Jim Kwik Quotes

He argues that short-term memory pathways will start to deteriorate from underuse if we overuse technology.

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it,

We’re not born with pre-installed mindsets about what we’re capable of achieving — we learn these fixed and limited ways of thinking from the people in our lives and the culture we experience growing up.

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.

If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.

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what was my real problem? I knew I was a slow learner, but I had been thinking the same way about it for years. I realized that I was trying to solve my learning problems by thinking the way I’d been taught to think — to just work harder.

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.

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we must be accountable for who we become.

The important distinction here is that family is a means value — a means to an end. The end value is actually love or belonging. When we look at our values, we can determine whether the value we’ve stated is an end or whether it evokes something else.

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.

The treasure you seek is in the work you're avoiding

You know . . . If you think about the very nature of life — I mean, in the very beginning, the development of the first cell divided into two cells — the sole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned. There was no higher purpose. So if you’re asking me what to do with all this knowledge you’re accumulating, I say . . Pass it on.

One of the reasons children learn rapidly is because they are empty vessels; they know they don’t know. Some people who claim to have twenty years of experience have one year of experience that they’ve repeated twenty times.

V is for Visualization: Vision is an incredibly powerful memory tool,