EP. 16: Jim Kwik on How to Learn Faster and Forget Less by Unleashing Your Inner Genius

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Tom Ferry

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever met someone and immediately forget their name? It’s happened to the best of us. Forgetting is the most expensive problem, not only in business but in life! It takes away your profit, joy, connection with friends, partners and clients. Wouldn’t it be great if you had the superpower to memorize, learn faster and retain information? Discover the not-so-secret formula by listening to this interview with Jim Kwik. He’s a Learning Expert who teaches cutting-edge and powerful techniques in order to help people learn faster and better. Our conversation includes Jim’s fascinating origin story of how he suffered a traumatic brain injury at the age of five. Jim is a former struggling student and due to his “Broken Brain” it took him three more years to learn how to read. Fast forward to today and he’s the most sought-after Brain Coach for movie stars, politicians and entrepreneurs. He can memorize a room full of people’s name not to impress you, but to express what is possible in all of us. Learning is not a spectator sport. You have to get off the bench and do the work. Apply the action in order to improve your memory. In this episode, Jim is going to share his super learning tips and powerful techniques for brain optimization! Buckle up and get ready to listen! For show notes and more information visit: https://tfi.media/2YdDJ4b

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0:00.0	So here's the thing, entrepreneurs, leaders, salespeople. We all want to create
0:07.8	consistent, repeatable, and scalable ways to grow our business and our income,
0:11.9	and we want to do it better faster and more seamlessly
0:15.0	why so we can actually enjoy our lives take vacations and spend the quality time
0:19.3	what we want with the people that we love how do we do all this without spending a fortune or running
0:24.5	ourselves ragged? That's the big question and this show is dedicated to the answer.
0:31.1	Hey, thanks so much for checking out today's podcast.
0:34.0	Today I'm talking to Jim Quick.
0:36.0	Now, if you know that name, you know that his story is absolutely fantastic
0:41.0	and his insights are nothing shy of genius.
0:44.6	This is a young boy or a young man who when he was five years old had a traumatic brain injury
0:51.4	and spent the next 15-16 years being known as the boy with a broken brain.
0:57.0	Well, could you imagine being told that at five years old, you got a broken brain and it took you three or four years to learn to read where all your peers
1:04.2	had already had it down and this guy has transformed himself from a broken
1:08.8	brain to someone that movie stars, politicians, entrepreneurs, people come to him and they say,
1:15.9	Jim, how can I improve my memory?
1:18.4	Like, Jim can do seminars and memorize 100 people's names in the room and in this interview he tells you how.
1:25.0	He's also the guy that if you want to speed read,
1:28.0	you want to absorb more content, you want to learn faster,
1:30.0	you want to retain that information,
1:31.0	and be able to pull it out in the moment's
1:33.0	notice which by the way makes you a fascinating individual to spend time with and
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