Order of Man - 125： Enhancing Your Mind ｜ Jim Kwik

00:00:00.000 It all starts with the mind. Whether you're trying to get in better shape, grow your bank account,

00:00:05.160 start a business, become a better father or a better man in general, growing and expanding

00:00:09.260 your mind and your brain is the first step. But it's often one of the most overlooked muscles

00:00:13.980 we use. My guest today, learning expert Jim Quick, joins me to talk about how to turn

00:00:18.420 on your superhero brain, avoid information overload, cut through the noise and become

00:00:23.280 more focused, and how to enhance the most powerful asset we have, the mind.

00:00:27.440 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart

00:00:32.480 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time. You

00:00:38.080 are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This

00:00:44.360 is who you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said

00:00:49.420 and done, you can call yourself a man.

00:00:52.520 Men, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler and I am the host and the founder of

00:00:56.400 this podcast, The Order of Man. I am sure that you've been with us for some time now

00:01:00.820 and I want to thank you for that. But if you haven't and you have no idea what we're all

00:01:05.340 about, my job is to connect with some of the smartest, strongest, most successful, most

00:01:10.900 talented men on the planet. Ask them a bunch of questions about how they perform the way

00:01:14.760 they do and deliver that conversation to you. And that's exactly what I'm going to do

00:01:19.000 here in the next couple of minutes. A couple of very quick announcements, though, before I

00:01:22.840 get into that. First, we just got done with our first ever leadership summit for the Iron

00:01:27.940 Council this past weekend. If you don't know what the Iron Council is, you can go to orderofman.com

00:01:33.500 slash Iron Council to learn more about that. Men, I cannot even begin to describe how blown

00:01:38.840 away I am with the caliber of men we have managed to attract. I'm honored that you are listening

00:01:44.800 in. I'm honored you have joined this movement and I'm honored to be on the same journey as you

00:01:50.160 to be a better man. Second, this coming up weekend, I will be in Kansas City for our first

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00:02:10.500 our Facebook group at facebook.com slash groups slash order of man and check out the show notes

00:02:16.020 for this show at orderofman.com slash one to five guys. My guest today is Jim quick. He

00:02:22.760 is an expert in speed reading and memory improvement, brain performance and accelerated learning. I

00:02:28.620 came across his work a couple of months ago and after following him for the last couple

00:02:32.640 of months and really digging into the results that he is creating for his clients, I knew

00:02:36.980 we needed to have him on the show. I talk about improving the mind and the brain a lot, but

00:02:41.020 I wanted to have an expert on to share some of his insights and secrets. The man is extremely

00:02:45.840 qualified to talk about this. You'll hear that in our powerful conversation today. And if

00:02:50.480 you aren't already convinced about that, please understand that Jim is hired by big, big companies

00:02:55.620 like Virgin and Nike, Zappos, SpaceX, Fox studios. And he also works with some of the most powerful

00:03:02.420 people on the planet, like Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, just to

00:03:07.680 name a few. So enjoy this one guys and take notes. Jim, what's going on, man? Glad to have

00:03:13.700 you on the show today. Thanks. I've been looking forward to this, Ryan, and thank you everybody

00:03:16.780 who's joining us. This is going to be a powerful conversation and one that I think is probably just

00:03:21.020 about, I think it probably is in a lot of ways, the foundation for the way that we as men show up.

00:03:28.040 And that is the idea of learning quickly and absorbing information and being able to recall

00:03:32.000 that information so that it can serve us and the people that we have a responsibility for. You talk a

00:03:37.620 lot about the quote unquote, superhero brain. I'd love to get your take for the framework of the

00:03:43.460 discussion that we're going to have today is what you mean by superhero brain.

00:03:46.840 Yeah. I mean, I think as men, more than ever, there's a lot of expected from us that we have

00:03:51.920 to be superhuman in so many ways. Just like women, we wear many different hats and different roles and 0.67

00:03:57.600 different responsibilities. In order to be able to do that, I think one of our greatest assets that we

00:04:02.100 have, you know, great asset of creating wealth and I just not just financial wealth, but wealth in

00:04:07.520 those areas that you focus on with your show, you know, whether it's relationships or your physical

00:04:11.960 health, your career is to do with, you know, understanding how our mind works so we can work

00:04:17.140 our mind better. And I think that we're all gifted with this incredible supercomputer, but it doesn't

00:04:22.660 come with an owner's manual. And I think in an era where I like referring to superheroes, because it's just

00:04:28.680 that boy inside this man, you know, that I grew up with learning challenges and it took me a long

00:04:34.080 time to understand things and I didn't have any focus. I didn't have any memory. And that's what

00:04:37.380 put me on this path. But one of the things is I couldn't read as a child. It took an extra few

00:04:41.800 years, but I taught myself how to read by reading comic books. And I would see these incredible men

00:04:46.340 and women in these pages and something about good versus evil, something about having superpowers and 1.00

00:04:51.720 not just having superpowers, you know, because nowadays just having a superpower doesn't make you a

00:04:56.260 superhero. You want to be able to use that power with some kind of purpose, you know, do some kind

00:05:01.380 of good. We grow, but we also give. And I think that's something that for all men, you know, and

00:05:07.560 human beings just to feel fulfilled, we need to be growing or we're kind of sliding and we need to be

00:05:12.800 giving back to those around us. You know, otherwise, you know, there's not a lot of purpose there.

00:05:18.360 The metaphor I use about superheroes, I think all of us have the ability to tap into these mental

00:05:23.360 superpowers. We just aren't shown how. But I think there's never been a more important time,

00:05:28.320 Ryan, for us to be able to access those powers because there are new super villains that are

00:05:32.920 here, modern day super villains that previous generations didn't have to deal with. I'm talking

00:05:37.340 about three specifically in this digital age, right? We live in an age of electric cars and

00:05:42.960 spaceships that are going to Mars, but our vehicle choice when it comes to learning is like a horse and

00:05:46.780 buggy. You know, we're not really prepared for this world. And specifically the three villains,

00:05:50.400 I think, that are causing a lot of stress, anxiety holding us back as men. Number one,

00:05:55.640 digital overload. How many emails do you get? How many books on your shelf do you haven't read? I

00:05:59.980 mean, how many blog sites and pages and how many so much this digital age is so prolific, which is

00:06:06.480 exciting. But a lot of people have what they call information fatigue syndrome or information anxiety.

00:06:11.740 So a lot of your listeners, I'm sure, could relate to this. It's just like too much to learn,

00:06:16.480 too little time. It feels like you're taking a sip of water out of a fire hose. And that's why

00:06:21.500 I've dedicated my life to this area of accelerated learning where people could read faster, where

00:06:25.440 they could remember more, they could boost their memory and process and focus. But overload is

00:06:29.800 creating a lot of health issues. I know for me, I personally have experienced that where I'll read

00:06:34.620 so many books or consume so many blogs like you're talking about, and it just becomes so overwhelming

00:06:39.180 that it actually causes me to do nothing as opposed to what I want to do, which is actually act on the

00:06:43.800 information I'm putting in my brain. That's a big thing. I mean, this mental fatigue or this brain

00:06:49.000 fog, you know, decision fatigue, where they say you can only make a certain amount of good decisions

00:06:53.340 a day. And after that, after you hit that limit, then you can't. You could be sitting at dinner

00:06:58.160 looking at a menu and you can make a decision on what you want to eat because you're so spent.

00:07:03.760 And so I think digital overload is definitely the amount of information is doubling at dizzying

00:07:08.640 speeds and how do you keep up with it. And so the amount of information difficulty is increasing,

00:07:13.140 but how we learn it, how we read it, how we study it, how we retain it is for most part exactly the

00:07:18.100 same. So I would say that's the big villain. The second villain, I would say, is this villain

00:07:21.600 called digital distraction. So you have the overload, which is, you know, challenging enough,

00:07:26.120 but now our smart devices are rewiring our brains, literally, quite literally. I mean,

00:07:30.840 I think a lot of men, you know, part of being a man is being, you know, really focused and

00:07:35.980 accomplishing things, right? But how do you do that when your attention is being split 12 different

00:07:41.100 ways? And there's this myth of multitasking and that where people believe they could be doing

00:07:46.200 two or three cognitive activities at once. And it's the research is saying it's a complete lie.

00:07:51.020 It's funny you say that. I was actually, and I don't mean to interrupt you, but I was actually

00:07:54.880 on my computer. I told you, I just barely got back from a seven hour drive and I was checking emails.

00:08:00.020 I was doing just some last minute prep for my conversation with you. And I was doing a couple

00:08:03.740 other things. And I thought to myself, Jim would get after me right now if he knew what I was doing.

00:08:08.560 Cause I know you've talked about this in the past, so I hear you. I know what you're saying.

00:08:11.760 Yeah. I think digital distraction and where it comes from, like, so there's no multitasking,

00:08:15.920 right? I mean, you can walk and have a conversation on the phone because it's physical activity and

00:08:20.080 mental activity, but I'm saying multiple mental activities is not possible in a way that's done

00:08:25.680 proficiency and productively. So what it actually is, is they call it task switching, which is much

00:08:31.500 more accurate term from one task to another. And the challenge is every time you switch over to

00:08:36.000 something else, it can take anywhere from five minutes to 20 minutes to regain your focus

00:08:40.320 and your flow. It seems like Cal Newport talks about this. I don't know if you're familiar with

00:08:45.200 his work, but deep work, I think he talks about this at length and we've had him on the show to

00:08:49.100 talk about it as well. Yes, I agree. It's so important for people like that. They want to be

00:08:53.240 productive. They want to be high performers to really focus. And it's kind of like, I mean,

00:08:57.240 if you go outside and you have a magnifying glass and it's a nice sunny day, you know,

00:09:01.040 it takes the power and the light and it creates this, you know, when you're, when we're kids,

00:09:06.400 we used to burn like leaves and stuff like that. It creates this very bright point, you know,

00:09:10.800 on the ground when you use a magnifying glass. And it's interesting that we call smart people,

00:09:16.820 more intelligent people, we call them bright, but maybe they're not smarter. Maybe they're just

00:09:21.060 better focused. Interesting. On something specific as opposed to a broad array of things.

00:09:26.620 Completely. And it's nice to have, I mean, there's apps out there like Freedom and, you know,

00:09:31.120 other apps that kind of keep you from multitasking, like going on social media or going, you know,

00:09:36.940 onto different websites that aren't productive, you know, as opposed to your work. So I think

00:09:40.880 digital distraction, and I think a lot of it is our smart devices, right? I mean, I know you see,

00:09:46.460 you've seen this before, but I just published a podcast on like my first hour of the day. And I think,

00:09:52.020 you know, just like everybody, they have the first hour, but my hour of the day is,

00:09:54.700 you know, 12 things that I do to really jumpstart my brain. So I could jumpstart my day, you know,

00:09:59.840 it starts with like memorizing, you know, remembering my dreams. And I go through this

00:10:03.720 whole subconscious thing about how you spend your whole day learning things and trying to solve

00:10:07.800 problems. But when you go to sleep, you're unconscious, your subconscious is still working

00:10:11.620 on those problems. And you actually come up with solutions for them. I mean, incredible,

00:10:16.140 right? In fact, a lot of the things that you see in your environment, a lot of works of art and

00:10:20.020 literature and science was created in people's dreams. And it's just like the periodic table was

00:10:25.800 created in chemist dreams. You know, Mary Shelley came up with Frankenstein in her dream. Paul

00:10:30.480 McCartney came out with yesterday in a dream. And so I know, I've, I've certainly done. I mean,

00:10:34.300 I've experienced that where I wake up literally in the middle of the night. I'm like, Oh, that's what

00:10:37.860 I was looking for. And I hurry and write it down. Cause I, I've lost plenty of ideas by not writing

00:10:42.260 things down. Exactly. And so one of the things when people wake up, they don't have a process and

00:10:46.600 they lose, they lose all those dreams, which is like a lot of valuable insight and instruction

00:10:51.380 that's there. But for, for me, you know, I had this whole morning process and, but one of the

00:10:55.800 worst things that people could do first thing in the morning. And I, you know, I've been saying this

00:10:59.660 for years is just go on their phone. And I know that's not going to make a lot of friends, but

00:11:03.740 as a, as like a quick brain coach, you know, coach, it stretches you and tells you what you need to

00:11:08.920 hear as opposed to the, what you, what you want to hear. And the reason why you want to go on your

00:11:13.320 phone, there's two reasons is because your brain is rewiring your brain. When you first wake up,

00:11:17.660 you're in this alpha theta state. It's this brainwave state where you're extremely suggestible

00:11:22.220 and susceptible to your environment. And we actually, actually engineer that state,

00:11:27.240 that alpha state in our programs that we teach online. So you can learn languages faster. So you

00:11:32.780 can learn facts and, and, and any kind of data faster. The challenge is when people pick up their

00:11:37.240 phone first thing in the morning, you're in that suggestible state. And what you're doing is you're

00:11:40.900 training your brain to do two things and we're literally rewiring it to do number one, you're

00:11:45.440 training it to be distracted, right? So every time you get a like, a share, a comment, you get this

00:11:50.400 dopamine fix and you get this hit and it, it, you know, you wonder why you're fatigued in the

00:11:55.900 morning, but you're frying your brain in a way, giving super stimulate on things that really don't

00:12:00.220 really matter. You know, the most, they're not the most important things. So people are majoring in

00:12:04.500 minor things. And I know for me along those lines is one of the things, and maybe this is what

00:12:09.100 you're going to say, and I'm alluding to this, but it almost gets me in the habit of being at

00:12:13.060 somebody else's beck and call or at their schedule. When I really have some clear ideas of what I

00:12:18.280 want to accomplish throughout the day. And I get distracted by all these other things, other people

00:12:21.720 want to accomplish. Yeah. You hit it right. You're right on the head, Ryan. I mean, it's so the second

00:12:25.500 thing it trains you for besides being distracted is it trains you to be reactive. So when you're getting

00:12:30.460 other people's text messages and their emails and they have questions for you, you have to fight all

00:12:34.620 these fires, they have their agenda. It's training you to react as opposed to thoughtfully responding

00:12:40.600 and proactively setting your agenda, your vision for the day. You know, I know you have a lot of

00:12:44.640 listeners that are, that are entrepreneurs and they're on that path. It's like an entrepreneur's,

00:12:49.300 you know, the real modern day superheroes, right? They wear their capes, they're creating value,

00:12:52.900 they're creating jobs, they're creating solutions for problems. But how do you do that when the first

00:12:57.140 thing you do is kind of distract yourself? And then also you're at the whim and response for

00:13:02.360 everything else that's going on in the world. I would stay away from it. So digital distraction.

00:13:06.720 So first obstacle talking about superheroes, the first villain, super villain, we're talking about

00:13:11.220 modern day is digital overload. Second one, it's digital distraction. So I would avoid touching

00:13:15.100 your phone the first hour of the day. Before you get to the third one, can I interrupt you right

00:13:18.980 there real quick? Absolutely. With regards to the morning, as opposed to getting up and checking the

00:13:24.680 phone and doing all of these things that I think a lot of us are programmed to do, are there some

00:13:28.560 quick solutions or some quick tips that you have in maybe what we should be doing to

00:13:32.180 replace those habits that we've built and developed? I agree, because you can't just stop doing one

00:13:37.420 thing, you have to start doing other things, right? And so what I would say is, I have a whole

00:13:41.980 protocol for jumpstarting brains. So the first thing that I do is in replace of that time. And I don't,

00:13:48.320 it's not so much time management, because I think in a way, time management is a little bit of a

00:13:52.860 misnomer. I mean, it's depending on how you take it. For me, it's more priority management.

00:13:58.060 You know what I mean? In terms of time goes by, you have this 80,000 plus seconds. And that's the

00:14:04.800 thing with your time. Not everybody has equal opportunity or equal network or equal finances

00:14:10.000 or equal education, but we all have the same amount, the 24 hours. And so it's how we choose

00:14:15.300 to utilize it. That's a great leveler, isn't it?

00:14:17.480 It is, right? And it always, you can always tell somebody's priorities based on where they put their

00:14:22.260 attention, their time, because that's the one thing you can't get back. You'd always make more

00:14:26.520 money and such, but your time you can't, is irreplaceable, right? And so where I, in lieu

00:14:32.400 of touching my phone first thing in the morning, I go through remembering my dreams. The second thing

00:14:36.320 that I do is I, for my brain, is I actually make my bed, because there's a big correlation between

00:14:41.220 brain health and your environment. And having a clean environment is actually very good for your brain.

00:14:45.300 And you know, it's when you clean your office, clean your desktop, you know, all of a sudden you

00:14:48.780 have clarity of thought, you have more focus also there as well. But the other reason why you make

00:14:52.820 your bed is because I do believe this, that how you do anything is how you do everything. And by

00:14:57.840 making your bed, you could start out with excellence, right? And you could success, breed success, you

00:15:03.000 could build on success, and you want to create positive momentum throughout the day. And taking two

00:15:07.560 minutes or one minute to make your bed is a great way of doing that. And they do that in the military.

00:15:12.240 And it's also great when you come back at the end of the night, because I have a whole nighttime

00:15:16.120 routine for sleep and maximize my sleep, because sleep is so important for learning and having a

00:15:20.560 quick brain. So it's so important, not only for the dream states, your imagination solving problems,

00:15:25.460 but it's good for recovery. And that's where you consolidate short to long term memory also as

00:15:29.980 well, so the learning doesn't stop. So it's nice to come back to bed where it's just it's made. And

00:15:35.460 it's just, you know, come back to success.

00:15:37.320 It's almost like that. And I'm going to butcher this, but that broken glass type situation where

00:15:42.020 there's a broken window in a neighborhood, then you can assume that there's other broken windows

00:15:46.140 or other parts of that that neighborhood are worn down. And I think that's very true in our personal

00:15:49.980 life as well.

00:15:51.140 I think so. I mean, I think and we don't put limits on it. So we start with excellence. And that,

00:15:55.260 you know, pervades the rest of your day also as well. And it gives you some momentum,

00:15:58.820 and it gives you a nice checkmark. And I think it's important for mindset, because I still think half 1.00

00:16:03.920 of success comes down to our mindset with things. So these are things I'm doing replace in replacement

00:16:08.900 of touching my phone. So then I have a tall glass of water, because people don't realize how much

00:16:14.300 water they lose when they're sleeping, replacing that because your brain, it's only 2% of your body

00:16:19.240 weight, but it requires 20 25% of the nutrients.

00:16:22.560 Oh, I'm sure. And the amount of energy it takes to run this supercomputer, I can't Yeah, I hear you.

00:16:27.720 Yeah. And you're in your brain is 75, you know, 80%. You're just like your body made out of out of

00:16:33.180 water. And so do that, I take some supplements, the ones that I just that I can't go without are

00:16:38.620 like, a good probiotic, because, you know, and you know, this right gut health is your second brain,

00:16:44.500 you know, you have an incredible amount of nerves there. And you know, when people talk about

00:16:48.300 intuition and such like that, I think a lot of our, you know, our gut intelligence, and you know,

00:16:53.420 trusting our gut is just having good gut health.

00:16:55.640 That's so fascinating. I've just recently stumbled across that through learning from you and some other

00:17:00.060 people that have talked about the the neurons that and I think that's the right term. Yeah,

00:17:04.860 that are literally inside of your gut. And that's why when you say your gut, that's a real thing.

00:17:10.240 They call it your your second brain. So I think it's it's so important to kind of get that aligned,

00:17:14.600 because if you want to make good decisions with really like all men want to do right,

00:17:18.620 your own lives are a reflection of the decisions we've made to this point. But how can you make

00:17:22.900 really good decisions if your gut is just full with a lot of, you know, less than you know,

00:17:27.700 the best ever in terms of, you know, even worse is just the poison that we put into our body.

00:17:32.280 Exactly. Exactly. And so I go directly for the water, have some probiotics there. I do some,

00:17:37.040 some really quick deep breathing. Because the other thing is like you think about notice I haven't

00:17:41.900 I haven't eaten anything, you know, a lot of people go to food to get energy. And I just feel

00:17:46.280 like, yeah, it's important to have calories, obviously. But for me, it's not the most important

00:17:51.000 thing. You know, I'm thinking more that I could go how long can you go without food,

00:17:54.940 like literally weeks. Yeah, weeks without food. But how long can you go without water?

00:17:59.960 Maybe maybe a few days? How long can you go tops? Yeah, yeah. How long can you go without

00:18:04.220 oxygen? You can maybe a few minutes tops, right? And so I'm thinking about water hydrating,

00:18:09.020 I'm thinking I do my deep breathing exercises, I go outside, just get some deep breathing,

00:18:13.780 I get grounded, because I just feel like, as hunters, you know, like we were we were always

00:18:18.740 touching the ground, right? And I feel like in the world full electromagnetic fields and

00:18:23.420 everything, it just helps to be grounded, literally barefoot on the ground, I do some

00:18:27.300 deep breathing exercises, you know, where I super oxygenate my lungs and my blood system,

00:18:33.040 you know, that a that carded artery that goes the first one that goes from your heart, you

00:18:37.500 know, up to your brain, it's like, you know, where people get choked out and in fights and

00:18:41.340 everything else like that, it's because of lack of oxygen to the brain. So I just want to

00:18:44.280 fully oxygenate. Because the other problem is, is when people are are studying, you know,

00:18:48.600 Ryan, you just look at people's postures, they're always kind of bent down and

00:18:51.620 everything like and they collapse their diaphragm. And it's literally the one the bottom one third

00:18:56.120 of your lungs absorbs two thirds of the oxygen. And so you need to get that air. So I do some

00:19:00.660 deep breathing. And it can be anything from box breathing to alpha breathing to Wim Hof method. I

00:19:06.060 mean, just my thing is something and make it a conscious effort. Because you've heard this many

00:19:11.000 times. It's just first you make your habits, and then your habits make you right. And a big part of

00:19:15.900 you know, I did two episodes on my podcast about this specifically, because it's so important to have

00:19:21.220 some kind of habit. And the routines are so important. So you don't have to think about

00:19:24.620 it, right? There's a reason why Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook or Tony Hsieh, the CEO Zappos, where

00:19:30.240 they wear the same t shirts, the same sweatshirt every single time, is because decision fatigue,

00:19:35.000 they don't want to use one of their good decisions, doing something that could be, you know, turned into

00:19:39.420 a habit or routine. But I do my deep breathing. You know, Wim Hof is great. I was sure to stay with him

00:19:45.180 five years ago. And I had interviewed him, you know, all that time ago. But I just I'm a big

00:19:50.120 believer in that I'm also happy to be a big believer in cryotherapy, cold therapy, you know,

00:19:54.520 ice baths and, you know, cryo chambers and stuff, which helped me from reset my nervous system. I

00:19:59.900 meditate every single morning without fail. It's very important to me. I know, I know a lot of your

00:20:04.660 guests have talked about the power of mindfulness. Yes. But it's just, again, everything that I'm

00:20:09.120 mentioning is specifically for your brain health. And sometimes it's better to slow down so that you

00:20:13.840 could speed up. And that, you know, going into a mindful state is a superpower, because the goal is not

00:20:19.500 to be frantically fast. You want to have a level of positivity and peace of mind.

00:20:25.080 Just a quick pause to tell you about our brotherhood, the Iron Council. This last weekend,

00:20:29.280 we had a leadership retreat, which I mentioned with some of the team leaders within the Iron

00:20:33.880 Council. And I'm stoked to announce and implement some exciting plans within this exclusive brotherhood.

00:20:39.880 When I started on my journey to become a better man, I looked around at a local level for men who

00:20:45.120 were interested in doing the same thing. And unfortunately, they were a few and far between.

00:20:50.500 And that's why when I launched Order of Man two and a half years ago, it was always my intent to

00:20:55.260 create a brotherhood of men who were all working towards a common goal to become better fathers,

00:21:01.700 husbands, business owners, and community leaders. And that is exactly what we're doing inside of the

00:21:07.340 Iron Council. We've got some incredible programs, teams, systems, and processes in place to help you

00:21:12.900 reach to heights you've only thought about up until now. So if you want to learn more about what we're

00:21:17.400 all about and what we're doing, head to orderofman.com slash Iron Council. Again, that's

00:21:22.460 orderofman.com slash Iron Council. Now let's get back to my conversation with Jim.

00:21:28.560 I think a lot of times, and I think this is specifically true for men, is we equate our

00:21:33.200 ability to get a lot done in a short period of time as being successful. And you hear guys that say

00:21:38.500 things like, oh, I was so busy today. It's like, well, that's great, but hold on. Let's time out here

00:21:42.740 for a second. Were you productive? Were you effective? Were you efficient? Oh no, but I was

00:21:47.080 busy. Well, that's not the goal. Exactly. And I'm glad you brought that up, Ryan, because I think that

00:21:51.980 a lot of people use busyness as a badge of honor. It's just like, oh, how's it going? It's like,

00:21:57.900 oh, I'm just so busy. I have this, this, this. And I think unconsciously, it's because it makes us feel

00:22:03.620 like we're important because that's why we're so busy, because we're so important. And the challenge

00:22:08.420 with that, I mean, people have to be very conscious and aware of their languaging. They

00:22:12.580 have to be very conscious of what they're reinforcing, because if you're starting to get

00:22:15.220 pleasure out of getting this self-identity of being busy, it just, you'll start designing your

00:22:21.160 life around being busy. And you wonder why you're stressed all the time. And I think a lot of men

00:22:25.980 have to be very conscious of that, to not indulge, overly indulge. Like a lot of people come to me all

00:22:30.720 the time, and they're like, Jim, you know, I just have a horrible memory. And they wear it like a badge.

00:22:35.220 Like, it's like, you know, like, oh, I'm bad with names. It's like, you don't have to be,

00:22:38.780 you know that, right? Exactly. And then people are bragging about how bad they are. And then,

00:22:43.060 and if their grocery list wasn't written in triplicates, they couldn't remember what to get

00:22:46.480 at Whole Foods. And they, you know, all this stuff are, you think you're bad with names or learn,

00:22:50.360 whatever it is, like, check this, you know, and then the challenge is the person, how bad they are.

00:22:54.360 That's funny. Exactly. And here's the thing, like, when, when you, when you start reinforcing that,

00:23:00.180 you know, it just, you have to be careful what you fight for, right? Like, and I always tell

00:23:04.920 people, if you argue for your limits, that you get to keep them, right? If you fight for your

00:23:08.740 limitations, you get to keep them. And a lot of people are fighting for something, they really

00:23:12.500 will not serve them. And so people to be very conscious of their self-talk. And I talk about

00:23:17.360 this in the context of, you know, we all have this inner talk, and we're, we, this self-talk,

00:23:22.100 and it's very important, because it's unfiltered, it's going right into your unconscious. And I remember

00:23:27.420 I was, you know, with the last name Quick, my last name really is Quick, my father's name,

00:23:31.060 and my grandfather's name. But I was a runner back in school, and I was reading this,

00:23:35.080 this book on how to run marathons. And there's one chapter on the psychology of running a marathon.

00:23:40.320 That's why I was very interested in the mental part. And it said this verbatim, because I'm

00:23:44.080 a memory expert. It said, your brain is like a supercomputer, and your self-talk is the program

00:23:49.440 it will run. So if you tell yourself you're not good at remembering names, you will not remember

00:23:53.220 the name of the next person you meet, because you program your supercomputer not to.

00:23:57.200 What do you say to somebody who says that the alternative, that you can just talk yourself

00:24:02.160 into this type of thing, is woo-woo, or it doesn't really work? I mean, talk to me about that.

00:24:07.160 Completely. So I think our self-talk also is, you know, it's an unconscious program for our mind,

00:24:13.440 right? And it affects our beliefs. And I think everything that we create in our life has to be

00:24:17.720 created by some kind of behavior, right? Physical behavior that we're doing. And in order to do that

00:24:21.960 behavior, I think we need a belief that says it's possible. But the problem is, is when people have

00:24:26.580 negative self-talk, they talk themselves out of it, and they fight for doubt of, like, and that's why

00:24:31.380 people rehearse, they're so scared of public speaking. And that was a big issue for me, you

00:24:35.800 know, growing up, because I felt like, you know, I was labeled the boy with the broken brain. So even

00:24:39.820 though people have seen me on stage and memorize, you know, dozens of people's names, or 100 numbers,

00:24:45.600 or 100 words, forwards and backwards, I always tell people, hey, you could do this, you know, just like I

00:24:50.420 am. And because I had a brain injury as a kid. And my self-talk back then was really horrible,

00:24:56.460 right? And so if someone says, I'm just horrible, as a public speaker, and they fight for that,

00:25:01.200 that's a challenge. Now, the reverse, I think it also serve you that if you could be positive about

00:25:05.920 it. See, I think it's been my anecdotally, I feel like, like pessimists, I feel like they're more,

00:25:12.680 they're more accurate. But I think optimists achieve a whole lot more. You know what I mean?

00:25:16.840 Yeah, sure. I get that. Sure. Because they're willing to take more risks and everything,

00:25:20.060 right? Doesn't want to be right. So they don't go and they don't stretch. And I would say optimists

00:25:24.140 have that ability. And it's kind of like, it's almost a little bit of delusion, in a way, like

00:25:28.700 I've seen people who are highly successful. And then I look at their attitude of I'm good at this,

00:25:33.400 or I can do this. And from my limited perspective of knowing who they are, I'm like, man, this guy's

00:25:37.080 delusional. Yet I see them do it six months or a year later. And I'm like, ah, maybe that delusion is

00:25:41.860 actually serving them. And I would 100% agree that most things that are out in the world,

00:25:45.740 most people, I would assume, didn't believe it, because you have to see it. So it's that

00:25:50.160 whole thing, this whole idea, I'm not going to believe it when I see it, you know, because

00:25:54.100 most people say, I'll believe when I see it, but it's the reverse, you know, I'll see it

00:25:57.800 when I believe it, that success is an inside out process. And ultimately, in the theme of

00:26:02.560 being a man, in order to be able to create your own reality, you know, it's imagination is

00:26:06.660 more powerful than knowledge. And it's about taking the invisible, your vision or mission as a

00:26:10.980 person and making it visible out in the world and to do it with such congruency. And

00:26:15.540 so I'm good with people having imagination and setting their goals and having their vision.

00:26:20.000 So they're moving towards something, which includes their self talk, because, you know,

00:26:24.000 there is a there is a truth that, you know, you fake it till you make it that just going

00:26:28.460 through the motions and living as if this is really happening will create the congruency,

00:26:33.860 the certainty and belief, which will allow you to constantly move forward and learn things

00:26:37.880 because I mean, think about like with your show, right? I mean, at one point, it was just

00:26:42.280 a thought in your mind, right? Right. And you could tell people and everything, but maybe

00:26:45.760 you had a vision for everything that it is now and what it can be moving forward. But

00:26:49.600 nobody creates anything without any kind of vision. And part of it is to do and not just

00:26:53.980 what you see, but what you say to yourself also as well. So I would always take away from

00:26:58.200 this part of it is just always be self conscious of your thoughts and your self talk. And that

00:27:04.140 part of it also could be your subconscious telling you insight or inspiration. So understand the

00:27:08.900 difference between your intuition and when people are just being negative. And because

00:27:12.000 a lot of people will say something and say, Oh, I'm skeptical when they really are. I don't

00:27:16.180 mind being skeptical. Skeptical for me is just somebody wants to know like the truth, right?

00:27:20.440 They're not looking for an excuse. They're looking for the truth so they can use that as a foundation

00:27:24.340 for growth. Completely. Exactly. As opposed to somebody, some people who just are polarity,

00:27:29.080 they just and they mismatch everything. Nothing is possible. And they kind of live in that

00:27:32.820 state. And it's the difference for me in terms of when someone's a man, I feel like that

00:27:37.860 they're not just reacting, right? So it's like a thermometer versus a thermostat. And

00:27:42.420 there's a metaphor I've used for years. I talk about like, what's the function of a

00:27:46.980 thermometer? It react gauges, right? It gauges what already is. Exactly. It reacts to whatever

00:27:52.300 the environment is giving it and measures it, right? But a thermostat is completely different.

00:27:56.400 A thermostat sets a standard, it sets a vision, it sets a goal. And then all this, what happens

00:28:01.980 to the environment? The environment starts changing to match that. And I feel like in order to

00:28:07.000 be successful as, you know, for whatever people choose as their path, is that they have to more

00:28:12.880 identify with a thermostat where the locus of control, the location of their happiness and

00:28:18.980 their influence comes from the inside. And part of it is also just being, you know, more, having

00:28:23.440 more resourcefulness. Growing up for me, my parents, they immigrated here. It's the whole,

00:28:28.560 you know, the whole story of our family lived in the back of a laundromat. And we had no money

00:28:34.340 and language challenges. And then on top of that, it was just there. I had no education

00:28:39.500 because I had learning challenges and I didn't know anybody. And so everybody has what resources

00:28:44.560 they have, right? It would have been a lot easier if I had some money or I had some education

00:28:48.560 or I had contacts and know people and just like anybody, right? And so I think it's a matter,

00:28:54.480 again, it's not the external resources, it's your internal resourcefulness. And like, you know,

00:28:59.440 you go into MacGyver mode, you think about the best ways that you could use what you have and you do

00:29:04.480 the best you can with what you have at the time. And you don't go for perfect, you go for progress.

00:29:10.660 That's my thing. And this is just a, everything we're talking about is just, you know, the same

00:29:15.320 thing with kicking off your day, how you do anything is how you do everything. Don't pick up

00:29:19.960 your phone. And it's hard because it's addictive. Because one of the things we talked about in our show was

00:29:24.320 how Instagram actually came out of like the, this research center in Stanford University on habits

00:29:30.640 and how they make it addictive. Oh, I'm sure. And the psychology of just wanting to feel special and

00:29:35.360 important and good every time somebody gives you a heart. I mean, even the heart itself, as opposed

00:29:39.300 to a fist or something like that. I'm sure there's psychology behind that as well. A lot of design that

00:29:44.740 goes into getting people to do certain things. And I would say that stepping out, it's hard though,

00:29:49.780 because, you know, in a world where we have these villains, right, information, we have digital

00:29:53.620 overload and overwhelm, which creates, you know, all these health challenges, higher blood

00:29:57.220 pressure, compression, leisure time, sleeplessness, it's hard for guys to sleep nowadays, because

00:30:01.360 they're multitasking, thinking about all this stuff, digital distraction. And then the third

00:30:05.660 one, I would say is digital dementia. And this gets into the world of memory training, where

00:30:10.340 it's a new term in the area of health, talking about how our smart devices, how your brain or

00:30:16.280 your mind, your memory is more like a muscle than it is an organ, that it goes stronger with

00:30:20.920 use, but it's use it or lose it. And the thing is, is growing up, you know, how many phone

00:30:25.640 numbers did we know growing up?

00:30:26.980 Yeah, I mean, well, fortunately, I lived in a small town, all I had to do is memorize the

00:30:30.360 last four of the phone number, but significantly more than I know now.

00:30:33.840 Right, exactly. And so not that I want to memorize hundreds of phone numbers, we have our phones,

00:30:39.080 but right now we're outsourcing our phones keep our to do list, our schedules, it does, you

00:30:43.860 know, our phone numbers, it keeps me simple math. And now we not that we want to be able

00:30:48.980 to memorize all that, but we lose the capacity to do that. So you give somebody a simple seven

00:30:53.180 digit number, and they can't memorize it, because your mind is like a muscle. But if you put your

00:30:57.060 arm in a sling for six months, it's not going to grow stronger, it won't even stay the same,

00:31:00.720 you know, atrophy. And that's what digital dementia is. It's the idea that we have technology,

00:31:05.320 and we're relying on it so much, we're not building the mental muscles, and they're failing us.

00:31:09.980 It's really interesting, because if I ever have to recite my driver's license number for some

00:31:15.140 reason, and I'm able to do it, I always get an awkward look, like, how do you know that? I'm

00:31:19.260 like, what do you mean? Like, it's, it's like nine numbers. What do you mean? How do I not know what

00:31:22.680 my driver's license number is? Exactly. Like, exactly. Or your credit card or anything that's

00:31:27.360 important like that. All of a sudden, you look like you're like Rain Man. Yeah. Because you're

00:31:32.640 able to do that. But I mean, everybody has that capacity. And before technology, you know, we would

00:31:37.900 have to store a huge amount of information inside our minds and past generations and, you know,

00:31:42.360 around campfires and everything. And that, and so here's the thing, people, people ask this,

00:31:46.820 you know, Jim, why do I have to improve my memory if everything's on Google? And I totally, I get

00:31:51.040 that, that it's there. But here, but here's the truth. Number one, digital dementia, right? You want

00:31:55.380 to have a powerful memory so you can remember people's names, right? Because it's horrible. I

00:31:59.020 mean, we'll talk about if you're, you know, if you're at an event, and you just, I know you just came

00:32:03.120 from an event, you meet all these people. And, you know, there's nothing worse than me. I think

00:32:06.660 their number one business etiquette networking skill in the world is the ability to remember

00:32:10.240 someone's name. Because how are you going to show somebody that you're going to care for their

00:32:13.260 future, their family, their business, their finances, their health, whatever it is you're

00:32:16.840 selling them, if you don't care enough just to remember their name, right? And so we can't even

00:32:21.960 do simple things like that. And so I would say that your brain, even though you could access things on,

00:32:27.160 you know, search ends and everything, our, our life is a reflection of our decisions. And you can only

00:32:31.900 make good decisions based on the information you remember. And if you lost half of your memories,

00:32:37.040 if you lost half the names, half the information, half the facts, half of the words, you know,

00:32:41.440 half of everything that you know about your industry, how productive would you be? I mean,

00:32:45.560 we lose so much performance, so much of our wealth and everything else. But if you could double that

00:32:51.440 capacity, you know, how much more productive are you going to be? And that's not only the productivity,

00:32:56.800 but I think the other side of this to maybe just to address this side is how far will you stand out?

00:33:02.580 You know, like, we live in a distracted world, we live in an overloaded world. And if I can set

00:33:07.280 myself apart by something as simple as remember your name, or your kids' names, or when you went

00:33:12.680 on that vacation, or something about the company, as I'm going into interview for this company that

00:33:18.120 the other 10 applicants don't know, like, how powerful is that when you set yourself apart that

00:33:21.900 way? Exactly. Because people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

00:33:26.740 And then that's the thing, even Maya Angelou has this great quote saying that people won't

00:33:31.300 remember what you said, they won't remember what you did, but they'll always remember how you made

00:33:35.340 them feel. And everybody wants to feel, I mean, just common influence and connection and communication

00:33:41.220 skills knows that we people seek first to understand, then to be understood. And everyone

00:33:46.540 wants to be seen, everyone wants to be heard. And the challenge is like, memory names is perfect

00:33:51.340 example. Like I, the story, you've heard me mention this before, but just as a reference point for

00:33:57.240 people, like the second time that I met President Bill Clinton, he remembered my name. Like how

00:34:02.160 amazing is that? Yeah. Like how many people does this dude like meet? And like, and so we remember

00:34:08.560 my name in our last conversation and we're sitting down at dinner and we're talking and I just, he's

00:34:13.660 incredible connector and communicator and everything. But I just felt like he had this incredible, powerful

00:34:18.720 presence. And you know, I think his incredible memory and his incredibly powerful presence comes from

00:34:24.340 being powerfully present with people. And that's something any of us could do. And I'll say it

00:34:30.140 again, like his powerful presence came from being powerfully present. Meaning like when you're with

00:34:35.300 somebody, you know, you're with another, you know, a friend or you're with a woman and they're in that

00:34:39.860 person and you're powerfully present with them. Like that's the best feeling in the world, right?

00:34:44.560 When you're not looking over their shoulder and seeing who else is in the room, you're not being

00:34:48.560 distracted by your phone. Exactly. You're not, you're not having a conversation with you because the truth

00:34:53.360 is, and this is the truth that people are listening to this, you guys, like the truth is most of you

00:34:58.200 aren't listening. You're thinking about, you're, you're waiting for your turn to talk. You're

00:35:02.000 thinking about how you're going to respond to the person and that you can't do that. So like

00:35:06.980 be there, be present. That's what everyone wants. That's what your kids want, right? They don't want

00:35:11.140 gifts. They want your presence. And I would say one of the things that we could all do that. Like

00:35:16.660 that's not even a technique. It's just teaching you. Like, I think the art of memory, a lot of people

00:35:20.540 blame their retention, you know, Oh, I can't remember. I put this, I can't remember that

00:35:24.260 fact. I want to learn this. They blame their retention when it's not your retention. It's

00:35:28.500 your attention. And most people aren't forgetting something. They're just not even hearing it.

00:35:33.280 I know. Cause when I go to a conference, if there's somebody that I specifically in my mind,

00:35:38.120 I'm like, I've got to remember who this person is. I'm so much more intentional about it. And

00:35:42.500 surprise, surprise. I actually remember their name. And that's the thing that, and that goes back to the

00:35:46.620 other element when it comes to memory. You know, I always think I talk about mom, right? And the O

00:35:51.060 in mom stands for observation. So have observation like president Bill Clinton, you know, because he

00:35:56.400 was a very powerful leader. The other thing I would say is the M, the first M in mom, I would say is

00:36:02.160 exactly what you're saying. If you go with the intent, because intent matters, it always matters.

00:36:07.500 And if there's, let's say, let's say people have trouble remembering people's names, but there's a

00:36:11.060 suitcase of $250,000 for one of your listeners, as long as they remember the name of the next person

00:36:16.300 they meet. And you can go towards charity or themselves, whatever cash tax free, it's yours.

00:36:20.620 And then only if you just remember the name of the next stranger you meet, who's going to remember

00:36:24.740 that person's name, every single person, every single person. And so every, all of a sudden,

00:36:28.300 everyone's a memory expert, right? But it had nothing to do. And let me, as a coach, I'm just

00:36:33.480 calling people out. It had nothing to do with your capacity or capability and had everything to do

00:36:38.120 with whether or not you wanted to or not. Why then would somebody not do that? I mean,

00:36:43.200 because obviously the 250,000 would be the motivator, but why just in everyday life,

00:36:47.760 do people not care about this? Do they not see the value of it? What is it?

00:36:50.740 One of the things I would say, and it's, and we can apply this towards anything, right? Why don't,

00:36:54.160 why don't people journal every day? Why don't they meditate? Why don't they work out or eat the

00:36:57.680 perfect, you know, the great meal? It's just motivation. It's like, and I know this, I did this

00:37:02.120 talk in Silicon Valley and afterwards, Bill Gates comes up to me and he's, I always ask everyone,

00:37:07.200 if you could have any one superpower, what would it be? And I'd be curious, I'd be curious,

00:37:10.260 Ryan, also for you, because, you know, you ask, you have to ask all these questions of it. You

00:37:14.260 know, if you have any one superpower, I mean, it's just like, what would you choose? And then like,

00:37:18.300 I asked him in that, he's like, Jim, it would be the ability to read faster. And I was like, oh,

00:37:22.140 I could, you know, totally help you with that. But we had this conversation about the future of

00:37:25.960 education. And I was talking about accelerated learning theory, right? And he was talking about

00:37:30.860 from a technology standpoint that the world, you know, the future, you know, classrooms don't have

00:37:35.140 four walls, you know, everyone has it in their pocket. And someone was listening in,

00:37:39.000 and they're like, is somebody, is anything missing? And we were talking about it. And he's

00:37:42.460 like, yeah, motivation, really understanding human motivation, because I think most people know what

00:37:47.140 they should do. Most people don't do what they know. And it's very difficult. And so that's,

00:37:51.620 that's what we want to retrain people to do with little things like tiny habits and starting some

00:37:56.220 somewhere small, the whole idea that if you want to start flossing, right, we know flossing is

00:38:00.800 actually good for your health, it adds years to your life and all this stuff, longevity, but most people

00:38:04.600 don't do it. But you tell people just, hey, just floss one tooth, you can do that one tooth.

00:38:09.740 And nobody in the beginning, you can do that. And they won't stop at one, right? They'll do two,

00:38:13.500 three, four, they might as well do the rest of them. Exactly. Just like when I get people to read,

00:38:16.980 I did a podcast episode on how to read one book a week. And I think it's important for you that if

00:38:21.240 you read one book a week, that's 52 books a year, the average person reads two books a year.

00:38:25.160 And if you could absorb 52, I mean, Ryan, that I mean, think about how much you could absorb,

00:38:29.160 right? Yeah. And all you have to do is break it down. We don't have to make it a big deal about it.

00:38:32.820 It's just I looked on Amazon, the average book has about 64,000 words. And the average person

00:38:37.500 reads about 200 words per minute, that equals about 320 minutes to get through a book. And if

00:38:43.020 you break that down into seven days, that's about 45 minutes of reading a day. I mean, it's a decent

00:38:47.900 amount, but it's, but it's doable. Absolutely. And I think, you know, leaders are readers. And it's

00:38:53.380 one of the things that's reason why Bill Gates says, I want to read more, I want to read faster. And

00:38:57.440 Warren Buffett has been recorded as saying he probably wasted 10 years of his life just reading slowly,

00:39:02.100 right? And so just dedicating the time. But when I teach going back to these habits is just read,

00:39:07.520 Hey, read one word and everyone will just, they'll manage to get in like a good 15, 20 minutes of

00:39:12.240 reading, which could completely change your life. Interesting. By the way, I was going to go back

00:39:16.300 to what you said earlier about superpower. My superpower would be able to read people's minds

00:39:20.720 and thoughts. That's probably the salesman coming out inside of me, but that, that would be where I

00:39:25.540 would start if I had to choose a superpower to do. That's, that's like the professor X,

00:39:29.320 you know, telepathy. And I, yeah, I mean, for me, I've been thinking healing, you know, absent

00:39:35.440 something like, like, you know, healing people of cancer and those kinds of things, I would think

00:39:40.400 The noble stuff. Okay. Everybody wants noble stuff. Now let's talk about the real stuff, right?

00:39:43.600 Right. Like it's like world peace or something like that. But by, for me, it would be the ability

00:39:48.560 to heal others from cancer and challenges like that. Um, but, but, but selfishly, if I was to have

00:39:53.260 any selfish superpower and you can maybe relate to this just coming off a seven, you know, seven hour

00:39:57.520 drive is teleportation. I mean, how, I mean, how much time do we spend nowadays? It's not even just

00:40:02.760 the act of flying. It's like, it's like packing, it's going, it's checking in and going through this

00:40:07.480 whole thing. And then the downtime with, with traffic. It's funny you talk about, uh, teleporting

00:40:11.740 because my wife and I actually had that very same conversation on our seven hour trip. So

00:40:15.980 it's funny. Well, Jim, we're winding down on time. I want to ask you a couple additional

00:40:20.160 questions as we wind down. The first one I did give you some, some heads up on. And

00:40:23.620 that question is, what does it mean to be a man? If you mean heads up by asking me right

00:40:28.220 before we started recording, that's a very slight heads up. All right. So I would say

00:40:33.540 in order to be a man that's fully fulfilled and in their power and their purpose, I would

00:40:38.580 say this self-awareness is key. So for me to be a man, I would need to know who you are

00:40:44.820 and also be who you are. Meaning that have the curiosity to know yourself, like your real

00:40:52.080 self, and then have the courage to really be yourself.

00:40:56.300 Powerful. Yeah. Wholeheartedly agree with that. Very good. Well, Jim, how do we connect

00:41:00.200 with you, man? If we want to learn more about, I know you've got some programs. I know you've

00:41:03.180 got courses, uh, you've, you've connected with and are friends with some of the most influential

00:41:07.120 people on the planet. Uh, you just released your podcast. What's the best way to connect with

00:41:10.800 you?

00:41:11.000 I mean, I would love to continue this conversation. So, I mean, we just, we have a podcast that

00:41:15.380 has things like, and it's short form, um, you know, every, it's for basically brain hacks

00:41:19.740 for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. So it's like speed reading tips,

00:41:23.780 how to remember names step-by-step, my top 10 favorite brain foods, how to give a speech

00:41:29.720 without notes and all the, how to change your habits. These really critical, how to be more

00:41:34.400 productive and get to email box, you know, inbox zero and things that you can learn in 10

00:41:38.640 or 15 minutes. So it's the podcast called quick brain K W I K brain. You could just search

00:41:43.440 for my name, Jim last name K W I K that probably the best way. I'm also, you know, very active

00:41:49.160 on social media. So I would love everybody to listen to this show again. And then if you

00:41:53.500 have any questions, just tag the two of us. And I'm, I'm really good at kind of reposting

00:41:58.080 and then responding and answering questions there. So I'm just at Jim quick on Instagram and Twitter

00:42:02.440 and, and Facebook K W I K people want to go deep in any of these programs. We have students in over

00:42:07.440 150 countries and bestselling speed reading memory enhancement of academic success programs in the

00:42:12.920 world. And so, uh, we'd be honored to be able to go at a deeper level with people, basically for

00:42:17.540 people who are either struggling and to keep up with everything, or they're extremely successful

00:42:21.260 and they want to take things next level. But this has been a real joy. Can I leave one more tip

00:42:25.700 for everybody? I'd love you to. Absolutely. I would re-listen to this episode. I did an episode on

00:42:30.360 effective note-taking, which is my favorite way of taking notes. And I would listen to my pocket

00:42:34.660 and then go back to this episode and re-listen to it. And I would be really curious if people

00:42:39.240 actually tag me in it, because I would love to know your superpower, because I don't know anyone

00:42:42.580 else's answer to what it means to be a man. I would love to be tagging those answers also as well.

00:42:47.000 But my other tip besides note-taking would be learn this as if you're going to teach it to someone

00:42:50.780 else. So I think that's what men do. You know, they, they learn things to grow, but they also

00:42:55.520 learn things so that they can support those around us, right? Your significant other, your team,

00:43:00.100 you're leading your organization, your children. And I always like to learn things with the intention

00:43:05.940 of teaching it because I feel like I learn it better. Do you know what I mean? It's just,

00:43:09.920 I pay better attention. I ask better questions. I take better notes. I make it my own. And then I go

00:43:14.460 on and pay it forward to somebody else. And so I would encourage people to re-listen to this one,

00:43:18.500 take good notes, tag us in it. And then I would love to know your superpower and what it means to be a

00:43:23.720 man. Right on. Yeah. We'll make sure we link that up. And I actually haven't heard the note-taking

00:43:27.320 one. I've heard a lot of your, uh, your podcast, but I haven't heard that when I listened to your

00:43:30.820 podcast in the morning when I'm getting ready, but I think I'll go through that as well. And

00:43:34.380 yeah. And congratulations to you, Ryan, also as well, you know, for the capes that you wear,

00:43:39.660 you know, because I, I really do believe that you fit in that mold where you, you're, you're,

00:43:43.820 you know who you are and you're being who you are. It takes a lot of courage to kind of get things out

00:43:47.700 in a big way. And you're, you're helping so many people around the world. I'm sure you have a female

00:43:52.040 listen base also as well, but just, you know, accelerate their learning. So they accelerate

00:43:56.420 their, their life. Right on, Jim. I appreciate that, man. And I appreciate you and how you show

00:44:00.560 up and some of the information I've learned from you. And I'm looking forward to connecting more.

00:44:03.420 So thanks for taking your time and spending that with us today, man. Appreciate it.

00:44:07.200 Thank you, brother.

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00:44:14.740 learn more about how you can connect with Jim and his work. I'm telling you, this man is so

00:44:19.260 impressive and I've started to implement a lot of what he talks about on his website and podcast.

00:44:23.960 And I can feel myself getting smarter already. In the meantime, make sure you do two things right

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Order of Man - August 08, 2017

125： Enhancing Your Mind ｜ Jim Kwik

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