How to Develop an Ageless Brain: Jim Kwik’s Best Tips

0:00Okay, first of all, congratulations on the home stretch. How many people have had an amazing past few days, Rizhren? Incredible, right? How many people believe what you put in is what you get out of something, right? Because what you put in, you get to keep, right? And so what I want you to do here is I'm going to push you. Is that okay for the next hour? As a personal trainer to encourage you to get you to do one more lap. How many people did work with some of the workouts here with the team? And that's what a coach does, right? Get you to do it one more time. One more set because that's the intensity that gives you the results that you want to be able to have. So I'm going to push you with your permission in the next 60 minutes. And I'm going to share with you not only strategies on how to employ and really use the things that you learned, but also give you some tips on how to have an ageless mind. How do you use your mind to be able to affect your longevity?

1:03And so what I like everybody to do is stand up real quick. I was just getting comfortable. Stretch out your body. Now there was a stretch out your body. You'd be here with me. There was a study done by a Harvard psychologist. Her name was Ellen Langer. And this was back in the 70s. In 1979, she was noticing, she was looking at nursing homes, right? Senior homes. And are these some of the, how many people have ever spent some time in a visiting friends family in a senior nursing home? It was all about, she was there. She's like, this is not the best place for people to thrive. Can you raise your hand if you agree with that? And she was like, what does environment, how does the environment affect our health? How is the environment? And she did this experiment where she took eight seniors. They were in their 70s. And she took them. And she brought them to a monastery, right?

2:06A place where they're going to spend one week. And this, it was a special kind of place because once these individuals, and the number of them had canes and they were walking out of the van, and they were just told here that you're going to go in this place, we're going to play a fun experiment. And you're going to pretend that it was 20 years ago. So instead of 1979, it's going to be what? 1959. And you're going to go there and you're going to have conversations and you're going to act as if you are 20 years younger. And she set up the environment to be able to support that. So everything that was on the news was current news. Every, the magazine and the newspapers, reflecting current times there. And they had things that wouldn't get them out of state. There were no mirrors there for them to see themselves even, right? And so they wanted to create this environment for about one week. And they had another control group of guys and men that were in another environment.

3:06But there were, the environment, it was in a change environment. They were just told to reminisce about 20 years ago. You see the difference? Or one, it was really structured as if it was 1959. The other environment, they're telling these, the subjects, these men who were in their 70s also, just to just talk about the 1959s, right? What it was like to be back then. And then after one week, what do you think happened? What do you think happened after a one week of them deeply immersed as if it was 1959? Very young. Very young. And now what does that mean? How do you measure that, right? Well, they did it by physical strength. They gained physical strength. They're just one week of being in this environment. They had better hearing. After one week, they had better eyesight. And their cognitive performance, like their intelligence actually improved. They did better on memory tests after just one week. And how many people believe your environment affects your psychology? Raise your hand, right? And so that's the power we have of the power of imagination.

4:10And you think about how you can employ that towards your own personal growth and your own longevity. Now, when I'm talking about imagination, who has imagination in space? Who are the fastest learners on the planet? Children. How fast can children learn things? A musical instrument or language compared to an adult, right? Because part of the, yes, part of their nervous system is still jelling. And they ask lots of questions. And they have an imagination, right? And they also, what? What do children do all the time? They want to play, right? And then when I say play, you're thinking, when's the last time you actually played? You're like, just right before we got here. Which is amazing, right? And that's why I like environments like this. Because as we grow older, it's the thing is, people say, well, I stop playing because, you know, I'm growing older, right? But I think it's actually the opposite. That you grow older because you stop playing. Does that make sense? And so it's not just about living longer.

5:10It's about living better. And so how many people are willing to play like children at least this session? Raise your hand. All right, let's test this. I want you to get into groups of three right now. Three people you do not know. Find three people you do not know if you need a group. Raise your hand. Go, go. So we're going to play a game here. So we talked about the power of imagination and the power environment it has in terms of your longevity, your lifespan and the quality of your life. I want to talk about the power of play. And we're doing exercise here. Now in order to be able to do this, I'm also going to incorporate three keys to really get the most out of your learning and your life on going from here on out. And we're going to play a game. How many people here like superheroes raise your hand? Okay, what we're going to do is we're going to play like superheroes. And one of the reasons why we're going to do this is we're going to step into new emotional states that are really key to accelerated learning. And what we're going to talk about is the states of play, the states of focus and the

6:13states of courage or confidence. How many people want one or more of those three? Play. Raise your hand if you like to have more play and you're like more fun. Would it reflect in your business, in your career, if you're more playful in your relationships, have more enjoyment there? What about focus? Raise your hand if you like to bring more focus in your life. Yes, would you be able to get more done and be able to be healthier, to be able to live longer? Yes, yes. The third thing is confidence. How many people would like to have more boldness, courage, confidence raise your hand? Well that helps you to be able to pursue your dreams, to be able to get yourself to do things that are uncomfortable. Yes or yes. So we're going to be able to do this through getting it into our body because my whole precept, though, we teach with super brain and our podcast is that knowledge is not enough. You know too much information. You've probably forgotten more about personal development and personal growth than most people will you know will ever learn in their lifetime. Is that fair? That you probably have lost and forgotten all this.

7:14So knowledge is not enough because knowledge is not power. It's only what? Potential power. It only becomes power when we what? When we use it and we utilize it. So for me, it's about getting it from your head to your heart to your hands. That's power. Take it from your head and move it through the energy of your heart, the emotion, then you can act with your hands. Because how many people have ever learned something really important like the past few days? Raise your hand if you learn something powerful. Now what's the odds of people employing that the next day after we leave here? It's very low for two reasons. Number one, most people forget it. 80% of what you learn is gone within two days. But the other reason why is people don't use it because it's not in their body. And I want to get you this play, this focus, and this courage in your body. And we're going to use the archetype of superheroes. We're all in this superhero journey, if you will. And so three of my favorite superheroes, what we're going to do is we're going to role model them and we're going to act as if, just like these gentlemen did in their 70s, they were

8:15acting as if they were in their 50s, we're going to act as if we're eight years old. So we're all going to have lots of years to our life. So what we're going to do is let's do this. I want everybody to show me what Spider-Man looks like. What's his move? You're going to just Spider-Man move. So everyone's just to be clear, you're spinning the webs, right? So you're going to like that. And it's funny how you had the sound there automatically, right? So show your partners what Spider-Man looks like. And what I want you to think of is Spider-Man for you moving forward is going to represent play, play. Because if you read the comic books, if you watch the shows, the movies, he's very playful when he's battling and he's going out doing that. Because he's a teenager, right? And so he's very, very playful, but that allows him flexibility and flexibility is power. You know, any kind of system, those who have the most flexibility will win as opposed to somebody who only has one way of reacting or responding. Does that make sense? And Game Theory? So you want to have that flexibility, but what allows you to have flexibility is play.

9:17That's why Daniela did this movement and being free like that allows you flexibility to be able to get a better result. But you've got to get it in your body. Because yes, you learn through visual and you can learn through how many people like to learn things by seeing it. Raise your hand. How many people are seeing it's nice or reading it's nice, but you like to have a discussion and hear it and listen to it. And then raise your hand if those two things are valid, but for you, what's most real is you want to get it in your body. You want to roll up your sleeves and do it. That's how you understand things. So those visual, auditory and kinesthetic, and when you stack all three, you accelerate your learning. Does that make sense? Because using more of your senses, your nervous system. So what you're going to do is when I ask you to do spider-man, you're going to actually do the move. So show your partners what spider-man looks like one more time. Now watch this. The difference. I want you to do it again. But this time, be playful like you're eight years old. One, two, three, go. And that playfulness, and that playfulness will get it in your body.

10:18That playfulness, you could feel it in your body, right? The other reason why we do this is that information is not enough. Remember, do this. Information, do this. Say this. Information, combine with emotion becomes a long-term memory. One more time. Information, combine with emotion becomes a long-term memory. And that's the state. All learning is state dependent. Life is emotions, right? Even time. You know, we don't even know how to define time most of the times, but how many people have ever felt something where you felt like time went by really slow. How many people have ever felt something in different kind of motion where time just stood still, right? Because time is a feeling, right? It's an emotion. And so you want to get that emotion in your body because all information, all learning, is state dependent. So you want to add the emotion to it. So one more time, spider-man, go. Very nice. Now come back. Now, the second one I want you to think about is focus.

11:22And now for me, the superhero that represents focus for me is Black Panther because they're such amazing innovators. And what's the move for Black Panther for those of you know? So you're going to make a fist like this, you're going to bring it to your chest like this, right? Does everyone show you partners what that looks like? Wakanda. So Wakanda, come back center. Wakanda is known for their innovation, for their level of focus and battle, for the level of being able to their creativity. These are these, how many people here would like to have better focus and creativity? Innovation, right? So everyone do the move, show your partners. Very good. And then finally, the last move is about courage, it's about boldness, it's about confidence. And I want everybody to do the wonder woman pose. Show your partner what the wonder woman pose looks like. Show your group what the wonder woman pose.

12:23Okay. Very nice. Now how many people have saw this study that was done at Harvard, Amy Cuddy about doing the wonder woman pose? What are the results from that? More confidence? Yes, what else? Better outcomes, right? Because you're more confident, it boosts your testosterone, gives you more courage and boldness, because does your physiology affect your psychology? Of course it does, and you know that as your body moves, your brain grooves. And so everybody again, let's do your confidence pose, show your team wonder woman. Very nice. Now, here's what we're going to do. Look back center. What we're going to do now is we're going to play a game. We're going to play a playful game because you are a child, and this is our monastery here where we're going to pretend we're eight years old again. We're eight years old, you're going to use your imagination. We always know imagination is more powerful than what? Knowledge, who said that? Einstein said that because knowledge is what is, but imagination is what could be.

13:26All the things in your life that you want to create are going to come out of your imagination. We do an annual event in our audience. We had the author of the four agreements, Don McGill, and I was like, oh please, would you mind coming up here and just sharing some of your thoughts? We had this deep conversation and I asked him, what's your superpower? I want to know, you're a superhero to so many. What would you say is your superpower? He says, Jim, my superpower is the same as everybody superpower here. It's the superpower of imagination. Right? That's the power. If you want to be able to create an incredible life and you want to be a thermostat where you're setting the goals and it's happening as opposed to responding like a thermometer, you need that power of imagination. You're going to tap into your imagination here in a moment. What I'm going to ask you to do right now is go back to back. Go back to back with your partners. All three or four of you, all of you back to back. Not just two. What I'm going to ask you to do here in a moment, you don't have to, you don't link arms,

14:31you don't have to link arms. Go back to back. In a moment, I'm going to go one, two, three. When I say three, I want you to immediately turn around and you're going to choose one of the moves. Spider-man, Black Panther or who? Or Wonder Woman. What I want you to do is I want you to pretend you have another superpower. That's a superpower of mind-renig. Empathy. I want you to pretend you're Professor X or Jean Grey and that you're really mind-melding with your new partners, your new friends. I want you to do the best you can to be able to do the same superhero. Does that make sense? I want you to think connect. Connect with your new friends right now, energetically, mentally, surely connect and think of a superhero. In a moment, I'm going to go one, two, three. All of you are going to turn around to face each other and then be that superhero. The goal is to pick the same one. If you pick the same one, I want you to celebrate like an eight-year-old. What are you going to do?

15:32Show me. What are you? No, like really celebrate. What are you going to do? All right, fantastic. Ready? One, two, three. All right. Raise your hand if you won that time. Raise your hand for Group One. All right, we want to get more winners here. Go back to back. Let's try it again. Back to back. Shhh. Now, you're thinking of a superhero. You're tapping into your inner eight-year-old. So right now, you've gained longevity right now just a session alone. Isn't that great? Because you're acting like an eight-year-old. We know by acting as if based on the Ellen Langer study out of Harvard that you're ready gaining age. You're beginning time. You're able to live longer, right? So I want you to think about a superhero. In this time, you're thinking, oh, is she going to switch it on me?

16:33Ready? One, two, three. All right. We got to get more. Who won that time? Raise your hand. All right, let's do it one more time. Last time. Go back to back. Last time. Back to back. Go back to back. Shhh. Now, really, like, put your fingers by your temples right now. Just really tune in to your part. What are they thinking right now? You're thinking, like, and honestly, if you mess this up, it's not your fault. It's their fault. Tune in to it. Group mind. How many people believe there's a universal mind or a group mind, right? A mastermind that went to or more people get together. They could create amazing things when there's clarity. Are you ready? Are you ready? One, two, three. All right.

17:38Now, what I want you to do is link up arms with your partner. Link up arms with your partner. You don't have to go in a circle. Not as full circle, just a line. Then what I want you to do is find one more group and link up with them. Now you have three and three, six. Go. I'm going to teach you 10 ways of keeping your mind ageless and your brain strong. It's going to add years to your life and life to your years. What I want to do first is I really want to anchor the information that you learned. Meaning again, you could have a lot of notes and a lot of you have a lot of notes. How many people took some notes over the past few days, right? By the way, if you've gone through superbrain, we do a whole note tick. How many superbrains are in the room? I think we actually go through step by step how to take notes, which is very important in terms of your retention. What I want you to do here is we know that knowledge is not power. We don't need to know any more information.

18:39We need to apply the information when you already know. That's what I feel is most important. Utilize what you know. I'm not saying don't continue to learn. Of course, do that. Again, the habit of learning something to implement it. That's why I learned everything that I learned. I just want to learn it so I can apply it and I can learn it so I can teach it to somebody else. Because I have that intention, your intent matters. Does your intent matter in life? When you want to remember someone's name, does that intention matter? When you want to be able to make a sale, does your intention behind that make a difference? Yes or yes? Because nothing sells like caring. Nothing sells like sincere interest in somebody. You don't have to use a tactic. You just have to really care. What I would say is the reason why I want to learn is I want to learn so I can use it because I don't want to just have information in my head. I have lots of information in my head. But the other thing is I want to learn it so I can pass it on to somebody else. So what we're going to do is we're going to employ both of those things. You learned incredible amount over the past few days. What I want you to do is to grab a pen or a notebook or your phone if you don't have

19:44a place to write. I want you to just write down three things. Write down three things that you picked up. Sites, ideas, strategies, resources. Something that's just worth you employing. Something maybe that you could fear out to do. So take out a piece of paper. There's paper on the sides also as well. You can write it in your phone. I just want you to write three ahas. Does everybody know what an ahas is? Like those eurekas. I call them quickening. Something that you learn is just like, okay, maybe you might have known that thing before. But because you heard it at this time of your life, it is especially meaningful. Write those down. At this event. At this event. Very good distinction. What did you pick up the past few days? I just want you to write three ideas. Ideally something you can employ and do. A workout, an exercise. I want you to just want to write it down and capture it.

20:45Three things. If you have your notebook, you can just go through your notebook and that would be easy to circle three things. An inspiration and idea, a strategy, a resource, a person you're going to call. The past few days you have a lot of data and you want to turn that data into doing. There's too much information. You're drowning information but you're starving for practical wisdom. One of those nuggets that's going to serve you. That you would look back a year from now, three years from now, ten years from now, having done that thing, acted on that, knowing you're in a totally different place. More incredibly beautiful place because you took action on that one thing. It doesn't have to be profound. The most amazing things I found are the things that are so simple.

21:47It's the things that we just put aside. The people, I know you're not here because you want to dabble because you want to be here. You're here because you want to become on that path, the mastery. Maybe we never reach a level where we call ourselves master or have that identity, but we're on a path. The simple things I find are the most powerful. I'm going to talk about the ten keys after this on what you could do to increase your lifespan and improve your, have an ageless mind and they're so simple and common sense. Does everybody have three things? Does anyone need more time? Okay. What I want you to do is to circle the one thing that just, it's talking to you. You feel more energy in that one thing. Just circle that one thing, that idea, that inspiration, that individual, that instruction, that one thing. What I want you to do now is I just want you to take a moment just for a few minutes. We're going to go around in your group and I want you to share that one thing.

22:50What is the one thing that you're taking away? It's not just limited to one thing, but I want you to share that with your grouping. Just go around. Now the person who starts is the person with the shortest hair. The shortest person with the shortest hair in the group, they start. And then you could go listen, listen, don't start yet, don't start yet. The shortest hair, shhh. And you're going to go counterclockwise because the name of the study that Ellen Langer did out of Harvard where she took people from 1979, put them in 1959. It was called the counterclockwise study. So I want you to counterclockwise from the shortest hair and you're going to share your big ah-ha with the group. Ready? Go. Okay, give your group a round of applause. Let's get some ah-ha's. Just raise your hand. Let's share with the room here. Raise your hand if you want to share one thing that you received out of A Fest so far.

23:53We have Mike Runners just saying anyone raising the perfect. Your name where you're from and you're ah-ha. I had to look at my label. Yeah, for your name. My father, I'm from London and my ah-ha moment was something I sort of intrinsically knew but hadn't quite figured out which was that wonderful quote that went up earlier today which was about, your life isn't about me, it's about everyone you touch. I think that was probably the most profound thing that I've learned. Fantastic, let's give a hand. It's not about me, it's about we, very nice. Yes. Your name where you're from and your big ah-ha. I'm Madelina and I'm from Seattle, Washington, in the United States. My biggest ah-ha moment for my conversations with all these amazing conversations with people that I've had here is that I feel every single person that I've come across and

24:56I've spoken with is like a guide. It's here for a reason. It's not just accidental. It's really for a reason is there to give us a message that we're supposed to pay attention and listen to in a sense that there are like a spiritual guide giving us a message. And I've had so many messages from every single person I've spoken with so I just want to say thank you to all of us, all of you that gave me such profound and ah-ha messages. Let's give a round of applause. How many people believe that everybody could be your teacher, Ray Shahan? Certainly, I believe that the life we live are the lessons we teach. And everybody could be a shining example or they could also be a warning also to us also as well, but everybody could be our teacher. And imagine just having that attitude just going around, just you're learning never, ever stops. Yes?

25:57Hey everyone, I'm Maru. I am from Venezuela. I live in Dallas, Texas and my biggest ah-ha, it was so big I could have left that day was the first morning. I honestly thought this year there was something wrong with me. I am generally full of life and the life of the party I've been building an online business for six years now in the first morning. Vision says that loneliness is worse for health than obesity and smoking. And I realized I think to myself, oh my gosh, there's nothing wrong with me. I've just been lonely because I've been behind my laptop and doing what I do because I had to. And so that thought and that concept and that explanation was beyond liberating and healing. And you are healer as well, my friend. I did your workshop and I started feeling like I was blocked or like there was something wrong with me and I realized that I just didn't know how to learn and I didn't know learning could be so sexy. So thank you. All right, let's go.

26:58For how many entrepreneurs could relate to that also where you're just by yourself all the time or maybe on a computer. And it's interesting with social media because it's great because we get to see our friends that are family get easy updates but there's a disconnect also there as well. I want to notice that I just want to recognize that there's a theme here. Do you ever want to see it like there's a common thread that's going on here? What is it? They're community, right? Connection, me, to we, not feeling lonely. By the way, loneliness is, it increases your chance of dementia, 65%. I mean, 60, that's what the newest research is saying. So that sense of connection is so very important. And I feel like that, yes, entrepreneurs, you could hustle and you could be strong but also asking for help. Is that strength? When you need it. Is this a courage to be able to do that and connect with individuals? And so that's really good for your brain because your brain is not, your performance in your

27:59longevity is not just based on your biological networks or even your cognitive neurological networks. It's based on your social networks because that's why they say who you spend time with is who you what? It's who you become and we know that because we could repeat all these things but are we practicing that in terms of who we choose to be in our life and also who we allow to be in our life also as well because how many people here you're challenged because you're going to be going home and then maybe some of those people aren't necessarily vibrating at the highest level for where you are in your life, raise your hand. And it's interesting because can you choose, can you choose and make a conscious choice on who, even if it's family, you could love your family but you could choose the people that have that expectation for you, right? And who you're going to give that, who you're going to allow to have that power or that control if you will. One more, does somebody have something burning just raise your hand?

28:59Hey everybody. Hey, I've got one over here. Okay, what do you do? One here and then we'll finish here. Yes. So I'm Spencer from Miami, Florida. So simplification, intensity and structure and you were talking about sharpening the saw. I was thinking about my life, how it wouldn't even be mattering if I was sharpening the saw if I'm trying to like saw all these different materials because I'm bringing way too many things into my life. And so I feel like a lot of the purpose and passion, I've really figured out but between 10X and learning faster and all these things, it's really about clearing out the distraction and doing the things that I already know which is like paying attention and increasing my physiology and being really present with someone. But that made a massive, massive difference in like how clearly I can see how to create the space for a success moving forward. Let's come around to a plus.

30:00A couple of those points. Simplicity, I love that word because I'm really what I'm looking for. Anybody can make things more complex and that's just the truth. Anything can make anybody can make things more complicated and it takes, how many people here do you feel like you're an expert at something, raise your hand. And so for me an expert is able to communicate something in a way where they make it more elegant because they've gone through the trial and error, they've made the mistakes and they could focus on the things that really, really matter. And so elegance for me. The other thing is when we're talking about intensity like these workouts, notice that again raise your hand if you do, if you want to do one of the workouts here, 10X. The reason why it works, everything works like this. It's all based on frequency, duration and intensity. Learning is the same way. Just like if you want to build your physical muscle, it's not just, so if you could do frequency, repetitions. You could do duration meaning you could go and spend more time at the gym.

31:03You could also make it so intense that, would you say I like intensity because we do that with the memory training for those of you who went through a super brain. As we make experiences so intense, you don't need the frequency and duration. Because what's the challenge with frequency and duration? It takes time. The time is the one that's your most valuable asset period and that's the one thing you can't get back. But when you make something more intense, for those of you who are in, how many people, business owners or sales, raise your hand? That's marketing, right? Much sales. You could do frequency meaning somebody, you could show and add many, many times, you could run Facebook ads many, many times, frequency. Duration is you could do longer sales meetings. You could do infomercials, 30 minutes, like sales videos, duration, or your message could be so intense that there's no cycle, right? Somebody just hears it and hits them emotionally where it really counts and then there's a purchase. So look at things in terms of short cutting in the world we live in today.

32:04We don't necessarily have the time for frequency like repeating things over and over again. I don't have the time to repeat a name 50 times in my head. I don't have the time to rehearse a presentation 100 times over and over again because if you use intensity, that's how your neurological muscles work also, all right? So that's a incredible shortcut. And so we're always looking for these kind of strategies, Aaron brother. Name where you're from and what was your big? So my name is Aaron from the States. The big takeaway for me was on day zero with Eric talking about the visual and auditory and kinesthetic changes in terms of speaking and teaching. I do a lot of that from stage and working with groups around longevity through love and understanding that the way in which everyone receives and understands love is through different means and to feel that slow, gentle speech or the fast, intense intensity that lightens up from within and to be able to communicate that and also seeing that through the last few days away in which different speakers communicate their message and what connects

33:06to mean, what connects to others really hit home and it's something I can take away into the work from doing the world. I love that Aaron. Let's give a hand. Just like there are love strategies or love languages, we all have preferences in terms of our criteria of what's most important, how we like to be communicated with. Try this. Everyone take out a piece of paper and just write your first and last name, just not a piece of paper, first and last name. If you're typing, you don't have to hand just one hand, type it. Then when you're done, switch hands and with your opposite hand, write below it, write your first and last name. Now if it's not on a digital device, I just want you to show your neighbor. If you wrote it down. By the way, definitively, and I'll just put this out there for those who are willing to entertain this, my life is a bunch of experiments.

34:08Because I want to practice this, there's a difference between handwriting your notes and digital recording. Which one do you think is more effective when it comes to retention and comprehension? Hand writing, hands down. If you listen to that podcast episode, I do about note taking. How many people have listened to my show? Raise your hand. So everybody here has a podcast app. If you search Jim Quick in the podcast app, we have a show. Our team has a show, it's only 10, 15 minutes long on how to do these things. There's no advertising, no sponsors or anything. There's an episode on how to take notes, how to change your habits and all these great things. So, taking notes with your hands, and I'm not going to go through the reasons why, is actually better for your understanding and your comprehension. But my point in this is now that you wrote it with your dominant hand and non-dominant show your neighbors the difference. Show your neighbors what you came up with. Okay, come back. So here, which one was easier? One or two?

35:10One. Which one was more comfortable? One or two? Which one was higher quality? One or two? One. Hopefully, one, right? So here's the thing. You're saying number two took longer. It was more uncomfortable and the quality wasn't quite as good. And my point in bringing this up is this. Have you ever tried to learn something? It could be a subject you're very interested in. But for some reason, you're just not getting it. Have you ever had days like that? Because you're working with somebody trying to learn it? Maybe you're trying to learn it with the opposite hand. Does that make sense? So it took longer. And the quality was in as good. And it felt a little uncomfortable and you don't know why. Maybe because the way you prefer to learn is different than the teacher's way of teaching. Does that make sense? So maybe metaphorically, you're two ships in the night and you literally pass each other and you don't even recognize the other ones there. There's no connection, right? You beings are the same way. So when you have ways that you prefer to learn, let's take visual auditory kinesthetic because that's a simplified, simple way of looking at it.

36:11Some people like to learn visually if a teacher is teaching differently, you might get part of it but you're not getting all of it. Does that make sense? And so with love languages, it's very much the same way. Even how people communicate with each other, you could see somebody who's very learning styles visual and somebody who's very auditory. And then somebody who's very visual, they tend to speak faster, right? And auditory seems more level. Kinesthetic people talk slower, right? Because it takes more time to get in touch with your feelings. Visual people talk really fast because the picture is worth what? Thousand words. You have to keep up with the thousand words. That's really fast, right? That's why we went with our speed reading program. We get people visual because they can process the thousand words really, really fast. Get them in visual mode, right? Visual people also use very visual words. When I say you have a bright future, what mode is that? What's the word? Bright. Bright. If I say that sounds good to me, sounds good what you're saying. What mode am I in? Auditorial. If I say I don't get, I'm learning. I remember talking about learning. I just can't get a grasp around that.

37:12Can't get my hands around it. What's that? Kinesthetic. So you see how these things, but it also shows up in your breathing, in your posture, in your eye movements. When I ask people to do visual experiments and I have to do visualized success and I ask you to visualize like what you want to be able to learn and we take tests and actors and teach them how to memorize their scripts and they make it visual. Look at your partners, just look at that right now, it shows your teammate. I want you to just remember how many windows are in your home. Just how many windows are in your home? Just kind of like notice where your eyes go when you're thinking about this. Now for the most part, where did your partners look? Up, right? Because when you look up, you tend to send more blood flow to your visual cortex, which helps you to be able to imagine or remember things that you see. Now by the way, there's a difference. When you look up and to the right, it helps you to visually imagine something. Now when you look up and to the left, it helps you to visually remember something.

38:14You can only visualize and picture two things. Either something you remember, like the windows in your home or something that's imagined that you've never seen before. Creativity. Does that make sense? Did anyone ever see that movie? Was a negotiator with Samuel Jackson and Kevin Spacey? Anyone see that, raise your hand? Remember the scene where Samuel Jackson was interrogating somebody and he says, you're lying. He's like, how do you know? He's like, you're looking up and to the right. Because visually talking about something, he's imagining. Now I don't want you to go back to your spouses and your kids and become a human lie detector. And now this isn't an exact science, but like anything, there are tendency and traits. Does that make sense? And it's allowing. But it's neurological. And once you want to end now, these little distinctions, are these useful to know as a coach? Who here is a parent, raise your hand? Who here has children? Who here was once a child? Who has a relationship with the human being, raise your hand?

39:14These are useful things to know about strategies, love strategies, learning strategies. Learning comes down to strategies. So you're making things simple. You're making them intense and you're looking at the strategy because there's always a method behind the magic. And if you were to walk out with any one thing from my contribution here with you, is that genius leaves clues. Genius leaves clues. That if somebody is a genius, and I don't mean IQ, that's the thing I'm least impressed with. I'm talking about somebody who excels in their expertise, that they're doing something other people aren't doing. People who could read three times faster are doing things that people who weren't taught are doing. People who can learn languages, two, three, four languages easier, they're doing things unconsciously other people aren't doing. Pick up a musical instrument. How many people want to do one of those things or more? There are strategies to genius. And that's what the breadth of our work is, is helping make those strategies very explicit. So then when I memorize 100 people, like you see me at AFES, memorize names and numbers

40:18and words, that there's a method because there's no such thing as a good or bad memory, there's just a train memory and an untrained memory. And this takes this off of you because if you're not good at this, it's just we weren't taught. It's the equivalent of somebody being, you know, somebody not being good at ice skating. And you wouldn't be upset at that person or blame that person if they never took a lesson in ice skating, right? It's the same thing with reading, it's the same thing with all the things. Focus. Class had me took a focus class, a class on memory, class on imagination, productivity, you know, creativity, problem solving. So if you're not great at that, we just weren't taught. And these are all things that are taught. And so when we're done here, I'm going to share with you the 10 keys for unlocking what I call your superhero brain, right? Your super brain, if you will, that's going to keep your brain in your mind ageless. And the things, here's the thing. One third of your brain health and your memory, your intelligence, predetermined by genetics and biology. But two thirds is in your control. Now some people suggest all of it's in your control.

41:18They're creating our reality all the time, all right? So whatever studies you buy into, we have more control than most of us believe. Is that fair? And everything counts. Everyone always wants to know what the magic pill is. There's no magic pill. There's just magic processes, right? And I'm going to go through those 10 things here. So really the goal here is just remember this. I want you to write down GPA. GPA. Write down initials, GPA. And my goal here is for you to leave here and not just have a great event. Yes, probably the most valuable thing you have gotten here are new connections and new friendships. Raise your hand if you met somebody amazing here that you know you're going to know them forever, right? So that's irreplaceable. But when it comes to your using ideas and insights to be able to move things forward, I don't want those things to die in the vine, to literally die on the vine in your brain. Like years ago, Vision and I, we were on the Amazon rainforest.

42:26And there are pictures on Instagram where on the Amazon rainforest, there are pink dolphins, like that was the most amazing experience, right? And we came across some indigenous tribe, the very first Western contact. But if the Amazon river is like, you know, one of the most amazing forces of nature, right? Huge river. It's being fed through like streams, right? Does that make sense? Multiple, multiple streams are feeding this into creating this experience. And what I'm here to say is this potential that you have in your intelligence, your memory, whatever, is being fed through streams, right? And it's not invisible. You might not see what's going on upstream, but then it shows up. And if it kind of dies off and evaporates and you have a drought, you have to look at what's going on further upstream. Does that make sense? So I'm going to go through really quickly to 10 different things. But what I want you to do is be able to memorize these 10 things. And so what we're going to do is we're going to go through, and I'm going to teach you this very quickly, a way of putting it onto your body. And we're going to put it onto your body just for ease.

43:27We've done this before. But when I go through these 10 keys, I teach this at the Cleveland College, including for brain health. The Cleveland Clinic for Brain Health, the Center, they're doing two things. They're treating people with Alzheimer's and dementia, caregiving, if you will. And they're doing the latest research, the latest research in the area of brain aging. And what my contribution there with the doctors and the caregivers and the researchers has to do with teaching them prevention, talking about prevention. So I'm going to give you the 10 keys to having an ageless mind. And every single one of them, you've either heard me say, or you intuitively know that these are important. That's not the reason I'm saying it. The reason I'm saying it is to take knowledge and turn it into power. And I want you to take those ideas and have them have real impact. And what I want you to do is when I'm going through it, I want you to cycle through, and run a piece of paper, rate yourself. And a scale of 0 to 10, how well am I doing in that category? Is that fair?

44:28Yes or yes? Yes. Now this is the home stretch, right? And so some of you heard me tell this story at the last A-Fest. Raise your hand if you're at the last A-Fest. Fantastic. So a few years ago, I get invited to go to, okay, so there's a big boxing match with Mayweather and Pacquiao. I'm not a big boxing fan, but I like competition because I like to see people excel and what makes somebody elite. I want to see those patterns of genius that we talked about. And tickets were just extraordinary, thousands of dollars. No one would, I wouldn't pay for that. But Sylvester Stallone sends me a message saying, you want to watch the game? You want to watch the fight at my house. And I'm like, oh, I totally want to see this with Rocky, right? And the reason why I mention these names is, contrary to what people might think, I don't post pictures like this or tell stories around famous people for the sake of saying these people.

45:28Me talking about a Will Smith is just different than me talking about Bill Smith. Is that fair? That in order for me as a memory expert, your memory is triggered by reminders, right? You are constantly reminded. Even when you forget somebody's name or you forget what you need to do later that day, have you ever forgotten someone's name or an actor's name or whatever, and it's bothering you and it's bothering the heck out of you? And you're doing these techniques like, doesn't start with an A, does it start with a B, does it start with a C, right? And you get really nervous when you get to like W because there's not many letters afterwards. But then hours go by and you're just driving. And what pops into your mind? The name, right? And then where was it before? It was always there. They say they'd then these studies with surgeons where they'll stimulate different parts of a subject or patient's brain. And they'll remember like trips they took as a kid to the point where like they could read signs right off the highway. That memory was there. They'll use a process called age regression. How many people have ever had hypnotherapy, hypnosis? And they'll take people down to a place when they were nine years old in this relaxed awareness

46:32place and they're unconscious, comes out and you know, really showing as genius. And they'll remember what day, 95% of people, adults will remember what day their ninth birthday fell on, what day of the week. I mean, it's pretty extraordinary, right? So that information might be there, but the hard part is triggering it. So what I noticed is people forgot something to do or whatever it is. What happens is there's a reminder in the external environment that prompted you unconsciously. Most of the times you don't even realize it. It could be a smell, a fragrance, a song in the radio. It's unconscious and you'll just remember it because that information got tagged to the environment. So for example, they take people and they put them into a pool with a breathing apparatus and they'll have them memorize words, study a bunch of words. Then they'll take them out of the pool and they'll test them outside in the open air and then they'll put them down submerged underneath the water again and they'll test them again. Which one do they do better at? Under water, right? Why? Because that's where they learned it.

47:32Because the environment got anchored to the information. So a really fun brain hack to do is when I'm training actors and stuff like that, or unless you're at the prepared to give a speech at a meeting, raise your hand if this is you, that you have to give a public presentation or you have to study lots of information, even if it's one on one, you maybe can't study in the environment that you need to perform in, whether it's a meeting room or it's on stage or something like that, but you could take the environment with you. And the strongest sense out of your five senses, I'm just talking about the five, which one is the most anchored to your memory? Well, your ol' factory, right? I mean, just think as a hunter gather, you need to be able to smell a poison or food, food's rotten, that makes sense, right? How many people, if you smelled something, a food or a fragrance or essential oil, it could take you back years and you'll have that real visceral feeling experience? So you could, what if you use that? So what if you took that unconscious thing that happens and make it conscious to say, oh, I need to study for this presentation, this meeting, I'm going to study my notes and my flashcards, whatever I'm studying, and you're smelling and it's very specific essential

48:33oil. That's unique or a lip balm or a flavor gum, right? And then when you need to perform, take the test or give the speech or do the meeting whatever, you bring in that same smell. Does that make sense? Right? So these are all the hacks that we teach in superbrain and like hundreds of them, this is what we're going to do right now. I'm going to go through the 10 keys for unlocking your superbrain. Again, one third of your memories predetermined by genetics and biology, let's say two thirds in your control, these are the 10 things I would focus on. You cannot write these, you can write them down because I'm asking you to go one zero to 10. All I want you to write down is you can write down what the hack is and then zero to 10, how well are you doing this area? All right? So the first one is a good brain diet. Good brain diet. So on a scale of zero to 10, what's an honest assessment? If you're honest and true to yourself, where are you on your diet? You don't have to say it, I love it, just write it down. So in superbrain we talk about the most important foods for your brain.

49:36They're neuroprotective. So we're talking about avocados. We're talking about blueberries, what are they called? Brain berries, right? We're talking about broccoli. We're talking about eggs. If you're this allowed by your diet, we're talking about coconut oil or olive oil. We're talking about green leafy, dark vegetables, wild salmon. If you're allowed, that's part of your diet also as well. I do every morning, I do like an almond, turmeric, like tea, right? All these things are neuroprotective. Number two, killing ants, automatic negative thoughts. How well are you controlling yourself talk? On a scale of zero to 10, honestly, even if you've done this with me, how strong are you? Zero to 10. Do your thoughts make a difference? Yes or yes? If I say constantly I'm getting too old, is that going to be self-fulfilling? Yes or yes? If I say I'm forgetful, I have a bad memory. If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them. This self-talk, this matter of its external, its internal, right? When I was nine years old, teacher pointed to me saying that's the boy with the broken

50:37brain. You know, because I had that brain injury and those learning difficulties. Children, you are very, very susceptible to this, right? If you're a parent, your external words become their internal words. That became my self-talk. Every time I failed a test, didn't do well enough or whatever, it wasn't picked for a sports team, what I say. Oh, I'm just the broken brain, right? So your mind is always eavesdropping on your self-talk. That's number two. Number three, exercise. And really what we're talking about here is movement. Your, the number one function of your brain is to control your movement, right? That's why we know there's not just a brain body connection, but a body brain connection. That using your body in different ways stimulates neurogenesis. It stimulates neuroplasticity. It stimulates brain-derived, nitropic factors, which is the fertilizer for making new connections. You have to move, but we live in a very sedentary life, right? I was reading this book talking about barefoot kids and how we're taking away sea saws and

51:37spring swings and all these things. We're overprotecting them and we're keeping them in a very sterile environment. They're not moving as much, right? They're always on their devices and they're not getting the brain growth, right? And it's leaning to learning challenges and so on. And how much you're moving every single day. They say, they say sitting is a new smoking, right? You do not want to sit eight hours a day and just, and just study. I'm going to go through the rest fast. Number four, brain nutrients, brain vitamins. Because we're traveling when I'm eating the best foods ever. Are you supplementing with, there's certain nutrients and I would just have, I would make this a no brainer. I would just go to your functional medicine doctor and get like hormonal test full spectrum test, food sensitivity and just see what your baseline is. Because I really do believe people are bio individual. Like I've kind of seen all the research to talk to so many individuals. Find out what works for you because if you're, the most important supplement is DHA for the brain. DHA. All right, that's number four. Number five, positive peer group. So rate yourself. Zero to ten.

52:38How inspired, encouraged, challenged, energized are you by your peer group? And again, peer is choice. I'm not talking about your family, although they may be your peer, but the people that you choose, right? So either get new group or choose who you're going to let affect you, positive peer group. Because it's really affects your your brain. Zero to ten. Really fast. Number six, clean environment. How clean is your environment? How organized is six zero to ten. And you know this, right? Is your external world reflected by your internal world? And vice versa? Because it's a feedback loop. Have you ever cleaned your room, cleaned your desktop, cleaned your work area and all of a sudden you have clarity of thought? Yes or yes? This is the interactive part. Yes or yes? The reason why I brought up the boxing match is this is because I go over there and we watch this fight. And afterwards I was like, you know, I was me sitting here, Sylvester Stallone on the couch here. And then to his left was Arnold Schwarzenegger. And I swear if you took a picture of that, like they'd be like, who photoshopped that Asian dude and that photo.

53:40But I was like, what does it take to be a champion, like those guys? And then Arnold said, Jim, the difference between amateur and champion? Is a champion's willing to push past the pain period. Just like for those of you who did the exercise over the past few days, it's that intensity. And is there a pain period in a relationship? Is there a pain period sometimes in the health crisis? Is there a pain period also in your business? Multiple pain periods, right? The ability to push past, that's where the period is now because you just end days and days and you feel like your attention is wandering and going different places. This is the time when it counts, just like with your workout, right? So if Lorenzo and his team's here, that would be the goal. So that's number six. Number seven, sleep. On scale is zero to 10, how good is your sleep? It's important for your brain, three really simple reasons. It's where you consolidate short to long term memory. That's where you actually remember. You do not, even when you're doing these workouts, build your muscles when you're working out. You build it when you rest. Same thing with your mental muscles, same thing with your memory.

54:41So that's where you consolidate short to long term memory. The other reason why you sleep is it cleans plack out that leads to dementia and potentially brain aging challenges. And how many people raise your hand honestly if you're not at an 8, 9, or 10 or sleep? Raise your hand if you're not. And that affects it. The last reason why is how you dream, right? You're REM sleep, you're REM stages, you're sleep. That's very important because that's where you're creativity. That's where I'm telling you, like we do a whole thing on super brain on how to remember your dreams. But specifically, why do you want to remember your dreams? Because you learn all day, your brain doesn't shut off at night. It's more active at night. And so, Elias Howe created a sewing machine in his dream. Paul McCartney came out with the song yesterday in his dream. Mary Shella came up with Frank Stein in his dream. Period out table came to a chemist in his dream. What are you dreaming about at night that could solve a lot of the problems in your business and your life, but you forget at the next morning. That's why the first thing I do in my morning routine is remember my dreams. And six steps on how to do that, we talked about in super brain. After that, sleep, eight, brain protection.

55:42Are you protecting your brain? And I'm not just talking about about wearing a helmet and extreme sports. Yes, that's obvious. I've had a series of traumatic brain injuries and concussions and all those challenges. Yes. But I mean, like things like EMFs. We did a podcast episode specifically talking about electromagnetic fields and how it's affecting the brain. Is that affecting the brain, you think? Yes. Do you think it's norms? Do you think we evolved or were born to be able to be able to handle all the electricity that's coming out of these smart devices? You know, I read recently that over 90% of kids sleep with their phones underneath their pillows, right? Not on airplane mode, right? So it's big, big, big challenge. We just did two videos on that. They have four million views in just a matter of weeks. You should watch those videos. EMFs protect your brain. Number nine, new learnings. New learnings. Meaning that you might have seen the longevity. This is a longevity conference on the cover of Time Magazine where this was a study on nuns who were living 80, 90, and above. What was the secret turtle longevity? Part of it was their emotional faith gratitude.

56:44The other half, lifelong learners. These group of women were just learning every day, reading every day, having deep conversations, doing the work every single day. It added years to their life and life to their years. So always learning, and I'm preaching an acquired here. But I know for a fact, most of you could actually push it even more, all right? That's how you create neurogenus and neuroplasticity. If you want to know the secret to having an ageless mind, neurogenesis says you could create new brain cells to the day you die, neuroplasticity saying you could create new connections to the day you die. The two most important factors outside of sleep that's going to promote neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, novelty and nutrition. Just like your body, you have to give it novelty or stimulus and you have to give it nutrition and feed that muscle. Does that make sense? Same thing with your mental muscles. So novelty, a movement, novelty of ideas. So most people, as we grow older, and I mean chronological age, we shut down because we feel like we know everything, right? So there's no novelty that's there. There's a roomy quote that says, says, sell your cleverness for bewilderment.

57:47Like when's the last time you felt bewildered? Remember, you don't have creativity or have focus or have a memory or have bewilderment or have love or have motivation or have energy. You do those things. You do energy. You do creativity. You do focus. You do bewilderment. So we're taking nouns, turning the verbs and we're taking a structure, a process, a strategy and how you can replicate that at will. And finally, the last thing, number 10, stress management. And this is the invisible one, right? Nobody wants to talk about it. But your under, how many people didn't realize how much stress there were under until they were like hanging out here on the beach? Because it's like fish, they don't see the water because it's there all the time. But we are under so much environmental stress, pollutants, environmental stress, emotional stress, work stress, cognitive stress, financial stress. We don't realize that. But you don't get the best of the best out of that, right? It's good for fight or flight, sympathetic mode. But when you want to go, when you want to be able to, it's not good if you need to think. If you're in your stress, it doesn't help you to study. When your stress doesn't help you to give a presentation. When your stress doesn't help you perform, cognitively, because it shuts down cortisol

58:49adrenaline, big parts of your brain. So stress management. So how are you managing your stress? All right, so stand up. We're finished. Stand up. We're almost finished. Two minutes. Are we good? Yes or yes? All right, shake out your body. Now what we're going to do is this technique is we're going to take a location on your body. Just so it's anchored on your body, we're going to take the 10 tips and we're going to turn them into images. We already said imagination will make you more youthful, more powerful, more childlike. We're going to take each of the tips and put them on 10 places on our body. Ready? On the top of your head, I want you to see on the top of the head, say top. And I want you to imagine the first brain tip, which is a good brain diet. I want you to imagine guacamole and blueberries all over the top of your head. This would never happen. You're like, that's so childish, that's why it works. I want you to imagine that. Even if you can't imagine it, imagine you can imagine it because that's your negative self-talk. Two is your nose. What's number two? Nose. And what's number two, everybody? Killing ants. Automatic negative thoughts. I want you to see ants coming out of your nose.

59:50You're killing them. Not to do whatever do that is gross. Remember, emotion is in what's important. Emotions alone, you'll forget it. Information in emotion, you'll never forget it. Ants coming out of your what? Nose. Third place is your mouth. Touch your mouth. And I want you to imagine exercise. What are you doing? Imagine. What are you doing? What's that? Dumbells. Dumbells with your lips, right? Push ups with your mouth. Everyone just imagine that, ready? Number four are your ears. Touch your ears. And I want you to imagine brain vitamins. Brain vitamins coming out of your what? Ear. Omega threes. Ginkgo below your B vitamins. All coming out of your ears, right? Remember, make it feeling oriented and make what you see it. Number five is your throat. Touch your throat. Five is your throat. And I want you to imagine for number five, here are your positive friends. Your positive friends. I want you to imagine that your best friends are putting happy faces, smiley faces on your neck. That would never happen. I just made that up. But you'll remember it because you don't remember the ordinary.

1:00:51You remember the extraordinary. By the way, is this working? What's on top of your head? Brain dive. Good brain dive. What's on out of your nose? Good. What's out of your mouth? Good. Number four. Good. And number five. Wow. Number six are your shoulders. I want you to imagine clean environment. There's somebody there that's mopping and vacuuming dandruff on your shoulders, ready? Number seven is your collar. And I want you to imagine sleep. And so imagine a hammock on your collar. Like, remember a hammock? And you're getting good rest sleep. Do you see that? Good. Number eight are your fingers? Fingers? And I want you to imagine brain protection. So just imagine a helmet on each of your fingers with your favorite sports team. Look at it. Helmet. Helmets all over your fingers. Imagine what they feel like. See it? Feel it? Good. Finally, number nine and 10. Nine is your belly. And I want you to imagine new learning. So I want you to imagine you're wearing like a bookshelf around your waist. A bookshelf around your waist.

1:01:52And your favorite books. Code of the extraordinary mind and all the authors here. They have your favorite books, new learnings. That's number nine. And finally, 10 is your seat. 10 is your what? Seat your rear end. And I want you to imagine stress management. I don't even want to know what you're thinking about. Stress management. It could be red wine. It could be massage. It could be meditation. Whatever that. But just put it there. Now, you are the memory expert. You are the memory expert. You can give a TED talk. This is like the 10 points to a speech. So here we go. I need all your energy. What's number one? Good. Good. Number two. Killing hands. Number three. Number four. Number five. Yes. Very good. Your friend. Six. Clean environment. Number seven. Sleep. Number eight. Rain protection. Number nine. And number 10. Here's sounds around to a applause. Our message to you is this. Our team here, my co-founder Alexis, our entire team,

1:02:56we're really happy to partner with Mind Valley for Superbrain. Our message for you is we want to make the planet smarter. We believe that the collective wisdom of this room, of this planet, that if we can make better brighter brains, we could solve a lot of big challenges in your life and in this world that we need to. How many people believe the world needs superheroes? And really, it starts with our minds and our hearts and our hands when they're all lined. And so we believe that your life is like an egg. That if an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. It cracks it ends. But if it's broken by an inside force, life begins. And all great things begin on the inside. And you have greatness inside of you. You have genius inside of you. So let's let it out together. Thank you very much.