Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, And Unlock Your Exceptional Life Quotes
"Whenever I struggled to learn, did badly on a quiz, wasn’t picked for a team in gym class, or fell behind my other classmates, I would tell myself it was because my brain was broken. How could I possibly expect to do as well as others did? I was damaged."
"I wasn’t just crushed to realize that this was how she saw me—and that others probably saw me the same way."
"If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them."
"Our brain appears to strengthen a memory each time we recall it, and at the same time forget irrelevant memories that are distracting us."
"Your brain is like a parachute—it only works when it’s open."
"But today I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available.'"
"Your time is one of your greatest assets. It’s the one thing you can’t get back."
"I committed everything I had to writing the best report I possibly could."
"If knowledge is power, then learning is our superpower."
"We take so much of that function for granted. Let’s think about just what the average person has accomplished simply by being an 'average' person."
"What’s important is how you use your passion."
"Finding your passion is like finding true love, in that you have to go out on many dates to get to the perfect match."
"Your life purpose consists of the central motivating aims of your life—the reasons you get up in the morning."
"Purpose can guide life decisions, influence behavior, shape goals, offer a sense of direction, and create meaning."
"Genius leaves clues. There is always a method behind what looks like magic."
"When you consciously decide to identify with the habit or goal you want to create or achieve, or consciously un-identify with a habit you no longer want, you will experience enormous power."
"Pain can be your teacher, if you use it and not let it use you."
"You must really get yourself to see and feel the benefits of learning this material."
"As you move through this 'Motivation' section of the book, consider where learning fits into your passion, identity, values, and reasons."
"Through my struggle to learn, I developed a love of learning because it helped me become unlimited."
"Instead of saying 'I am broken,' I had to say, 'I am a learner.'"
"Learning falls under both growth and adventure because it contributes directly to my growth and gives me a sense of adventure."
"My reason for writing this book—to teach my methods to a wider audience—has kept me going."
"When you feel stuck, come back to the way your goal fits into your values."
"Ultimately, motivation is a set of habits and routines, guided by your values and identity."
"Finding your passion is about giving yourself novelty and putting yourself in a new environment to see what lights you up."
"The brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel."
"Your brain requires 45 distinct nutrients to function best."
"Your brain runs very well with a little bit of dark chocolate in the mix."
"Exercise changes the brain in ways that protect memory and thinking skills."
"Regular aerobic exercise appears to boost the size of the hippocampus, the brain area involved in verbal memory and learning."
"Eliminating automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) from your life is an essential part of unlimiting your brain."
"Removing clutter and distractions from your surroundings will make you feel lighter and improve your ability to focus."
"Your brain potential is related to your social networks."
"Protecting your brain is critical if you’re going to make the most of your brain."
"Keep learning to create new pathways in your brains."
"Chronic stress may actually rewire your brain."
"Getting enough sleep is essential if you’re going to make the most of your brain."
"Without sleep, you can’t form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn and create new memories."
"Meditation can improve your sleep, even with simple methods."
"Focusing so deeply on what they were doing that they had no idea that afternoon had become night."
"Flow is the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter."
"Being in a flow state dramatically boosts your productivity."
"The primary enemy to focus is distraction."
"Concentration is at the crux of all human success and endeavor."
"Concentration is something you can learn and something you can practice to get better at."
"Physical clutter in your surroundings competes for your attention, resulting in decreased performance."
"You achieve at levels that are impossible when you’re distracted or divided in your thoughts."
"You are unlikely to ever find yourself in a situation like this. But as outrageous as the caller’s request had been, I knew I could do this, because with competence comes confidence."
"To illustrate to you how any sense of constraint fades when you’ve learned how to absorb a subject in a sitting, remember what you’ve learned, have the ability to highlight the most essential points, and have an understanding of how people learn."
"You can learn how to unlimit your studies. And when you do, it’ll be a superpower you’ll employ the rest of your life."
"The most successful people in the world are lifelong students."
"Memorization helps train the mind to focus and be industrious."
"We think with the ideas held in working memory, which can only be accessed at high speed from the brain’s stored memory."
"The more you remember, the more you can learn."
"If you push yourself to read faster, your 'reading muscles' will become stronger, and what was once hard, becomes easy."
"By increasing your peripheral vision, you will be able to see and take in more words at a time."
"Just as you see the words and not the individual letters, skilled readers see groups of words (or ideas) and not the individual words."
"People tend to remember and understand what they see, more than what they hear."
"Read for only 20 to 25 minutes at a time. Remember primacy and regency."
"Great readers read often. The key is to make reading a habit."
"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"All perspectives should be challenged on a regular basis to confirm that they are still viable."
"Dr. Edward de Bono devised the concept of the 'six thinking hats' as a tool for getting out of whatever rut of thinking one might be mired in."
"The 40/70 Rule: Never make a decision with less than 40 percent of the information you are likely to get, and to gather no more than 70 percent of the information available."
"Create a Not-to-Do List: The power of the not-to-do list is that you decide from the very beginning what you will definitely put aside."
"Exponential thinking is when you start to see things from a different mindset. It’s not about thinking outside the box; it’s about thinking in a completely different box."