Limitless
by Kwik, Jim · 376 highlights
The first is digital deluge—the unending flood of information in a world of finite time and unfair expectations that leads to overwhelm, anxiety, and sleeplessness. Drowning in data and rapid change, we long for strategies and tools to regain some semblance of productivity, performance, and peace of mind.
The first is digital deluge—the unending flood of information in a world of finite time and unfair expectations that leads to overwhelm, anxiety, and sleeplessness.
The second villain is digital distraction. The fleeting ping of digital dopamine pleasure replaces our ability to sustain the attention necessary for deep relationship, deep learning, or deep work.
digital dementia. Memory is a muscle that we have allowed to atrophy. While there are benefits to having a supercomputer in your pocket, think of it like an electric bicycle. It’s fun and easy but doesn’t get you in shape.
Online, there are so many conclusions being drawn by others that we have begun to surrender our own ability to draw conclusions. We
Online, there are so many conclusions being drawn by others that we have begun to surrender our own ability to draw conclusions.
If our mindset is not aligned with our desires or goals, we will never achieve them.
The purpose supersedes the discomfort.
The second secret to a limitless life is your motivation.
(and eliminating toxic ones). And lastly the tasks must be bite-size, small steps that lead to success.
the tasks must be bite-size, small steps that lead to success.
Limitless teaches us the five key methods to achieve whatever we want: Focus, Study, Memory Enhancement, Speed Reading, and Critical Thinking.
Learning how to learn is the ultimate superpower,
Learning how to learn is the ultimate superpower, the one that makes every other skill and ability possible,
I’m not sure I ever would have learned to read if it weren’t for the heroes I met and saw in comic books. Regular books couldn’t hold my attention at all, but my fascination with comics drove me to keep pushing myself until I could read their stories without waiting for someone else to read them to me. I would read them by flashlight under my covers late at night. Those stories gave me hope that one person could overcome impossible odds.
Often when you put a label on someone or something, you create a limit—the label becomes the limitation. Adults have to be very careful with their external words because these quickly become a child’s internal words.
“What do you want to be? What do you want to do? What do you want to have? What do you want to share?”
at that point in my life, I was not a fan of books; it was like being in a room full of snakes.
“Don’t let school interfere with your education.”
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”