Is Information Overload Making Us Less Smart? with Jim Kwik
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Memory and speed-reading expert Jim Kwik was forced to change his approach to learning after suffering a traumatic brain injury as a child. However, this change helped Jim to develop a revolutionary approach to help educate people how to optimize their brains for learning. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are joined by Jim Kwik for a discussion on how we process information, and why life in the new digital age is making things more difficult for all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome everybody. We have a very special treat for you. Our friend Jim Quick is going to |
| 0:21.8 | talk to us about learning and procrastination. |
| 0:26.0 | Jim is the founder of Quick Learning and widely recognized |
| 0:31.5 | as a world expert in speed reading, |
| 0:33.4 | memory improvement, brain performance, |
| 0:36.0 | and accelerated learning. |
| 0:37.7 | He's spoken all over the world to huge companies, |
| 0:41.4 | but we have called him a friend for many years, and just really grateful to have you |
| 0:48.8 | on the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, thank you. I love you too so much and the work that you're doing is so so important. I don't know |
| 0:56.7 | what's more important than really understanding and optimizing this incredible like gift that we have between our ears called our brain. |
| 1:04.0 | So I'm excited about this conversation. |
| 1:05.6 | So how did you get involved in wanting to know about the brain and get involved in teaching people about reading and memory. |
| 1:17.0 | I mean a lot of times in the three of us have shared stages all different around the |
| 1:21.6 | different places around the world. I do these demonstrations and I'll have |
| 1:24.9 | maybe a hundred people stand up, introduce themselves and I'll remember their |
| 1:28.4 | name or they'll give me a hundred words or a hundred numbers and I'll memorize |
| 1:32.4 | them forwards and backwards but I always tell people I don't do this to impress you I really do is to express to you what's possible because the truth is we all have the potential to do this we just weren't't taught. If anything, you know, we're |
| 1:43.8 | taught somehow like a lie. Somehow our intelligence or memory potential focus is |
| 1:48.8 | somehow fixed like our shoe size, but we've learned, you know, as you've pioneered this more, we've learned you know as you've pioneered this more we've learned more |
| 1:54.2 | about the human brain the past 20 years than the previous maybe 2,000 years |
| 1:58.0 | combined and we found is we're also grossly underestimating our own capabilities |
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