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Introduction

Limitless by Jim Kwik is the best book for starting your self-improvement journey. It has an essential and powerful foundation by which you can quickly and efficiently scale to form the mighty tree. It has incredible insight into how to reach superhuman levels of concentration, speed reading, comprehension, and memory. Limitless is an excellent way to introduce new beginners to crucial topics, and its many exercises help students implement their learning. The methods of this book will make your journey easier and faster. 

Book Information and Rating

Author: Jim Kwik

Cover Art by: Rodrigo and Anna Corral 

Published by: Hay House

Genre: Self-Help, Health, Mind, and Body

Print Length: 344 Pages

Cinemabooks rating: 8.5/10

About The Author:

Jim Kwik is one of the world’s best brain coaches and has spent almost three decades teaching renowned actors, entrepreneurs, and students how to harness the brain’s full power. Jim’s story of becoming a leading expert started when he suffered a brain injury as a child that made learning difficult. As such, a teacher labeled him as the “kid with the broken brain.” After years of sacrifice and struggling to pass college, he ended up in the hospital with another head injury. While in the hospital, he quickly realizes there must be a way to learn faster and more efficiently. With this in mind, he decided to find the solution to his problems, and he did.

Upon discovering how the brain works, how it’s stimulated, and how we can influence it, he realized that his focus, reading speed, comprehension, and memory increased. Seeing his excellent results, he quickly realized that these findings and his methods had to be shared. This is how everything started, and this book combines all his knowledge and strategies he uses to learn and recall faster. 

Plot Summary

Jim Kwik’s book is about giving you the tools necessary to become limitless in every aspect of your life. Limitless primarily focuses on becoming long life-learners by upgrading the most powerful organ in your body: The Brain. Jim Kwik gives multiple research-proven data on how the brain works, how it can be influenced, how it can expand and develop, and finally, how to use it to its full capabilities. Jim created a system designed to help you challenge the limiting beliefs in your mindset, motivation, and methods. Once you understand the chapters on mindset and motivation, Jim will show you the techniques for unimaginable learning and potential. 

What You’ll Learn in This Book 

In Limitless, you will learn the following:

• How to discover your purpose, find your energy, develop healthy habits and enter a high concentration level when performing a task.

• How do your negative belief systems affect your growth, and how can you change them into a powerful form of unbounded growth.

• The proven way to become a speed reader, double your reading speed without losing comprehension. 

• “The seven lies of learning” and how you can overcome them.

• How to improve your memory, its effects on learning, and how to better study according to recent scientific findings.

• Healthy foods to keep your brain healthy, the importance of sleep and meditation.

•  Becoming a lifelong student adept at acquiring and retaining vast amounts of knowledge.

Structure 

The structure of the book follows the Limitless model. Limitless is divided into three essential parts: Mindset, Motivation, and Method. The Mindset phase is two chapters that are simple yet effective at showing the power that lies in your belief systems. Once you understand and grasp how to challenge your beliefs and make new ones, Jim Kwik offers you the second segment: motivation.   

The Motivation segment comprises four outstanding chapters designed to help you find purpose, energy, discipline, and focus. This is by far one of the best research chapters in self-help books. One reason is that Jim often uses exemplary authors and experts to help us understand how to acquire limitless motivation. *Spoiler* It was fun seeing how Jim supplements James Clear’s excellent book Atomic Habits. 

Reaching the last part of Limitless is all about the methods. This was my favorite segment in the book. Being a book blogger, you can safely assume that the speed-reading chapter was my favorite. Knowing all the tips on speed reading was terrific, and seeing results in the first 10 minutes was mind-boggling. However, if speed reading and memory were first, it would open opportunities for students to practice both skills from the get-go. The structure was good, but it could have been better. We will talk about this later on.

Atmosphere 

 The book’s atmosphere is full of positive vibes and extraordinary scientific findings. Jim Kwik’s positive atmosphere helps set the tone for a profound journey to self-discovery and improvement. You will find that almost every chapter is filled with an uplifting story in which the struggles can resonate with the reader. Once the person conquered the obstacle, one could see the importance of the teachings and techniques presented. The tales invite the audience to reflect on how one can apply said plans to solve a problem. Combining Jim’s nobility and desire to help others develop a super brain with good and reflective real-life stories sets the tone for an enjoyable journey that can change your life. 

The Good

Combining knowledge, exercises, tone, simplicity, and atmosphere makes Limitless a fantastic self-help book. Jim Kwik pours years of experience into supercharging and improving your brain. With this in mind, he uses considerable scientific research that correlates with his teachings. Jim also gives what he calls “Kwik Start” in every chapter. Kwik Starts are simple exercises that promote taking action on what you learn in said chapter. It can help the reader reflect and practice. “Limitless” tone is also crucial because his words’ delivery and general feeling convey support, understanding, and compassion. It sounds similar to how a family member or a friend explains an experience that could help you improve. Another thing that I enjoyed was the book’s simplicity. Limitless can be easily understood and implemented by any 7th-grade student or high-profile doctor. 

Not only is simplicity one excellent indicator of this book’s success, but how the author uses other experts to help further his students reach new heights. As I said, Jim focuses on giving his students the best of the best and uses experts in other fields to explain and teach his students. One of my favorite examples is how Jim interviews and uses James Clear knowledge of habits to help students become daily readers. Great authors have the humility to express and acknowledge that they don’t know everything and that other experts may give a helping hand when a topic is not their strong suit. Jim is one of these authors; hearing from other experts’ knowledge adds to an already great book.

The Bad

I loved this book a lot, but it could be better. The part I least enjoyed from Limitless is the insane amount of acronyms. Acronyms are abbreviations formed by the first letters of other words, and their purpose is to facilitate recall and memory. The first five acronyms were great, but after reading more than seven, it started to take a toll. Each chapter has at least one or two of these recall practices. It reaches a point where you have way too many acronyms to recall correctly.

Another thing that annoyed me was that most of the material I wanted to learn was in the last chapters. Thus I was constantly seeing how many pages were left to read before reaching them. One example is the speed reading and memory chapters located at the end of the book. If speed reading and memory were first, many students might use the book as a form of practice for developing those skills. However, since they were last, there was little to practice after reading them. 

Conclusion

Limitless by Jim Kwik is an outstanding book designed to help you upgrade and supercharge your brain. Its strength lies in its knowledge, delivery, atmosphere, and exercises. Most readers will relate to Jim and his student’s obstacles. However, each student’s struggles and successes demonstrate that we could all become superhuman. Although the book was great, it could have been better if its most important tools could have been practiced from the start. If you wish to start a journey to become the best version you can be, this book is the perfect one to begin with.

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