Jim Kwik Quotes

Every second, your senses gather up to 11 million bits of information from the world around you. Obviously, if you tried to interpret and decipher all of them at once, you’d be immediately overwhelmed. That’s why the brain is primarily a deletion device; it’s designed to keep information out. The conscious mind typically processes only 50 bits per second.

Kotler believes that finding flow is the “source code” of motivation. When you find flow, you get “maybe the most potent dose of reward chemistry” your brain can give you — which is the reason he believes flow is the most addictive state on Earth. Once we start to feel flow in an experience, we are motivated to do what it takes to get more. But it’s a circular relationship — if you have motivation to accomplish a task but you have no flow, you will eventually burn out. Motivation and flow need to work together, and they must be coupled with a solid recovery protocol, like good sleep and nutrition.

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

can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

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

Subvocalization limits your reading speed to only a couple hundred words per minute. That means your reading speed is limited to your talking speed, not your thinking speed. In reality, your mind can read a lot faster.

be truly present in any situation where you want to remember something.

The biggest travesty in the world is people preventing and limiting themselves from expressing who they really are because they’re afraid of what other people think.

Modern technology may be wonderful, but it can easily sidetrack us and take away from the special moments we have with friends and family in person,

How important is it to you to vote?” The second group’s questionnaire had slightly altered questions, like “How important is it to you to be a voter

when you are experiencing positive emotions like joy, contentment, and love, you will see more possibilities in your life.”7

Now consider a path through that location.

if we never let our mind wander or be bored for a moment, we pay a price — poor memory, mental fog, and fatigue.

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

It’s not how smart your children are, it’s how are they smart.