I'm an athlete and have always been pretty good at sports. As a kid, I was also a good student, but I was never happy with my comprehension or the way I learned. I never trusted my memory. I take notes all the time, but, as I learned from the Quest, the most inefficient type of notes: I copy everything down verbatim. I've always been terrible with names, but I attributed that to the fact that my Dad was in the military and we moved every year, and I got used to forgetting people's names.
I decided to sign up for Jim Kwik's Superbrain Quest because I've always wanted to learn how to learn. I felt I could justify the cost by including both my husband and daughter (a senior in college), since they were house-bound due to the pandemic. Even though my husband made fun of me and the course, he admired the structure and the content, and showed up every day. Also, I was definitely interested in learning how to remember names. I discovered that the reason I'm so good at sports is because I already use most of the fundamental tools that Jim Kwik taught in the course.
- I have a childlike enthusiasm and openness toward trying and learning new techniques; I have no limitations in my mind (I never think that I am too old, for example).
- I think of myself as an athlete with unlimited potential; I practice efficiently and every day; I ignore negativity; I've always had goals, take copious notes, emulate experts; and I'm constantly asking questions. What the course did for me was clarify what I was already doing correctly in my sports activities and enable me to identify what pieces were missing, or causing me problems, in other areas of my life. That is incredibly exciting for me. I have a dream project that I would like to do, but I've made little progress on it, and now I know exactly why not. Starting with my definition for who I am. Prior to this course, I would have said, "I'm lousy with remembering names, and I'm not very creative..." Today, I wrote new definitions which said, "I can be good with names, I just need to practice." And "I am creative, I just need to exercise my creativity." It seems like such a little thing, but I was never going to succeed with a creative project if I didn't truly believe I was creative. Now that I've identified that obstacle, I can move forward on all the other missing pieces. My breakthrough is that I know exactly what pieces are missing, and how to fix them, with the happy result that progress on my dream project is now inevitable.
I decided to sign up for Jim Kwik's Superbrain Quest because I've always wanted to learn how to learn. I felt I could justify the cost by including both my husband and daughter (a senior in college), since they were house-bound due to the pandemic. Even though my husband made fun of me and the course, he admired the structure and the content, and showed up every day. Also, I was definitely interested in learning how to remember names. I discovered that the reason I'm so good at sports is because I already use most of the fundamental tools that Jim Kwik taught in the course.
- I have a childlike enthusiasm and openness toward trying and learning new techniques; I have no limitations in my mind (I never think that I am too old, for example).
- I think of myself as an athlete with unlimited potential; I practice efficiently and every day; I ignore negativity; I've always had goals, take copious notes, emulate experts; and I'm constantly asking questions. What the course did for me was clarify what I was already doing correctly in my sports activities and enable me to identify what pieces were missing, or causing me problems, in other areas of my life. That is incredibly exciting for me. I have a dream project that I would like to do, but I've made little progress on it, and now I know exactly why not. Starting with my definition for who I am. Prior to this course, I would have said, "I'm lousy with remembering names, and I'm not very creative..." Today, I wrote new definitions which said, "I can be good with names, I just need to practice." And "I am creative, I just need to exercise my creativity." It seems like such a little thing, but I was never going to succeed with a creative project if I didn't truly believe I was creative. Now that I've identified that obstacle, I can move forward on all the other missing pieces. My breakthrough is that I know exactly what pieces are missing, and how to fix them, with the happy result that progress on my dream project is now inevitable.
