, we lose precious opportunity, we can lose trust. And on the other side, you know, it's been my experience. We have the largest academy on accelerated learning and brain optimization in the world. Students in every country in the world, so we get a lot of feedback.
I, I realize that regardless of your age, your background, your education level, your financial situation, gender history, IQ, you know, certainly genetics could play a part of it, but really we have more control than we realize. And it's important to be able to really delve into our brain.
I often wear brains on my shirts or points to my brain in photographs. Cause I want people to just, realize that we need to take care of the thing that we don't see all the time. Like, you see, your skin or your hair, your clothes, your car, so you know when it's kind of getting messy or deteriorating, but we don't see the thing that controls everything in our life which is our brain, and I really think it's our superpower.
And so, yeah, it's a real mission.
Lainie Rowell: When you talk about the digital deluge and the digital dementia, that really resonates with me. I have almost tried to gamify the gamifying that I know is happening to me through my phone. So I'm trying to use some of the things that are in there to not get distracted all the time. So there's parental controls and all these things.
I turn time limits on for myself. I have it on my phone that I actually cannot get to any social media until a certain time of the day. Because I just find, for me personally, if I start my day...
Jim Kwik: How's that been for you?
Lainie Rowell: It's been life changing. So I have for years had my phone on silent. Do not disturb is basically how I live, which can sometimes be annoying. And I do sometimes have to turn it off. Like, our house is quiet because no one has notifications turned on at our house.
My husband has his phone on silent, I have my phone on silent.
Jim Kwik: Wow.
Lainie Rowell: But I will have guests stay at our house sometimes, and their work doesn't permit that. They have to be available. It is anxiety for me. I am so stressed out when I hear it. I know not everyone can live in silent or do not disturb, but it's been life changing for me.
Jim Kwik: Yeah, I think do not disturb. I think airplane mode are two of the most important functions on our phone. I'm pretty pro technology. It allows even this conversation to happen. It's a wonderful way to educate, to empower people, but sometimes our devices do drive us to distraction or forgetfulness, or sometimes our devices do the thinking for us, or sometimes with all the information and doom scrolling, we can be overloaded, overwhelmed, and it could zap our mental energy, and we wonder why we're just spent so early, or we feel like a little bit sad or depressed because there's all this comparison online that we have unconsciously, and, you know, just to remind everyone who's listening.
And they might be listening on their device which is pretty meta. I would say that technology is a tool for us to use, but if the technology is using us, then we become the tool. And I think you're a great example that we can influence and control these devices to really manage the input.
And because I feel like sometimes it's important to disconnect, to reconnect to ourselves. And it's great when you're using technology for something that's purposeful, even entertainment or distraction, if you need that. But if we're doing it out of like habit, because we're conditioned to do it because every like, and share, and comment, and cat video, whatever, we have this dopamine flood, the molecule more, and it just makes us like keep on going to infinity then I, then I feel like if it's taking us away from the things that are important in life, then we should have some kind of intention or mindfulness to the things that we put our focus on.
Lainie Rowell: I love technology. I worked for Apple for six years. I was in the room when Steve announced the iPhone.
I am a huge advocate of technology. I'm also a real advocate of just being super intentional. Everything you're saying, like just being really thoughtful about when is it helping and when is it hindering. And that's such, to me, an important point in your work is you're talking about well, yes, we want to use the device to capture the phone numbers.
But when are we challenging our memory? When are we exercising that muscle, right? So what are some tips you have for helping us to either improve our memory or be less distracted? Something to get out of that digital deluge and digital dementia.
Jim Kwik: Yeah, we could go through quite a few practical, pragmatic things that I feel like could really make a difference in our productivity and our performance and definitely our peace of mind.
So obviously I don't think anyone would say it would be good to be on their phones all day, 24 seven, right? And also I think everyone could agree, you know, zero is not really an option, you know, in today's age. So there's something in between and it's always different for, for each person.
There's a quote in Limitless Expanded that says life is the letter C between the letters B and D or B stands for birth and D is death and life is C is choice. That we always have a choice. to, to engage into something, you know, we always choice what, what to eat that day or who to spend time with or what we're going to feed our minds, you know, and so much more when it comes to our devices my protocol personally, and I invite people to just maybe test it and on themselves, because ultimately I think the listener is the best expert about themselves.
I have a non negotiable where I just won't touch my phone in the first 30 minutes of the day in the last 30 minutes a day. It just works for me. I'm not saying it's practical for every single person, but here's why. Because behind every principle, there's a promise. When you wake up in the morning, you're very relaxed and you're very suggestible.
And if the first thing you do is pick up your device, which I did for years, I just feel like afterwards, I'm very sensitive to how I feel. And I don't feel any more mentally healthy after everything. I feel very distracted. I feel more overwhelmed and very reactive, meaning that I feel like when you pick up your phone, it wires your brain in that very relaxed state when you first wake up to be distracted.
And you wonder why you can't focus later on that day because the first thing you started your day with was flexing your distraction muscles. And whatever you do consistently, you get better at. And I think we're getting better at being distracted. And we wonder why we can't focus with our significant others with, people at work, with our clients and customers, and it's not only just making us distracted, it's making us more reactive, meaning you can get one message, social media message, a voicemail message email, all day.
text message, WhatsApp, whatever, and it could highjack your mooood for hours! And I just don't know anybody who could build a quality life to the way they want if they're just reacting to things, as opposed to being proactive. For me, the alternative is what do I do? I mean, I have my morning routine, which people can see online.
And I'm not saying do everything, but just everything is very intentional and I have a family, and I have a pretty, pretty intensive career, but I still make time because I think if you want to win the day, you just have to win that first hour of the day.
So what I do is I just, , for my mind's sake and my mental health sake and my performance sake, I would just keep my eyes closed. When I wake up instead of grabbing my device off my nightstand, I just don't keep it on my nightstand. I keep it in our bathroom. So it just, habit design 101 is in your environment, setting you up for success, and you wanna make the things that are good for you easier and you wanna make the things that are not so good for you, more difficult. So you don't have to use willpower. But I just lie in bed for two minutes and I imagine myself coming back to bed like.
I finished the day and my wife asked me how my day was and I just imagined myself saying, wow, today was really great. You know, we crushed it today. It was amazing. And then I asked myself what had to happen in order for me to feel that way. And then I work backwards from there because it's clear in let's say sports when you celebrate, because there's a clear scoreboard, but I don't think people have a really scoreboard and most people use our to do list. I don't think that's probably the best way because we can have 100, 200 things on that to do list and never get through those things.
So I go backwards, I say, in order for me to feel that excited about how that day went, what are three things personally and three things professionally that happened? And I focus on those six things throughout the day, because it's not even about time management. For me, it's about priority management.
And the maxim there is the most important thing is to keep the most important thing, the most important thing. And I make those six things the most important thing that day, and it's very achievable. I find that if you're persistent, you could achieve it, but if you're consistent, you get to keep it, right?
And so I focus on those six things. I usually don't touch my phone, honestly, until I get one of those six things done. So that's kind of my. Just simple things that I do. And then the last half hour a day, I just don't want to touch my phone for a number of reasons. One is the light that comes out of it.
You know, could fool your mind into thinking it's still daylight and you know, create that melatonin, which is the, the hormone to help you relax and kind of a trigger to. to go in that parasympathetic, rest and digest, that sleep kind of space. But I also don't pick up my phone, not only for that, is I just don't want to see a thousand different contexts.
I don't want my executive functioning to be stimulated like that, especially a lot of the stuff that's coming in unfiltered. And I think it's so important to stand guard to your mind with all the news and some of the things that might not be the most empowering thing to look at before you want to just rest and be safe and go in that place. And so I just make the choice not to do those things. And instead I have like an evening routine that just really works for me to get good sleep and perform well the next day.
And then throughout the day, there are times where like, like even now I haven't been on my phone for the past couple hours and I just, I feel like I'm more creative that way.
And again, Not everybody can do that. So I'm not suggesting that they can, but when I'm on it, I mean, I'm not so strict about it where it creates anxiety. It's similar to diet. I realized that when I was so strict with my diet, it kind of canceled out. I had so much anxiety around eating that I, it just canceled out any benefit that I would get from that specific diet.
We always make these choices. There's always a trade off for it. And, you know, if I need to just turn off and just kind of binge watch something for half an hour, then I'll do that because it serves a purpose. But I also won't complain about the things like, so I don't mind people could do whatever they want to do.
Who am I to. just, you know, to impose, like, you know, my thoughts on people. But if people are complaining about things and they're not doing something about it, then I feel like that we can't be upset by the results we didn't get from the work we're not doing. And if our devices are keeping us from doing that work that could advance some area of our life, then I feel like then it's, it's something we should.
Be intentional. More intentional about.
Lainie Rowell: Absolutely. And I really appreciate you framing it, how you're starting your day and ending your day. And when you're managing those priorities, you are allowing yourself to be in a better state of learning and flow, which to me, flow is really important.
That's just something I wanna get into is often as I can, ideally at least once a day. So you have to make that space. I appreciate that.
Jim Kwik: No doubt. Yeah. Yeah. I hope everyone who's listening would challenge themselves they don't have to take our words for it, but maybe they could see how they react, you know, and maybe do a little bit of a a digital detox or set borders and boundaries because I think part of self care is not just eating well and going to the spa. I really think part of self care is putting borders and boundaries around the things that are important to you. Like, your peace, your time your relationships, , the place, because sometimes we do just doing so much and people get burnt out.
And I found that sometimes we're Burnt out not because we're doing too much. Sometimes we feel burnt out because we're doing too little of the things that really matter. And sometimes what's taking us off the things that are focusing on things that matter and things that don't matter as much. And those could include our devices.
Lainie Rowell: Okay. I have like 20 questions for you.
Jim Kwik: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go. We could do rapid fire.
Lainie Rowell: What are some of the things that we can do to increase the health of our brain. I'll let you take it there. If that's cool.
Jim Kwik: Yeah. There's a whole chapter in the new book on brain nutrition. This is something that people often ask about.
And I think it's important again, taking care of the hardware, right? You can learn the processes and we have plenty of free content online and podcasts and teaching people how to read faster and improve their memory, but you also have to take care of that three pound organ between our ears called our brain.
So there's a higher science called neuro nutrition. And these are elements that help you to be able to have the best brain possible. Now, I always prefer people can get it through food. We talk about some of the best brain foods like avocados and everyone's a little bio individual, right?
So take that in mind. Some people have certain allergies to certain foods or food sensitivities, but generally Some of my favorite brain foods, avocados, which are high in monounsaturated fat and your brain is mostly fat. Blueberries, I call them brain berries. They're very neuroprotective. Broccoli has an ingredient called sulforaphane, which is very important for cognitive health and performance.
Olive oil You know, we've heard a lot about olive oil, eggs if your diet allows, the choline in eggs is a nutrient that plays a vital role in, in brain health. It's a critical component of acetylcholine, which is a neurotransmitter that supports memory and cognitive function. Wild salmon and sardines.
Again, you hear about the omega 3 fatty acids. So if you're not getting like the choline from eggs or potentially other different sources like soybeans, you might want to supplement with it. If you're not getting the the omega 3 DHA, those fatty acids that are crucial for brain health from like fish clean, clean sources.
You might want to supplement with them, but supplementing with the B vitamins are so very important to brain health. You know, B6, B9, B12, Magnesium is vital for brain health, promoting better learning, memory also your mood. And then there's an area that we talk about in the book called nootropics or nootropics.
People pronounce it differently. And these are a little different than supplements. These are very specific substances that can enhance cognitive function executive function, memory, creativity, mental energy, motivation. So, so we put A lot of them in the book and reference the human studies in there.
People get a comprehensive list at BrainNutrition.com as our gift. BrainNutrition.com. Some of the ones that I'll highlight in this conversation, Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha is an adaptogenic herb. It improves mental and physical resilience and may help you to reduce stress. And we know chronic stress has been shown to shrink the human brain.
So it helps with stress, anxiety, improves cognitive function. There is a whole coffee fruit extract that I write about in the book it's a by product of the coffee plant, so it's usually discarded, it doesn't have any caffeine, but it has strong antioxidant effects, a positive impact on cognitive function, there's another nootropic, nootropic called phosphatidylserine, which is a phospholipid, and these are kind of, you know, kind of big, big words for people that didn't Study this, but it's an integral part to brain cell membranes, it's been shown to improve memory, learning, cognitive function.
There's another favorite is Altheanine, which is an amino acid found in green tea, which is if you're watching this on video, I'm drinking it now it's a popular nootropic, it promotes relaxation without the drowsiness, and it can enhance brain function Bacopa. is another one probably aligned with that.
It's an herb used in Ayurvedic medicine to improve cognition and memory. And then going back to the foods, turmeric is a brain food, but it's the active ingredient, which could also be useful to supplement with as curcumin which is a potent anti inflammatory and toxin and benefits. It's been shown potentially to cross the blood brain barrier.
Could lead improvements in cognitive function particularly in patients with Alzheimer's. And so I'm very passionate about that. I lost my grandmother to Alzheimer's when I was seven years old. So these are just some of my favorites. And again, people can get a comprehensive list at brainnutrition.com. And we update it regularly with the ones that that I'm, I'm excited about in our team and our family uses.
Lainie Rowell: I really appreciate you pointing out the bio individual, as I believe I phrased it. And I think this transcends every aspect of our life. We're all unique and dynamic.
So there's no like one recipe for this is how to do it for every single person, right? So that's why going back to when we were talking about being intentional with our devices, there's no recipe. It's like, that's what works for you. This is what works for me. Same thing with the neuro nutrition. And I also think it's helpful to kind of know, and you talk about this in the book too, the brain types by animal, you, can you, I can't, I'm not going to explain it well, so I'm just going to throw it to you, you can go from here.
Jim Kwik: That's a great, that's a great transition. Similar to how foods, people are bio individual. And not everything works for everybody, whether it's supplements or food. Same thing with learning. I realized that after coaching, you know, for as long as I have that some people will really thrive with a technique.
Other people, it won't really work for them quite as well. And so, because everybody is different, have. Different kinds of brains and we've kind of identified four different brain types. And just like there's personalized medicine based on your genetics, or personalized nutrition based on like your microbiome.
You know, so you can see what you really would thrive with. There's personalized learning and leading based on your, your dominant brain type. And so There's an assessment we put online at mybrainanimal.com, mybrainanimal.com, and it's a four minute assessment. There's also a full chapter in the book, and in four minutes, very easy, you could see what your dominant brain type is.
And just really as quick summary, think about brain code, CODE, and these are the letters and it's an acronym. The C is your cheetah, and the cheetah , their dominant trait is action, and so they have strong intuition, they're very fast implementers, they thrive in fast paced environments because they can adapt very quickly, and you might identify as a cheetah or know somebody, you know, who would fit those traits.
The O in code are your owls, and your owls, their dominant trait is logic. And so they love data, they love facts, and they love figures. They make decisions very rationally, right? And these two animals, they would invest different, they would buy different, right? They would also read and remember differently.
So we give people a personalized learning track based on their assessment after they take the assessment in the book or online. The D are your dolphins, and their dominant trait is creativity. They have very strong pattern recognition, great problem solvers. They could often have a vision for themselves or maybe their business or their brand that other people can't yet see.
And they're very passionate about what they see in their minds. And then finally, the E are your elephants, and these their dominant trait is empathy. And these are your community builders. These are people that they have high levels of empathy, so they are very compassionate, they are very supportive, they bring people together.
And it was interesting, when my team took this assessment, A hundred percent of the people on our team were on my customer service team. They're elephants because they, and we didn't hire for them, but people will go and choose roles and responsibilities based on their strengths. So they, they have high empathy.
There are community builders in our app and, on social media. They want people to feel seen and heard. Our CFO, they took the test and they are, they are an owl. And I assume you want an owl, someone who loves numbers and loves the data, could do forecasting and projections and expense reports.
My business partner, our CEO, she's a dolphin. She has this vision, you know, like a Walt Disney or a, And JK Rawlings. And she's bringing us closer to that vision and mission. And so everybody's a little bit different. But I realize, you know, again, after three decades, it's not, it's not how smart you are. It's how are you smart?
It's not how smart you are. It's how are you smart? And we all have ways of expressing genius. And so this way, once you understand your brain type, then we give you protocols on how to read better based on which animal you are and how to remember names based on which brain animal you are.
You could also use this for parenting to see what your kids are, what your spouse is. You can use this for hiring. You can use this for managing. You can use this for sales, right? You know, a cheetah wants, if they're selling to you, they're going to get right to the point.
They don't want to waste time beating around the bush because they have a very clear goal in mind. They sprint, right? But an owl could respect a well thought out presentation, social proof and case studies showing that your product or service works. A dolphin, you would sell them by talking about the vision and how their future aligns with that vision.
Or an elephant. If you're selling to an elephant, great, give them facts, you know, and, and great, give them a set goal and a vision, but really what they want is the relationship, right? They want to feel that they trust you, that there's a rapport, that they feel seen, that they feel heard, and those elephant qualities.
And we're not anyone one animal, just like if you're right handed doesn't mean you don't use your left hand. It's just, we have a natural propensity to go to our strengths. And when we understand what our strengths are, we could find roles, responsibilities, career paths, where we could be in our element, where we really thrive, where there's less friction and more passion and purpose.
And so I feel like it's so important nowadays to, to have the curiosity to know yourself. And that's why people. You can go to therapy or you journal or you meditate or you take assessments like this because it gives you greater insight and introspection to who you are. And then once you have the curiosity and know yourself, also having the courage to be that person, right, to be yourself also to be bold.
And then I feel like. Life is difficult for one of two reasons, either you're leaving your comfort zone, right, and sometimes it's hard to be that person that you think that you are, you claim that you are, and then I think life is also difficult if we stay in our comfort zone too long, and life can get very difficult also, and so I feel like there's this balance, and even getting that flow state is that balance of where challenge and competency, you know there's a collision there where the challenge is not so great where in our competencies isn't so high where we feel bored, but also we don't want to be in an environment where our challenge is so great and our capability is too low, then we're stressed, right?
But again, in a flow state where we lose a sense of self, lose our sense of time, where things become effortless, where we'd be able to feel our best and perform our best, part of that is really understanding who we are and leaning into it, because I truly believe to all the listeners and readers that there is a version of yourself that's patiently waiting, right?
And. The goal is we show up every single day until we're introduced, because you are the greatest project you're ever going to get to work on, and so we need to take time, make time, to to create magic.
Lainie Rowell: That was beautiful to me, especially what I hear you saying is know yourself and also know that you're not finished.
I always say unique and dynamic because I think we are all so different, but we're also constantly changing and evolving and that's. That's the goal, right? We're getting better every day. I hope to be better tomorrow than I am today. Okay, I'm looking at the clock. I would talk to you for hours if I could, but I want to respect your time.
So, first of all, I want to just say I really want people to check out the book, check you out on the socials. What would you say is the best way for people to connect with you and your work, Jim?
Jim Kwik: In whatever the learning style they prefer, if they like to read Limitless Expanded is we're very proud.
Limitless, the first edition, which came out a few years ago, did over a million copies. So we donate all the proceeds to charity to build schools for children in need and Alzheimer's research for women. Women are twice as likely to experienced, experienced Alzheimer's than men. If you'd like to listen, certainly the book's on Audible.
And we have a podcast, 400 episodes. Roughly every episode is only 20 minutes social media is a wonderful place I mentioned a couple of assessments and downloads at brainnutrition.com and mybrainanimal.com, but yeah, 95 percent of what we put out there is absolutely free, and so we really want to democratize this and bring this information out to the world, so I really appreciate the opportunity to share this with your community and, I want to thank you so much.
I feel like nowadays so many people like out of fear, they're shrinking what's possible to fit their minds, and I understand that because, you know, fear, you want to be safe, and maybe, and be a little bit I don't know, Less risk averse, but I feel like also that we could do the opposite.
We could expand our minds to fit all that's possible and that would be my invitation to everybody to take one small simple step. I don't know what it is maybe it's taking a screenshot of you know, wherever you're consuming this and tagging us both there so we get to see it and share one choice that you're going to make for a better, brighter brain or share your brain animal or, you know, share one thing you're going to do.
Maybe it's not going on your phone in the morning first thing or at night, or maybe you're going to eat more blueberries or you want to share your brain animal or something like that. But I feel like when you share it, you get to learn it better because when we teach something, we get to learn it twice, and that way your fans, your followers, your family, your friends, whoever is following the person listening or reading this right now can have a positive impact also, you know, on them.
Lainie Rowell: Oh my, okay, so my K 12 educator heart is just bursting because I love, I always talk about teaching others.
Because that is one of the best ways to learn. Also, you've universally designed, we talk about universal design for learning in K 12, you've universally designed your content, you make it so accessible and that is just so powerful. So thank you so much for your time. I know I have to let you go. I'm going to put all of your contact information in the show notes.
Thank you so much, Jim.
Jim Kwik: All right, have a great one. Bye now.