How to Unlock Genius and Uncover Your Superpower

Jim Kwik

Impact Theory

Tom Bilyeu

Inspirational Video

Jim Kwik is a globally recognized leader in memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. In his lifetime, he’s sustained two traumatic brain injuries that left him with significant learning disabilities. But despite the obstacles he had to overcome in recovery, he became obsessed with the brain and its superpower-like capabilities. He has now turned his obsession into a revolutionary accelerated learning system that has helped numerous celebrity clients and students in over 150 countries. Jim Kwik sits down with Tom Bilyeu to discuss intriguing insights in hacking the brain in this week’s episode of Impact Theory.

Unleash the Genius Within You

Unleash the Genius Within You

Jim Kwik

London Real

Brian Rose

Inspiring Video

Jim Kwik the renowned expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning.

After a childhood brain injury leaving him learning-challenged, he overcame it by creating strategies to dramatically enhance his mental performance. Jim have since dedicated his life to helping others unleash their own brain-power, and serve as a coach to many of the world’s leading CEOs and Celebrities, including Elon Musk, Will Smith, and the cast of Xmen. His message is that “Knowledge is power, learning is a superpower”.

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5 Steps to More Creative Brain

5 Steps to More Creative Brain

James Clear

In this insightful article James Clear explains how the creative process works to generate great ideas. Creative thinking is one of the most useful skills to have. You  can benefit from innovative solutions, lateral thinking, and creative ideas.

You can learn to be creative by using the five steps. Uncovering your creative genius needs courage and regular practice

The 5 Stages of the Creative Process

In 1940, an advertising executive named James Webb Young published a short guide titled, A Technique for Producing Ideas. According to Young, creative thinking is not about generating something new from a blank slate, but rather about taking what is already present and combining those bits and pieces in a way that has not been done previously.

Most important, the ability to generate new combinations depends upon your ability to see the relationships between various concepts. If you can form a new link between two old ideas, you have done something creative.

Young believed this process of creative connection always occurred in five steps.

1.   Gather new material. At first, you learn. During this stage you focus on 1) learning specific material directly related to your task and 2) learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts.

2. Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind. During this stage, you examine what you have learned by looking at the facts from different angles and experimenting with fitting various ideas together.

3. Step away from the problem. Next, you put the problem completely out of your mind and go do something else that excites you and energizes you.

4. Let your idea return to you. At some point, but only after you have stopped thinking about it, your idea will come back to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy.

5. Shape and develop your idea based on feedback. For any idea to succeed, you must release it out into the world, submit it to criticism, and adapt it as needed.

The creative process is the act of making new connections between old ideas. Thus, we can say creative thinking is the task of recognizing relationships between concepts.

One way to approach creative challenges is by following the five-step process of

1) gathering material,

2) intensely working over the material in your mind,

3) stepping away from the problem,

4) allowing the idea to come back to you naturally, and

5) testing your idea in the real world and adjusting it based on feedback.

Being creative isn't about being the first (or only) person to think of an idea. More often, creativity is about connecting ideas.

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Build the Brain you Want

After watching this, your Brain will not be the same

Lara Boyd

Lara Boyd discusses growing research regarding neuroplasticity and the implication of it for stimulating learning.

How we Learn?

Why some learn easily as compared to others

What we know about brain is changing at a rapid rate

Misconceptions

Brain cannot change after puberty

You use only part of brain – in fact most of the brain is always active even when you are relaxing and doing nothing

Neuroplasticity is a significant discovery of recent times

Changes in the brain are happening all the time

Brain can change in three ways to stimulate learning

1.  Chemical: Chemical signals called neuron signify brain activity. Concentration of these chemicals can increase to stimulate learning. It improves short term memory

2.  Altering the Physical Structure: Changing physical structure is a slow process. It improves long term memory.

3.  Altering its Functions: As you use more a particular region of the brain, it becomes excitable or activated making it easier to use again

 What is that limits or facilitates neuroplasticity

Your Behavior is the primary driver of neuroplasticity. Therefore all the limitations arise from it. You can remove these by changing your behavior.

Neuroplasticity needs constant practice of new behavior to make the change permanent or long lasting.

Neuroplasticity can be positive or negative. Addiction to drugs or alcohol can bring about harmful changes in the brain. It can be corrected by persistent change in the behavior.

There is no recipe for quick learning. There are individual differences. Some quickly learn Mathematics; others may be proficient in languages. Some pick up sports easily while others may master various musical instruments quickly.

The common belief that 10,000 hours are needed to master a skill is not quite true. Some may need considerably less while others may need much more.

Studying the individual variations has led to growth of personalized medicines and personalized therapies.

Study how and what you learn best. Repeat those behaviors.

Break those habits that hamper learning in your case.

Go out, build the brain you want.

5 Ways to Hack Your Brain into Awesomeness

Article Summary

Brain is interesting and the fact we are using brain to find more about brain itself, more so. Joe DB, in this article explains how we can hack our brain into awesomeness and make it do what we want.

#5. Think You Got a Good Night's Sleep (After Only Two Hours of Actual Sleep)

Because of internet and all other various reasons, we barely get to sleep at night and the morning sadly doesn’t really waits for us. But there is one way to sleep less and still look as fresh as a daisy the next day.

It's called the Uberman Sleep Schedule, and it is not only the name which looks interesting. Its working is fascinating too. It is a schedule which consists of 20-30 minute power naps, every four hours during the day. It certainly is not easy, but can very effectively increase your waking hours.

It works by providing brain, only the REM sleep which is hour and half of our normal sleep, and is the most essential as it is what actually keeps our brain active and sharp. However, by taking these power naps we’re actually providing brain with two hours of REM sleep which is half hour more than normal. It is definitely a tough but worth it schedule to follow.

#4 Hallucinate Like You Just Took LSD, Legally

How to get legally high? Joe explains, in these simple five steps –

Step 1: Turn the radio to a station with just white noise (static), and put on your headphones.

Step 2: Cut the ping-pong ball in half and tape each half over your eyes.

Step 3: Turn the red light so it's facing your eyes.

Step 4: Sit there for at least a half an hour.

Step 5: Follow Ben Franklin and your new friend, Harold the unicorn, into the gumdrop forest, and live happily ever after.

It's called the Ganzfeld effect, and it works by blocking out most of the signals that go to your brain. The sound of the white noise and the light from the outside of the ping pong ball are ignored by our brain. With all those signals not reaching our brain, it has to create its own, and this is where the hallucinations actually begin.

#3 Dream Whatever You Want to Dream

But dreams are out of our control? Well, not really. It is where the Lucid Dreaming comes in. It is an ability to control our dreams, once we realize it is actually a dream and many of us are not unfamiliar with it. But how do we do it on purpose? Joe narrows it down to the following point –

1. Keep a Dream Journal. Joe says, that as soon as you wake up from a dream, write down every little thing you can remember about it. Writing it down can help you can recall them easily.

2. Think about exactly what you want to dream right before you fall asleep.

3. According to Joe, the best time to have a lucid dream is either right before you regularly wake up, or right after.

It works on the fact that in a dream state, our mind mostly loses the ability to criticize because dreaming just doesn't involve the critical part of our brain.

But if we try to change our mental state even if slightly, that critical part of our brain can keep functioning even while dreaming. And it can actually make us dream whatever we want to.

#2 Learn More While You Sleep

Minor changes in sleeping pattern can actually benefit us. But how do we do it? The way Joe suggests is to not study right up until the time for the exam. Study at least 24 hours before, and sleep on it.

It works on the fact that our brain can reform information in mainly three forms namely, acquisition, consolidation and recall. The first and last occur while we're awake, but the middle one is what happens during sleep. It is because our brain often process information during sleep which it couldn’t during the day’s chaos. Totally worth the try.

#1 Believe Something Happened (That Totally Didn't)

Our memory more often than not is not exactly reliable, especially the one we used to have as a child. Most things we remember from childhood are either inaccurate or just plainly false. Our brain just makes up events, they’re just elaborate constructions of our memory.

So what if there’s a way to do this on purpose? To hack our brain into believing (and actually "seeing") a completely made-up event that never actually happened?

The trick is to let somebody else do it for you. It is very easy to manipulate our memories. Just talk about one instance and even if it didn’t happen, one will certainly have some memory related to it.

It works on the fact that our brain has no certain speed when it comes to memorizing. It remembers what it wants to and creates memories whenever it wants to. Our brain simply remembers more important stuff, and as for the less important stuff we can simply manipulate them into becoming happy memories.

Ruchika Verma

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