limitless by jim quick over the next 30
minutes we're going to be doing a detailed breakdown of everything this
book has to offer we're going to go over flow states the
top 10 brave foods to supercharge your brain
the four modern day villains that are holding you back how to find your laser
focus the eight intelligences unlocking your memory and heaps more
let's jump into it alright so i'm super excited to be
breaking down this book today this was by far one of my favorite books
i've read this year mainly because i found this book to be
super practical and it seemed more like a practical
guide than just a heap of uh information about self-help at the end of each section there were
plenty of practice exercises that you could implement into your life straight
away so the book is broken down into four
main parts freeing your mind mindset motivation
and methods so what is mindset the deeply held beliefs attitudes and
assumptions we create about who we are how the world works and what we are capable of and deserve
and what is possible this anecdote comes a little bit later
in the book but i found it a useful example so i'd like to share it
here first he gives an example of a young elephant
that is chained to a stake in the ground and as the elephant grows into a fully
mature elephant its mind has placed limitations on
itself although it could easily rip the small
flimsy stake out of the ground to be
free it has developed this learned
helplessness so it doesn't even try and the book goes into this concept of
unlimiting which is the act or process of casting
aside inaccurate and restrictive perceptions and
embracing the reality that with the right mindset
motivation and methods there are no
limitations so the book is broken down into these
sections accordingly mindset motivation and methods and this
is the core philosophy of the book modern day supervillains the 4ds
these are the modern day villains that 15 years ago we weren't even dealing
with so let me introduce the four villains
and then i'll give you some of the remedies that the author suggests for
each one the first of the d's is digital deluge
compared to the 15th century we now consume as much data in a single day as
an average person from the 1400s would have absorbed
in their entire lifetime so that is amazing
and we are being bombarded with data we're always switched on we're always
hooked up to the net humans today are consuming three times
more than our parents in the 1960s there's just too much information too
much neural activity going on and all of that extra activity can have
ill effects on our brains it can lead to things like brain fog
subpar memory and fatigue chances are that you guys have probably
felt that body fatigue after a long period in front of a screen the second d
is digital distraction so we live here now and because of our
always-on ever-connected devices we're struggling
to find connection when we're with friends and family and we're struggling
to stay focused at work so this is where we live now we're
connected to the web in every downtime moment waiting for the
bus waiting in a line um we need to think what happens when
this is our constant way of being when every downtime moment is filled
with shining screens and all this extra stimulus
this is leading to less social interaction with friends and family
because our devices make us feel more secure but actually we're
less happy next digital dementia neuroscientist manfred
spitzer uses the term digital dementia to describe how overuse of digital
technology results in the breakdown of cognitive
abilities he argues that short-term memory
pathways will start to deteriorate from under use
if we overuse technology in the past we needed to remember things like people's
phone numbers street addresses things like
this nowadays our short-term memories are
just being underused uh you probably couldn't tell me the
phone number of your your child or your significant other off
by heart because you know you you just rely on your phone
to have that saved the fourth d is digital deduction
in a digital first world where millennials obtain all their answers to
problems at the click of a mouse or the swipe of a finger the reliance on
technology to solve every question confuses people's perception of their
own knowledge and intelligence and that reliance may well lead to
overconfidence and poor decision making before the internet we didn't have the
immediate and readily available access to the opinions of others we needed to
reflect reason draw our own conclusions from our
own insights so if technology is doing all
the deductions for us then we will gradually be
losing our ability to problem-solve and that ability to problem solve is so
integral to the human experience he also talks briefly about a 50 we also
need to be careful of which is digital depression with the emergence of platforms like
instagram and facebook photo filters
photoshop comparison culture these are increasingly becoming a
problem in our society people are beginning to feel unworthy
they are wanting to reach unattainable outcomes here are some tips
that the book gives for dealing with each of these villains
for digital deluge take a moment and schedule 30 minutes of white space in
your calendar for this week this is time to be spent away from
technology time dedicated to clear your mind
relax and be creative for digital distraction go to the
notification settings on your phone and turn off all unnecessary
and distracting pings and dings do this
now for digital dementia take a minute to
exercise your memory memorize the phone number of someone you
communicate with regularly and lastly for digital deduction think
about a decision you need to make schedule some time to work on that
decision without the use of any digital devices next neuroplasticity and the second
brain neuroplasticity is dependent on the
ability of our neurons to grow and make connections with other neurons
in other parts of the brain in the book he talks about a study that was
conducted on london taxi drivers and they found more matter in the
hippocampus of the taxi drivers who needed to remember streets
and drive their way through the maze of london than
people of similar age and intelligence they also found that the longer that
person had been driving the larger the hippocampus was in their brain
so in short the brain is malleable it's able
to expand and change over time and it can change its structure
to meet its cognitive load our second brain is the brain in our gut
or the ens the enteric nervous system scientists
don't know everything there is to know about the smaller brain however they are beginning to understand how it can
affect our mood and our behavior without going into too much detail it is
believed that the second brain in our gut
may be able to communicate with the brain and the nutrients that are
absorbed through our intestines can make a huge difference in
the way that our brains function finally in this first section of the
book the author lays out some methods to help you study and learn more
effectively which he refers to as the faster method
your time is one of your greatest assets it's the one thing
you can't get back f is for forget always have an open mind
to receive new information and don't think you already
know all the information the first thing to forget is what you
already know when you think you already know all that there is to know
about a subject it can become a barrier to new knowledge secondly try to forget things that
aren't urgent to you right now if something else pops into your mind
while you're trying to study always have a notepad handy write down
that thought and you can come back to it later the of
simply writing something down allows your mind to just let go of it for now
a is for act traditional education has trained many people that learning is
a passive experience you consume the information
you sit in the class and you listen to the professor
but learning is not a spectator sport and the human brain does not learn as
much by consumption as it does by creation so you want to
take notes highlight link new concepts to practical
examples or stories that can help you to solidify that
knowledge s is for state all learning is state
dependent your state is a current snapshot of your
emotions it is highly influenced by your thoughts
your psychology and your physical condition of your body
physiology so you might want to ask yourself how
motivated and energized are you to learn what you
have to learn what are some things you can do to
change your state maybe change your posture do some stretching some breathing
exercises you can try some of these before you sit
down to study t is for teach if you want to cut your
learning curve dramatically learn with the intention of teaching the
information to someone else e is for enter what is the simplest and
most powerful personal performance tool your calendar
you know work meetings children's events taking the dog to the vet people
schedule things all the time but the one thing that people don't schedule
time for is time for themselves so things
for things like personal development growth study
so what you want to do is clear some time in your calendar and make sure you
write it down lastly r is for review one of the best
ways to reduce the effects of the forgetting curve is to
actively recall what you learned with spaced repetition
that concludes the first section of this book freeing your mind
now let's move on to section two which is mindset the what
types of genius when you think of geniuses who are the
first people that come to mind chances are that people like einstein
hawking tesla these are the types of people that
immediately come to your mind in the book jim goes over some different
types of genius so
experts differ on the number but it is generally believed that genius expresses
itself in four different manners dynamo humans with dynamogenius have
amazing creativity and ideas an example of such person would be
william shakespeare blaze genius an extraordinary ability to
connect and socialize with people an example would be someone like oprah
tempo genius an ability to see the big picture
and stay on course towards a grand vision without deviating
or losing uh interest in the cause an example would be someone like nelson
mandela and lastly we have steel genius humans
who are great at the details an example of someone with steel genius would be
sergey brin of google the main concept here is that genius
extends beyond academics so don't limit yourself by negative
self-talk like i'm just not intelligent i always got
bad grades at college so therefore i mustn't even be in the realm of genius you can be a mixture of different
geniuses so have a think about what your genius is
and let it free overcoming limiting beliefs before we go over the steps that he advises to
overcome limiting beliefs i think it's important to understand why
positive thinking and overcoming these limiting beliefs is so
important this isn't all just pie in the sky
kumbaya spiritual kind of stuff you know it's been scientifically proven
that positive thinking reduces stress so reduced stress means lower cortisol
levels in the body which can lead to increased lifespan
lower rates of depression greater resistance and greater
resistance the common cold better immunity better psychological and physical
well-being can improve your cardiovascular health
and reduce the risk of things like heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases
and in general it just helps you to better cope with the hardships
and stress stresses of life now if we come back to the example of
the elephant from earlier that we spoke about its limiting belief was that it was
stuck forever chained to the small stake in the ground
so step one is to name that limiting belief
let's give it a name in that case it might be something like stuck
at the stake for you and maybe something like
i'm not an entertaining person i'm unintelligent
or i'm not a good companion to be around maybe you you had a socially awkward
situation when you're a child or when you were growing up
and ever since then you've had this negative self-talk
so try to get to the original source of that limiting belief
and when you do this it allows you to realize that these aren't
facts about you they are merely opinions and there's a great chance that those
opinions are wrong if you find yourself saying something to
yourself like man i always screw up this sort of
thing or i'm just not a good companion to be
around try to counteract that with something like um just because i haven't
always been good at this in the past doesn't mean that i can't be great at this
now and in the future so that is step one make sure you get to
the source of it and identify it give it a name
step two get to the facts the steak is small in size
i'm a strong fully grown elephant what is to stop me from ripping that steak
right out of the ground are you really unable to break free from
the steak are you really the least entertaining
person in the room and where is your evidence to support
that claim how many times have you actually been in situations where you were
an unentertaining or poor companion and you need to be careful because small
situations can happen in your past and if you keep telling
yourself something long enough then you start to believe your own
opinions step 3 creating a new belief
first it is important to try and combat that negative self-talk
which is your inner critic so try to give it a name a persona
different to yourself you can call it bilbo or gollum or
anything you like but you want to make it seem like a
cartoon and like a b grade movie and whenever that
inner critic you know starts giving you opinions you
want to just roll your eyes and say you know not today gollum not today
bilbo and you just want to mock that that
character that persona for its dedication
to bringing you negativity a good thing to try is to replace your
inner dialogue with i am statements so something like i am a
good companion remember the time i did such and such i may not be entertaining and a good
companion 100 of the time but in many situations i have been
including this time and that time in the last section of mindset there are
seven lies that we tell ourselves about learning when kwik uses the word lie throughout
the book he means limited ideas entertained so lie number one
is intelligence is fixed the new belief that you want to create
is that your intelligence can grow if you believe it can grow and then you
can put in the work to make it grow lie number two we only use ten percent
of our brains new belief i am learning to use my whole
brain in the best way possible
line number three mistakes are failures the new belief you want to create is
that mistakes are signs that you're trying something new
and they are opportunities to learn life isn't about comparing yourself to anyone
else it's about comparing yourself to who you
were yesterday there's no such thing as failure only a
failure to learn line number four is that knowledge is
power new belief knowledge has to be acted on knowledge combined with action equals
power line number five learning new things is
very difficult a new belief that you can create is that
when you learn how to learn the challenge of learning new things can
be fun enjoyable and easy line number six
the criticism of other people matters new belief it's not other people's job
to like respect or love you that's your job
and your job alone lie number seven genius is born the new belief that you
want to create is that genius is not born
however it is made through deep practice motivation the why the author defines
motivation as the purpose one has for taking action
and the energy required for someone to behave
in a particular way there are three lies about motivation line number one is that
motivation is fixed in truth you can increase your motivation lie number two
you have to enjoy something to be motivated to do it
the truth is that quite simply all you need to do is have a strong enough
reason to do that thing even if you don't enjoy doing it if any
of you have seen the movie the pursuit of happiness then you will
you will know this to be true lie number three motivation is something
i either have or i don't have but in truth motivation can be
created so according to limitless the formula for motivation is simple
motivation equals purpose times energy times
small steps so we need a clear purpose we need energy to get it done and we need small
simple steps s3 to prevent us from getting
overwhelmed and paralyzed let's go a little bit deeper
into purpose as we establish earlier we don't have to
enjoy something to be motivated to do it however you do need to have a clear
purpose for why you were doing something you can ask
yourself why must i study this or why must i
learn this the book also outlines not to get
confused between passion and purpose your purpose is what
you are here on earth for and maybe it is to help people so
the author jim's passion is learning but his purpose
is teaching people how to learn so do you know your purpose if you don't
that's fine but maybe you can write down a few ideas
as to what it may be and if you're struggling to
find your why then there is a great book that i would suggest
by simon sinek which is called start
with why you can also check out his other book
which is find your way i recommend this book if you're
struggling to find your purpose in life and maybe i'll do a summary on that book
in the future let me know in the comments below if you would like that
or if you have any other books actually that you would like to see summarize
please let me know in the comments below so who do you think you are
they say the two most powerful words in the english language are the shortest
i am whatever you put after those two words determine your destiny
if you tell yourself you're a slow inefficient learner your subconscious
mind will manifest that into reality instead try and try telling yourself i'm
a fast and efficient learner write down a few i am
statements that might steer your motivation
and growth in the right direction stephen covey the author of the seven
habits of highly effective people also talked about how important
and beneficial i am statements can improve your life
i also did a summary of this book the seven habits of highly effective people
i'll leave a link in in the description below if you'd like to check out that
video lastly on purpose having a hierarchy of
values in your life for the author jim quick his values are
love growth contribution and adventure and they are
in that same order his values allow him to choose what
things to pursue in life and what things to deny he doesn't mind
having uh fomo which he he calls fomo which is
the fear of missing out especially if that thing that he is
being asked to be a part of doesn't in any way contribute to his values or
his uh purpose in life and he uh he actually had a word
uh which i'm currently blank on uh uh jomo uh
jomo he said to encourage you to have jomo which is the joy of missing out
instead of fomo the fear of missing out okay energy there are five
main components that can maximize your energy
number one being food there are certain nutrients
that are more conducive to a healthy functioning and focused
mind number two regular exercise this improves and protects your memory
and thinking skills even just 10 minutes a day will give you
a heap of benefits you don't need to work out like an elite athlete or
anything like that number three having a tidy and clean
work environment four a positive peer group in your life if you surround yourself with negative
people you too will almost certainly become influenced by their negativity
and finally five sleep make sure you're getting enough
quality sleep in the book his top 10 brain foods uh
avocados blueberries broccoli dark chocolate
eggs green leafy vegetables vegetables salmon sardines caviar turmeric
walnuts and water the book also has quite a few different
recipes for shakes and meals that he says
can improve your brain function i won't be including that in this video but if
if that interests you i i definitely recommend you guys go and grab a copy
of his book okay uh small tiny steps
a small simple step or s3 this is the tiniest action you can take
to get you closer to your goal one that requires minimal effort or
energy over time these become habits
so break everything down into smaller parts
otherwise you're going to risk becoming over um
overcome by uh paralysis by analysis um i'm sure you guys have had times in
your life when a task just seemed unattainable but when you sat down and
broke it down into you know attainable chunks it become it
became manageable flow state okay let's take a quote from the book i'm sure there have
been times when you were so completely caught up in what you were
doing that everything else disappeared and it just felt like the most natural
thing you've ever done time probably melted away from you
during those experiences people regularly tell me about focusing
so deeply on what they are doing that they had no idea that afternoon had
become night or they had missed multiple meals in the
process this experience is flow
also directly from the book i'm not going to pronounce this doctor's name
because i'm going to ruin it completely but this doctor
describes flow as having eight characteristics one absolute
concentration two total focus on goals three
the sense that time is either speeding up or slowing down
four a feeling of reward from the experience
five a sense of effortlessness six the experience is challenging but not
overly so seven your actions almost seem to be
happening on their own and eight you feel comfort with what you are
doing the book goes into stages of flow the
first is struggle when you first sit down your brain is
trying to concentrate the second stage is relaxation when you
start to become relaxed and ease into that task the third state
is where you want to get to and that is the flow state
this is where you experience all of the eight characteristics that the doctor
described it's intense focus and effortlessness
the final stage of flow is consolidation this state is where you pull together
everything you accomplished in in the flow and this can feel like a bit
of a downer like uh kind of the kind of feeling a drug
addict may feel when they're coming down off drugs
but obviously much less severe and this is because all of the happy
chemicals you were experiencing during the flow state so how can we find the flow state faster
and more efficiently the first thing you can do
is to eliminate eliminate all distractions so you want to de-clutter
and tidy up your workspace believe it or not every object and
different color in your peripheral vision is
competing for your brain's finite energy so a messy desk with many different
objects and colors will make your brain more fatigued than
having a tidy clean desk without any distractions and this is essential
that all all distractions are eliminated because
it can take almost 20 minutes to refocus and get back into
the flow if you get kicked out of it by a
distraction so make sure you do whatever you can to
eliminate any potential distractions next allow enough time if you're serious
about getting into a flow state ideally what you want to have is around
2 hours but at least 90 minutes this is mainly because it takes at least
15 minutes to get uh to begin getting into the flow um
but you don't hit your peak until you're around 45 minutes in
okay third do something you love if you love what you're doing you can
achieve a flow state much much easier lastly have clear goals
make sure you have a clear written goal of what you're hoping to achieve
within that period of time okay and to conclude flow there are four
main enemy enemies that the author goes through
these are the four enemies of achieving flow
multitasking if you want to find flow don't even entertain trying to achieve
flow whilst multitasking stress
stress is the flow killer it is the kryptonite of flow
so deal with and reduce your stress before even attempting to get
into flow uh having a lack of conviction to the brain uncertainty is a threat so
if you don't believe you're going to accomplish anything of importance
you'll guarantee uh that outcome and fear of failure perfectionism
reduces creativity and innovation so you need to convince
yourself that a little bit of a lack of perfection is
actually okay okay so that concludes flow and i gotta
say i think this was one of my favorite parts of the book
um getting into these concepts of flow and how to get into
flow in a more efficient manner i think the mistake that i was making in the
past was that i just wasn't allowing enough time for myself to
you know ease into that flow and hit that peak
so nowadays i'm making sure that i allow at least
90 minutes for whatever i'm focusing on the final part of this book is part
three which is methods the how when the billionaire investor warren
buffett was asked what factor do you feel has been the most important in
getting to where you've gotten in life buffered immediately replied focus and
bill gates who is sitting next to him agreed steve jobs has also harped on the
importance of focus for steve jobs focus was the ability to
say no to almost everything and carefully choose what to spend his
precious time on so focus is what defines the difference
between an average performance and super performance imagine a
magnifying glass and when you harness the sun and burn a
leaf there is one point that is laser focused your mind needs to become that focused
beam of light you don't want to be spreading your
focus and the sun is your energy and the laser beam of light is your
focus if you're someone that gets distracted
easily the good news is that your focus can be trained like a muscle
you can think like think of your awareness like that glowing ball of
light that moves to different parts of your
mind and in order to excel at concentration
you need to make yourself keep that ball of light trained on one spot in your
mind for long periods and like most things in life this won't
be easy at first however with some conscious
effort to exercise your willpower in this in this way it will likely lead
to notable results so getting into that habit of refocusing
will become natural over time if you have a scattered brain
a lot on your mind finding focus will be difficult
to begin with so you need to first calm that busy mind
quick gives us some breathing techniques which can help to do just that he calls
it the 478 breathing model and here's how that
works first you want to exhale fully close
your mouth inhale through your nose for the count
of four hold your breath for seven and then
exhale completely through the mouth making a whoosh sound
for a count of eight and you wanna you wanna repeat that cycle four times
so if something is stressing you out and the breathing techniques also fail the
only thing you can do next is to confront that stress
uh confront that thing that is causing you stress
and lastly schedule time in your calendar for whatever is distracting you
or giving you distress okay moving on study
why are most of us restrained in our ability ability to study
most people do not know how to study of effectively because they were never
taught many people naturally assume they
already know how to learn the challenge is that most of the
techniques that we use now are old and ineffective many of them
date back hundreds of years we now live in a highly competitive
information age where information is everywhere yet we're still using the same methods
to observe sorry to absorb and process it all
so we have a limited time and there's only so much information that we can
learn in that time and that is why it's so important to
study efficiently and effectively the author gives us seven habits that we
can follow to make sure that we're being effective learners the first habit is
employing active recall so people often study using passive
recognition which means you simply read and try to
remember what you saw on the page when you're reviewing it it's easy to
say like okay i've got this but when it when it comes time to put
that knowledge into action it becomes difficult to remember if you
want to actively recall something after you study something close your
book read out loud what you learnt and
remembered or write down what you learnt these activities can help you to retain
that information more effectively if you are someone that
crams information then the second habit is for you the
second habit is space repetition cramming is a stressful task
you may remember the information for a day or maybe two
but after that test or exam you're probably going to
forget close to all of that so quick recommends reviewing once in the
morning and once again before dinner four days in a row before any important
exam or test the third habit is to manage the state
that you're in when you perform any activity your state of mind
will have the greatest impact on your success be aware of your
posture if you're slumped over this can stifle
your breathing and it will make you prematurely tired
so you want to sit up straight improve your posture
and see if you can feel or see if you can
change that state the sixth habit is to listen with your
whole brain so you want to get better at listening
and actually listening to someone when they're speaking not
just waiting to reply to the person so you want to hold yourself actively
listen don't think about your to-do list or
what you're going to watch on netflix tonight
try to show that person some empathy and actually
listen next habit is to take effective notes
begin taking notes knowing your purpose in the first place for taking the notes
try to use your own words wherever possible instead of transcribing word
for word what the speaker said when you do this you're actually
processing what the speaker said and not simply
transcribing the information on the left side of your notebook what
you want to do is capture the things that the speaker said
but on the right side you want to create your own notes
by answering questions like how is this applicable
why must i remember this and when and where will i use this
information okay the next habit is to use your sense
of smell smells are especially effective at
bringing memories to the forefront of our brains
so you can put certain essential oils or perfume
cologne on your wrist while you study and then you want to smell that same
smell during the exam or during whatever it is that you need to remember
to improve that memory recall the last habit is music for the mind so
you want to use music to your advantage to shift your state he recommends
baroque music at 50 to 80 beats per minute because
it's able to stabilize the mind and help you reach
deeper levels of concentration and focus music can help you learn vocabulary
memorize facts and it helps you to read more
effectively so go ahead and check out some free baroque music
playlist today on youtube or another platform all right moving on
to memory there are many techniques in the
book for unlocking your memory the first one
is visualization so this is the act of linking a word to
an image of something if you're trying to remember someone's
someone's name when you first hear it you want to try and link it to a visual
image so if their last name is baker then you
might want to imagine a baker with a big white hat
next is to link words via association so try to link new information to old
information if you can associate the new information
with something that you're already familiar with it will greatly
improve your memory so what comes to your mind when you
think of a cherry perhaps red sweet fruit pie round seeds
okay these are words and pictures that you have learnt to link to the word
cherry so what you did was you associated
something you knew to something you didn't know
at one stage in time next one is emotions adding emotions makes something
more memorable information by itself is forgettable
but when information is combined with emotions it can become a long-term
memory when we add emotions to something we
make it adventurous we make it action-filled
we can make it humorous and when we do that we're much more likely to remember
it lastly you want to create a story if you
need to memorize a sequence or a long list of words telling a story can really unlock that
memory let's say your chemistry teacher asks
you to memorize a periodic table for
example do you think you could do that maybe you
could do it if you went through it over and over and over again
but uh this type of learning is very time consuming and very
inefficient so instead you could you could use some association
visualization and storytelling so maybe hydrogen let's make that
a fire hydrant because it sounds very similar
helium what's something that has helium hmm balloons okay i can remember that
same deal with lithium lithium batteries okay for beryllium
we make we may make it uh some berries because
they sound very familiar now imagine you're standing next to a
giant fire hydrant then you attach hundreds of balloons to
the fire hydrant the balloons somehow take the hydrant up
into the sky and off the ground so that it flies high up into the sky suddenly it starts raining batteries and
berries the balloons pop and the berries
splatter all over the ground so we could continue in that fashion but
i think you get the idea you could break down each line of the
periodic table into a short story or you could break down each list that
you have into a short story and that will greatly help you to memorize
the information okay so let's move down here to speed
reading now he dedicates quite a few pages to
speed reading in the book but for the purpose of this summary i'll only be going over some of his
suggestions very briefly however if you are interested in
pursuing this topic further i would highly recommend
grabbing the book so he tells us that regression and
sub-vocalization slow you down regression meaning um losing where you
are on the page and having to go back
uh sub-vocalization being the little voice inside your head
as you read so to improve your reading speed he suggests to
use your finger or pen as a tracker you can also count while you read this
will help to prevent that inner voice the sub vocalization
he suggests to expand your peripheral vision so that you can take in more
words he suggests 20 minutes on and 5 minutes
off and lastly he suggests looking at the page directly
so don't look at the page on an angle or slanted
because this can cause eye strain and the final topic in the methods part of this book
are mental models and thinking we can't solve problems by using the
same kind of thinking we used when we created them albert einstein the six thinking hats the core notion is
to separate thinking into six distinctly defined functions by progressively
donning a series of metaphorical hats so for the white hat this is when you're
in information gathering mode okay
the yellow hat this is where you want to argue the positives and pros
of the situation the black hat is the opposite of that so you want to argue
the negatives and the cons the red hat is where you want to analyze
any emotions at play so are there any emotions that are
affecting your decision making ability the green hat is to
brainstorm solutions to the problem and the blue
hat is when you're in management mode so this is where you make sure that
you've addressed everything on the agenda and within this mental
model i think this is a great exercise to do
if you're in if you're by yourself or in a team and
the reason why i think this is a great mental model is because
what most people do is they view problems from their own perspective
that that one perspective and what i think this method allows you to do
is view the problem from multiple different
perspectives the eight intelligences why is it important for us to have tools
to help us think in different ways because people usually have a dominant
way of using their intelligence so these eight intelligences can be used
to identify your strengths and how you
think for most people they will have multiple intelligences but are usually
only dominant in one or two people with spatial intelligence think
think in terms of space around them so you might want to think
of artists or pilots second we have bodily kinesthetic
and someone with this intelligence uses their body
so an example would be athletes third we have musical so this is a
strong sensitivity to rhythm tone melody pitch things like this an
example maybe someone like mozart for linguistic intelligence this is someone that's very attuned to
the use of words so this could be someone like
shakespeare the fifth intelligence is local sorry
logical mathematical this is someone great at seeing logical relationships
among actions or symbols an example of this intelligence would be someone like
albert einstein the sixth intelligence would be
interpersonal so this is someone with a deep innate
ability to connect with others you may want to
think of someone like oprah seventh
intrapersonal this is someone great at understanding and
managing their own inner feelings and finally we have naturalistic so this
is an ability to see the world of nature in all of its different complexities and
an example of this intelligence would be someone like jane goodall okay moving down now we have the three
learning styles just as types of intelligence vary from
person to person the way one learns varies this
theory of learning has been known for nearly 100 years now
so a visual learner is someone who prefers to learn through pictures videos
and charts an auditory learner is someone
who prefers to learn through listening and a kinesthetic learner is someone who
prefers to have some kind of physical interaction or hands-on approach if you guys are interested in finding
out what type of learner you are go ahead grab a copy of this book as it
gives you a quiz that helps you find which learning style
you are for myself i was a visual
learner okay next the 40-70 rule never make a decision with less than 40
of the information you're likely to get and together no
more than 70 of the information available anything
less than 40 and you're just guessing anything more
than 70 and you're stalling over making the
decision so this was a rule that really hit hard with me because
i find that uh in general i'm someone that's a bit of a perfectionist
i need everything to be you know very clear and
perfect so i love this rule and i'm really going to try and implement it
into my life okay not to-do lists
so many many people create to-do lists but what happens is
that these lists end up just becoming long and
overwhelming and what you want to do is you want to
have a not to-do list okay so this will help
eliminate any distractions that you're having in your life it'll help you
not engage in unimportant tasks and finally a not to-do list
would be something like not checking social media between
this hour and this hour not answering emails first thing in the
morning uh not doing this errand because it
doesn't align with my overall values okay now lastly
second order thinking and exponential
thinking always ask yourself and then what think
in increments of time what do the consequences look in five
days five months and five years first order thinking is easy but it's
second order thinking that allows us to go
deeper through time and consequences best of all it allows us to see what
others can't see now this isn't directly from the book
but let's run through an example of ordered thinking and consequences
so let's say you decide that you're going to buy
a subscription to netflix because everyone's using netflix and it's a cool
thing to do so why not so this is where most people's thinking
resides in the first order most people don't
even get to that second order of thinking but let's uh let's ask ourselves and
then what well you're going to need to get your
money's worth right so the average netflix subscriber
watches around one hour of netflix per day
so let's say you're going to be an average netflix subscriber
and you're going to do just that so second order thinking would tell us that
we need to have around one hour per day to dedicate
dedicate to watching but let's go even further
let's extrapolate this out over a longer time horizon so in one week that's
seven hours you're dedicating to netflix in a month that's 30 hours
in a year 365 hours okay but let's go even further let's say
this becomes an ingrained habit okay you
at this point in time maybe you're getting up to that two hours per day but
let's just keep it at one so the fourth order consequence
over the next five years 1825 hours of your life have been given to
netflix think of what you could have
accomplished if you dedicated that 1825 hours
to something productive and that is how you can go through uh
ordered thinking okay it's a great it's it's an amazing mental model that you
should always go through every time you're about to make
a big purchase or make a big decision in your life and finally guys we have exponential
thinking so the incremental mindset focuses on
making something better whilst the exponential mindset is
focusing on making something different incremental is satisfied with 10 percent
better exponential is out for 10x so you can think of
people like jeff bezos elon musk these are people who have that
exponential thinking and are always you know questioning the principles of
what people say are possible or impossible they're always trying to push
the boundary all right so that brings us to the end
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