Jim Kwik Quotes

To remember any new piece of information, you must associate it with something you already know.

Our most precious gift is our brain.

Mindset (the WHAT): deeply held beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions we create about who we are, how the world works, what we are capable of and deserve, and what is possible. Motivation (the WHY): the purpose one has for taking action. The energy required for someone to behave in a particular way. Method (the HOW): a specific process for accomplishing something, especially an orderly, logical, or systematic way of instruction.

you don’t rise to the level of your expectations, you fall to the level of your training.

But being limitless is not about being perfect. It’s about progressing beyond what you currently believe is possible.

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

Reasons that are tied to your purpose, identity, and values will sufficiently motivate you to act, even in the face of all of the daily obstacles that life puts in your way.

The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted that, “Life is C between B and D,” meaning that the life we live is the choices we make between the “B” of birth and the “D” of death.

In a era of autonomously driven electric cars and vehicles capable of taking us to Mars, our education system is the equivalent of a horse and carriage.

Make sure you have a block of time set aside to get into flow. It’s commonly believed that, when conditions are right, it takes about 15 minutes to achieve a flow state and that you don’t really hit your peak for closer to 45 minutes. Clearing out only half an hour or so isn’t going to allow you to accomplish much. Plan to set aside at least 90 minutes, and ideally a full two hours.

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.

Some people who claim to have twenty years of experience have one year of experience that they’ve repeated twenty times.

It’s not accurate that your memory works like a container, cup, or hard drive in that once it’s full of data no more can fit. It’s more like a muscle in that the more you train it, the stronger it gets and the more you can store.

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.

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.