Quotes from "Limitless - Jim Kwik" Part II

Continued from Quotes from "Limitless - Jim Kwik" Part I ...

Somewhere between 40% to 50 % of what we do everyday is the product of a habit.

The habits you repeat (or don't repeat) every day largely determine your health, wealth, and happiness.

Habit is either best of servants or the worst of masters.

Perfectionism reduces creativity and innovation.

Concentration is at the crux of all human success and endeavor.

Concentration muscle will become incredibly strong, and your focus will reach limitless levels.

The human brain has the capacity to digest as much as 400 words per minute of information. On an average people can write 10-12 words a minute, and the average speaker speaks at around 100 words a minute.

The man who does not read good books has NO advantage over the man who can't read them. LEADERS ARE READERS.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

If your mind ever wanders and day dreams, this could be because your brain needs stimulus, it'll seek entertainment elsewhere in the form of distraction.

Six Distinctly defined functions by progressively donning a series of metaphorical hats:

• White hat/White lab coat: Information gathering 
• Yellow hat/Yellow sun: Identify positives and challenges.
• Black hat/Judge's robe: consequences of failing to successfully address a problem.
• Red hat/Red heart: speculation/intuition/emotion about the problem
• Green hat/Green Grass: Creative ways to solve the problem.
• Blue hat/Blue skies: Management mode

Eight forms of intelligence:

• Spatial: Like Pilots
• Bodily-Kinesthetic: Gymnasts/drummers
• Musical: poets/musicians
• Linguistic: Writers/William Shakespeare
• Logical-mathematical: Albert Einstein
• Interpersonal: Therapists/Oprah Winfrey
• Intrapersonal: Gandhi/keep your cool in heated situations/Monks.
• Naturalistic: Zoologists/architects

VAK learning model. Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic.

After all , you don't rise to the level of your expectations, you fall to the level of your training.

Colin Powell tossed the 40/70 rule for decision making. You don't take decision with less than 40% of information, you don't seek more than 70% of information, because it could be stalling. Be prepared if it goes wrong to set it right.

Most of us think about the consequences of our actions, but few of us think even two steps beyond the immediate effects our actions will have on our lives. First-order thinking is easy , but this second-order thinking that allows us to go deeper through time and consequences. Best of all, it allows us to see what others can't see.

Incremental is satisfied with 10%, Exponential is out for 10X.

Know yourself, Trust yourself, Love yourself, Be Yourself.