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Hello, friends. We are going to interrupt
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our regularly scheduled program with this
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very special episode about limitless by Jim Quick.
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I know you guys are so excited to hear about our
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road trip coming up to Idaho. We haven't been telling anybody
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anything, hardly at all, because we've been trying to keep everybody with bated
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breath wanting to hear our episodes. However,
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this book has become so important to us that we decided to
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interrupt our episode schedule to
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bring you this. First, we thought it was important enough to jump it right in.
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So without further ado.
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Good morning. Good morning. James and Ker from
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Kerouac Cruisin. We've been traveling a bit,
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and we're settled down here in Idaho. And one of the
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things that we've done over the winter is read a lot of books,
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and one of the last books we've read, a book that we read recently
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is a book called limitless by Jim Quick. And if I say
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anything at all, the one thing I would say is I wish I would have
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read this book before I read the last five or six books
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I read through the winter. You guys all know we got in a car accident,
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and we were kind of just buckled up at home, and we did a lot
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of reading. And we just want to talk about this book because
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it inspired us both. And we learned and really realized
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that we want to be lifelong learners.
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And this book talks about lifelong learning and steps that you can take
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to have a cognitive brain as you age.
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Me and Kara are 16 year age difference.
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So this book, reading it together was really good
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because we had two different perspectives of the book. I think the male
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and female dynamic, too. We just think very differently. And I hadn't read,
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really, before this winter. I haven't read a book since,
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you know, I was general manager or district manager for
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a restaurant and didn't really read much then, either.
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But, you know, that's five years ago, six years ago,
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since I've been a manager. So this book was eye opening.
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It's a book that I think everybody should read. And what
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do you think about the book, Kara? I think, like you
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said, it was kind of a game changer. I wish I had actually
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read it first over the winter because not only would we
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probably have read more books because it taught us how to read faster,
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but I feel like I would have retained more of the information
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out of the books. He has a few key concepts, so he talks
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about your mindset, motivation, methods, brain health and productivity,
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and then unleashing your potential. And with all those things combined,
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I mean, he really not only talks about
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them and what they mean and how they can benefit your life. But he actually
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gives you actionable steps to improve all
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those different areas so you can truly be
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limitless. I mean, now I'm just hungry to learn as much as I can
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because I feel like it's possible, like I truly can learn
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anything and everything. I just need to do it. And it's
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kind of amazingly empowering, really. And the first part of
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the book was really about freeing your mind.
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And some of that was when you grow
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up, you get these certain limits from the people
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that are around you. Unfortunately, that's teachers.
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It could be a school bus driver. You know, siblings,
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parents, all. Yeah, parents. Everybody that year around
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are really setting limitations on you that you don't even realize that they're setting.
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But then when you read through the limitless book and he talks
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about the seven lies of learning, it just.
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It really does make sense to me, anyways. Yeah,
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absolutely. The limiting beliefs, the beliefs that subconsciously are holding you
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back from being your fullest potential. You know, the.
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The silly little things like James used to tell me all the time he couldn't
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read. He wasn't a good reader. And it had nothing
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to do with whether or not he actually could. It was just a
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belief that
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he held. And just by taking time to read this book and learn
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some new skills, I mean, you're reading way faster,
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that's for sure. I mean, and retaining the information better
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for just that one example. And it talks the motivation part,
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right? What is motivation? What's motivates you, right? To me,
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motivation, and I've had good motivation my whole life,
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but motivation is having a purpose. You know, what are you getting up
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for? You know, what are you doing? Like, right now, me and Kara's
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motivation, we have a lot of motivation. We have a grandson on the way.
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We're trying to develop a podcast that's
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going to be broadcast weekly. So we have purpose, you know,
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we're getting up with purpose. We want to go down to the lake and enjoy
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that. We're going to work. So we're trying to do. We're trying
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to improve my son's house and him and his wife's life,
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really. So motivation is
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purpose. And then purpose, you know, drives energy.
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And then through the book, it talks a lot about.
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And I. I think it's true for anything talks about, you can
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learn anything. Genius isn't born. It's made you
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know them concepts. I believe that that is true a hundred percent.
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And the way that he spells it out, it really ultimately
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changes how you feel about yourself. It teaches you
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things like speed reading, other things it teaches you
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is memory. I know since I've gotten older,
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my memory is horrible. What did we learn in school?
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Repetitious learning. You write down the same word 150
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times. He doesn't go about it that way. So he's
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really teaching you how to learn.
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Nobody taught us how to learn. Well, one example with that is,
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like, focus learning, growing up, being told to focus or to concentrate,
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but nobody taught you how to do those things. In this book, he teaches
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you how to do those things. And it's. It really, again,
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it's a game changer. It's. It's, you know, and if you go
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on and you look at his website and he's got some learning online classes.
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That you can take, and if that's your. Your style, absolutely. But the book,
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for us, was fast. The book was great. You can do it anywhere.
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What I want to emphasize is if you go online and just watch a couple
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of his videos from when he's demonstrated the ability
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of learning, he goes through a two, two and
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a half hour conference. He'll be at a conference,
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and he's a key speaker. And people throughout the conference for the
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two and a half hours, he tells people to throw out words from different tables.
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And then at the end, before he gets off stage, he sits
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there and he'll recite those words frontwards and backwards
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and get them all correct. And he just teaches you how to
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do that in a simple, easy step. It was mind blowing for me.
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The speed reading was mind blowing. The memory, you know,
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how to turn things into a story, to remember stuff and
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staying focused and having purpose in life.
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And then there was a lot of other things that he brought to the table.
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Most people don't talk about it, and I never had a doctor that told me
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that I had to feed my brain. Nutrition, specific nutrition.
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So that was enlightening for me. And we started it. We started almost
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putting everything that he talks about, and he tells you ten things that
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your body needs daily for optimal performance.
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I easily memorize those ten things in an easy
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way that I can say anytime. I'll give you
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the ten to you. Avocados,
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blueberries, broccoli, leafy greens,
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salmon, walnuts, turmeric, water,
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and then dark chocolate. So he talks about all those things in
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which each one of those specific things does for your body and the brain.
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He goes into a little bit deeper, and he talks about different people's
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brain codes, their animal code. Me and Kara found
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out that we eat the same brain code. So what
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James is trying to say is he helps you learn how
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your brain works and how you learn how.
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Yeah, how you learn how you think, how you process information, how you
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output information, and then how that
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differs from other types of styles and
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how those styles can work together. So, especially when you're working
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in, you know, in the workplace, you're working in team work
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kind of efforts, or in the home place, like James mentioned,
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the two of us don't think and work the same way. But knowing
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his brain style and how he intakes information and
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outputs information, that and how that differs from me
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helps us be able to be more conscious of how to work together,
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to not cause conflict, but instead to create
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an even deeper cohesion. Again, just eye opening. To be able
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to look at yourself from an objective point,
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look at your partner in our situation in an objective point,
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and be able to learn how to think
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a little bit differently or change how you may react to something
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so that things remain productive as opposed to counter
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productive. We actually read the book and listened to
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the book. We kind of did it at the same time. I just retain more
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of the information. I think not only that, your brain works differently to process
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information both ways when you hear something as opposed
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to reading it. One of the things we learned, which I think was huge,
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and again, I wish I'd have known this all winter. Most people
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process or are capable of processing 400 words a minute,
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but most people talk at only about 150 to 200 hundred words a minute.
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So you can actually listen to an audiobook on life
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times four and retain it. And it's actually better because
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you're less likely to get distracted. So just to give you that,
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before you start listening to this book, you can listen to it a little bit
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faster. I guess it would be two times is what you can listen
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to it up to and your brain, because now you have to focus
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because your brain's working harder to process these words quicker.
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You're not getting distracted, you're not, your brain's not going on tangents, and you're missing
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out on half the information because you stopped paying attention for a minute. I think
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that's money right there for anything. You can get more done
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in less time because you can speed that up. Your brain is capable of processing
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that information and actually will probably retain more of it because you won't get distracted.
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I don't even like listening to books at the average speed or the
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normal speed. It's slow that your brain's not staying engaged
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one of the things about this book, the book is not a theory. Right?
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It's a practical, easy, proven blueprint that shows you exactly what
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to do in a mum leash your own knowledge. The book even talks
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about knowledge is not power. Power. Knowledge is how you
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use it. Power is how you use the knowledge. Yeah. Just knowing something isn't power.
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Utilizing it just to know it doesn't really do you any good unless you know
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how to use it to learn or to develop something.
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It's like the ultimate textbook for learning.
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I truly believe that if you've given up on
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learning, if you've decided that you've learned everything you need to
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learn in life, you've given up, essentially, because everything's
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constantly changing. I think it was one thing to always learn in the
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past, but in this day and age, there's so much information growing
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and changing so quickly, we're learning more. One of the facts he
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put out there is it's something crazy. Like, in the last ten years,
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we've learned more about the brain than we did in the last 1000 years.
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Information is constantly growing to give up on learning
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and gaining new information and new insight so that you
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can have more proper opinions or be better at work,
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or just be your best self. Whatever. It. It doesn't have to be work related.
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It can be for your personal life, something you're personally interested in.
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Maybe it's child learning, so that you can nurture your
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the best that you can. Whatever it is, we're always learning.
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So this book not only teaches you how to learn,
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how to learn faster, how to retain the information better, so you're
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getting the most bang for your time, you're making the most
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of every moment of your life. But he gives you actionable
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steps, as James said, to put these new skills into
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action, but then helps you determine why you
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should be a life learner, or why you want to learn, or why you need
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to get something out of this book before you even start digging into it,
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so that you stick to it, ultimately, I feel like it helps you clarify
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your goals. You don't have to be getting like James and I, we're not fighting
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to get to the top of a career. We're not fighting to be,
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you know, like we used to be the top of the restaurants
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in our company. We're fighting to be the best version of ourselves
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that we can be. And ultimately, in my opinion, that's all
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any of us could want to do, is be the best of ourselves every day,
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be better than we were yesterday. I think that this book helps you
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line that out and really get comfortable with that idea.
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So, yeah, I agree with all that. You're trying to just
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get better at life and really to not be stressed out.
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So when you're learning things faster and you're retaining more information, your work
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life balance is easier. And our work life balance, we're trying to change our
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work life balance, and this book is going to jumpstart us
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to be able to do that, to work less and to accomplish
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more. And that's what I think I foresee the book is I learned all kinds
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of great tricks on retaining information better,
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reading faster. And he uses an analogy
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about reading average person, whatever it is, reads 3200
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to 300 words a minute, something like that. However long that takes
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you, then you turn around, you can read 800 words a minute.
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Think about how much faster you're reading versus the two or 300 words a minute.
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So you actually gain more time in your day because you can
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read materials and retain it so much faster. And again, that goes outside of books.
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I mean, even if you're not going to be specifically reading books, it's going to
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help you get through those reports for work faster. It's everything
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through your emails. Yeah, exactly. It's going to help you get through those
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articles in your newsfeed that you're reading. Whatever it is, you're nailing
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that stuff out faster, which gives you more time in your life. I'm glad
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that Kara said that about the newsfeeds. He talks about eliminating
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your distractions on your phone. Most of us are in a distracted
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state. Just another one. So I think you should read the book. Another one
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of the things that he talks about on distractions is your
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phone. How many times do you get an email and you stop working and you
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check the email, then you go back to work. It actually is a proven
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fact. Multitasking doesn't work.
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I never knew that. And he dresses you in all the science around it so
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you can feel confident that's for real. That's just one of the things
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in the book. And growing up, I was a fast food manager my whole life.
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District manager, whatever. And we told managers they had to get better at multitasking.
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You got to multitask better. You got to do 510 things at once to come
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in this book to find out that that's really a big,
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big lie. You actually get more done when you focus on
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one project or one task at a time, and another
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one is the Pomodoro, you know,
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only staying focused on a project for 25 minutes. Take a
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break from it and then. Going back and a break isn't do something else,
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like go check your emails or check your social media. A break is go pee,
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go get some water, get something to eat. You're still kind of marinating and
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thinking about the task that you were doing. Your mind still on it. You're still
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finishing that project. Yeah, but you're going to get more done if
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you just give your. It's like when I work on small
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engines or vehicles or whatever, sometimes you can't
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get this bolt and you just keep doing it. It's actually better to walk
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away. And then when you go back at it, you have a new approach.
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Fresh approach. A fresh approach. And he talks about that, and I totally
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agree with that. And you should really do with everything you're doing.
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I started only reading for 25 minutes. That's what I read
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a day. 25 minutes a day. And you'd be surprised how fast you get through
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a book just reading 25. Minutes, especially if you read this limitless book first.
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I cannot believe. I mean, he talked about the potential of
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reading one book a week, and I just. I really feel like I was like,
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man, that sounds like magic. Like, only crazy people can read one book a week,
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but now I realize I'm reading two books right now. Like, I.
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a totally attainable number now with a busy life. Like,
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well, one of the other things. And it just goes back to reading. I could
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just keep going with all the things
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that he talks about, but I grew up. You read when you first started reading
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in grade school, they had you read with your finger, and you read with your
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finger to follow along as you got older. If you
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use your finger, people not didn't make fun of you.
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Maybe they made fun of you. Maybe it was bullying, or you pronounced a word
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wrong and you got away from reading with your finger.
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You read so much faster because your eyes are on that word.
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your fingers on it, less distracted. Sometimes people
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read books, and maybe you're one of these people and he'll talk about
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it in the book, so I don't want to give the whole book away.
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And there's a lot in the book. We barely scratched the surface. But you
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read a book or you're reading a paragraph, or you read one
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page and you're like, oh, did I read that
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read the paragraph again. When you use your finger, it keeps you on track.
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I really find that I started using my finger again, and I'm
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reading books a lot faster and then talks about more than just using
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your finger. But that's just one of the key things that I
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bet everybody got away from by the time they were in high school.
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Absolutely. Yeah. Overall, for our
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life, for traveling, even, to be able to have
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these tools to help us not only build our
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new podcasting business, but to work together better
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as a couple, traveling, knowing how each other's brains work. And he
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gives you so many tools, even outside of this book, help you in life,
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you know, helping us stay more organized and to plan
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things around, you know, for example, I just had to build a website and
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editing these podcasts and building blogs and creating an
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online store. All of these things were a lot. This book helped
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me be able to learn how to organize those things, put them
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in, as James mentioned, small, simple steps using the different techniques
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he teaches in the book. Not only be able to keep just hacking away
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at it little by little, but to not feel like
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all of it needs to be done yesterday. I think one of the quotes even
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in this book, and definitely in the book we're reading right now, which will more
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than likely be our next book episode, is don't let
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perfect be the enemy of good, and don't let good be the enemy of done.
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We had put off going live with our podcast because everything
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wasn't perfect. We didn't have everything lined up. And we finally
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just got to the point, like, it doesn't matter if the store isn't live,
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the website doesn't have to be absolutely on point.
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We're putting this off because we're trying to be perfect,
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but let's just get it out there and then keep changing it and molding it
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as we go. And there's a lot of things that we wanted to do at
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first, to go live that now that we have and everything's starting
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to move and flow, we're realizing things aren't as important as we
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thought they were. I think you get on top of all of these skills,
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the motivation to just do it, stop. Stop trying to be perfect
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and try to nail it all out exactly how you dreamed it up in your
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head. Sometimes it's not going to work out that way. And that's okay. It doesn't
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have to, as long as you get it done and you're happy and be happy
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with it, because you should be. You should be proud of what you achieved.
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It doesn't have to be perfect, to be great. I can't speak to it enough,
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and I do believe everybody should read it. I think everybody should read this book.
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Everybody should be a life learner. Every human should read this book and read
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many books. We are probably every time we read a book now, and probably
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even some of the ones we read over the winter, we're going to do an
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episode on. Just because some of these books are
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life changing. They like. Exactly. These books help change our life.
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Absolutely. And when you even read this book, I think the last book we read
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was in this book. So it
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was so weird that he referenced a book. Absolutely.
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That we just read and that was think and grow rich.
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And I don't want to talk about that book, but, you know, we're going to
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have an episode on that book because that book was even game changer for me.
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It really jump started us to do the podcast because it was like
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you. Had to stop talking about it and just do it. Just start
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doing something, start recording and
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start trying to, not even start trying to start
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living your dream before you're ready, just start living it.
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Because you always think, oh, when this happens, I'll be ready for that.
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When I have the house, when I have the job, when I have the car,
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when I have the spouse, when I have the kids.
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Never going to be ready. You're never going to be ready. You just need to
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do it. And that's one of the things I feel like over this winter,
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we learned, you
know, we all just had, almost every one of us
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just had a significant amount of free time over the pandemic.
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And we didn't achieve any of the things we always
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said we were going to do when we had more time, when we had more
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freedom. We didn't do any of those things. It's never going to be
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perfect. You just got to do it. And that's definitely what we gained
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out of what we read this winter. And I, I'd have read limitless first
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because I think I would have gotten more out of the other books that we
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read, not only more understanding, a more fuller picture,
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but I would have been able to read more books. It really has been for
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the two of us, a really incredible journey we've been going on, and it
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has inspired us to just go ahead and pull up the britches and
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just run. We don't have much of a safety net. We love
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Ryan and Deidre, and we love being available to, to take
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care of our grandbaby, who is t
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minus potentially three weeks from being here. But you know,
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they could tell us to leave tomorrow and we just got to figure out what
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we're going to do next. You know, we don't. We don't have much of a
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safety net. We're just going for our dreams. We just want to do it and
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we're going to do it. I think that when you do that and
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you have the confidence behind you knowing that you're capable,
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you can do it. And this book is going to help you gain that confidence.
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You can achieve anything. Anybody can achieve anything. You just got
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to let go of those limiting beliefs and put some skills in your back pocket
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that give you the confidence to know that you'll make it no matter what.
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Think that's enough? Think we gave them enough for everybody to abide and
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read this book? I hope so. I'm, again, genuinely think
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every human should read this book. I don't think anybody should continue moving
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forward in life. This book should be given in high school, probably middle school.
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It should be a textbook for kids. I believe that this book should be
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in every school. I believe the education system needs
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to be changed. And I believe that when
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you read this book, a lot of the things that he talks about
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on early learning and early child development, we all
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missed significantly.
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We never really learned how to focus. We never really learned
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how to learn. And we've been reading the same since we were in the third
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grade. We never really learned how to study. This book is
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it. I think everybody should read it. Shout out to Jim Quick.
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And the book is limitless. And he does have a whole if
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you go to quickmind.com. so that's kwik
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mind.com. of course we'll have the links in the show notes. He's got
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a whole slew of e courses. So if you don't
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want to read a book but you want the information, maybe you learn better
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by physically doing things and practicing things. Or you need to
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visually see things. He's got a whole list of courses,
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a whole bunch of stuff. Maybe in the future we'll dig in. Like, I really
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want to learn how to read even faster. Do you know President John Kennedy could
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read 1200 words a minute? That's incredible. That sounds like an amazing
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goal to me. So I would totally probably take a speed reading,
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one of his speed reading courses. But you can get a really good basic
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foundation of all kinds of skills that'll help you unlimit your life,
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unlimit yourself, and just be able to really go
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for improving your life and yourself. I'll throw this out there.
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I read 218 words a minute. There's a
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little test on the book you take and I am not. And I'm not even
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practice reading faster. I like to read faster,
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but I'm not trying to push myself to 800 words. But I'm already
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reading 450 words a minute. It's crazy.
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This book's going to upgrade your brain. You're going to learn anything faster
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and you're going to unlock your exceptional life. That's how I got
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to say it. Thanks for joining. Love you. Thank you.
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Love you. See you next time. Thanks for listening. Bye.
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