184: Meta Learning, Speed Reading, & How to Learn Faster With Jim Kwik

Ok, I’ll just come out and say it… this podcast episode is one of my all-time favorites! Jim Kwik is a widely recognized expert in speed reading, brain health, memory improvement, and accelerated learning. He’s also a good friend and someone I really admire in every way.

As with many of my guests, there’s more to his story. Jim overcame a traumatic brain injury in childhood by creating strategies to dramatically enhance his mental performance.

Two decades later, he works as a brain coach with people all over the world. His goal is to help everyone unleash their true genius and live a life of greater power, productivity, and purpose.

Episode Highlights With Jim Kwik

• why almost everything we think we know about learning is wrong
• how Jim went from not being able to finish a book to teaching the best in the world
• challenges our kids will face as jobs move toward artificial intelligence, automation, and outsourcing
• meta-learning and other powerful strategies to learn anything much faster
• the vast difference between what to learn and how to learn
• why intelligence isn’t fixed and how to cater to your own unique strengths
• how to abolish the belief that you don’t have a good memory, forever
• the three superpowers to encourage with kids: creativity, imagination, strategy
• how to bring imagination and creativity back into education
• what emotion has to do with memory
• the reason children can learn anything faster (it has to do with play!)
• the trick to getting information into your long-term memory
• why only one-third of your brain is determined by genetics (and how to influence the other two-thirds)
• how much of learning happens in sleep (another reason why sleep is so dramatically important for brain health)
• 10 things Jim would recommend for parents to help kids love to learn
• an important reason not to call your kid gifted
• how to reward work ethic and grit in children instead of just achievement

Resources We Mention

• Go to JimKwik.com and for his free 3-Day Brain Training and more
• The Kwik Brain Podcast
• Video: Jim Kwik and Simon Sinek on Social Media and Smartphones

Jim Kwik’s Favorite Books

• Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel Amen
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Ageless Body, Timeless Mind by Deepak Chopra