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And his New York Times bestselling book, which is the handbook on how to create limitless capacity in your brain, now has a new expanded edition and is here to teach you absolutely all the tricks and tools that you need to know.

So Jim, what are they?

And in Jim's book Limitless, he gives a ton of tips on reading faster, many of which I'd never heard before.

If you don't have this book, it is a phenomenal read. I highly recommend it.

In Limitless, I talk about seven lies to learning...

It's such a great framework. And I love the way you break things down because, like you said, I think often we just spend too much time or we waste too much time just trying to figure out what the issue is. And it's one of those three.

And I know it's in the book Limitless.

The 3M model is in this book and broken down step by step, as you saw and heard.

Life is the letter 'c' between 'b' and 'd' right be his birth d his death life c choice and we're constantly making these choices about who we're spending time with what are we gonna do what are we gonna eat you know what we're gonna put our focus but also choices on what things mean like uh they is the meaning we're associating to what's going on if this is here to the to hurt us or this is here to prepare us

...we're only using a small potentiality of it but starting with a good brain diet is a good place to start and then imagine that the microwave you put it on your body and then test yourself and teach it to somebody else

...I talk about how one third of your your cognitive performance brain health is predetermined by genetics and biology is pretty accepted in a neuroscience space but that means two thirds is in your direct control and I talk about the 10 lepers that would that would move that right

...everything Reforlio has this word everything is figure outable right if you have agency and you could figure it out with enough commitment and creativity and and I and I feel like we grossly underestimate our own capabilities

the word you use is absolutely, I use it in the book Limitless, lie.

There is a story in Limitless, and I don't want to go and get all audible right now, but maybe I could read this anecdote.

there's a quote in limitless that says life is the C between B and D life is C between B and D B stands for birth. D stands for death.

I talked about this in Limitless, even when it came out five years ago. I talk about digital distraction. I talk about digital dementia.

There's a quote on Limitless that says, life is the letter C between B and D, where B is birth and D is death and life C is choice.

And so I learned Limitless and we do our podcast to give people an owner's manual for your brain.

I'll repost it and I'll give it out a couple of signed copies randomly of Limitless but share one thing you're going to do because you learn to earn to return that's the sequence there.

the word you use is absolutely, I use it in the book Limitless Lie.

the quote in Limitless that says, life is the C between B and D. Life is C between B and D. B stands for birth. D stands for death. Life C, choice.

our book, Limitless, limitlessbook.com. You can find it anywhere you buy books.

His book, Limitless Expanded Edition, is available now

In a new book we talk about brain types and there are four animals that we related to kind of once you know your brain type it allows you to kind of inform how you could read faster improve your memory improve your focus hire manage and parent so much more and uh so yeah people could take it at my brain animal.com it's a four minute quiz nothing to buy but it it's kind of like personalized medicine based on your micro like your your genetics or personal nutrition based on your microbiome

The book limitless expanded editions available wherever you buy finer books

we're donating all the proceeds to build schools for children in need uh in ghana guatemala and also alzheimer's research in memory of my grandmother but the point of this is your brain is is everything it's your number one wealth building you know asset that we have and it's use it or lose it so the book will help you learn faster and optimize your brain and so much more

Life is the letter c between b and d where b is birth d is death life c is choice

It was with Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro where he goes from zero to hero and he takes that pill, on his incredible focus and he has incredible memory, learns languages and he has this surge of motivation, but when the pill wears off 24 hours later, he goes back down to zero again.

The forward of the book was by Dr. Mark Hyman and he writes in it that there is no genius pill, but Jim gives you the process for unlocking your best brain in your brightest future.

The limitless model is a three-part framework for not only celebrated learning, but for unlocking human potential.

I want everybody to think about an area of their life where they feel like they're not making progress, where they are not advancing, it could be in their career, it could be in their income, it could be in their pact, it could be in their health, maybe it's in their personal relationships or maybe they're not progressing in their learning, you know, as we talk about in terms of reading speed or their memory.

So when people go to limitlessbook.com we created a speed reading memory course there that we give to every single person as a thank you because I want you it's kind of like for people like audiobooks and videos, this is like a book summary if you will that'll inspire you to and give you tools to be able to read the book.

If you want more on this you can check out Laura Gassner Otting's episode on the show, it's just a couple of weeks ago, and she's got her book as well, called Limitless.

Well, your book centers around many questions but one that I noticed was what if success and happiness were like two different things? What if success didn't equal happiness?

It means that you are going to spend your life trying to be successful, right? We all want to be successful but where do we get the idea of what success is?

I hated lean-in

it actually started the first line of it started I hated lean-in

It's a fairly intense quiz it takes about 20 minutes but anyone is listening can tell that I'm fairly attentive on the cell

The forward of the book was by Dr. Mark Hyman and he writes in it that there is no genius pill but Jim gives you the process for unlocking your best brain in your brightest future.

What you're titled in your book is from that move well I don't know if it's from that movie but there was a movie called Limitless was that Bradley Cooper by the way.

It's not about being perfect it's about progressing and advancing beyond what you currently believe as possible.

I believe that when people see for example when I do things on stage and I memorize 100 people's names or 100 words numbers I always tell people there's a method behind what looks like magic that genius in fact is not necessarily born that genius is built and that's just another lie you know that genius is born that through deep work and practice that we could actually grow our talent and we can get better at skills and we could have new distinctions.

And so intelligence is not fixed, it's certainly fluid. We know that the IQ thing is kind of not necessarily the case because when people take IQ tests with different backgrounds or even in different contexts but they're the same person and it's the same time of day or a different time of day the results change.

Well, your book centers around many questions but one that I noticed was what if success and happiness were like two different things? What if success didn't equal happiness? Am I saying this right?

It means that you are going to spend your life trying to be successful, right? We all want to be successful but where do we get the idea of what success is?

So if we are doing work and we feel stuck, even though on paper we look like we should be crushing it, you think that in all likelihood that's a problem of how we've defined success or maybe we haven't bothered to define it. We just let other people define it for us.

I hated lean-in. It was like the very beginning of it.

I'm just unsubscribing to that as my only way of measuring success.

It was with Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, where he goes from zero to hero and he takes that pill and his incredible focus and he has incredible memory, learns languages and he has this surge of motivation, but when the pill wears off 24 hours later, he goes back down to zero again.

The forward of the book was by Dr. Mark Hyman and he writes in it that there is no genius pill, but Jim gives you the process for unlocking your best brain in your brightest future.

So the limitless model is a three-part framework for not only accelerated learning, but for unlocking human potential.

It's not about being perfect, it's about progressing and advancing beyond what you currently believe as possible.

The cover quote for the book Limitless is from Will Smith.

Well, your book centers around many questions, but one that I noticed was what if success and happiness were like two different things? What if success didn't equal happiness? Am I saying this right?

It means that you are going to spend your life trying to be successful, right? We all want to be successful, but where do we get the idea of what success is?

I hated lean-in

So, I say often on stage in speaking that, um, follow your passion is the, it's the spoken word illegitimate sister of the live love laugh tattoo.

Follow your passion is terrible advice. I want you to invest in your passion. Right? Like, figure out what it's gonna take, get better at things, be willing to fail, be willing to fail all the time.