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The Wellness Mama Podcast

184: Meta Learning, Speed Reading, & How to Learn Faster With Jim Kwik

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Ok, I’ll just come out and say it… this podcast episode is one of my all-time favorites! Jim Kwik is a widely recognized expert in speed reading, brain health, memory improvement, and accelerated learning. He’s also a good friend and someone I really admire in every way.

As with many of my guests, there’s more to his story. Jim overcame a traumatic brain injury in childhood by creating strategies to dramatically enhance his mental performance.

Two decades later, he works as a brain coach with people all over the world. His goal is to help everyone unleash their true genius and live a life of greater power, productivity, and purpose.

Episode Highlights With Jim Kwik

  • why almost everything we think we know about learning is wrong
  • how Jim went from not being able to finish a book to teaching the best in the world
  • challenges our kids will face as jobs move toward artificial intelligence, automation, and outsourcing
  • meta-learning and other powerful strategies to learn anything much faster
  • the vast difference between what to learn and how to learn
  • why intelligence isn’t fixed and how to cater to your own unique strengths
  • how to abolish the belief that you don’t have a good memory, forever
  • the three superpowers to encourage with kids: creativity, imagination, strategy
  • how to bring imagination and creativity back into education
  • what emotion has to do with memory
  • the reason children can learn anything faster (it has to do with play!)
  • the trick to getting information into your long-term memory
  • why only one-third of your brain is determined by genetics (and how to influence the other two-thirds)
  • how much of learning happens in sleep (another reason why sleep is so dramatically important for brain health)
  • 10 things Jim would recommend for parents to help kids love to learn
  • an important reason not to call your kid gifted
  • how to reward work ethic and grit in children instead of just achievement

Resources We Mention

Jim Kwik’s Favorite Books

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to my Mommy's Podcast!

0:05.5

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1:09.6

very beginning.

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1:16.0

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