Jim Kwik Quotes

What I have come to find over my years of working with people is that most everyone limits and shrinks their dreams to fit their current reality.

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.

you make mistakes; mistakes don’t make you.

Unfortunately, our world doesn’t foster a healthy environment for our brain. Before Jim Kwik provides a road map to become limitless, he indicts the four growing villains that are challenging our capacity to think, focus, learn, grow, and be fully human. The first is digital deluge — the unending flood of information in a world of finite time and unfair expectations that leads to overwhelm, anxiety, and sleeplessness. Drowning in data and rapid change, we long for strategies and tools to regain some semblance of productivity, performance, and peace of mind. The second villain is digital distraction. The fleeting ping of digital dopamine pleasure replaces our ability to sustain the attention necessary for deep relationship, deep learning, or deep work.

New belief: It’s not your job to like, love, or respect me. It’s mine.

Incomplete tasks and procrastinating often lead to frequent and unhelpful thought patterns,” says psychologist Hadassah Lipszyc. “These thoughts can impact on sleep, trigger anxiety symptoms, and further impact on a person’s mental and emotional resources.”1

All behavior is driven by belief, so before we address how to learn, we must first address the underlying beliefs we hold about what is possible.

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it, so it follows that if you don’t know why you do what you do, how will anyone else?

«Y el tipo de cambio rápido y continuo que hacemos con la multitarea hace que el cerebro queme combustible tan rápidamente que nos sentimos agotados y desorientados incluso después de un breve período de tiempo. Literalmente, hemos agotado los nutrientes de nuestro cerebro. Esto compromete tanto el rendimiento físico como el cognitivo».6

The first thing I do after I get out of bed is make the bed. This is a success habit, my first accomplishment of the day. It’s an easy win, and it has the added advantage of making my bedtime more pleasant, because it’s always nicer to return that night to a bed that is made.

positive people from the general population were 13 percent less likely than their negative counterparts to have a heart attack or other coronary event.

As the elephant grows, it gains more than enough power and strength to pull out the stake, but it remains tied up by something as inconsequential as a rope and a flimsy piece of metal because of what it learned as a baby. In psychology, it’s called learned helplessness.

Don’t let school interfere with your education.

Being aware of how you’re holding yourself back with your self-talk and spending some time to get to the source of these beliefs is extremely liberating, because once you’re aware, you can begin to realize that these aren’t facts about you, but rather opinions. And there’s a very good chance that those opinions are wrong.

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.