Jim Kwik | The Growth Mindset That Changes Everything

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Welcome to the Radical Responsibility Podcast. I'm doctor Fleet Mal
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and I'm excited to guide you on a journey of
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authentic transformation. In each episode, I'll bring you insights from
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and innovative breakthroughs in health, wellness and life optimization. This
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meant to be. Let's get started. What if transformation isn't
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just about thinking differently, but feeling differently. Science shows us
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that true change happens when we align not just our minds,
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but also the neural networks in our hearts and guts.
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I invite you to join us. Clip the link to
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learn more and start your journey today. What if the
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limits you believe about your mind and memory aren't real
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at all? If simply stories and you have the power
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to rewrite them. My guest, Jim Quick, has lived with
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this truth. Once labeled as having a broken brain after
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a childhood injury, Jim discovered the incredible power of neuroplasticity
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and turned his greatest struggle into his life's mission. Today's
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a world renowned memory and accelerated learning expert training leaders
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at Harvard, Google, Nike, and beyond. In this conversation, Jim
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shares how to break free from living beliefs, build habits
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and routines that unlock your brain's full potential and reclaim
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your focus in a distracted world. If you've ever doubted
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your capacity to learn or grow, this episode will show
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you just how limitless you really are. So whether you've
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ever felt stuck, struggle with self doubt, or wonder if
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your brain was holding you back, this episode will give
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you the tools and inspiration to step into your true potential.
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Let's dive in. Miname is sleep mall your co hosts
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for this session, and I'm thrilled to be here today
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with none other than Jim Quick.
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Welcome Jim, so good to be here Fleet, Thank you.
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Everybody's tuning in.
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You know, I know that our audience, very busy entrepreneurs,
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are going to want to get right to it. We
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are going to get right to the stuff that's going
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to help you succeed in your business. But I'd like
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to just get a little bit of origin story here,
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very brief, and I know it's tough to encapsulate your story,
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but you know, just a little bit about you know
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how your journey, because it's an amazing journey of what
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you overcame and then lend you into becoming this world
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renowned expert and memory enhancement and so forth. So if
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you could just give us a snippet of that, and
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then we'll go into the how we can deliver value
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for the entrepreneurs and our audience.
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Yeah. I love sharing the practical, pragmatic, proven ways to
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up level not only your learning, but you're earning well.
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Hello Toell, my fellow entrepreneurs. I've been an entrepreneur my
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entire adult life. I've never gone a paycheck from a job.
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My inspiration was my desperation when people see me at
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events at think five thousand or all the big entrepreneur
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events where I'm speaking. Often, if there's time to do
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these demonstrations where I'll have the audience stand up, will
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pass around a microphone and maybe fifty sixty one hundred
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people introduce themselves. Then I'll memorize all their names. But
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I always tell people I don't do this to impress you.
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I do this to express to you what's possible, because
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the truth is, every single one of you listening and
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watching you could do this too, we just weren't taught.
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And remembering name is such an important business etiquet networking
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skill because how are you going to show somebody as
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an entrepreneur you're in the care for their future, their finances,
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their wellness, their family, their well whatever you have to
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offer them if you don't care enough just to remember them.
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I think memory will actually make you money. I think
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two and the most costly awards and business. All right,
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I forgot, you know, I think about the consequences. I
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forgot to do it. I forgot to bring it. I
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forgot what I just listened to. I forgot what I
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just read. I forgot to go to that meeting. I
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forgot that person's name. You know, we lose trust to
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we kill our credibility, we lose time. But when people
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I know it's possible because I grew up with very severe,
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as you know, fleet learning difficulties. When I was five
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years old in kindergarten class, I had an unfortunate accident
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or some people would say fortunate the hunt, depending on
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their point of view. I had a traumatic brain injury.
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I was rushed to the hospital, I was knocked unconscious.
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And where it really showed up was in school. I
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would have these migraines every day. When I was five,
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I have They said I was very slow. I had
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processing issues, so teachers would repeat themselves over and over
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again and I would pretend to understand, but I didn't
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really understand. I had poor focus. And think about what
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that does to an entrepreneur having poor focus. I had
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a poor memory. It took me three years Fleet just
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to learn how to read. And that was just very embarrassing, right.
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I mean, imagine you're five, six, seven, eight nine and
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you just can't do what the other kids could do.
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So it really affected my self esteem. Some people call
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it imposter syndrome. I would have this social anxiety, lack
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of self confidence, self worth, those are all issues around mindset.
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That was my mindset. When I was nine years old,
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I was slowing down a class because I didn't understand
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that I was being teased by the other kids. That's
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what kids do. And a teacher came to my defense.
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I remember she pointed to me fleet and from the
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whole class and said, leave that kid alone. That's the
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boy with the broken brain. And I was like wow,
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And she had good intentions, Rach, she wanted to protect me.
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But talk about mindset. My mindset became, oh I'm broken.
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You know. Every time I did badly in school, which
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was every day, every time I was in pick for sports,
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which was every week, and I always myself talk was, oh,
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it's because I have the broken brain. And adults have
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to be very careful of their external words because they
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often become a child's internal words. You know. And I
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love this topic of mindset and that you start with mindset.
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Limitless actually has three sections, and it's the first section
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is mindset because you know, one of those things is
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you know, your assumptions and attitudes about money, your attitudes's
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assumptions about service. And so I struggled all through school
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till I was eighteen. Eventually found a mentor and resources,
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and I realized it's not how smart you are, it's
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how are you smart. It's not how smart your kids are,
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it's how are they smart? And we all expressed genius
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in different ways. And when I was eighteen, once I
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learned these skills, I couldn't help but help other people,
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and I felt the moral obligation to do it. I
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took my mess and turned into my message. And I'm
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sure a lot of people listening they could relate. You know,
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your struggles can be strengths over time, because with challenge
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comes change. I started help other individuals. I started to tutor,
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and I remember I was tutoring in college freshmen, and
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she read thirty books in thirty days. Imagine that a
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fleet or everyone listening. Imagine going to Amazon picking up
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thirty books and reading all that in a month. And
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I wanted to find out not how she did it.
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I taught her how to speed read and remember what
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she read and understand what she read. I want to
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know why, and just like I'll mention a lot of books,
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like very iconic book Simon Sinek. We've had him on
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the podcast three or four times. His great books start
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with why. If people have seen photos of me, if
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we're connecting on social media, if you see photos with
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me with Elon or Oprah or whoever, people ask how
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we bonded, and I tell you we connected over books. Right.
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Leaders are readers. You're an avid reader. I'm an avid reader.
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Warren Buffett reads five hundred pages a day. You know,
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because our lives. There's a quote and limitless and I
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encourage everyone to write this down. You can post on
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social if you want to share with your fans, your followers.
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Life is a letter C between B and D. Life
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is C between B and D. What does that mean?
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BEA's birth and DA's death, life, c choice right. Our
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lives are the sum total of the choices we've made
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up to this point in time. And I truly believe
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these difficult times, as a lot of people view it
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as economic times or whatever, it could distract you. These
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difficult times can diminish you, or these difficult times they
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could develop you. You decide, and that's part of mindset.
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But this young lady I found out when I asked
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her why she read the books. I found out her
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mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, was only given two
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months sixty days to live, and the book she was
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reading fleet were books to save her mom's life, and
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I wish her luck prayers. Six months goes by, I
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don't hear from her, and one day I get a
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call and it's this young lady and she's crying profusely,
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just NonStop. And I find out when she stops that
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their tears of joy that her mother not only survived,
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but is really getting better. Doctors don't know how, they
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don't know why. All the doctors were calling in a miracle.
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But her mother attributed one hundred percent to her daughter,
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who learned it from this advice from all these books,
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and in that moment, I realized two things. Fleet Number One,
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if knowledge is power, then learning is our superpower. Right,
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the faster you learn, the faster you could earn because
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you can only make going back to choice, good choices
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and decisions based on the knowledge that you have, right,
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because knowledge say, it's not only power, it's profit. But
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the other thing I realized in that moment was my mission,
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my dharma in life, which is helping people to learn faster,
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to learn better. And I think if there's one skill
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for entrepreneurs to get good at, get your ability to
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learn rapidly, your ability is to learn to unlearned, to
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relearn and apply that learning. It's the ultimate competitive advantage.
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And so you know, I'm just very fortunate at being
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in my fifties. I've done this for thirty four plus years,
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you know, having had the slow brain, the broken brain,
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I want to build better, brighter brains, no brain left behind.
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So it's such an amazing story as you're talking about
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learning and self education and learning is so important to
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our success as entrepreneurs, and also you know, getting the
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right mentors and getting mentors, so you just got you know,
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you had it's very difficult school experience as a result
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of that brain injury, and then all the messaging you
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were getting from people, well intended or not, that you internalize.
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So how'd you make that leap from this? I know
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you could change your situation, you could learn, you found
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a mentor, you started learning, and then your gift was
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teaching that to others. But how did you make that leap?
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How did you go find that mentor and get into
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that process of self education and learning.
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So when I was eighteen, I was lucky enough to
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get into a university, you know, local state school, and
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I thought freshmen meant I can make a fresh start.
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So I took all these classes fleet and you know,
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I wanted to show the world that showed myself that
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I could do this. And I did worse, much much worse,
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because it was much more difficult, and I was ready
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to quit school. I'm the oldest of three siblings, and
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you know, my parents immigrated to the US. My dad
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was thirteen. He had lost both his parents, you know,
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he lived in the back of the laundromat that my
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mom worked at. Come from humble beginnings, you know, but
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just I mean, everybody has their own stories, right. We'd
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had no network, no education, no money at all. We
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all know that it's not the it's not the resources, resourcefulness, right,
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and so, but I really wanted to make my parents proud,
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and we didn't have the money to be for me
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to be in school as it was. But I was
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so pressured. I didn't know how to tell my parents
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I was going to quit school, right, I'd be the
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first one in school. And a friend of mine in
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school said, Hey, I'm going to see my family this weekend.
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Why don't you come with me and just get some space,
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some perspective. And I just want to say to the
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aspiring entrepreneurs to establish entrepreneurs, that sometimes a different point
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of view, changing the people you're around or the place
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that you're in, can dramatically change your mindset. And so
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I visit the family and the family is pretty well off,
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beautiful home on the water. The father walks me around
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his property before dinner and asked me a very innocent question,
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but honestly, it was the worst question you could ask me.
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He said, how school and fleet? I just because I
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have so much pressure and emotional like distress, I just
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start crying and balling in front of this complete strength,
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and I tell my whole story about the broken brain
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and I'm ready to quit school, don't know how to
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tell my parents. And a very smart man who was
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really my first mentor, he says, he asked a new question,
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and I really do believe questions are the answers for
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entrepreneurs and everybody. He says, Jim, why you went school
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and fleet? Honestly, I didn't have an answer for it,
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because nobody's ever asked me that. I just thought, this
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is what you do. You go to school, get a
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good job, and so on. But I didn't have an answer.
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He's like, well, what do you want to be, what
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do you want to do, what do you want to have?
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What do you want to contribute? And didn't have any
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answers for that. But he really forced me to sit
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down with this and he gave He reached out in
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his pocket, pulled out a few sheets of paper on
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his journal, throw him out and said write it down,
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which is another critical ingredient to changing our life. When
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you take your ideas and you put them on paper,
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I feel like this is the first step of manifesting something.
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You're taking something invisible in your mind and you made
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it visible outside of yourself. And I started writing down
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all the things I want to be, do, share in
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the world, and it became a bucket list. When I'm done,
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I start folding up the sheets because the exercise over,
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to put in my pocket, and he startles me because
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he grabs them out right out of my hand and
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he starts reading my dreams to himself. And I'm freaking
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out because I'm like an eighteen year old, insecure kid,
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and you know, don't want to be judged like most people.
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a business because they're afraid of what everyone would think,
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or you know what if they failed and looked bad.
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that list. I'm just spreading my next fingers like a
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foot apart. I'm like, no way, give me ten lifetimes.
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I'm not going to crack this list. And very smart man,
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he takes his index fingers and he puts them to
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side of my head, meaning what was on the inside
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my brain was my bridge or my key to my success.
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And he takes me into a room of his home
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that I've never seen before. You'd love it. It's wall,
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the wall, ceiling, the floor covered in book books. Now,
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I've never read a book, you know, up to this point,
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and I have a lot of anxiety around books at
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that time. So it's like being in a room full
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of snakes. But what makes it worse is he starts
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going the shells and pulling snakes off the shells and
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handing them to me. And when I look at the
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titles that they are these biographies of some incredible women
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and men in history and some very early personal growth books.
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I mean Norman Vincent Peel, the Power Positive Thinking, Thinking
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Grow rich right Dale Carnegie. And he says, Jim, you
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have to read to succeed. I want you to read
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one book a week. And I'm just like, hey, I mean,
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I heard my story. I'm fighting for my limitations. Because
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at these events, people invariably at conferences, business conferences up
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on me side and say, I know your memory, coach,
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I'm very embarrassed, but I have a horrible memory, right,
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and test their mindset days to say things like I'm
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too old, I'm just not smart enough. And I always
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say the same thing, and I'll say this to everyone listening.
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Stop if you fight for your limitations, you get to
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keep them. If you fight for your limitations, you get
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to keep them. They're yours. You know, your brain, this
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is an incredible supercomputer, and your self talk is a
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program that will run. So if you tell yourself I'm
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not good at remembering names, you won't remember the name
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in the next person you meet. Because you programm you're
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super appear not to And so that was that was
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my mindset. I was fighting for my limitations. And I say,
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I can't do it. You know, I can't read this,
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and I'm tell me about all the schoolwork I have
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mid terms, and he's like, Jim, don't let school get
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in the way of your education. And I mean this
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was over thirty years ago, so I didn't realize as
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a Mark Twain quote, but I was like, you're right,
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but I still won't do it. I can't commit to
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doing this. And smart man, he reaches into his pocket,
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pulls out my dream list and he starts reading every
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single one of my dreams and goals out loud. And
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I don't know if it's something about there's this complete
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stranger is obviously very successful, and you're hearing your dreams
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and his voice incanted out into the universe, and it
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messed with my mind and my spirit something fierce. And
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a lot of the things on that list were things
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I wanted to do for my parents, things that they
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could never afford, or even if they could afford, they
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wouldn't do for themselves. So when we talk about mindset,
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it's mindset is definitely an issue, but it's also our motivation,
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like the purpose behind something. And so now I found
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purpose because I wanted to take care of my family.
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So I agree to do that, and so I ended
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up going back to school. I'm sitting at my desk
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at pile A. I have a pile of books for
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my midterms, a pile of books I promised to read,
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and I couldn't get through pile A. So what do
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I do. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I don't exercise,
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I don't socialize. I just live in the library for
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weeks and one night I pass out two o'clock in
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the morning at the library, fall down a flight of stairs.
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I hit my head again, and I woke up in
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the hospital and I was out for two days. I
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was hooked up to all the ivs. At this point,
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I lost I was down to one hundred and seventeen pounds.
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was the darkest time in my life. But at that moment,
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I thought there had to be a better way. And
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to all the entrepreneurs listening, here's the lesson. The nurse
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came in with a mug of tea and on it
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was a picture of a genius Einstein, right, the opposite
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of what I felt I was. But there was a
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quote that said, the same level thinking that has created
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your problem won't solve your problem, and made me ask
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a new question. It's like, what's my problem? Well, I'm
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a broken brain. I'm very so learner. I was like, well,
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how do I think differently about it? Well, maybe I
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could fix my brain. Maybe I could learn how to
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learn faster. And I made that my focus, brain health,
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learning how to learn. And I put all that stuff
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and I really studied it, and my life transformed. And
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then I started to go that tutor it and eventually
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do it at you know, various universities. And then I
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open up a learning center and started writing books and
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podcasts and we are online courses. We have students in
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every country in the world, you know. But it all
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started from challenge, and so I want to just remind
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everyone that building a business is hard. Change can be hard,
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growth could be scary, but nothing is as hard and
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scary as being stuck somewhere you don't long. And I
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have so much respect for everyone listening because you're showing
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up for yourself. And sometimes you have to feed your
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business until your business feeds you. Right. But I love
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education and I love entrepreneurship. It's kind of my happy place.
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Wow, there's so much in what you shared, Jim, that
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really reflects the entrepreneurial journey. And I'm sure a lot
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of people, even though they may have very different circumstances
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from you what you went through. Maybe they weren't dealing
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with a traumatic head injury, but they're dealing with similar
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The story, the narrative, the hero's journey is very much
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the same and the challenge as we face. And I
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love that you brought up the motivation as well as
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mindset motivation because we can get, you know, really clear
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about what we want. We even get clear, well, we
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got to get a big purpose of big why. And
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so you made it about your parents. You know, you
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really wanted to be able to offer them opportunities that
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they didn't have or that they might not even have
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created for themselves, and you that gave you a huge purpose,
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a huge, big why to keep going. So there's just
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so many important different things in there, so you're kind of,
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you know, pointing at this all already. But in terms
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of you know, entrepreneurs just create limitless challenges on ending challenges,
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and you think you saw one, and there's the next one, right,
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and you know, we're all kind of crazy to take
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this on, but we're all it's a good kind of crazy,
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and we're all inspired. We all have some mindset of possibility,
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which obviously you always had. So we're pulling this dirrection
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to be entrepreneurs and we're looking for the freedom and
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the possibility. But then sometimes we find ourselves really stuck
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in the trenches of these challenges and we see no
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way out. So in order to really not get stuck
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in these places and not get into any kind of
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victim mindset around all this, but really thrive in the
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faces of the in the paces, as you said, it's
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really tough to start and grow a business. So in
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order to thrive in the midst of all those challenges,
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what do you think is one of the one of
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the really key mindset shifts that entrepreneurs need to make.
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It's going to get them in the right posture so
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in the face of all these challenges they can be
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thriving instead of getting pushed back and they're just surviving
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and feeling kind of victimized by their choice to be
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an entrepreneur.
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I would say, if I can install a belief in
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my younger self, or maybe even two. The person one
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would be I am one hundred percent responsible for my life,
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and that's a big one so everyone, and the second
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one would be everything is figure outable. So I remember
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years ago I got to introduce two of my favorite
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entrepreneurs together. It was Richard Branson and stan Lee Right,
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the creator of all these Marble superheroes.
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I talk a lot about superheroes, only because when I
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couldn't read, I taught myself how to read by reading
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comic books, and something about the hero's journey and the
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illustrations brought the words to life. But they wanted to
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meet each other, so we set up a dinner and
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in the car, I remember sitting there with stan Lee
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and I was like, I have to ask him this question,
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and I say, Stan, you've created all the most amazing superheroes.
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Who's your favorite? And he looks at me without a
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pause and says, Jim, it's Iron Man. And then he says, Jim,
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who's your favorite superhero? And if we're connected on social media,
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I posted the picture of us in the car. He
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had a Spider Man tie, So I say Spider Man,
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and without a pause, he says in his iconic voice,
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with great power comes great responsibility, and truth be told.
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Sometimes fleet because my head injury, I reverse things that
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I hear or read. So I heard something different. I
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was like, you're right. With great power comes great responsibility,
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and the opposite is also true. With great responsibility comes
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great power. When we take responsibility for something, we have
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great power to make it better. And I feel like entrepreneurs.
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They are a thermostat. They're not a thermometer. That's part
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of my mindset that a thermometer. It's only function. It
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reacts to the environment to whatever the temperature is. Just reacts,
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that's all it does. The thermostat doesn't do that. And
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as human beings, sometimes we do react, right. We react
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to the politics or you know, the economy, or how
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people treat us the weather. But the most happy and
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certainly most successful individuals, entrepreneurs included, they don't react as much.
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They're a thermostat. Because a thermostat doesn't react to the environment.
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The therma that gauges. It knows what's going on in
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the market, It knows what's going on outside of themselves
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as situational awareness. But it also sets temperature, and then
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what happens the environment. The environment reacts to you. And
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every day, at every moment, we're setting a temperature, a standard,
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a dream goals KPIs and I feel like entrepreneurs are
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responsible for taking the invisible in their mind and make
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an invisible outside. Right. Your brains your number one well
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building outset. It's not like thousands of years ago, you know,
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agricultural age or even industrial age, where it's just it
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was our value in society was our muscle power. Today
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it's our mind power. It's not our brute strength today,
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it's our brain strength. And so you know, I would
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start in the mindset is like I am responsible for
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my life. I have agency because all the stories that
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we say, you know, you know, and we all have
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these stories to as excuses to not level up and
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they could be completely true and valid, but nothing changes. Right. So,
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I think one of the most critical mindset shifts for
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an entrepreneur we must make to thrive in both business
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and personal is moving from this fixed mindset to growth mindset.
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Right.
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Many of your listeners are familiar with doctor Carrol Dweck's
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work out of Stanford, which involves believing that one's abilities
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and intelligence can be developed through dedication and work. You know.
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And so this mindset embraces challenges, helps you persist in
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the face of setbacks, that values effort as a pathway
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to the next level, to mastery, learning from mistakes, learning
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from criticism. So I would say for entrepreneurs adopting a
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growth mindset, it influences everything your daily decision making. It
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encourages innovation, creativity. It enables an individual to see opportunities
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where others might see obstacles, you know, as part of
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the mindset, and this shift is crucial you know, to
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embrace risk.
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Right.
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It allows entrepreneurs to step out of their comforts zones
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and experiment with new ideas without being paralyzed fear of failure.
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Right.
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And I don't remind people comfort zone it's a nice
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place to visit, but nothing grows there. Right. Life is
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difficult for one of two reasons. Either you're leaving your
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comfort zone you're starting that business, you're building a new
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market or new product, whatever, or life is difficult because
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you're staying in your comfort zone. And you know, so
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you just have to choose your heart, you know, every
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every day. And I just think entrepreneurs, some people say
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they're born, other people think they're built. If it's a
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nature or nurture, you know. I think there's definitely a
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combination of both with individuals. But I do believe everybody is,
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as my book is titled, can be more limitless.
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Absolutely, And I love that you're starting there because for me,
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this is so critical and you spoke about it before
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with the between the B and the D is the
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C right choice? Right? And I love this name of
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my book is Radical responsibility. That's what everything I've been
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teaching for years. Growth mindset is really nice spot. And
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my next book is called Radical Self Mastery. So I
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want to lead into that and talk about self mastery
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from a neurobiological perspective, because you've learned so much about
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the brain and if you could talk a little bit about.
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I think it can really open up possibilities for people
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because some of us and sum our audience may be
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more familiar with current neuroscience than others, and some may
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be even more or less familiar with the whole idea
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of neuroplasticity altogether, which opens up limitless possibilities. And it's
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only been a couple of decades that we really realized
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that our brains are neuroplastic. We used to think that
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the brain you have by the time your adult was
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the brain you were stuck with it if anything had
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diminished in its capacity over the years. We now know
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that's radically not true. So could you talk about the
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pathway to self mastery, to mastering the mindset and the
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skills of an entrepreneur from the perspective of how we're
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actually really reshaping our neural architecture and creating a new
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brain my favorite.
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So, we have eighty six billion brain cells neurons, and
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each of those brain cells has about ten can have
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upwards of ten one thousand synaptic connections, and if you're
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to extrapolate that, that's more connections than that there are
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stars in the known universe. We've discovered more about your
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brain in the past twenty years than the previous two
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thousand years combined. And what we found is we're grossly
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underestimating our own capabilities in a large part because of neuroplasticity.
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So neuroplasticity is your brain's ability to reorganize itself, forming
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new neural connections throughout your life. So you could grow older,
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but in a lot of ways, we could level up
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and grow wiser. So it's all about adaptability. You know,
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I really feel like what genius is, it's awareness and adaptability.
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You know, awareness on the market and also knowledge by
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itself is not power. It has the potential to be
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power when we activate it, and so we have to
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be able to adapt in an ever changing world of
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technology and data. So this adaptability can be a very
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powerful tool for my fellow entrepreneurs. You know, you could
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apply this neuroplasticity towards overcoming limiting beliefs, right, enhancing problem
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solving skills, reading faster, improving your memory. It's continuously refining
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your mental frameworks for success. So, as an example where neuroplasticity,
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we use it in our courses challenging limiting beliefs. Right,
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there's a whole process. For even something simple like if
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you find yourself saying I don't have a great memory,
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that awareness is important and then you adapt I don't
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have great memory. Just add a little word like yet
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at the end, it just feels different. If people truly
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understood how powerful their mind is, they wouldn't say something
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or think something they didn't want to be true. That's
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not to say you have one negative thought it ruins
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your life or your business anymore than eating a donut
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or ruin your life. But if you ate that donut
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thirty times a day, every single day, there will be
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a consequence. It's hard to produce a positive life with
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a negative mind. So neuroplasticity, this is the formation of
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you know, our neural networks to have beliefs, and knowing
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that you know, I'm sure everyone here has a belief
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that they have now that you know previously they're embarrassed
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that they believe the opposite you know, at some time earlier.
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Neuroplastisy comes into play with focused learning and practice to
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develop stronger problem solving skills, which I think that's what
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an entrepreneur is is a professional problem solver, right, They
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solve problems, they create jobs, they move the economy. Entrepreneurs
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can engage in deliberate practice and targeted learning because the
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way neuroplacity is enhanced is three things. Novelty, nutrition, and sleep.
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Just like building physical muscles, if you want to go
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to you to the gym, you give your muscles novelty,
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some kind of stimulus, some kind of challenge. Then you
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have to give it nutrition, right, you give it the
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right you know, amino acids to be able to grow,
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and then you sleep. Because you don't build muscles in
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the gym, you build muscles when you sleep. Same thing.
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Neuroplasticity takes place mostly when you're sleeping, so you stimulate
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it during the day. You give it proper nutrition and
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we could talk about all the best brain foods and
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brain supplements, and then you sleep, and that's how it happens.
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But focus learning is a way of providing novelty. And
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then I'll also say with neuroplasticity, very important tools mindfulness, meditation.
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I know we hear that a lot. For me, it's
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not about being enlightened, you know, taking ten minutes a day,
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maybe even once or twice a day. It's about training
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my focus because every single time my thoughts go to
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something else and I bring it back to my breath
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or bring it back to a mantra. I am strengthening
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those neuro connections neuroplasticity. So when I'm distracted later in
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the day at work, I have a tool and a
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pathway a web that I've trained to be able to
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come back to being present on what's most important. So
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mindfulness helps maintain brain health and improves cognitive flexibility and
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allows entrepreneurs to better adapt to challenging circumstances and think
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quicker on their feet. And so all of these things
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are you know, but also could help in neuroplastasy. Physical exercise.
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When you exercise, you create something called b dn F
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brain derived neurotropic factors, which is like fertilizer for neuroplasticity,
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you know. Plus it increases blood flow to the brain.
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So we talked about the learning, the physical, exercise, nutrition, sleep,
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and then the last thing I'll mention just it's not
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just your neurological networks, it's your social networks. And you
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know a lot about this. You know when we go
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to meetings like at TLC Transformational Leadership Council, or you know,
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business events people might go to business conferences. Exposing yourself
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to different perspectives and ideas through networking could also stimulate neuroplasticity.
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Engaging with a diverse group, participating in collaborative discussions and projects.
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When you get that novelty of new concepts, new approaches,
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it challenges your brain to rethink existing strategies and adapt.
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And so, yeah, neuroplasticity is really the key that your
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brain is not fixed like your shoe size. You you
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get better over time.
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And you pointed to how we can actually increase neuroplasticity.
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Exercise increases BNP and increases neurolasticity. Mindfulness not only helps
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develop all the capacities cognitive flexibility, to emotional balance, all
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these things focused, but it also increases neuroplasticity. So you
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talked about a lot of things we can do that.
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I love that you talked about beliefs and the power
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of beliefs. And I think one of the most debilitating
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limiting beliefs is just I am the way I am.
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I've got to always been this way. I don't believe
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I can be different. And you know, we have a
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strong need for identity as human beings and we'll build
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our identity around a lot of negative stuff. But it's
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scary to let go of that because if that isn't
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who I am, then who would I be? Well, I
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have to step into the unknown, and that's kind of scary, right,
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you know, unlimited beliefs. It's so important to understand that
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we do have all this conditioning already, that we got
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all this download from our parents, well intended or not,
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but we got that download. We got it from our culture,
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the authority figures in school and so forth. We got
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this whole download that we had nothing to say about.
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We had no input into it, and it will drive
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our lives until it doesn't unless we look at it
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and see most of these limiting beliefs to do with
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the idea of I'm not enough in all the different
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ways to succeed or be this way or that way,
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and there's not enough to go around scarcity mentality, right,
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So how do we get out of those kind of
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belief structures, both in terms of the psychology of it,
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but also developing the brain of having the mindset of
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success a brain, a success oriented brain, the belief structure
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that I can succeed because and you mentioned a thermostat before.
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Most of us have some kind of sort of financial
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or money or success blueprint that acts like a thermostat,
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and you know, I can only.
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Go that far.
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Maybe it's a little better than our parents did, or
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it's this or that, and if we start hitting the ceiling,
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we'll start self sabotaging to get back in that zone.
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And we're doing that unconsciously because we're in you know.
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So that's where our service set is set. It's set
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at seventy two degrees. I mean, it's not going to
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go up to seventy four, right, So I wonder if
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you could talk about how we create the mindset of success,
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the mindset of abundance. It's going to start to loosen
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up those self impose limitations.
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Let's do it. I'm going to show a visual if
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that's okay, because I'm like in coaching mode. I encourage
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everyone to take some notes here because returning is clean
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and I into like a masterclass on mindset. So this
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is one of the ways of learning faster is to
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be active. Right. Learning is not a spectator sport. The
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brain doesn't learn through consumption as well it does creation.
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So I want you to take a sheet of paper
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and or in your mind, but ideally write it down
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and draw a little box like a cube like this,
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like a little cube. And you know, entrepreneurs value their
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freedom almost above all else. They want to do what
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they want, when they want, with who they want, for
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as long as they want. And a lot of people
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pursue that path for that reason. Help is who they want,
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work with who they want. But sometimes the opposite of freedom,
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right is limitation. And so where do you feel like
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you're stuck in that box? So, as an entrepreneur or
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as an individual, I wan't you think about drawbox and
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imagine an area of your life where you feel stuck.
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Because limitless is not about being perfect. Limitless is about
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advancing and progressing beyond what you're currently demonstrating or what
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you believe is possible. But where the opposite of it
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is you're stuck. So where do you feel like you're
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in a stuck You're stuck in your reading speed, in
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your memory, maybe your income, you know, or you're a
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belief in yourself. Where do you feel stuck? You're not
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making progress, You're in a box. Now, this box, by definition,
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is three dimensional, so there are three forces that keep
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you stuck in this box. And these are the same
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three forces that will liberate you and unlock this box.
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And I represent those three forces with a ven diagram.
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So just draw a ven diagram, which is just three
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intersecting circles like Mickey Mouse two years at a face,
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and these are the three keys to becoming limitless. And
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you'll see everyone's teachings fall into this framework. All right,
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So they're three ms. The last M, by the way,
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which I'll say, is that face our methods, right, the
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last one the circle our methodology. Because everybody wants to
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know what to do. What do they do to raise capital,
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what do they do to market their product? How do
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they master social media? You know, the methods for financial
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independence and investing right, or maybe methods for reading faster,
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improving your memory or losing weight? Right. Everybody wants to
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know the methodology. Now, when I wrote Limitless, the book
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was one hundred percent methodology, and I was ready to
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send it to my publisher, and I asked myself this question,
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Remember questions are the answer? I said, will one hundred
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percent of the people who read this book and the
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results they're hoping for? And my honesty answer was no,
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because it was all methodology. And you know this fleet
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like a lot of people know what to do, but
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they're not doing what they know because it's not a
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knowledge by itself, is not powered as the potential power
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when we apply it. So I had to add two
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ms to unlock to set up an environment where people
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would do the methods naturally. And the first M is mindset.
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And that's why I love starting the week with mindset.
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Mindset I'm going to define as the set. It's mindset, right,
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the set of assumptions or attitudes you have about something.
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Mindset or the set of assumptions or attitudes you have
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about something. So let's say in the box, you feel
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like you're stuck with your income money, right, But because
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your mindset is your assumptions and attitudes about money, money
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doesn't grown trees. Money's the root of all evil. Money
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and to make money you have to hurt people, right
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that a bund that's scarcely mattitude. If you have it,
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then somebody else is not going to have it. Right. So,
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no matter what you could have learned great methods or
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marketing or fundraising or you know, building your wealth, but
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your mindset is that I don't deserve it. Like three
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things I would say in mindset that's very raw for everybody.
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Number One, what I believe is possible. Number Two, what
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I believe I'm capable of. You could believe fleet could
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do it or somebody else could do it, but do
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you believe you could do it? So three keys to
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mindset that would fall underneath there. What I believe is possible,
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what I believe I'm capable of, because you might believe
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it's possible, but you're not capable of it. And number three,
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what I believe I deserve. Right, if you don't believe
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you could deserve to be healthy, or deserve to be smart,
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or deserve to make money, or deserve to be happy,
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that your mindset, then you're still going to be stuck
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in this box, right. And so mindset, if you believe
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you can, I believe you can. Either way, you're right, right.
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Henry Ford said that. So awareness as entrepreneurs, I think
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that's why people go to therapy or they journal or
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they meditate to get better understanding of who they are.
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But the second and final am you could have a
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limitless mindset and a limitless methods meaning the best methods
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to get you to your goal, but you could still
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be stuck in that box if you don't have the
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second M which we talked about motivation, right, because if
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you're not motivated to get out of that box, you're
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not going to get out of that box. And here's
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the simple formula to motivate yourself and to motivate other people,
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to your kids to clean their room, or somebody to
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invest in your company, or somebody to buy your product
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three keys. The formula is P times E times S three.
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And I'm drinking lots of water because one of the
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most important things for your brain is staying hydrated. Just
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being dehydrated two percent could affect your cognitive health and performance.
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And staying hydrated everyone could boost your reaction time. You're
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thinking speed upwards of thirty percent. This motivation P times
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E times S three. So let's say you want to
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read more, right, you know, I feel like you know reading.
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If somebody has decades of experience like you do, and
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you put into a book which you've done, and somebody
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could sit down in a few days and read that
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book and they could download decades of wisdom and insights
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in days, there's no bigger advantage for an entrepreneur period. Right,
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there's reasons why all these individuals read and are really
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like self taught. And so I would say. And also,
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by the way, everyone always asked me on social media
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in different places on stage, what's the best brain exercise,
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what's the best app, what's the best whatever? Reading? By far,
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reading is to your mind, what exercises to your body.
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Everybody who's interested in hacks these days, it could be
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that reading is the ultimate hack.
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It really is. Like I have a video with I
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was on sets. I have a lot of actors speed
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read scripts, memorize lines, be focused on camera. And I
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remember I was working with Will Smith and we did
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a quick video. I say and asked him, like, what's
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the key to you know, being sharp and everything? He said,
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I have to do two things every single day. I
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read and I run. I have to do something activity
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mental and physical, so very important. So the p let's
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say we're to apply this towards reading. Right, you want
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to read an hour a day or thirty minutes a day,
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but you're not doing it. You're stuck in that box.
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You know what to do, but you're not doing what
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you know. Common sense is not common practice. The PA
802
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stands for purpose, And this is a word that's often used.
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The way I use purpose is a feeling. I believe
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the success formula is H cubed. It has to go
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from your head to your heart, then it'll go to
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your hands, meaning you could set goals in your head, dreams, visions,
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KPIs in your head, but if you're not acting consistently
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Q or consistently with your hands, check in with the
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second H, which is your heart. Now, word, does the
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heart symbolize emotions? Because we are not logical, right? People
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don't biologically. They buy emotionally right, and they justify logically,
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we are not logical, but we are biological. If you
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think about dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphins, we are this chemical
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feeling soup. But if we don't feel something, we're not
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going to do it. And so the P stands for
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purpose and so a lot of people know the reasons.
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I would say reasons reap results. Reasons reap results meaning
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I remember a few years ago I saw someone in
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my neighborhood and I didn't recognize them, but they came
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up to me and I was like, have you ever
821
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seen somebody kind of know who it is, but you
822
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don't really know, like where you know the person from.
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And that's tough for me because I'm like a memory expert.
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But he says hello, and once I heard his voice,
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I knew exactly who he was, but he looked completely different.
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That's why I didn't recognize him. And the backstory, this
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person is very unhealthy in the past when I've known
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him my whole life, and like they're like the time
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i've known him, very overweighted, very bad vices. But when
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I saw him that day, he was like he looked younger,
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he had this glow right, he just see lost all
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his weight. He was just look fit. And I was like,
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I believe genius leaves clues, right, someone's doing something you
834
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could find out there's clues there. And I say, what
835
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are you doing? You look amazing, and he tells me
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everything he's doing, and I'm like, well I am, and
837
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our friends have been telling you to do that for years,
838
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you know, and you never did it. He actually doesn't
839
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talk about identity, which is you talk a lot about
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he took pride and be unhealthy and smoking and doing
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the things right. He's like, yeah, but you know a
842
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few years ago I was on a business trip and
843
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I came home and my daughter was crying hysterically, like uncontrollably,
844
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and I find out she had a nightmare that I
845
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died and that her father died and wasn't there to
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be with her. And I'd even thinking about just I
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just to remember that conversation. It became purpose. It wasn't
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just intellectually. He knew intellectually he should stop smoking and
849
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lose the way, to eat better and so on, but
850
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he wasn't doing it until he felt and he had
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a reason. So P is purpose. So you need to
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make it not cognitive but more emotional. But that E.
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Somebody could have purpose and still not be motivated to
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work out or to read or start that business because
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you need E, which is energy. I realized that some
856
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times when you're exhausted, you're not motivated, right, And so
857
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here's the key, Like if you ate a big process meal,
858
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you're not going to be very motivated and you're in
859
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a food coma to be able to study that day,
860
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or if you didn't, like we have a newborn and
861
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sleep has been a challenge. If you're not sleeping well,
862
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you're not gonna be very motivated to work out right,
863
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:24.760
And so the E is energy and the principle here
864
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:27.840
is I want to remind everyone you don't have energy.
865
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You generate energy, you don't have it a big part
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of our work and I would challenge the entrepreneurs listening
867
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to do this. Train yourself to take the nouns in
868
00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.360
your life and turn them into verbs. What does that mean?
869
00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:48.480
A lot of our limitations come from We're hypnotized right
870
00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:52.440
through marketing, our media. We're hypnotized that we're not enough,
871
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:55.199
that we need to be fixed, that we're broken whatever, right,
872
00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:58.079
or it's not coming from the external world, it's coming
873
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:02.119
from the internal world. We're sell it's self hypnosis right
874
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by the words we're saying to ourselves, you know. And
875
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so when you say you don't have a good memory,
876
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and that becomes a belief, you know, I think a
877
00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:11.599
lot of these are lies, and I want to call
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00:45:11.639 --> 00:45:15.239
people on their bs, their belief systems. It's not true
879
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.519
you can't remember someone's name. It's a lie. It's a
880
00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:21.480
limited idea entertain I use a lot of acronyms lie
881
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:25.119
limited idea that we're entertaining, And a limited idea entertaining
882
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:27.920
is that we have energy. We don't have energy. We
883
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.519
create energy. And so when you take that noun and
884
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:33.559
turn to verb, like you don't have focus, you do focus.
885
00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:36.719
You don't have a memory. There's a three step process
886
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:39.360
for memorizing something. You encode it, you store it, you
887
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:43.079
retrieve it. You don't even have motivation. There's a process
888
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for motivating yourself. And so sometimes I think the nature
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of your work and my work, and many of our
890
00:45:48.800 --> 00:45:52.000
collective work, it's about transcending. I mean, look at the
891
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:56.559
word transcend. You're ending the trance the hypnosis that we
892
00:45:56.639 --> 00:45:59.719
have either externally or internally. And so you take the noun,
893
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:02.159
turn into a verb, and you say, I don't you
894
00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:06.440
know for energy, I don't have energy. It's I do it.
895
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I generate it through my sleep, through my diet, through
896
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my stress management, through my meditation. You generate energy. Now, finally,
897
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though somebody could have the purpose to work out and exercise,
898
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they could have the energy to do so, but sometimes
899
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they don't do it because they need S three, which
900
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is the final part of the formula. S three stands
901
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for small simple steps. And I realize that sometimes people
902
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don't do something. You're not motivated either because you don't
903
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have purpose. Or connected to the purpose, or you don't
904
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have the energy or exhausted, or that thing is too intimidating,
905
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or that thing is too big. Some of us like like,
906
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maybe going to the gym, you know, for an hour,
907
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or reading a book for thirty minutes, is too big
908
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of a step if that's not part of your natural routine.
909
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:56.039
So small simple steps for reading. Maybe it's opening up
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the book. Maybe going to the gym is too big
911
00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:01.719
of a step. Maybe we are to working out. Maybe
912
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putting on your running shoes is a small, simple step.
913
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And I want to remind everyone inch by inch, it's
914
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a cinch. Yard by yard, it's just too hard, you know.
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On our podcast, you Know we have with Doune over
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four hundred episodes, we recently interviewed one of the top
917
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biological dentists in the world, and we're talking about oral
918
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.840
hygiene and brain health, and we're talking about things beyond
919
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rushing your teeth, things like oil pullings, tongues, scraping us everything.
920
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:29.719
And we talked about flossing and I was like, well,
921
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how do we get our kids to floss? And because
922
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that might be a big new habit, you break it down,
923
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get them to floss one tooth, because nobody's going to
924
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stop with one tooth. And so how do you break
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something down so simple for not only yourself but other
926
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people you want to motivate. If people aren't buying from
927
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you or generatly, maybe have these micro commitments make me
928
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you're making it too big or they're too intimidated to
929
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buy your product. How can you break it down to
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00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.840
a small, simple step, because little by little, little becomes
931
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a lot. And so that's the formula for limitless motivation.
932
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You have purpose, you have energy, and you have small, clear,
933
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simple steps, and you can motivate yourself, you can motivate
934
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somebody else.
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And so clear and helpful. And I hope audience is
936
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really hearing all these really pity acronyms and steps and phrases.
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I hope people are going to write down a lot
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of these and post them around where you can remind
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yourself of these us.
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If you posted, please tag fleep, you know, and the
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team and myself so we get to see it. You know.
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I think one of the best ways to learn something
943
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faster is to teach it to somebody else, because when
944
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you teach it, it's called the explanation effect. When you
945
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learn something with the intention of explaining to somebody else,
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you're going to learn it so much better.
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We just about a lot of time here, and I
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want to give you a minute to talk about a
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wonderful free offer you're going to offer to our audience
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so where they can be introduced to your work. But
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just the one last thing you know you mentioned meditation.
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You're talking about a lot of other self education disciplines,
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self master disciplines.
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This is something we need to do on a daydaily basis.
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If meditation is going to be powpable, you need to
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do it every day. Right. So the idea of practice,
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because with neuroplasticity is the idea that neurons that fire together,
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wire together wouldn't cultivate states of minds. They're very temporary,
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but if you cultivate again and again, they become traits,
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right because we've literally changed the brain. Don't want if
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you could just say something quickly about the importance of
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daily routines and daily practices and then we'll wrap up.
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Absolutely, So if leave first, you create your habits, and
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your habits create you. You create your habits of exercising,
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eating well, prioritizing your sleep, meditating and that creates you
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back right. In order to be able to win the day,
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you have to win that first hour of the day.
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So you know, having a solid morning routine, evening routine
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so very valuable for entrepreneurs. I tell people while I
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teach processes and the free gift will help people read faster,
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improve their memory and everything. That's the software, but you
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have to take care of the hardware, which is the brain.
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This three pound matter between your ears. So I would
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say make sure in your daily routine you add your
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meds and this anacronym meditation. We talked about the power
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of disconnecting, to reconnect right, to train your focus, to
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manage your stress, because chronic stress will shrink your brain.
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That's your number one wealth building asset. If you're in
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fight or flight all the time, it creates cortosol adrenaline
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not the best chronically, so m and meds meditation. So
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I want to do that each day, even t ten
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minutes and people say I'm too busy to meditate for
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ten minutes. If you're so busy you can't allocate ten minutes,
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you probably need to do it for an hour. The
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E is exercise. Remember this as your body moves, your
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brain grooves. And I'm not just talking about going to
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the gym to do plot these three times a week.
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I'm talking about moving throughout the day. Like you'll notice,
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I'm standing at a standing desk, which is I think
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one of the best investments ever. But as your body moves,
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your brain grooves, you create dopamine, serotonin, endorphins BDNF, all
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the important things. Blood flow to your brain. Yet they
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say sitting is a new smoking, and so I'm saying
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is take a brain brak throughout the day, a brain
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break five minutes where you could do three things. Hydrate,
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which we talked about the power water, Breathe because a
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lot of times when we're sitting or we're reading, some
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people fall asleep because they're colaps, they're posted, they're collapsing
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their diaphragm and the lower one third of your lungs
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absorbs two thirds of the oxygen and that's why you're tired.
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And the third thing you could do during your brain break,
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you say, is hydrate and breathe. Move your body then,
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so very very very important. So that's the e The
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d is in meds is your diet. You know this.
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Everyone knows this, but this is just a coach reminding
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you what you eat matters, especially for your gray matter.
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There are certain foods and everyone's a little bioindividual. You
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go to a functional nutritionists or doctor. You might have
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allergies to certain foods, but what you eat matter, especially
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for your gray matter. You know some of my favorite
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brain foods avocados, blueberries, broccoli. It's high in sulfur faan,
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which is very good for your common health. Olive oil,
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eggs if your diet allows the colin, and eggs the
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precursor for aceety colin which is important for continent health
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and performance. Really be vet to the ball as ikale
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and spinach. Also some kind of wild salmon or sardine,
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so you get your omega three's your dhas, which is
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so very important your brain's mostly fat. Tumeric is an
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interesting one. The active ingredient ARREA is kirkcumin which helps
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the lower systemic inflammation. Walnuts great snack food, high envitamin EE,
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very neuroprotective, and everyone's favorite dark chocolate, non milk chocolate,
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but dark chocolate, but your diet. And on the other side,
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I sugar. The glucose spikes. You know that affects your
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insulin resistance could affect your brain also as well, fried
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foods and everything on the other side. And then finally
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the s and meds in your daily routine. Please prioritize
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your sleep. Here's the thing for your brain. When you sleep,
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that's where you consolidate short to long term memory. So
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if you have long term memory issues, do a sleep study.
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You might be suffering from sleep apne or something else,
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and you can now do it at home. Your doctor
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could prescribe it, send it to you at home, very simple
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and easy. When you sleep, the sewage system also kicks
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in in your brain and you clean out the beta
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ammale plaque. And this is something I'm very passionate about FLEET.
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When I was going through my learning challenges, my grandmother
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started showing early signs of dementia and she eventually passed
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of Alzheimer's when I was seven. So we donated all
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the proceeds to Limitless to Alzheimer's research for women, women
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are twice as likely experienced Alzheimer's than men, in memory
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of my grandmother, and we also donated to build schools.
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We built schools everywhere from Ghana, Guanmala, Kenya, for children
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have no access to school. Plus we provide healthcare, clean
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water and so on. So I do believe for entrepreneurs
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you learn to earn to return, you know, and that's
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a very important part of just my ethos. So the
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s again sleep make it help mitigate the brain aging challenges.
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And so my favorite sleep and I don't know how
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your sleep is fleet, but my favorite tips and there's
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a whole chapter on it, and limitless when you wake up,
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get direct sunlight even if it's hazy or it's foggy.
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Your eyes only part of your brain that's outside of
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your skull and helps reset your circadian rhythm, which I'll
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be sleep better that night. Number two, if you're sensitive
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caffeine like I am, no caffeine passed like noon or
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maybe one o'clock in the afternoon, because it could stain
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your system for ten hours plus and some people could
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stay up for that reason. And then two my favorite
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actually three, if you have an alarm clock to wake up,
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please use that alarm clock to go to sleep. Your
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brain loves a cycle, you know, and staying on a schedule,
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even on the weekend, so the degree you could go
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to bed at the same time and wake up at
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the same time. Overall sleep will be better. And the
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other two is thousands of years ago, we would know
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it would be time to sleep because the environment would
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tell you there'd be a reduction in two environmental factors.
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It would get cooler temperature and light. So to the
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degree you can make it cooler, not where you're shivering
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and it's keeping you up. Or take a warm bath
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or a sauna or a hot shower Ebsen salt bath,
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which the magnesium will help you relax. Also, but when
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you get out of that shower, your core body temperature
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will drop, which is a trigger a signal for your
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body to produce melatonin, which is the hormone to help
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you to relax. And as dark as possible will help
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you to be able to sleep. So I would say
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your daily routine is very important. But Duke University says
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forty percent of our behavior roughly is automatic, habitual, unconscious. Right,
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and when do we sit down actually design our day,
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which will eventually design our business and our life. And
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I would say make sure you integrate your meds.
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Really powerful acrin in there there was a masterclass just
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in that last paths for there, so tell us about
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the free gift.
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You're going to offer so people can find out more
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about your work. Yeah, people would like to connect. I mean,
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first of all, ninety five percent of what we publish
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00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:42.239
is free, so you could go if you want information,
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00:55:42.679 --> 00:55:46.440
two free gifts. If you want information on well researched
1091
00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:49.840
supplements to boost your brain power with human studies, you
1092
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:52.480
go to brain nutrition dot com. Or it's in all
1093
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in the book, but there's thirty different substances that have
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been shown to improve focus or memory, enhance mood, enhance
1095
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mental energy. But if you don't want to get the book,
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you go to brain nutrition dot com and get that.
1097
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And I linked to all the studies. But the other
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one is the big one. You've heard about, personalized medicine
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based on an assessment like a DNA test, personalized nutrition
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based on like a microbiome test or a food sensitivity test.
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We created a test for everyone listening for personalized learning
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and performance. So it's not how smart you are, it's
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how are you smart? And everybody has a different kind
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of brain, and we've identified four main brain types. And
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if you go to my brainanimal dot com you could
1106
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take a four minute multiple choice assessment and we'll give
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00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:42.159
you for free a report on how to read faster,
1108
00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:45.960
which is very important for entrepreneurs, how to remember names,
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00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:49.320
how to make better decisions, how to solve problems, how
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to hire, how to manage based on brain types. So
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00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:55.559
my brain Animal dot Com. And what I would challenge
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everyone to do is we have all these all this
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00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:00.039
artwork that comes with if you're working on video, so
1114
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it's a code. You're either a cheetah. See so a
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00:57:03.880 --> 00:57:08.440
cheetah is action oriented, an owl is logic d and
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code is dolphin, which is your creatives and your visionaries
1117
00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:15.400
and your ease or your elephants which are mpaths. But
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once you know your brain type or even more important
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the brain also important the brain type of your team
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or the brain type of your potential customer, because you
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would sell to an owl who's logical, different than you
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00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:29.480
would sell to an elephant, which is who's empathetic. Right,
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And it's funny. We had our team take the assessment
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and one hundred percent of our customer service team we
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found out we're elephants. They're highly empathetic. There are community builders.
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They want our community to feel seen and heard. Our
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CFO is an owl needs to see the data and
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numbers every single day. So it's a wonderful tool because
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the key to be, whether it's entrepreneur, an educator or
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00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:56.920
anybody else, have the curiosity to know yourself. And then
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the second part, have the courage to be yourself, you know,
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because I truly believe Fleet that there's a version of
1133
00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:06.239
yourself that's patiently waiting. And the goal as we show
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up every single day until we're introduced. But I would
1135
00:58:09.960 --> 00:58:11.719
love for people have to take an assessment, take a
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screenshot of their animal, post it on social media, tag Fleet,
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00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:18.199
tag myself so we get to see it, and you
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00:58:18.199 --> 00:58:20.079
can post the link to my brain animals, so you know,
1139
00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:21.920
text it to your family, your friends, because I'll be
1140
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:23.920
very enlightening. You'll get the free report on how to
1141
00:58:23.960 --> 00:58:27.079
read faster, improve your memory, and I'll actually give at
1142
00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:29.239
random since you tag us, I get to see it.
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00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:32.519
We'll send out three copies of my book Limitless as
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00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:36.039
a thank you randomly to people who post it as
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00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:36.639
a thank you.
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Wonderful, fabulous. This has been an incredible masterclass on mindset.
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Jim Quick, thank you so much, absolutely fabulous. I just
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can't imagine how you could add more value in the
1149
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time we just spent together, And I really encourage your audience.
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This is one you're probably going to want to read
1151
00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:55.480
and watch and listen to several times and then take
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00:58:55.559 --> 00:58:58.840
notes to pick up all the really pithy, incredibly pithy
1153
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:04.079
and powful distinctions and menomic devices and acronyms and things
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00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:05.239
that Jim just shared with us.
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So powerful. Thank you so much, Thank you Slee, thanks
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for the rare work.
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You too, Thank you for joining me on the Radical
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Responsibility Podcast. Remember, real change happens when we commit to
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00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:18.320
our growth, face our challenges with compassion, and stay open
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00:59:18.360 --> 00:59:21.920
to transformation. If you found this episode helpful, I encourage
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you to subscribe and help us spread the message of
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00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:28.400
healing and personal empowerment. Stay grounded, stay present, and stay
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true to you. Take care