How to Easily Program Your Brain Each Morning & the Danger of Cognitive Surrender - With Jim Kwik

22:19Jim Kwik:You want strength, you have to use your strength. You want energy, you have to use your energy. You want focus, you have to use your focus. And exercise, if you want a greater memory, you have to use your memory on a regular basis. you know but without challenge there's no change and that's really the key it's just like those those mental muscles getting those reps in so for me like before i go to ai and and i use ai every day right um and you know my our team does also as well our clients i always i i said this phrase build before you before you borrow intelligence build your own so i i of course have an acronym for this that i use i don't and it's not in the book in the new book but it's something that i always use before.

22:57Jim Kwik:And I do this because it's, well, let's go through a build. The B is, let's say I'm in a situation right now. And I want you let's actually, if you're watching this right now, and you're listening, and you for the next thing you go to AI to answer an easy, you know, question where you don't do any lifting, you just have to copy and paste, I would challenge you to do this instead, the B in build your intelligence is brainstorm, like brainstorm yourself, like, like have your own, your own original thoughts, right? And think about what you think and feel about your assumptions and attitudes about this situation.

23:29Jim Kwik:The you is, I would understand what the problem really is, because it's attributed to Einstein, who knows if it's true or not. But they said, if he had one hour to solve a problem, he would spend most of that hour really defining what that problem is, right? Because often the problem is not the problem. Our problem is how we look at the problem, right? So really understand and meaning and ask why things um the the i and build is let's use our imagination right i said i also said imagination is more powerful than knowledge and this is a wonderful opportunity to do thought experiments before you go to outside technology use your own technology this three pound matter between our ears and uh you know ask questions like how would a five-year-old look at this problem right because they are children i'll often see you know creativity tests will come up with many more solutions than adults because they had all the same limitations.

24:22Jim Kwik:How would someone 10 times smarter than me approach this problem? And then all of a sudden you ask a new question and you get new answers. Or how would DaVinci look at this problem? Or what would my future self want me to do in this situation? So you can use your imagination. And then the L in build, then leverage AI. But don't just put in a prompt and ask a question. And you ask a bad question, you're going to get a bad answer for sure. Just like the internal prompts, like we talked about in a previous episode in Limitless about your dominant question. If you're prompting your brain, your technology, your human intelligence, oh, why can't I ever lose weight?

24:56Jim Kwik:Oh, here are all the reasons why, you know, da-da-da-da-da. Or, you know, why am I not enough? Or why can't I be loved? Or why can't I ever make any money? Da-da-da-da-da. You know, and so those are not valuable prompts. So I feel like we've been prompting our whole life, right? I mean, the most important conversation we're ever going to have is the longest conversation we have ever had, which is to ourself. before you talk to your spouse or your kids your clients your employees whatever like you've been talking to yourself and i feel like we're always asking ourselves these questions so i think that awareness is so very important so before you leverage ai i would be asking questions i mean as you're leveraging i would say like the questions i mentioned before like what am i not seeing here what could go wrong you know like so it's just it's not so it's not just a sycophant and placating giving making you oh wow you're so smart jim like and making you feel good about it because some of this might be misinformation right and that's the challenge one of the challenges of the eye too if we're not using our critical thinking so it's like hey stress test us this idea you know how can we make it better so i like what you said about co-learning because for me it's not artificial intelligence it's augmented intelligence it's a partner it could be a creative partner and you know it could say like you know hey this is these are my ideas let's say i'm you know you and i have podcasts and and let's say you're interviewing somebody you know brand new it and maybe you didn't get the book in time it could summarize the book right give you some key points you could ask it but before going there i would be like brainstorming your own questions right one of the most important things in memory training is retrieval practice like instead of rereading something like rereading something again right something twice and just recognizing things is just pulling out what you got out the first time to see if it's really there.

26:35Jim Kwik:Remember, it's just like your muscles, it's used to lose it. The reason why there's a forgetting curve, meaning you lose 80 % of something you hear or read or go to a lecture before, part of it is because we're not using that material. Meaning, your brain, it's always deleting, it's distorting, it's pruning whatever's not important to it. If you hear it once, but you're not using it, It must not be important and then it's gone. And that's a lot with AI where we don't have to build those muscles. We're not doing the retrieval. We're not doing the thinking. So let's say you have this guest, you could brainstorm your own things.

27:07Jim Kwik:You could ask the meaning of what truly would make a great episode here. Come up with your own ideas, use your imagination, come up with creative questions. Then you go to AI and say, hey, what are some questions that my audience would be interested in that I haven't thought of yet? And then you could use it. you won't have to use them verbatim but it gives you some kind of baseline and a little creative partner um and then finally the d and build you know yeah is the is then you decide what to do right again because ai will put out all this information but again humans have to use their human intelligence to decide what you know what's meaningful here what's important here what should i do with this all this information yeah so good man thank you that's like a great i think we should

27:50Shawn Stevenson:have a course you know like some kind of guidance before you even start to dip dibble dabble because

27:55Jim Kwik:it's so seductive to start to outsource all these capacities and and i think that that whole thing i just even said even if it's five or five or seven minutes just before you go to ai just use your own intelligence and just warm it up right don't let it don't let it atrophy and and go to and go to waste because over time like i think there's a big consequence of not being able to to do these things. You lose your sense of judgment. You lose your, you know, your sense of your, your, your better thinking and everything else. That would, that would, that would be sad. So I feel like we only, we could, and also I think we appreciate what we work for besides all the benefits, you know, so just as you are physically active, you know, my goal is for people to be mentally, mentally fit also.

28:37Jim Kwik:And so let AI lift the weights for you, you know, because that's the thing, just having a weight doesn't, you know, in your home doesn't, doesn't make you stronger, right? You have to, you have to lift it. And if somebody else is doing the lifting, then you get no, no reward. Yeah.

28:53Shawn Stevenson:I love this, man. You know, I, I said this already that right now, more than ever, these daily practices of training our brains to, yes, to, to maintain and even build these capacities, but AI is not going anywhere. It's integrating into our lives rapidly and it's not slowing down anytime soon. And that's, it is what it is. You know, that's okay. It's our job to, again, be more human than we've ever been. And you coming at this exact moment with the framework that you're coming with is not an accident. You know, I believe that life finds a way. And if we take advantage of this truly, like, so your massive New York Times bestseller, Limitless, made a huge impact, right?

29:46Shawn Stevenson:It's hard to go places and not find this book or people who've been influenced by it. The rub is it can be a one-time thing. Yeah. What about that daily practice? What about the daily, you know, flossing our teeth, but the mental flaws? So what about that daily activity, not for our bodies, but for our brains? And now we have Limitless Daily. So talk about the inspiration behind Limitless Daily and also why daily?

30:17Jim Kwik:So I wrote Limitless and it's complete for me. You know, it's like an owner's manual for your brain, for your own technology, because your brain is your number one wealth building asset. You know, in photos, I'm always pointing to the brain or wearing shirts with my brain on it to because what you see you take care of because it's your awareness right but we don't take care of what takes care of us and so we need to love our brain more for for sure you know one of the challenges is like you're right things you don't have success or certainly long-term success and fulfillment by just these occasional bursts of effort you don't you don't floss your teeth for three hours and then you're good for the next decade right you don't you don't need like you don't have one great conversation with somebody and then you have a stellar relationship you know forever.

31:02Jim Kwik:You don't go to the gym for two days for a whole weekend, eight hours a day, and then you're fit for the whole year. That's not how things work. It's the consistency that compounds. I think people underestimate. I think honestly, they overestimate sometimes what they could do in a day, but they underestimate what could happen over the course of a year. Atomic Habits, when we had James Clear on when Atomic Habits first came out on our podcast, he was saying that If you just improve 1 % a day over the course of a year, you know, how, how much better are you at something? Right. And some people say, well, maybe you're 1 % twice as good, five times good, 10 times is good.

31:38Jim Kwik:It's 30 times, 30 times, 37 times, 37 X, you know, better, just 1%. So consistency compounds, you know, the challenge is, is that we don't have a daily practice for doing these things. You know, we have, we have a, hopefully we have a practice where we're like, you know, where we're eating and where we're exercising, but a mental practice to upgrade that operating system. We upgrade our phones, we upgrade the apps, we upgrade to the latest AI platform, always the newest version, but we don't take care of time to upgrade this technology. And so Limitless Daily was meant to answer the questions like people saying, Limitless, wow, 400 pages, this is focus and flow and speed reading and memory enhancement, learn languages and you know sleep and memory all this stuff but how can how can i live this every day you know and so i i wrote this book and it's actually it wasn't intended to be a book um my uh like uh i write every morning you know i think in the in the beginning of the morning you you want you want to it's always for me it's always been mine before media right set your intention before interruption, set your direction of your day before distraction, you know, and everything else that's going on in life.

32:53Jim Kwik:So I write every morning and, you know, for as long as I remember, I'll write gratitude. I write like my goals today. I'll write things that I was dreaming about or thinking about. I'm 53, Leo also, Leo, the cusp, are you? And I have a one and a half and three and a half year old son and one half year old daughter as you know and when my daughter was born um i was uh she came a little bit early and i was just really concerned you know as a new father would be and when i was looking at my wife that morning uh holding my daughter and then also my two-year-old son at the time i started writing like i always do in the morning and but instead of writing, instead of writing, like what I would normally write, I started writing to them, to my daughter, you know, like, because I'm an older father, God willing, I'm going to be here 20 years from now.

33:50Jim Kwik:But if I'm not, if she's an adult, you know, my kids are adults, what would they need to hear from me if they woke up and had a, you know, they knew they were gonna have a tough day, you know, and I wasn't there to help guide them. And I started writing to them about the things that I struggled with in the past or was currently or clients and students. And I started writing about things like fear of failure, you know, and then the next day I kept on writing about negative thoughts. And then the next day I started writing about distraction. Then I started writing about burnout. And the next day I started writing about imposter syndrome, you know, so it's like, you know, fear of success or procrastination.

34:29Jim Kwik:I just kept on writing about the things that hold us back, that create friction in our life. And then, you know, months go by and a friend of mine, a very close friend who hosted our Limitless Live virtual, he's public about this, has been diagnosed with stage four cancer. And I gave him, you know, my notes to help. because he you know so much of healing and bouncing back and forward is mine is you're getting your mind right especially when you first wake up right and um you know and he gave me feedback on the book that like when he when he read that past it was exactly when he needed to hear that day right and so i went back you know no wanting to reconcile how do you take limitless and make it a daily practice and it that doesn't take a lot of time like five minutes or less you know with some kind of new you know implementation and i went back and i put research to science after you know for every single idea so every single page has a date so you go there and let's say it's august 14th you go there's one new idea written in an inspiring way so it's the limitless model mindset motivation methods when the and when you integrate them there's three i's there's ideation you know inspiration and implementation so every entry has a new idea.

35:47Jim Kwik:It's written in an inspiring way as a science to back up this idea. And where Daily Stoic, which is a great book, pulls on Stoicism, it's a daily book. This pulls on the science of the mind, which is psychology, or the science of the brain, which is neuroscience. And so I back it up. Then I give them one implementation strategy called a quick start they can do in two minutes. So there's no friction. I get a nice dopamine hit there because we talked about this in a previous episode, right? You don't wait for motivation. Then you act, you take a small step, then you earn your dopamine, which is a molecule motivation.

36:22Jim Kwik:And then you're going to follow through with the next action and you build some momentum. And then it has an identity statement. So it has ideation, inspiration, implementation, and a new identity, you know, that you could adopt. Because ultimately, I really think under stressful times, we don't rise to a level of our goals or aspirations under pressure, we fall to the level of our systems, our stories, our state and our self-image. It's really hard to outperform your self-image, right? And by reading each morning, you also build this new identity where you are a reader. There was this Atlantic article that was everywhere about reading, right?

36:59Jim Kwik:And you and I know the power of reading, right? to your cognitive performance and health and how critical it is as a discipline of focus, of gaining wisdom from other people who have gone through things, developing empathy, especially reading fiction, storytelling, all these great things, right? Readings to your mind would exercise your body. But this article stated that cross gender, age, and ethnicity, that there are about only 16 % of people are reading daily, not social media and emails, but just reading like a book or a magazine right uh 51 of individuals don't read one book a year you know i think that's tragic so with this my secondary agenda for this is to get people reading first thing in the morning and the reason why i say first thing in the morning and here's a big takeaway from this conversation whether people you know get limitless daily or not when you first wake up there's this transition phase called sleep inertia from this this you're in a sleep state to a waking state so everyone can imagine you know when you when you woke up this morning you're transitioning and certain things come online your awareness comes online your cognitive conscious awareness your alertness comes online your attention comes online your we know your working memory if you use it like analogy like a cup is empty because you haven't filled it with all of the day's things and so it's not that you're more suggestible during this window.

38:25Jim Kwik:Sleep inertia is about 15 to 45 minutes. It depends on your circadian rhythm. It depends on the quality of your REM and your deep sleep. It depends on a number of different factors, right? But in that window, the mental inputs that you have during that timeframe when you first wake up has a disproportionate effect on the rest of your day, specifically in three area is your focus. So it's called attentional priming. So in the first thing in the morning, the first things you see are highly going to influence what you see later that day, right? So it's going to disproportionately affect your focus.

39:03Jim Kwik:It's going to affect your mood or your feelings, right? We know that like if in that first window, if you got some bad news, because you picked up your phone and it could, you know, from whatever a client, it could put you in a mood, your feelings for hours, right? Because think about when you wake up, it's like, it's all white snow. All right. And there's no, but later on, everybody has their tracks, their, their, their, their, their tires, their footprints everywhere. And there's yellow snow. Right.

39:30Shawn Stevenson:Somebody might've pissed in it.

39:30Jim Kwik:Yeah. Or it's like a whiteboard. So before everybody gets to put all their agendas and all their conversations and all their social media posts on your white, clear, clean whiteboard, this is an idea of like directing your mind before you media. Like nobody would invite in that window 200 strangers to come into your bedroom first thing when you wake up to talk about whatever they happen to want to talk about that day. That would be ludicrous, right? That's kind of what we do when we pick up our device. So we all know that we shouldn't be touching our devices first thing in the morning or late at night, right?

40:03Jim Kwik:But this is one of the reasons why. Now, so it affects your focus disproportionately, which you would mentally input in that sleep inertia time because attentionally priming and emotionally priming the feelings but you're also the framing of the day meaning you will frame conversations and conflict or situations differently based on what you primed your mind first thing in the morning right and if it's you're scrolling then you're what do you what do you gonna frame things on comparison you're gonna be comparing yourself for the rest of the day conflict war whatever you happen to be feeding your mind in that time now what's a useful you You know, like I, so I ask people if they can read Limitless Daily during that sleep inertia and intentionally prime around the direction of their day.

40:45Jim Kwik:But some people could use, use it also very positively. They use prayer during that, their first moment. They, they talk to their loved one, you know, during that time, because then they're going to focus more on that later on the day. They, they will do gratitude exercise for seeing, you know, in that, in that window. They will, you know, focus on their big goal that they want to achieve that day, you know? and so you know it's not just what i wanted to give people yes this is like a five minute coaching from jim first thing in the morning and it's about you know talking with yourself and getting your mind right so you can win the rest of the day right and so and it's like a little upgrade every single day like a one percent upgrade every single day that requires only five minutes so my suggestion if people want to do this is is to move your phone into your bathroom and replace it because you can't just stop something you start you start something to stop it and then you put the book there and the book stands out it's purple so there's like reasons why we made it purple not for branding for for becoming there's so um it's interesting I have 5 000 books on my on my shelves and there's like no purple books but it's not meant to be a book that you see you know you sit down and read a book for a few days and then put it back on the shelf that that that could be good But this is a daily practice and a discipline every single day.

42:05Jim Kwik:And what I think people are going to do is they're going to get it and then start talking and have conversations, you know, over meals with their family about it, you know, or their friends. Because everybody's going to be reading the same passage every day, you know. And I feel like my goal is after a year that you become unrecognizable, right? i think there's a person that you desire and deserve to be you know at the end of a year that's patiently waiting and we show up every single day for five minutes you know until until we're introduced so um but yeah and then for me it feels different um because because i wrote it for my kids like this is as if i wasn't going to be there i wanted to be like that authentic and that powerful because, you know, because I love them more than anything.

42:56Jim Kwik:So it's just, and then it has a science and some stories and everything in it. And I feel like, you know, it's a great way to kind of get your mind right before everybody else tells you what to think and tells you what to do and then everything else.

43:12Shawn Stevenson:Man, the come from with this book is pretty apparent. And, you know, as of this recording, so I got, I know the guy, so I got early access to the book. And I've been going through each day. And today was really special because some of the stuff that you're saying started happening without me realizing it, which was a conversation. I ended up talking to Anne about the exercises that I did today based on the prompting that I got from you August 14th. You know, I turned to the page and today's mandate was move to motivate. and you're pointing to this, you know, again, especially with social media, we see this and we get disoriented or, you know, kind of disenchanted by, oh, these people are so motivated.

43:59Shawn Stevenson:Let me get some of this motivation. And you're pointing to the fact that these successful people, the vast majority of the time, they're not waking up motivated. You're pointing to the fact that, and by the way, the word motivation you share in the book is from the Latin root word meaning to move. And that's the secret. If you want motivation, you start moving. Action creates dopamine, rewarding you for having acted and motivating you to do it again. And I actually use my journal based on this, which is not necessarily the intent of this chapter, but I'm gonna share this with everybody. So you say that you can use the power of your mind and ability to imagine what's at stake to start that movement, whether it's reading, studying, or practicing a skill.

44:44Shawn Stevenson:So vividly imagine the benefits and consequences of doing or not doing something. If you want to read every night, ask, and now you have these questions to prompt yourself and ask. And funny enough, this was one of the things that I've been struggling with. I read to close out my day, to bookend my day for years, years and years. But the last couple of years have been a bit messy, you know, and just finding and experimenting, trying out different things. and this is that one kind of lingering piece, which is like I'll occasionally read in the evening and I want, I deeply want that because of what I read today.

45:24Shawn Stevenson:And so the questions are, all right, so what will I gain from reading? And so I asked myself the question and I wrote it out, I wrote it in my journal. And some of those things would be, you know, adding inputs to build my creativity and my intelligence. Also, let me just rattle off these questions. What will I gain from reading? How will I feel after finishing? I'll feel accomplished. I feel like I really did something incredible for my brain and for my intelligence. How will this affect my relationships, wellbeing, career, health? Obviously that bleeds over into all those things and how I communicate, but also, another question, what new possibilities might this unlock for me?

46:11Shawn Stevenson:Getting off of your screens or your television, your phone, and actually reading a physical book is going to help me to go into that parasympathetic. It's going to help to improve my sleep quality. It's just like stacking these conditions. And so writing it out like this was really helpful. But then you have the reverse. The reverse is what's the pain that's going to come from not reading? What are the potential consequences from not following through? And so I was just getting really honest with myself. Like I'm robbing myself of these inputs to help to build my creativity or to express a different way, or even the things that I'm gonna be dreaming about or improving my sleep quality because I'm doing this versus the alternative.

46:51And so you share these questions,

46:53Shawn Stevenson:which is not every chapter is like this, but you give a quick step in every chapter, I'm not chapter, every day, every one of these days, which I'm gonna ask you about this in just a second. And so there's a quick step and then there's an affirmation. And the affirmation for today was, I don't want to wait for motivation. I create my motivation. I am limitless. And I wrote that in my journal as well. That was my affirmation. And so it's so powerful.

47:19Jim Kwik:This is the first, by the way, this is the first, we just got this galleries, you know, around recent. This is the first time I've heard like, you should narrate the audio book. You should have that iconic voice. So yeah, anyone who wants to hear that, you can vote for it on social media, but we haven't gone in studio to do an audio book because I really want people to physically read the book because there's something magic about not being on a device and there's something different than reading than it is listening. I listen to audio books also, but yeah, I feel like I've been rereading it the past year and it lands.

48:01Jim Kwik:You know, it's nice to know first thing in the morning, you're doing something good for yourself, especially first thing in the morning, because people would know in that first few windows, if they fed their mind, like, it's just like where when people are going on their devices, and even some of the AI slop, we and I were talking about that, right? and the brain rot that comes along with a lot of the scrolling that people are doing. A lot of people, just like when it comes to food, they're overfed and undernourished because there's a lot of empty calories in the digital world. And I feel like if people woke up and they ate 12 cupcakes every morning, they know it would disproportionately affect their focus, their feelings, how they're framing the world based on their physical diet, but their mental diet, I don't think people are as rigorous about, in terms of what they're letting in, especially in that prime time.

48:55Jim Kwik:Yeah, it's, and I don't wanna oversimplify it, but I often feel like, I often feel like it's the unsexy things. It's the simple things that we often just kind of put aside and we say, oh, I kind of know that, but we don't do it because it's so simple because it couldn't be that easy. Yeah.

49:14Shawn Stevenson:I also got a chance to ask you because you have a real live person who is like a beta test of this. And so I went through the introduction and I was so inspired. I just wanted to kind of keep going. And so I got to, you start the book off with January 1st instead of day one, right? And so I'm just like, I wanna read January 1st. And I'm just like, okay, I'm just gonna go to the day that I'm starting, which was maybe, we'll say August 11th or whatever the case might be. And there was a reason that you did that. and i was so surprised to hear this but why do you want when people get the book to go to the

49:50Jim Kwik:specific day yeah so i i think number one like my my my i have a mission to build better brighter brains daily that's always been the mission right to improve our human intelligence in a world of ai and um and so it's kind of like a movement at our mission that happens to have a book right and i feel like um some one of the ways people feel like they're connected in a community is that everyone's literally on the same page right everyone is going through and and getting the same download you know the same time it's kind of like how they update the new tesla right right so it's just automatic and i or the new apps like your new phones you do now i think everyone gets to the upgrade on the same day and i feel like that there is this you know universal mind, this group mind, if you will, that if everyone's on the same page, focus on something that could really hold them back.

50:43Jim Kwik:Because limitless is not about being perfect, it's about advancing. It's about progressing beyond what either we've demonstrated in the past or what we believe we deserve or what we believe is possible. But imagine a world where millions of people are focusing on one thing, something like self-sabotage or distraction or something that pulls from their flow and their joy and their fulfillment of the day, right? And there's so many entries there that I didn't want to be clever, but I want them to be impactful, you know, where people are seeing their progress every day and then they can do it with friends and family.

51:24Jim Kwik:We have a community of 160 ,000 people on Facebook that, you know, people are already talking to each other, ready to kind of prime and share their thoughts and their reflections, because the reflections are what's important. That's where wisdom comes from, right? Wisdom comes not just from information. It's the reflection and the personalization, the integration of that information to ourself. And so, and then even the purple, it's not just so it stands out on shelves. Yes, I, you know, it's very distinctive. Purple, my, some part of my morning routine is getting sunlight first thing in the morning.

51:57Jim Kwik:Now I do it with my son who's three and a half. I mean, he's an early riser like I am. And we go out and watch the sun come up. And the sky is like, this shade of purple, right? It's the transition from night to day. And also purple is one of the, for thousands of years, it was the most valued color because it was the rarest. Like in Babylonian, like in the Mediterranean, they would have for thousands of years ago, they would extract this from snail shells. It was a very tedious process. And then that's my royalty. It was the the robe and purple because you know it's very rare and i feel like you know our our uniqueness is rare that's what you know we are unique you know our own human potential uh people actually doing something is rare you know every single day and uh if you look up color psychology on purple um the two words which you'll see um paramount are sovereignty and wisdom you know and i want to remind people sovereignty of their own agency that it's not the marketing or it's not the media it's It's not anything outside of other people's opinions and expectations.

53:05Jim Kwik:It's that we have agency and we have sovereignty and we don't have to give up that power. Because I want to remind people when they wake up that they are the author of their life. Every single day you can write a new page. The other part of it, wisdom, that's what I wanted to reflect on people. And maybe an idea that is familiar to them, but they need to be reminded in a different way. and get them to integrate it to a new identity. And so, you know, it was very designed this way. Even the sun on the cover there, if you're watching this on YouTube or on social media, it has the rays, right, the spokes there.

53:44Jim Kwik:There are exactly 52 of them. I never told that online, but it's for the 52 weeks in the year. And instead of dedicating, you know, like a lot of what the dailies will do is every month is like a focus, like on a theme, like let's say January is on focus or February is on motivation and such. But it didn't resonate with me to spend 30 some days on just one topic. So we broke it down into seasons. So just like, because we have seasons, winter, spring, summer, fall of our health or of our finances, of our business, of our relationships. And so the entries are themed around those seasons. And so everyone gets to go through a similar experience, but it's a global experience.

54:36Jim Kwik:And then I'll be doing readings online. And then we have a free companion that comes where we prompt people with a question for them to reflect throughout the day. But imagine tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people creating that movement. I feel like you change your brain, you change your life, but you change your mind. you could change your whole world.

54:59Shawn Stevenson:Amazing. First of all, thank you so much for structuring things in this way to where we can all participate and literally be on the same page. So whether people are starting, this is day one of their process, you're gonna be on the same page as me, literally, because we'll all be on, we'll say September 2nd together, or December 10th together, we'll all be on the same page, literally, thinking about the same things, really doing this work together around the world. So it's so powerful because again, most books we're doing it day one through whatever the case might be, which there's nothing wrong with that, but it's just so insightful to do it in this format.

55:41Shawn Stevenson:So it's really, really special. So thank you for that. And also if people are wondering, how can I get a copy? How do we direct people to picking up their copy?

55:51Jim Kwik:Yeah, real simple. They just go to limitlessdaily.com to celebrate the book launch. This one-year journey we all take together is we have some amazing bonus gifts that are included as my gift to everybody as a thank you for supporting this book. I really think people ask, how do you become limitless in an often limited world? I think the answer that I'm most happy with that's most accurate is we do it together. you know so everybody's on the same page moving you know in the same direction and we all move forward and we all rise together you know and i feel like you know the sun is is is also a metaphor for like how sometimes sometimes we don't shine right we close down because we don't want our brightness to you know be in somebody else's eyes you know but i think now we we need to step into more of that because especially in a dim often dim world that we the life we live the lessons we teach and that um that we can be a shining example for the people around us you know but it doesn't require like i don't think like a herculean effort as much it is just a little bit each day because little by little a little a little becomes a lot you know and so you know very very low amount of time to get so much return because it's all leverage right like That's how you become limitless, right?

57:14Jim Kwik:Because the only thing we have is that's the same. Not everybody has the same education or the same connections or same income, but we all have 24 hours in a day. And even reading 30 minutes a day, which I hope people start reading this and then they read more because they become a reader. Because this is an identity change. i think the most important habit because this is a habit right to get you beyond to get the populace more than the 16 that's reading every day you know get that up to a much higher number because i know there'll be just a a huge global benefit from it from from people reading is like it's the habit of showing up for yourself to doing what you say you're going to do like how do we build a self esteem you know we we do those deliberate you know difficult things and maybe in the beginning it's difficult to not look at your phone, you know, and then it's difficult to maybe like opening up a book, a new book.

58:07Jim Kwik:But I think there's a huge ripple effect and force multiplier when we, that the treasure we seek is often hidden in the thing that we're avoiding, you know, and I feel like that's, that's, that's where the treasure is. So yeah, a little bit each day and then, you know, I'll go live on social media and everything and read passages with everybody and answer questions on that day's lessons. And so we get to go on this year long journey together. And a lot of people with dailies, daily devotionals, religious dailies and everything, they just continue. And that's great that they don't have to just put the book back on the shelf, which is, you know, they get the benefit, but they get to practice.

58:43Jim Kwik:They get to use it every single day, like a book could be used. So it's not like so many people when they teach speed reading, right? Like they want to get through a book. This book is to get through you. I want this book to get through us, right. And give people distinctions, things that will get them through a hard day, you know, and yes, there's some memory and some learning and some focus and, you know, all the other things that I teach in there, but they're bite size. And, um, yeah. And I think it's gonna be, it's gonna be a fun journey for a lot of people.

59:12Shawn Stevenson:Yeah.

59:13Jim Kwik:And just being a part of your community,

59:15Shawn Stevenson:you know, I've gotten over the years, I've had the opportunity to, you know, to work with you guys, to speak to your community, speaking events and, you know, all online stuff as well, you know, your mastermind groups and your community is out of this world amazing. So many amazing people. You know this, man. You attract amazing people. You're not trying to, you just are. You're a magnet for amazing people. And many of the people in my life, even my literary agent, I met him because of you. It's so special, man. I'm so grateful. And what's the URL again?

59:52Jim Kwik:yeah it's a limitlessdaily.com and uh you know challenge people to they could take a screenshot wherever they're consuming this you know this episode and post it and tag both of us we get to see it you know and share like one thing you're gonna do daily just this one thing even if you don't get the book just like one one thing i feel like you know like when you share that idea with your fans your followers your family your friends then uh we get we get to to elevate everybody right like this is different like like if i give you a dollar you give me a dollar nothing changes but if someone listening this gives you a new idea to somebody and they get a new idea from us then all of a sudden there's two brand new ideas you know and when you know more you could do more when you know better you could you could do and be better yes that part that part so limitlessdaily.com

1:00:38Shawn Stevenson:yeah and whether you are pre-ordering the book and getting bonuses or launch week or after you know maybe this is a year later that you're listening to this episode. You can still take advantage and get some bonuses from Jim, which are going to be fruitful. They're going to be valuable because that's just, you ooze it, you know, with everything that you do, man. And I appreciate you so much. You know, I talk good about you behind your back all the time. You know, you're one of my favorite human beings. And I'm so grateful to be able to do this together. We're all going to be on the same page. We need this right now.

1:01:14Shawn Stevenson:Limitless Daily. Pick up your copy ASAP. My brother, I appreciate

1:01:19Jim Kwik:you. Sean, I appreciate you. Yeah, you're one of the greatest, most special people that I know. You and I have been, we've known each other a long time, you know, and I feel like, you know, what a blessing it is to be able to wake up and be able to go out there and, you know, just everything that you've done, like I'm learning all the time, you know, and I just, maybe I could to hire you to narrate my audio book for Limitless Daily.

1:01:42Shawn Stevenson:Hey man, if you want this to be like a super sexy Limitless, you know what I mean? Yeah. Well, I appreciate you so much, man. And looking forward to, again, everybody being on the same page together. Limitlessdaily.com, get your copy, get the bonuses. The one and only Jim Quick, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning into this episode today. I hope that you got a lot of value out of this. If you did, you already know what to do. Share this with somebody that you care about. Let's keep this conversation going. Share it on social media. Jim is a beast on Instagram. He's got millions of followers over there, but he's very active in checking out the shares.

1:02:21Shawn Stevenson:He's really fueled by his students. So take a screenshot of this episode, tag Jim, tag me as well. I'm at Sean Model on Instagram. Share the love. You can of course send this directly from the podcast app that you're listening on to somebody that you care about. and it's a very, very powerful thing for us to do this together, to be on the same page as Jim talked about. So I hope you enjoyed this and we've got some epic masterclasses and world-leading experts coming your way very, very soon. So make sure to stay tuned. Take care, have an amazing day and I'll talk with you soon.