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The James Altucher Show

How to Have a Super Brain | Jim Kwik

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Jim Kwik is my brain guru. He literally has superpowers. After a childhood injury gave him some brain damage, he became dedicated to turning his brain into a super machine, exercising his brain until he could use it to as full a capacity as possible:Super Memory Speed ReadingWhat it takes to keep building his neuroplasticity, so we keep learning things quickly and on and on.The results can be found in his excellent book:Limitless came out 10 years ago and sold millions of copies, but now he has an expanded edition with a lot more information, a lot more stories, and a lot more useful advice based on research and his own practices in the past few years. Jim also has an online academy for all this, and he's even gone out to Hollywood to teach actors including the stars of the X-Men movie franchise (which he talks about on the podcast)!We welcome Jim back again to celebrate the Limitless Expanded Edition, to discuss its contents, and to help James improve his brain.-----------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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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