Motivation: Are You Not Meeting Your Full Potential? with Jim Kwik
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
It's often been said that knowledge is power, but how many times have we learned new information from a lecture or a self-help book, but then forgotten the information soon after, never implementing it into our lives? In the third episode of a series with learning expert Jim Kwik, Dr. Amen and Tana Amen discuss techniques you can use to take new information and use it, not lose it.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome back. We're here with our friend Jim McQuick. This is so interesting. |
| 0:19.0 | We're talking about learning and memory. We're also going to talk about |
| 0:23.8 | procrastination in this episode. |
| 0:26.8 | And you were talking about fast. |
| 0:31.0 | So review the F and the A for us and then let's keep talking about this. |
| 0:35.0 | So to learn any subject or skill, I recommend these four things, F-A-S-T. |
| 0:39.0 | The F is forget what you already know about is subject so can empty your cups you can learn something new |
| 0:43.2 | forget about distractions forget about your limiting beliefs the A was active |
| 0:47.3 | meaning learning is not a spectator sport so how do you take notes in a way and we did a |
| 0:52.0 | I did a podcast episode on how to take information |
| 0:54.7 | and turn it into action because I believe one of the biggest lies in the personal |
| 0:58.8 | development self-health space is our high performance spaces spaces, knowledge is power. It's not. It's only |
| 1:04.9 | the potential to be power. It only becomes power when we apply it. And most people feel like if |
| 1:09.1 | they buy a book and it's just on their shelf, they get credit for that. But it becomes shelf help and not self help. |
| 1:14.6 | Shelf help. |
| 1:15.2 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:16.2 | And so that the really the goal of self education is to be able to apply and make something |
| 1:20.9 | change. |
| 1:21.4 | So even we did an episode on note-taking I would |
| 1:23.8 | recommend even when people take notes because everyone knows a learning |
| 1:27.1 | curve but there's also forgetting curve that within 48 hours we could lose up to |
| 1:30.7 | 80% of what we learned so taking notes helps you to retain it. |
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