Advice from the Ultimate Brain Hacker Jim Kwik with Joe De Sena
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
As a kid Jim Kwik was the "the kid with the broken brain," but through curiosity and sheer will he learned to hack his own brain and today is recognized as one of the top brain trainers in the world. "I had three traumatic brain injuries before the age of 12. I had very poor focus. I was put in special classes took me three years longer to learn how to read. My teachers would have been surprised I read a book much less wrote a book." The author of the best selling book "Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life," and founder of Kwik Learning tells Spartan founder Joe De Sena the most important things to include in your morning routine, but more importantly - what NOT to do. As always, De Sena wants to knowKwik's origin story, whether doing hard things now strengthens your brain for later challenges, and how nutrition and exercise affect the brain. Listen in for the answers.
"There's no limit to our determination to our ability to solve problems, no limit to our creativity, our imagination, our ability to persevere."
LESSONS
- Be the thermostat, not the thermometer
- Your mind is receptive in the morning, be careful what you feed it
- Struggle is an essential part of developement
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena
Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye send their regards :)
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | be a thermostat not a thermometer. A thermometer, the only function of a thermometer, it just reacts to the environment. That's all it does. It just reacts. And you're not going to have any kind of quality of life if you're just reacting to everything. |
| 0:13.4 | But a thermostat doesn't do that. |
| 0:15.0 | It gauges the environment and knows what's going on, |
| 0:17.7 | but it sets the temperature and then the environment |
| 0:20.5 | it forces forced to react to it. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Descenta, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:29.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:35.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, |
| 0:38.0 | we will teach you here on the Spartan Up Podcast |
| 0:41.0 | to get over obstacles in your Mind. |
| 0:44.0 | Today, Joe Descena talks with the ultimate brain hacker, Jim Quick, |
| 0:48.0 | to bring you tips and tactics for better brain function. |
| 0:51.0 | How do exercise, diet, struggle, morning routines all affect your mind. |
| 0:57.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by True Form Runner. Conquer your next race with a complete training solution from Spartan and True Form. |
| 1:06.0 | The Spartan True Form trainer will redefine your running, improve your form, and reduce injury. |
| 1:11.0 | Save 10% with the code Spartan 10 at true form runner. |
| 1:14.6 | dot com slash Spartan that's true form runner dot com slash Spartan |
| 1:20.3 | we are here for Spartan up podcast with a guy I've been trying to get on this |
| 1:24.8 | podcast. For God, it's got to be three or four years now. Jim quick. It's good to be here. |
| 1:30.0 | You're awesome by the way. We met quite a while ago. You came up you were like |
| 1:34.1 | elusive and secretive and you we shook hands we got to know each other and then I found out more |
| 1:38.8 | about you and I was like I got to meet that guy again and then you were like went into the |
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