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I'm your coach, Jim Quick.

Free.

You're my mind.

Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.

I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.

I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. I know Kung Fu.

Show me.

I want to share with you probably be my favorite tool for focus. And you start by doing this,

writing this down. Questions are the answer. We have about 60,000 thoughts a day. A lot of those thoughts come in the form of a question,

a question that we ask ourselves. And there is one, what I call your dominant question,

a question that you ask more than any other, consciously and mostly unconsciously. And so I want to

go through an exercise with you to determine what is your dominant question.

Let me give you an example. Because I went through these struggles as a child, I had my brain injury

when I was five. I had migraines every day as a kid. I just thought that was just normal.

I had balance issue, coordination issues. I would have poor focus, poor memory. It took me three

years longer to learn how to read. Many of you know the story when I was nine years old. I would have poor focus, poor memory. It took me three years longer to learn how to read.

Many of you know the story when I was nine years old. I was slowing down to class because I just

wasn't understanding the lessons. I was being teased and bullied pretty harshly because of it,

called all kinds of names and picked on. And the teacher came to my defense,

pointed to me in front of the whole class and said, leave that kid alone. That's the boy with a broken brain. And that became my identity. Because I felt like I was

broken, I would always say things like my dominant question, why me? My dominant question became,

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