your brain is like a supercomputer and
your self talk is a program it will run
so if you tell yourself you're not good
at remembering names you will not
remember the name of the next person you
meet because you program your
supercomputer not to it's so important
because your brain controls everything
every single person that's listening and
watching this could do that and a lot
more oh my god the thing is we weren't
taught and my goal for everybody who's
watching and listening to this is that
they're smarter than they think it's
just we weren't taught how to do these
things and when you're in congruence and
in alignment things happen your natural
superpowers if you will just come out
come out organically and are not forced
we've discovered more about the human
brain in the past 20 years and the
previous 2000 years combined how what we
found is we've Corsi us under estimating
our own potential our own capabilities
and that's a thing it's just because we
weren't taught and I really think the
nature of the work that you do that I do
that our community is really backing is
about transcending means about ending
the trance trance end and the trance
ending this massive gnosis in media and
marketing that's telling us that we're
broken yeah that we need to be fixed and
then we're not enough mmm and I feel
like that is what's holds us back
you know this disillusion if you will
our brain they say we use such a small
potential of it you use all our brain
but some people use it more efficiently
than other people people don't realize
this there's learning curve but there's
also forgetting curve science is saying
that within two days just 48 hours of
listening to a podcast reading a book
going to a conference getting a coaching
80% of it up to 80% is lost incredibly
and that's you know as somebody who's
investing time energy
treasure into something to lose all that
you know so you want to be able to to
hold that on and so one of the ways of
doing is by taking notes and we did a
whole episode on proper note-taking and
really one that's more brain friendly
most people then what they found is the
worst way of taking notes actually is
verbatim which is the way I take notes
yeah for being a useful full
transcription and they study this you
know at you
Versa T's because they test people that
people take word-for-word and one of the
reasons why is because there's just so
much information I do have 18 pages of
word-for-word
you don't even know what's most
important but they found the best way of
actually taking notes we're more on
keywords and and relevancy so for
example one of the ways of taking notes
that I recommend is taking a piece of
paper and putting a line straight down
the page good and on the left side what
I'm doing is I'm capturing information
capturing so we could talk about how to
remember names and how to read faster
and how to learn skills from any danger
habits now beyond the left that
left-hand column you're capturing
information but on the right side
instead of capturing you're creating
what does that mean it means that you're
right you're creating and you're
building on this you're putting your
impression so essentially on the left
side you're taking notes but on the
right side you're making notes and
there's a clear distinction right
between just capturing information and
actually create the creative process why
is that matter maybe it matters because
if you're first of all for focus a lot
of people's when they're listening
something their mind Wolffe go somewhere
else they'll get distracted so here
instead of it going somewhere else it
goes on the right side of the page which
is let's say left side right brain and
brain look at rain right brain left
brains more logical and words and
language and and linear but on the right
side is your imaginations your
creativity right so your creativity go
there the other thing is it forces you
to ask questions
I believe that questions are the answer
I think it's the essential for
understanding for critical thinking for
focus you for learning if you ever want
to read something to you let's say
people feel absent-minded they forget
where they put things their wallet the
purse their there their keys or if not
their keys something larger like their
car you see the people in the funny
because they forget they parked their
car but I read a page in a book at the N
and forget what they just read you don't
get a name from somebody and they'll
just forget it right away yes one of the
ways to insulate that just ask questions
right to ask questions about something
so for example when I'm taking notes
I'll capture information on the left
side but on the right side I'll write
questions I have about what I'm learning
mmm I'll ask myself questions like how
I'm gonna apply it you know what might
the biggest challenge I have with the
self-help personal development in this
is that there's this massive lie that's
being spread saying that knowledge is
power
yeah thinking is the process of asking
and answering questions to yourself I
remember I was doing a training in
Silicon Valley and after I was done
somebody comes up to me it was Bill
Gates and I asked him like if you got me
one superpower would be like Jim's
ability to read faster and Warren
Buffett was like I wasted probably ten
years of my life reading slowly that's
that's why reading and speed reading is
so important because people spend about
four hours processing information today
you think about all the emails the
business plans and the books and all the
stuff you have to process yeah if you
could just double your reading speed you
can go from four hours to two hours we
saved two hours a day what's two hours a
day over the course of a year actually
let's say you just save one hour day
that's 365 hours a year credible that's
how many 40-hour work weeks
9:19 two months products a lot more than
two months productivity saving one hour
Dan something ubiquitous like you're
like reading that's why we do so much
like four people are you watching
watching this I know a lot of people are
our entrepreneurs they have teams the
biggest line item right is human capital
yeah hey ro sure and but if they're
reading four or five hours a day that
means half of their salaries being paid
to read right so if someone's getting
paid eighty thousand dollars forty
thousand just to read that's why we
train at Nike and Google and General
Electric and all these individuals
because that's that's the faster you
could raise the collective intelligence
of your team you know the more that they
can be competitive me right yeah so
going back to this the M is motivation
so I would always say if you want to
learn something new check in with your
motivation because here's the thing all
learning with state-dependent all
learning state-dependent this is the
thing information combined with emotion
becomes a long-term memory we know that
okay and we're we know this because
ultimately the experts not always the
person on the podcast or on stage you
are your own expert so genius leaves
clues genius leaves Clues all the time
so when somebody is exceptional some
area there's a method behind the magic
including for your own self so you don't
remember all names but you certainly
don't forget all names you now Rico and
deconstruct that decode that usually the
names you remember our names you're
motivated to or somebody that
tracted to somebody somebody that can be
good for their business right so there's
the emotion there so emotion tied to
information becomes a long-term memory
because here's the thing you when is
there like a song or fragrance or food
that could take you back to when your
kid absolutely because information tied
with that emotion becomes a long-term
memory but here's the thing back in
school back in school what was the
primary emotion we felt boredom right
what half the room is bored the other
half is confused but on a scale of zero
to ten what's boredom zero zero
information times emotion at the emotion
zero what say anything times zero zero
and you wonder why you forgot the
presidents does the Capitol is that the
periodic table all the things you
learned in school because the emotion
level was very oh wow right that's why
entertainment is so is so powerful if
you just do the easy things in life you
procrastinate you put things off right
the life is hard
mmm but if you do the hard things in
life your life becomes easy so and
that's and because you're building those
muscles and what I'm saying suggesting
is mental fitness is as important as
mental intelligence the X is exercise
exercise and here's the thing physical
exercise good for your brain good we
know this across the board circle
exercise but a so people who are more
mentally who will work out they're more
mentally fit or you'll do better better
on focus mental acuity memory test and
they create we don't when you exercise
you create brain-derived neurotropic
factors which is like BDNF fertilizer
for the brain okay which promotes
neurogenesis and plasticity for new
brain cells new connected people say
like when they listen to your show if
they're doing on an elliptical something
rhythmic or they're going for a walk
that retain it better Wow right which is
so powerful just in being creative
you're going for walks like Steve Jobs
all his meetings were wall meeting
that's right because that's where all
the creativity is coming out so at
movement because we lives just such a
sedentary Mars out to me about learning
a state driven to exactly because
movement changes your state your
physiology affects your psychology and
we live in a culture where sitting is
the new smoking we've all heard this or
not
the primary reason why you have a brain
is control your movement people don't
realize it number reason you have a
brain and as your body moves your brain
grooves that if you want to win the day
you got to win that first half an hour
or the day but the worst thing you could
do everybody you know has their to-do
list you should have a not to do this
and the top thing that's what successful
people do because that's the thing as
you become more successful there's this
opportunity stress yeah you get more and
more invitations to do more and more
things so you have to have say no to
good so you can say yes to great and
what helps is having a not to do list
and on top not to lose I would suggest
don't touch your phone the first half an
hour or an hour a day you're in the last
half an hour an hour a day or why
because when you wake up first thing
morning from a brain your reason you're
in this alpha theta state you're
extremely suggestible that's when your
most creative right and you're creepy
you're incredibly suggestible if you
pick up your phone you're rewiring your
brain for a number of things number one
you're training it for distraction every
dopamine like every like share comment
cat video you can give you a dopamine
flood and you wonder why you can't focus
because you're trained to be distracted
here's the thing I have a technology
when you pick it up out of habit like
not for purpose but just how to have it
technology is a tool you're supposed to
use right like you like exactly and when
and when it exactly when technology is
using you who becomes a tool right so we
can we become the tool yeah and we and
here's so number one you don't pick up
your phone first thing you trained you
to be distracted number two when you're
in that pressure estate is what you talk
about it change it be reactive trains
you to be reactive you know you saw the
sudden you get one email one mess
voicemail message it means your day and
we've all had that yeah you know it's
just you're fighting fires and you're on
the defense and I always tell people
when they come to me and they say I'm
not smart enough I'm not good enough I
have a horrible memory I always say if
you fight for your limitations you get
to keep them or if you fight for your
limitations you argue for your limits
they're yours right here's the thing
your brain is like a supercomputer and
your self talk is a program you will run
so if you tell yourself you're not good
at remembering names you will not
remember the name of the next person you
meet because you program your
supercomputer not to they say them with
two most powerful words in English
language also the smallest I am because
whatever you put after that complete
that sentence with is gonna determine
your destination your
you