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

Create a list of the things you value the most. Now prioritize that list and think about how this aligns with your definition of yourself.

T is for Time-based: The phrase, “A goal is a dream with a deadline” comes to mind.

The second secret to a limitless life is your motivation. Jim outlines three key elements to motivation. First, your purpose. The reason why matters. I want to age well and am committed to lifting weights and getting stronger even though it is not my favorite thing to do. The purpose supersedes the discomfort.

Just remember the acronym HEAR:

Here’s the formula: Motivation = Purpose × Energy × S3

Here’s the bottom line: Plasticity means that your learning, and indeed your life, is not fixed.

“Our brain appears to strengthen a memory each time we recall it, and at the same time forget irrelevant memories that are distracting us,”

think with the ideas held in working memory, which can only be accessed at high speed from the brain’s stored memory.

S is for State