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The James Altucher Show

How to Have a Super Brain | Jim Kwik

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

After a childhood injury gave him some brain damage, Jim Kwik focused his energy on turning his brain into a super machine, exercising his brain until he could use it to as full a capacity as possible. The results can be found in his excellent book "Limitless", which now has an expanded edition for its 10th anniversary. We welcome Jim back to celebrate the new book and help James improve his brain! Limitless

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Jim Quick is my brain guru. He literally has superpowers. So after a childhood injury gave him some brain

0:16.4

damage he became dedicated to turning his brain into a super machine, figuring out and exercising his brain until he can use it to its full as much as his full capacity as possible

0:30.5

Super memory speed reading what it takes to keep building his neuroplasticity so we keep learning things quickly and on and on.

0:38.0

The results can be found in his excellent book, Limitless.

0:44.0

Limitless came out 10 years ago and sold millions of copies,

0:46.2

but now he has an expanded edition

0:48.8

with a lot more information, a lot more stories,

0:51.0

a lot more useful advice based on research and his own practices in the past few years and on and on.

0:56.7

He has an online academy for all this and he's even gone out to

1:00.0

Hollywood to teach actors like for instance the actors in the movie X-Men and he tells that story in the

1:05.6

podcast. So now again the expanded 10th year anniversary edition of Limitless has just come out

1:11.7

and he's come on the show to talk about it and to help me improve my brain.

1:17.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

1:26.0

This is the James Altager show. Jim haven't been you know the interesting thing about doing a podcast for almost 10 years is that among my guests now

1:45.2

are all the people who were guests eight nine ten years ago who are now doing the

1:50.2

tenth year anniversary of their books.

1:53.5

So limitless, the expanded edition just came out.

1:57.6

I mean, I know you've added some chapters on AI

1:59.4

and other things, but why did you decide

2:01.0

10th year anniversary edition instead of a whole new book?

2:03.5

Just the world has changed, especially the past few years, so external reasons, post-pandemic,

2:11.0

AI intensive world and also as we were talking before we started recording

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