Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black. And our guest on this episode is Jim

Quick, who's known for his expertise in speed reading, memory improvement, and optimal brain

performance. Jim is the author of the new book Limitless. Upgrade your brain, learn anything

faster, and unlock your exceptional life.

Jim is the founder and CEO of Quick Learning, and he's taught his techniques to students at Harvard,

Stanford, and Columbia universities, and to executives of companies like Nike, GE, SpaceX, and Virgin.

He feels the sheltering we're doing during the COVID-19 pandemic offers us an opportunity to transform our brain power, our mindset, and our creativity.

Jim, we thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you both for having me. I'm excited about this conversation.

Well, we are too, because you say we need to think of this challenging period we're in right now as being in a cocoon. I like the idea. Tell us more about that. Well, use the word transform,

and I feel like that's the metaphor that would be very empowering for us to have right now,

that the symbol of a profound change is that of a

cocoon, I mean, you know, to transforming into a butterfly, caterpillar into a butterfly.

And I feel like everybody could identify with this idea of being cocooned.

Like we are alone.

We are physically distancing ourselves.

And it's an interesting place, right? To be alone with our interesting place right to be alone with our own

thoughts to be with our own fears or doubts or even feeling alone and you know the book as you

mentioned is called limitless one of the things that hold us back is is hanging on to clinging

onto a world that was rather than progressing and continuing the cycle. So

I believe while the beauty is in the butterfly, the growth happens in the cocoon. And so there are

five things that I'm recommending clients and friends and family to do if they want to come out

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