Activating Wonder & Fascination in Learning with Danica McKellar
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
4.7 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
How do you add more fascination and wonder into learning and life?
You heard me say many times that all learning is state dependent. The state you’re in while learning is so important because that information combined with emotion is what helps you to remember what you learned.
We have an extraordinary guest, Danica McKellar. She’s best known for her roles on The Wonder Years and The West Wing, as well as a three-time New York Times bestselling author, internationally-recognized mathematician, and advocates for math education - and now a new mom.
In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the power of wonder, the power of play, and how you can add more of it in your life.
** Do you want to stay up to date with every new episode and get my brand new Kwik Brain Accelerator Program? Go to www.KwikBrain.com/podcast to get instant access. **
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back, Quick Brain. |
| 0:28.0 | So here's a question today. |
| 0:30.0 | How do you add more wonder and fascination into your learning and into your life? |
| 0:36.0 | You've heard me say many times that all learning is state dependent. |
| 0:40.0 | That the state that you're in is so important when you listen to a podcast or you read a book or you go to a class or a seminar |
| 0:47.5 | Because that information gets tagged and can really combine with that information that emotion helps you to remember it and |
| 0:54.5 | recall it. And I'm really excited about talking to you today because we're going to talk |
| 0:58.1 | about the power of wonder, the power of play. So I'm really excited to have Danica McKeller here. When I mentioned that name, many of you |
| 1:06.2 | automatically you think about Wonder Years. And I'm such a big fan, Winnie Cooper and growing |
| 1:11.8 | up in that time and what many people don't know is she's a math whiz and when I say math some people are like love math or some people not such big fans of math and she's also New York Times best-selling author of a series of math books which I'm really |
| 1:26.2 | excited to be able to share with our community. Danica thanks for being here. |
| 1:30.1 | Oh thank you I thought you were going to mention the word wonder one more time in there just to help prep people for what was coming with the wonder years. |
| 1:36.5 | Yeah, for those of you watching on video, I have a shirt that says paid of wonder. |
| 1:40.7 | Wonder, yeah. I just met Jim for the first time in person and I'm looking at a shirt thinking, yeah, I know. I know what that's about. It is coming. But this is, I think it's one of the most important conversations because I feel like when people have subjects that are |
| 1:53.3 | interested in whether it's math or something else that if they don't have a deep |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.