Jim Kwik Quotes

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.

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.

While our brains take up very little of our total body weight, they use 20 percent of the energy we take in, so nutrients make a huge difference in the way our brains function on a day-to-day basis.

In a study conducted by Dr. Robert S. Wilson at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, reading was shown to have a meaningful effect on memory decline.

«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

How do you feel when someone tries to impose their thinking on you? If a family member, friend, or colleague came up to you and said, “Don’t think about this; here’s your opinion,” you’d try to get away from that person as soon as you possibly could. Yet, when we immediately reach for the Internet to provide us with information, we’re essentially inviting the same thing.

E is for End: When you part ways with that person, end your conversation by saying the person’s name.

The De Bono approach to problem-solving is an ingenious and elegantly organized method for getting the most from your thinking. At its core, it is a neatly defined way of looking at an issue from all sides. First, you make sure you’re clear on what you need to address. Then, you determine that you have all the facts in front of you. Next, you make sure you’re dealing with the issue with a positive perspective. Then, you get real about the challenges you’re facing, and allow yourself to feel what you’re feeling about it. After this, you allow yourself to attack the problem from perspectives you might not have considered before, letting your imagination run free. And then you circle back to make sure you’ve addressed what you set out to address during this session.

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

Resérvate al menos 15 minutos cada día para leer y anótalos en tu agenda como una cita importante. Comprométete a hacer de la lectura uno de tus hábitos diarios.

KWIK START Go to the notification settings of your phone and turn off all unnecessary and distracting pings and dings. Do this now.

Remember that your mind is like a parachute — it only works when it’s open.

Just because I haven’t always been good at this in the past doesn’t mean that I can’t be great at it now. Keep your opinions to yourself.

Are you really terrible at speaking in public? Are you really bad at leading a group? Are you really the least interesting person in the room wherever you are? What’s the evidence to support that?

Here’s the truth: Creating the life you want can be scary. But you know what’s scarier? Regret.