- “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.” – Jim Kwik
- “I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and ‘cathedral-like’ structure of the highly educated and articulate personality – a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West… But today I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available.’” – Richard Foreman
- “I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and ‘cathedral-like’ structure of the highly educated and articulate personality – a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West… But today I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available.’” – Richard Foreman
- “The one real object of education is to leave a person in the condition of continually asking questions.” – Bishop Mandell Creighton
- “The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern… How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out… The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.” – Jim Carrey
- Schedule 30 minutes of downtime for the week – space to be creative, be bored, think
- Creating space for downtime between learning improves connections, clarity and memory
- Brain = muscle
- Test it, challenge it, practice it – the stronger it gets, the more it can store
- Be wary of outsourcing thought and forming your own opinion versus identifying with “sources” no matter how trustworthy or align they are with your thinking
- Weakens the brains ability to think, form connections and can fuck with problem-solving ability
- “Worthy rivals” (Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game) = those who help point out the personal weaknesses we need to address –> where our opportunity lies
- Think of gut-brain connection like tree roots absorbing nutrients into the body of the tree
- Enteroendocrine cells in the gut (nerve cells) have “foot-like protrusions” that resemble synapses that neurons use to communicate
- Story about power plant halting and technician turning one screw to fix but charging $10K
- “Turning screw: $1. Knowing which screw to turn: $9,999”
- We are now in an expert economy – the faster you can learn, the faster you can earn
- Elite mental performers filter and focus on maximum results and rewards for effort
- Primacy and recency effects
- Taking more breaks creates more beginnings and endings, fostering more retention
- FASTER method to learn faster
- Forget act, state, teach, enter, review
- Focus on questions your asking – they create intention and brain looks for the answers
- Prime yourself, before you read, whatever to focus on a question – what you focus on with show up for you
- Your brain will bring into focus what contributes to answers to the questions – otherwise it will full or delete stimuli to focus on other things it finds of interest
- Put another way, we’re telling our brain what is important to us
- Think about your dominant question – for your life
- Will Smith: “How do I make this moment even more magical?”
- Energy matters, positivity transforms people and broadens their lives
- Mistakes are proof that you are trying
- Mistakes = effort
- Mistakes = lessons
- Mistakes = knowledge
- Knowledge is important but performing some action because of it is what is powerful
- Bruce Lee: the individual is more important than any style of system (doesn’t teach any style of fighting anymore, focuses on allowing people to express themselves through fighting)
- Purpose + energy + small simple steps (S3) = sustainable motivation
- Make sure goals fit with your HEART
- H = healthy (good for you)
- E = enduring (inspiring enough to sustain your motivation)
- A = alluring (exciting, enticing enough to PULL you versus pushing yourself to work towards them)
- R = relevant (know why you’re setting the goal)
- T = truth (true to you)
- Stress: continuous stress builds up part of the brain designed to handle threats while part of the brain designed to handle more complex thought is neglected
- Only three things can change a person’s behavior long-term
- Epiphany
- Environment
- Baby steps (incremental progress)
- King, counsellor & magician story: “…genius is made, not born. This magician’s skill is the result of discipline and practice. These talents have been learned and hones over time with determination and discipline.”
- Study habits
- Active recall
- Review material studying
- Close everything and write down or recite everything you remember from what you reviewed
- Compare how much you remembered
- “Optimal learning occurred when an initial learning session included repeated study and forced-recall testing of all items at least four times in a row”
- Spaced repetition
- Review once in the morning, then again before dinner for 4 days, then move to the next material at similar intervals
- Review material, test yourself on what you remember, then take a break before coming back to it
- Manage state
- Use your sense of smell
- Rosemary improves memory
- Peppermint, lemon promotes concentration
- Music
- Baroque (Bach, Handel, Telemann) (50-80 beats/min) creates atmosphere of focus that leads to deep concentration in alpha brain wave state
- Listen with whole brain
- Halt
- Empathy – empathize with speaker
- Anticipate – attach emotion, focus on state of enthusiasm
- Review – take notes, reflect, paraphrase, teach
- Take note of taking notes
- Active recall
- Why memory is important: the more you remember, the more you can learn
- More connections
- More ideas
- More creativity
- Creating associations for ourselves will boost memory dramatically
- Personalize stories, memories, visualizations
- Baker/baker paradox: people remember occupation versus last name because of image it evokes
- Thinking is done through the use of pictures
- Learn in stories, learn in pictures
- How to read faster
- Exercise
- Use finger, test using 4-3-2-1 minute test
- Do once per day
- Expand peripheral vision
- Counting
- Drown out sub-vocalization
- Reading a book should be more like watching a movie
- Exercise
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