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You Will Never Be Lazy Again | Jim Kwik


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the average person opens up Instagram a
hundred and fifty times a day but that’s
by design like you said companies
probably know from product design
they’re paying or putting fortunes and
to understand why we do what we do and a
variable reward don’t have a me absolve
all that’s exactly and so if you’re
picking up the phone the first thing in
the morning the challenge is number
reasons this is a challenge first of all
there there are these four primary
brainwave states um beta is what you and
I are in right now we’re awake Delta is
when you’re fast asleep in between those
two states theta and alpha are extremely
important brainwave states for learning
so theta is the state right in and out
of sleep data is the state that we call
creativity when you are your most
creative or you’re usually it’s coming
because you’re in this data state and
you know this when you’re in and out of
sleep or you’re close to like you’re so
deep your mind goes and you come up with
ideas you know what put you in a data
state our showers you ever noticed like
when you’re in the shower you come up
with some of your your best ideas and
your brain kind of drift it does because
you’re in that brainwave state so a big
part of my work is taking the invisible
making it visible like I always when I
do these demonstrations I always tell
people that I I do it because I want you
to see that there’s a method behind the
magic and when somebody does something
that’s extraordinary
in athletics in education and technology
with the human body there’s always a
trail you know his genius leaves Clues
above theta though is the state called
alpha right right below beta where
you’re most aware and awake alpha is the
state of a learning accelerated learning
is the state of relaxed awareness this
is the state we go into when we meditate
because your critical mind is set aside
and you just absorb information
unconsciously you know what puts you
into an alpha state television you ever
noticed that if somebody’s watching the
game or somebody’s watching their
favorite TV show and you’re trying to
have a conversation with them and they
literally are entranced they don’t hear
you because the television programming
which might be an interesting word you
know programming and putting people into
a trance but that’s the Alpha state
that’s where
formation is just going inside your mind
so we train people how to learn
languages faster and learn facts better
by putting them into an alpha state a
relaxed state of awareness and we can do
that by by designed and people don’t
realize this and this is the whole thing
I really think this should have been
taught back in school because school was
a great place to learn what to learn
math history science Spanish important
subjects on what to learn but how many
classes were on how to learn does that
even exist is dead know that that’s why
I’m saying like how many classes were on
how to think critically how to make the
decisions how to solve problem how to
focus and concentrate how to read how to
read faster how to remember more right
even if they teach you 3 R’s in school
reading writing arithmetic but what
about remembering what about recall what
about retention right Socrates says
there is no learning without remembering
and that’s really the basis of it all
but I would say that knowing you’re in
this alpha theta state first thing in
the morning you’re very suggestible
right and if the first thing you’re
picking up is your phone then that
really is what rewiring our brain for
two things the dangers that’s gonna
really decrease your level of
productivity and performance number one
its training you to be distracted and we
talked about that every like share
comment everything is just making you
just pay attention everything else and
rewiring your brain so when you’re
having a conversation with somebody you
can’t even focus because you’ve trained
your brain to do otherwise and that’s
why mindfulness is so important you know
whether it’s meditation or something
else because it’s not that I don’t
meditate every single day just to be at
peace and and be in the Zen state I do
it because it’s a mental exercise it
improves my cognitive capabilities
meaning that when my mind goes somewhere
else that’s the opportunity so I pull it
back with my breath or visualization I
built that muscle because here’s here’s
really the the basis of my work is
really about taking nouns and turning
them into verbs so what do I mean by
that it’s it’s like so many people they
wake up and say oh I hope I have energy
today or I have motivation saying things
that they have right I have creativity
so I could write today or make videos or
I have memory or I
focus or concentration those aren’t
things you have those are things you do
and so you don’t have love you do loving
things you don’t have energy you do
things that give you energy just like
that’s that applies same thing with
learning you don’t have focus there’s a
process for doing focus you don’t have a
memory there’s steps to improve your
memory or to remember things better
there’s not creativity is not something
you have there’s actually a process for
creativity so you should never suffer
from writer’s block or anything else
like that because because that’s where
if you’re if you don’t understand how
you work when I was talking about self
awareness and understanding ourselves
you know I think if somebody wants to
improve their their esteem the self same
overnight just study it study your brain
like you’ll get a boost of confidence
and pride like instantly because it is
the most incredible I don’t even know
what to call it a device a supercomputer
what in the whole universe
you know it’s not just about going out
to to Mars and all these other places
I’m gonna I want to go in here because
this controls what everything our
careers our income our health our
relationships you know whether or not
you get you know complete you know we
were talking about this before our
conversation here would have you know
when you’re training for Ironman and
triathlons everything else is how much
of it is mental like we know like
everyone knows what to do but do they do
what they know because common sense is
not common practice and it’s a myth that
knowledge is power
not knowledge is it has a potential to
be power it only becomes power when we
use it when we apply it like people
think they should get points for buying
books and sitting on the shelf and it
just sits there and becomes like shelf
help not self-help right or somebody
will go and learn something I listen to
a podcast like this or show or they’ll
go to a conference
they’ll pay all this money but they
don’t do anything with what they learn
and part of it also is because they
forget it you know everyone knows
there’s a learning curve but there’s
also forgetting curve
did you know like the forgetting curve
says that if you learn something once
within 48 hours 80% of it is gone
80% so you listen to a show you watch
something you on YouTube you go to a
conference you read a book within two
days the majority of it’s gone because
nobody trains us how to have that’s why
the memory is so important
you know and so this first thing don’t
touch your phone cuz it’s training you
to be distracted the second thing is
it’s training you rewiring your brain to
be reactive reactive meaning that you’re
in this relaxed state of awareness when
you first wake up you pick up your phone
you get one text that with bad news or
one voicemail one email and you know
this we’ve all still happen to us you’re
in a bad mood for the rest of your day
because you’re so impressionable you’re
in that hypnotic state and it affects
you and you can never have a quality
life you know with that you know and be
the best version of ourselves be i elite
mental performer or high performer when
you’re responding and reacting everybody
else you know my friend Brendon Burchard
says an inbox is nothing but a
convenient organizational system for
other people’s agenda for your life and
how can you have vision for your life
like for me the night before like I have
I did a whole episode on my morning
routine like ten things I do every
morning that jumpstart my brain and I
also have an evening one-hour routine to
get into sleep to maximize my sleep
sleep is so very important to be able to
do but one of the processes I do
besides you know blackout curtains and
cold and temperatures and breath and
stuff meditation is I don’t touch a
screen right because it creates blue
light and you and most people should
know this every you know the screen on
your laptop your phone everything else
emits this blue light which inhibits
melatonin production which helps you to
relax and go to sleep sand those screens
but the other thing I do is I write down
the three things I want to complexed day
personally and the other three are
professionally so now when I wake up I
have a vision for my life like I’ll this
is a win today if I just get these three
things done personally and three things
professionally and when it comes to my
phone I don’t touch my phone until I get
at least one thing done and that’s my
that’s my test you know if I could just
do that and it’s not always perfect you
know but it’s about progress right
because practice makes progress alright
and there’s never gonna be a perfect and
I think people need to find what works
for them but I would say again to step
out is not don’t trust yourself as the
expert instead of somebody else and test
it you know maybe for one week keep your
phone outside your bedroom for just one
week and don’t touch it for the first
hour a day and spend the first hour day
being a thermostat
vomiter because a thermometer what it
what’s a function it reacts to the
environment and that’s a–that’s a kind
of crappy way to like live not that we
don’t we do react in by we react to the
weather right we react to how clients
treat us we react but to the degree
we’re happy is that we have the locus
that have the the location of control
inside right all the studies show that
the happiest people are the ones that
feel like they have the control over
their or their happiness and now put it
to somebody else
a person or a place or something going
the economy or politics or anything
right so a thermometer reacts the
environment but a thermostat is
different what is that function
it sets the environment it sets a goal
is set the temperature and then the
environment raises to it and so I feel
like anyone who’s attracted to your work
or to mine their thermostats because
they have a growth mindset because if
they thought things were fixed they
wouldn’t watch something like this
because what’s the point it’s just all
predestined and it’s set and we can’t grow
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