Jim Kwik on How to Unlock Genius and Uncover Your Superpower | Impact Theory

Recently started exploring breaking through limiting beleifs again. This guy's story is very inspirtational, he used his own multiple brain injuries/learning disabilities to become one of the top leaders in research on how to learn. Made notes for the vid and thought I'd throw it up for you guys

Video Notes:

Jim Kwik on How to unlock genius and uncover your superpower | impact theory

This video and actually his entire learning style links back to something I’ve personally been preaching for years now. When you’re taking advice or learning from someone look at the information you’re getting and understand it within the context of the person you’re learning from. Many times when I ask for advice I am using careful discretion as to who it is but more than that, when I receive a piece of information it is not an end-all be all, rather it is a perspective that is contextual to the person it’s coming from. So if you’re trying to learn from somebody, yes take advice, but more than that, try to embody the characteristics and qualities that they have that your ideal YOU has. We want to model behaviour but do so in a manner that is condusive to our own growth.

He breaks this down even further:
​-identity level is the WHO
​-Beliefs and values is the WHY
​-Capabilities/habit/skill acquisition that’s the HOW
​-Behaviours that’s the WHAT
​-Environment that’s the Where/When

 -congruence is essential because you want all of these to be second nature. Habits, a constituency of your being not a concerted action you take.
 

-it was impossible to run a 4 minute mile until Roger Banister did it, he visualized himself crossing the finish line at 3:59 and all of a sudden everyone was doing it. There was no change in training methodology, nutrition or health, people just now knew that it was possible. Before he achieved that people thought their hearts would explode

-Wayne Dyer “it’s not I’ll believe it when I see it, it’s I’ll see it when I believe it”

-doing something you didn’t think was possible opens up your neurology/biology to change

-the value you’ve created is not about resources, there are a lot of people who didn’t have any resources that were able to impact the world. It’s about internal resources. It’s about optimizing our environment, our behaviours, our capabilities, our beliefs and our values. Our identities, because we won’t be able to make that kind of change unless we believe were the kind of person that can do that. We have to commit ourselves to be able to unleash that.

-we place ceilings on ourselves and action should be driven by identity. Here is an exercise: fill in the blanks for 3 minutes: I am _____

                -he describes self-awareness as a superpower and this exercise generating really interesting results once we run out of roles we play in our lives i.e. I am student, teacher, son, daughter etc… heading into identity qualities i.e. I am intelligent, lazy, bad with money, empathetic etc…