You're listening to the Impact Theory podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Bill You, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition,

on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Hey, everybody, welcome to Impact Theory.

You were here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless,

but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce

you to the people and ideas that are going to help you actually execute on your dreams.

All right. Today's guest is a globally recognized leader in memory improvement, brain performance,

and accelerated learning, but no one would have predicted that when he was a kid. A serious

childhood accident left him with a traumatic

brain injury and a significant learning disability, but instead of simply accepting defeat,

he set about making up for a shortcomings through an obscene amount of hard work. He began sneaking

comic books after bedtime to practice reading and something about the collision of the words,

images, and the superhero mindset

spoke to him, and for the first time he began to make progress. But despite this, he continued

to struggle, having to work two or three times as hard as everyone else to achieve lesser results.

After exhaustion caused him to fall down a flight of stairs and sustain yet another brain

injury, he realized something

had to change. If he was going to truly overcome his learning disability, he was going to have

to dramatically improve his efficiency at learning itself. This began an obsession with the brain

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