Jim Kwik Quotes Page 3

“Conscious awareness is the first part to solving a problem.”

“Consider your passion, your desired identity, and your values: How can they create the basis for your reasons?”

“Contrary to popular belief, like your mindset, motivation is not fixed. No one has a set level of motivation. And when people say they are unmotivated, it’s not completely true. They could have a high level of motivation to stay in bed and watch television.”

“Creating the life you want can be scary. But you know what’s scarier? Regret. One day we will take our final breaths and not one of other people’s opinions or your fears will matter. What will matter is how we lived.”

“Do you remember what it was like when you were approaching your teens and you first started formulating thoughts and opinions independent of your parents? My guess is that this experience was extremely liberating for you and that it might have even been the first time in your life when you truly felt like your own person. What had happened to you, of course, was that your critical faculties had become refined enough to allow you to regularly employ reason to navigate through life.”

“Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.”

“Finding your passion is about giving yourself novelty and putting yourself in a new environment to see what lights you up.”

“For me, since I had my childhood brain injury, my focus has always been putting one foot in front of the other. Not only on days I feel like it, but on days I don’t. Some days are grueling and painful, and I’ve wanted to stop. Other days I may have even fallen a few steps back. But overall, my goal is to move steadily upward. My hope is that you do too. That the only time you turn around is to look back at how far you’ve come, and that you realize you’ve traveled much farther than you thought possible.”

“Genius is not born; it’s made through deep practice.”

“Give a person an idea, and you enrich their day. Teach a person how to learn, and they can enrich their entire life.”

“If knowing is half the battle, action is the second half of the battle.”

“If learning is making new connections, then remembering is maintaining and sustaining those connections.”

“If our mindset is not aligned with our desires or goals, we will never achieve them.”

“If the villain was weak, there would be nothing to vanquish—and no need for the hero to rise to greatness.”

“If you are struggling to reach a goal in any area, you must first ask: Where is the limit? Most likely, you’re experiencing a limit in your mindset, motivation, or methods—which means that it’s not a personal shortcoming or failure pointing to any perceived lack of ability.”

“If you’re struggling to find motivation to learn, or to accomplish anything else in your life, there is a good chance you haven’t uncovered the why of the task.”

“In an era of autonomously driven electric cars and vehicles capable of taking us to Mars, our education system is the equivalent of a horse and carriage.”

“It may seem as if it would take superhuman capabilities to keep up with the demands of our current reality. But you already have a hidden superpower: your brain.”

“It’s much easier to start doing something new than to stop doing something habitual without a replacement behavior. That’s one reason why smoking cessation aids such as nicotine gum or inhalers tend to be more effective than the nicotine patch.”

“It’s not how smart you are; it’s how you are smart.”

“Just when the caterpillar thought its world was over, it became a butterfly. Don’t downgrade your dreams to meet the current situation. Upgrade your mindset, motivation and methods to meet your dreams.”

“Knowing how to change your habits means knowing how to confidently own and manage your days, focus on the behaviors that have the highest impact, and reverse-engineer the life you want.”

“Knowledge × Action = Power”

“Knowledge is not power. It only has the potential to be power. You can read this book and learn everything in it, but if you don’t take it and apply the knowledge, it will be useless. ”

“Knowledge is power: You hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It's only potential power. It only becomes power when we apply it and use it.”

“Life is the c between b and d.”

“Limiting beliefs are often revealed in our self-talk, that inner conversation that focuses on what you’re convinced you can’t do rather than what you already excel at and what you’re going to continue to achieve today and into the future.”

“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.”

“Mistakes don’t mean failure. Mistakes are a sign that you are trying something new. You might think you have to be perfect, but life is not about comparing yourself to anyone else; it’s about measuring yourself compared to who you were yesterday. When you learn from your mistakes, they have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.”

“Motivation comes from purpose, fully feeling and associating with the consequences of our actions (or inactions).”