Limitless - Jim Kwik Page 0,8

I’m going to help you become limitless in your own way, within the three-part framework you’re about to learn: Limitless Mindset, Limitless Motivation, and Limitless Methods. Let me break it down:

Mindset (the WHAT): deeply held beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions we create about who we are, how the world works, what we are capable of and deserve, and what is possible.

Motivation (the WHY): the purpose one has for taking action. The energy required for someone to behave in a particular way.

Method (the HOW): a specific process for accomplishing something, especially an orderly, logical, or systematic way of instruction.

One other note about the diagram on the previous page. You’ll see that where mindset crosses over with motivation, I have the word inspiration. You’re inspired, but you don’t know which methods to employ or where to channel your energy. Where motivation and method intersect, you have implementation. In this case, your results are going to be limited to what you feel you deserve, what you feel you are capable of, and what you believe is possible because you lack the proper mindset. Where mindset and method intersect, you have ideation. Your ambitions stay in your mind, because you lack the energy to do anything about them. Where all three intersect, you have the limitless state. You then have the fourth I, which is integration.

Throughout this book, you’ll find exercises, studies, mental tools, and the results of exciting work being done both on the frontier of cognitive science and performance as well as ancient wisdom (for example, how ancient civilizations remembered generations of knowledge before external storage devices like the printing press). We’ll approach the 3 M’s in turn:

In Part II, Limitless Mindset, you’ll learn what is possible when you eradicate limiting beliefs.

In Part III, Limitless Motivation, you’ll discover why your purpose is your power and keys to unleash your drive and energy.

In Part IV, Limitless Methods, you’ll discover how to learn at your best with proven processes—the tools and techniques that will propel you forward toward the life you desire and deserve.

And, at the end of the book, I give you a 10-day plan to jump-start your progress toward a limitless week and a limitless life.

When you finish this book, you’ll have the ability to be limitless in any area important to you, whether it’s academic, health, career, relationships, or personal growth. Since I never truly got to study at the X-Men school, I created it for you in our online Kwik Learning Academy, where people of all ages from 195 nations train with us daily to unleash their mental superpowers. Consider Limitless your textbook. It would be an honor to be your Professor X, and I’m so excited that you’ve decided to take this journey with me. Class is now in session. And here’s the best part; your timing could not be any better.

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WHY THIS MATTERS NOW

I’m a firm believer that we all have incredible superpowers that are waiting to be awakened. I’m not talking about the ability to fly, create iron-clad armor, or shoot lasers from your eyes, but real-life practical abilities like flying through books, iron-clad memory, laser focus, boundless creativity, clear thinking, mindfulness, superior mental attitude, and more. We are all superheroes in one way or another.

Just as every superhero has powers, so do they have arch nemeses. Enter the supervillain. Think the Joker to Batman, Lex Luthor to Superman. The villains we face may not look the same as they do in the movies, but they’re still the bad guys—the ones you, as a superhero, need to vanquish and hold at bay. Modern-day supervillains get in our way and make life harder, keeping us from our potential. They hold us back and rob us of our productivity, prosperity, positivity, and peace of mind. And it’s up to us to recognize and defeat them.

If you’ve ever read a comic book or watched a superhero movie, you know that supervillains are often borne of unlikely places. Take Harvey Dent, also known as Two-Face, for example. He starts out with the greatest of intentions—he’s a prosecutor helping to uphold the law and put the bad guys in jail, and he’s an ally of Batman. But through an act of revenge, Dent’s face is scarred, and he turns angry, bitter, and vengeful. He becomes what he had spent his life fighting: a duplicitous criminal who gambles with his victims’ futures. The good in him becomes twisted and used for sinister ends.

In the same way, the four supervillains of learning started out innocent—they