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The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

143: How to Learn Faster & Unlock Your Superpower with Jim Kwik

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Nathan Chan

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

When Jim Kwik was in kindergarten, he suffered a terrible fall that resulted in head trauma and a brain injury. This would come to define the rest of Kwik's early life as he grew up suffering from learning difficulties. He constantly struggled to keep up with the rest of his peers and never quite found the ability to focus enough and learn fast enough, all of which was exacerbated by the fact that he didn't even have a fully functioning memory. "I was the boy with the broken brain," Kwik says. And yet, today Kwik is considered an expert on memory, learning, and the brain. He teaches thousands of people how they can hack their brains, just like he has with his own, in order to drastically expand their potential to learn and process new information. Kwik can count some of the most influential people in the world as his students, including Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Richard Branson, and Oprah Winfrey, just to name a few. "Every single person can also do it, you just weren't taught how. If anything, you were taught a lie, a lie that your intelligence, your potential, your memory, is fixed like your shoe size. And we know from just the past couple of decades of research in the brain sciences that's just not true," Kwik says. So how did the boy with the broken brain become the master of memory? While most people spend their lives being told what to learn, Kwik has spent the majority of his life finding out everything he can about how to learn. Kwik has devoted countless hours over years of study into how exactly the human brain works and all the different ways you can teach yourself to not only have a better memory, but to read faster, learn faster, and in general turn your brain into a superpower. In this week's episode, you will learn: Why the power of your mind is the most important weapon as an entrepreneur How to stop being a passive learner and start being an active learner How to unlock your brain's vast potential for memory How the most influential people in the world use their brains & much more!

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0:00.0

This is episode number 143 with Jim Quick of the Founder Podcast.

0:07.1

What you need is thirst.

0:08.8

You need to be a thirsty human who is intent.

0:12.0

I'm learning.

0:12.8

It's a really fascinating exploration of human potential.

0:18.6

The Founder Podcast.

0:21.7

Even the greatest entrepreneurs had help.

0:24.6

If you want to learn from the most successful founders on the planet, you are in the right place.

0:30.3

Branson, Mark Cuban, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Arianna Humphington, Steve Case, Gary V, Sophia Amoroso, Barbara Corcoran, Damon John.

0:37.4

Learn from the greatest minds in business today with interviews hosted by Nathan Chan.

0:41.9

This is not your average entrepreneur podcast.

0:45.5

The Founder Podcast.

0:52.6

Hey guys, thank you so much for tuning in. Before we start today's episode, I just want to let

0:58.8

you know that our goal at founder is to help entrepreneurs succeed however we can by giving

1:04.4

away high quality content in the form of interviews, blog posts, podcasts, YouTube videos,

1:10.6

you name it. We put out so much content to help you.

1:13.7

And another interesting project that we're working on right now is partnering with world-class

1:18.5

founders like Damon John, Alexa von Tobel, Greta Van Riel, and so many more to teach crucial

1:24.6

skills like negotiation, finance, e-commerce, and so much more.

1:30.8

So if you'd like to get access to these free trainings with founders like this, which is

1:36.2

100% free, just go to founder.com forward slash free.

1:41.0

Okay, so now let's talk about today's episode.

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