Limitless

KWIK START Take a moment and schedule 30 minutes of white space in your calendar for this week. This is time to be spent away from technology, time dedicated to clear your mind, relax, and be creative.

Each successive hit of dopamine we get from the likes we receive on social media, or from the texts we get from loved ones or friends, only reinforces our behavior.

“Asking the brain to shift attention from one activity to another causes the prefrontal cortex and striatum to burn up oxygenated glucose, the same fuel they need to stay on task,”

the kind of rapid, continual shifting we do with multitasking causes the brain to burn through fuel so quickly that we feel exhausted and disoriented after even a short time. We’ve literally depleted the nutrients in our

the kind of rapid, continual shifting we do with multitasking causes the brain to burn through fuel so quickly that we feel exhausted and disoriented after even a short time.

KWIK START Go to the notification settings of your phone and turn off all unnecessary and distracting pings and dings. Do this now.

If a family member, friend, or colleague came up to you and said, “Don’t think about this; here’s your opinion,” you’d try to get away from that person as soon as you possibly could.

Think about a decision you need to make. Schedule some time to work on that decision without the use of any digital devices.

Based on the number of successful people who overcame troubled upbringings, it may be that a difficult childhood or challenging upbringing breeds resilience among other attributes that lead to success.

Just as there are people who have suffered strokes and have been able to rebuild and regain their brain functions, those that procrastinate, think excessive negative thoughts, or can’t stop eating junk food may also rewire and change their behaviors and transform their lives.

Plasticity means that your learning, and indeed your life, is not fixed. You can be, do, have, and share anything when you optimize and rewire your brain. There are no limitations when you align and apply the right mindset, motivation, and methods.

The faster you can learn, the faster you can earn.

Your time is one of your greatest assets. It’s the one thing you can’t get back.

suggest you use the Pomodoro technique, a productivity method developed by Francesco Cirillo based on the idea that the optimal time for a task is 25 minutes, followed by a 5-minute break.

the optimal time for a task is 25 minutes, followed by a 5-minute break.

by taking breaks, you create more beginnings and endings, and you retain far more of what you’re learning.

When you read any book, you have the opportunity to stretch the range of your mind, and it will never be the same.

KWIK START Set a timer for 25 minutes right now and concentrate on what you’re reading in this book for that amount of time. When your alarm goes off, bookmark this book and close it. Then write down what you learned within that 25-minute period.

What we think we know about the topic can stand in the way of our ability to absorb new information. One of the reasons children learn rapidly is because

What we think we know about the topic can stand in the way of our ability to absorb new information