Limitless,, Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

BEFORE WE MOVE ON

The flow experience is one of the greatest highs any of us will ever experience. It is also fundamental to becoming limitless. By this point, you should have a better sense of what flow is and how to get there. Before we move on, take a little time to try out the following:


Reflect on a few times you’ve been in the flow. What were you doing? What was consistent about those experiences? How can you get back there more often?
Take out your calendar and find a spot in the next few days where you can carve out 90 minutes to two hours. This needs to be a time when you can free yourself of all distractions. Now, what are you going to do with that time to dramatically boost your productivity?
How often do you go into a project with one of the supervillains we talked about in this chapter stalking you? What can you do right now to defeat that supervillain before going into your next project?

L I M I T L E S S METHODS

THE HOW

method

meth·od (noun)
A specific process for accomplishing something, especially an orderly, logical, or systematic way of instruction.

By this point, you’ve discovered how to unleash two of the elements necessary to become limitless. You’ve learned how to approach every day with a productive mindset, and you’ve learned how to do so with an optimal level of motivation. But there’s one more M that differentiates limitless people from those who are encumbered by their limitations: method.

Methods are the procedures or processes for accomplishing something. In this context, method is the process of learning how to learn, also called meta learning. When we go through the education system, we are taught very antiquated and inefficient ways of learning, such as sub-vocalization and rote memorization. As I mentioned at the start of this book, when I was struggling as “the boy with the broken brain,” I wasn’t incapable of learning; history has shown that. But I wasn’t succeeding at learning in the way I was being taught. It wasn’t until I mastered a new way of learning—a method you will see over the course of the coming chapters—that I could finally use my brain to excel.
In this section, you’re going to learn the science of accelerated learning and meta learning in five areas: focus, study, memory, speed reading, and thinking. These are the five flagship programs that we teach to individuals and organizations at Kwik Learning. Take special note of the lead-in questions at the start of these chapters, and make sure to try out all the exercises I’ve included. Once you start using these tools, I think you’ll find yourself using them all the time—and I think you’ll be amazed at what they unlock for you.