Limitless

If our mindset is not aligned with our desires or goals, we will never achieve them. It’s critical to identify your limiting beliefs, stories, and deeply held beliefs. attitudes, and assumptions about yourself and what’s possible. Examining, excavating, and expunging those beliefs is the first step to having a limitless mindset.

The second secret to a limitless life is your motivation.

Purpose - the reason why matters.
The ability to do what you want. This requires energy, and energy requires something called energy management. The science of human performance is critical to achieving your purpose, eating whole unprocessed food, exercise, stress management, quality sleep, and skills at communication and building healthy relationships (eliminating toxic ones). Tasks must be bite-size, small steps that lead to success.
Using the right method - Focus, study, memory enhancement, speed reading and critical thinking.

The limitless model

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.

Neuroplasticity, also referred to as brain plasticity, means that every time you learn something new, your brain makes a new synaptic connection. And each time this happens, your brain physically changes, it upgrades its hardware to reflect a new level of the mind. Neuroplasiticity is dependent on the ability of our neurons to grow and make connections with other neurons in other parts of the brain. It works by making new connections and strengthening (or weakening, as the case may be) old ties. we have the incredible ability to change its structure and organization over time by forming new neural pathways as we experience, learn something new, and adapt.

Faster Method

Forget - The key to laser focus is to remove or forget that which distracts you.

it’s what you already know, we tend to assume we understand more than we do about that subject, this stand in the way of our ability to absorb new information.
forget what’s not urgent or important. your brain doesn’t multitask.

Act - Traditional education has trained many people that learning is a passive experience. The brain does not learn as much by consumption as it does by creation.

State - Your state is a current snapshot of your emotion. Get excited about how you will benefit from what you are about to learn and what you will do with your new knowledge. All learning is state-dependent. Consiously choose states of joy, fascination, and curiosity.

Teach - Learn with the intention of teaching the information to someone else. Learning isn’t always solo, it can be social.

Enter - We enter important things on our schedule, work meetings, parent teacher gatherings etc, how about your personal growth and development?

Review - best way to reduce the effects of the forgetting curve is to actively recall what you learned with spaced repetition.

Genius

Dynamo - Those who express their genius through creativity and ideas. this are those we most commonly think of when we think of geniuses. (Shakespeare, Galileo)

Blaze - Those who genius becomes clear through their interaction with others, They tend to be master communicators. ( Oprah Winfrey, Malala Yousafzai)

Tempo - Those who genius expresses itself through their ability to see the big picture and stay the course, they tend to understand the long view in ways that most of those around them cannot. (Nelson Mandela, Mother teresa)

Steel - Those who are brilliant at sweating the small stuff and doing something with the details that others missed or couldn’t envision, they love getting the information they can get and have a vision for doing something with that information that most others miss. (Sergey Brin, Billy Beane).

The positive thinking that usually comes with optimism is a key part of effective stress management. and effective stress management is associated with many health benefits. These benefits includes - Increased life span, lower rates of depression, lower levels of distress, greater resistance to the common cold, better psychological and physical well being, better cardiovascular health and reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease, better coping skills during hardships and times of stress.

Developing a superhero mindset

Name your limiting beliefs - They might have to do with your talents, character, relationships, education, or anything else that leads to internal whispers that you can’t be what you want to be. being aware of how you’re holding yourself back with your self-talk and spending some time to get to the source of these beliefs is extremely liberating, because once you’re aware, you can begin to realize that these aren’t facts about you, but rather opinions, and have a good chance those opinion is wrong.
Get to the facts - whether there is in reality any evidence to prove that you are truly hampered in this area and whether even that evidence was tainted by the noise in your head.
Create a new belief

“Broaden and build” theory - positive emotions broaden your sense of possibilities and open your mind which in turn allows you to build new skills and resources that can provide value in other areas of your live.

Broaden people’s attention and thinking
undo lingering negative emotion arousal
fuel psychological resilience
build consequential personal resources
trigger upward spirals toward greater well being in the future
seed human flourishing.

People should cultivate positive emotion in their own lives and in the lives of those around them, not just because doing so makes them feel good in the moment, but also because doing so transforms people for the better and sets them on paths toward flourishing and healthy longevity.

Fixed and growth mindset - in fixed mindsets, students believe their basic abilities, intelligence, talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In growth mindset student understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence.

Your intelligence is not only malleable but dependent on your ability to cultivate a growth mindset. Start looking at your attitude. Listen to the way you talk. It’s not how smart you are, it’s how you are smart. There are multiple types of intelligence. like so many things, intelligence is a combination of attitudes and action and dependent on context. Intelligence is fluid.

Mistakes don’t mean failure. Mistakes are sign that you are trying something new. Remember you are not your mistakes. Making mistake doesn’t mean anything about you as a person. There’s no such thing as failure. Only failure to learn.

Knowledge is not power. It only has the potential to be power. You can read any book and learn everything on it, but if you don’t take it and apply the knowledge, it will be useless. Knowledge x Action = Power.

Sometimes it is hard to learn new things, to understand that learning is a set of methods, a process that can certainly be easier when you know how to learn. Challenge of learning new things can be fun, easier and more enjoyable.

Creating the life that you want can be scary, you know what’s scarier, Regret. Don’t allow other people’s opinions and expectation to run or ruin your life. It’s not your job to like, love, or respect me. It’s mine.

Genius leaves clues. There’s always a method behind what looks like magic. Genius is not born, it’s made through deep practice.

Motivation = Purpose x Energy x S3 (small simple steps)

When you combine purpose, energy, and S3, you get sustainable motivation. And the ultimate form of motivation is the state of flow. Think about it as energy management. Creating it, investing it, and not wasting it. A clear purpose or reason gives you energy. Practices you employ will cultivate energy for your bran and the rest of your body, and small simple steps require little energy.

SMART

S - Specific - Your goal should be well defined. Don’t say you want to be rich, say you want to make certain amount of money.

M - Measurable - If you can’t measure your goal, you can’t manage it. Getting fit isn’t measurable, running 6 minute miles is.

A - Actionable - you wouldn’t drive to a new town without asking for directions. Develop the actions steps to achieve your goal.

R is for realistic - Your goals should challenge and stretch you but not so much that you have to give up on your team.

T - Time based - A goal is a dream with a deadline

HEART - To get your goals out of your head, into your hands.

H - Healthy - Your goals should contribute to your mental physical and emotional health

E - Enduring - Your goals should inspire and sustain you during the difficult times when you want to quit

A - Alluring - You shouldn’t always have to push yourself to work on your goals. They should be so exciting, enticing, and engaging that you’re pulled toward them.

R - Relevant - Don’t set a goal without knowing why you’re setting it. Your goals should relate to a challenge you’re having, your life’s purpose or your core values.

T - Truth - Don’t set a goal just because your neighbor or parent expect it of you. Make sure your goal is something you want and remains true to you.

Finding your passion is not about choosing the right path or finding the perfect professional destiny. It’s about experimenting to see what ignites your joy. Passion comes when we rediscover our authentic, alive self, the one who has been muted and buried beneath a pile of other people expectations. Different passions can be cultivated simultaneously. You don’t have to choose one over the other when you’re exploring. Finding your passion is like finding true love.

Energy

A good brain diet - The human brain requires 45 distinct nutrients to function bets. While most of these nutrients are created by the brain itself, the rest are imported from our diet.

Avocados - They provide monounsaturated fat, which helps to maintain healthy blood flow.
Blueberries - They protect your brain from oxidative stress and reduce the effects of brain aging. There have also been studies that show they can help with memory
Broccoli - a great source of vitamin K, which is known to improve cognitive function and memory.
Dark chocolate - this helps your focus and your concentration and stimulates endorphins. Chocolate also has flavonoids, which have been shown to improve cognitive function. The darker here the better, as the darkest chocolate has the least sugar.
Eggs - They provide memory-improving and brain boosting choline
Green leafy vegetables - These are good sources of vitamin E, which reduces the effects of brain aging, and folate, which has been shown to improve memory.
Salmon, Sardines, Caviar - They’re rice in omega-3 essential fatty acids, which help reduce the effects of brain aging.
Turmeric - it helps reduce inflammation and boost antioxidant level while also improving your brain’s oxygen intake. There’s also some indication that turmeric helps reduce cognitive decay.
Walnuts - These nuts provide high levels of antioxidants and vitamin E that protect your neurons and protect against brain aging. They also contain high levels of zinc and magnesium, which are really good for your mood.
Water - Your brain is about 80% water. Dehydration can cause brain fog, fatigue, and slower reaction and thinking speed. Studies show that well-hydrated people score better on brainpower tests.

Brain nutrients - the benefits of supplementing with phospholipid DHA, your brain uses this to create healthy cell membranes. This is important because our cell membranes form all the receptors involved in mood, executive functioning, attention and memory. B vitamins have been shown to improve women’s memory. Curcumin, the nutrient found in turmeric, can forestall cognitive decay.

Exercise - this changes the brain in ways that protect memory and thinking skills, even 10 minutes of aerobic exercise a day can have enormous benefits.

Killing Ants (Automatic negative thoughts) - If you regularly tell yourself that you can’t do something, or that you’re too old to do something, or that you don’t have the smarts to do something. you won’t do that thing. Only when you move on from this kind of destructive self-talk can you truly accomplish what you can accomplish.

A clean environment - this goes beyond air quality. Removing clutter and distractions from your surroundings will make you feel lighter and improve your ability to focus, so take time to Marie Kondo your mind and remove unnecessary stuff.

A positive peer group - you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. those you spend time with have a genuine effect on brain function.

Brain protection - take as many precautions and use as many safety tools as you can.

New learning - As long as we keep learning, we continue to create new pathways in our brains. We keep our brains plastic and supple, capable of processing new information in relevant ways.

Stress Management - stress can be debilitating to your brain, finding ways to reduce or avoid stress become critical.

Sleep - Without sleep you can’t form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn and create new memories, and it’s harder to concentrate and respond quickly.

Meditation isn’t about emptying your mind but rather, “training your mind to be aware in the present moment”

The best way to deal with tension between what you want and what you’ve done so far to achieve it is to remember what the Zeigarnik effect teachers us. You’re not going to be able to ease your mind about this task until you complete it, so get yourself moving toward completion. Start somewhere, anywhere, even if you don’t have the energy or the motivation to get the entire thing done, get stated on getting it done. You’ll be thankful for the relief.

Fogg Behavior Model

To identify the circumstances that need to be present for behavior change to occur. A person must have sufficient motivation, sufficient ability, and an effective prompt. All 3 factors must be present at the same instant for the behavior to occur.

Motivation

Pleasure/pain - This is most immediate motivator. The behavior has a nearly immediate payoff, positive or negative.

Hope/fear - When you’re hopeful, you’re anticipating something good happening; when you’re fearful, you’re anticipating the opposite.

Social acceptance/rejection -The power of social motivation is likely hardwired into us and perhaps all other creatures that historically depended on living in groups to survive.

Ability

Time - We only perceive something to be simple if we have the time available to perform the function.

Money - Similarly, if something stretches our financial resources, we do not consider it simple.

Physical effort - we consider things that are physically easy for us to be simple

Brain cycles - simple things don’t tax our thinking, and we shy away from things that require us to think too hard.

Social deviance - this goes back to the acceptance motivation. A simple act fits into societal norms.

Non-routine - How far something is out of one’s normal routine will define its level of simplicity.

Prompts

Spark - A spark is a type of prompt that immediately leads to a form of motivation.

Facilitator - this type of prompt works when motivation is high, but ability is low.

Signal - in some cases, you’ll have both high motivation and high ability. The only other thing you need to make a behavior a habit is some kind of reminder or signal.

Creating new habit (WIN)

W - Want - Make sure you really want it. It’s nearly impossible to turn something into a habit if you don’t want to do that thing.

I - Innate - Remember that you’re unlikely to make something a habit when it is consistently difficult for you to perform.

N - Now - Create a prompt for yourself that encourages you to perform the new habit now.

Some of you have trouble recalling your dreams, here’s some quick mnemonic technique designed to help you (DREAMS)

D - decide - The night before, make a conscious decision that you’re going to recall your dreams. If you set the intention your chances improve dramatically.

R - Record - Keep a pen and paper by your bedside, or even a recording app readily available on your phone. As soon as you wake up record any lingering remembrance of your dreams.

E - Eyes - Keep your eyes closed right after you awaken. Dream can disappear within minutes, and if you keep your eyes closed, this will help you reflect

A - Affirm - Before you go to sleep, affirm that you are going to remember your dreams, because affirmation is a critical tool in accomplishment

S - Share - Talk about your dream with other. When you do so you bring them more and more to the surface, and you develop the routine of tapping into your dreams so you can discuss them later.

Qwik Morning - First thing make the bed, have tall glass of water, have a glass of celery juice, which boost the immune system, helps flush toxins from the liver and helps restore the adrenal glands. Take probiotics to make sure my second brain is getting what it needs. Brush my teeth with opposite hand, I do this to train my brain to do difficult things, because it stimulates a different part of your brain, and because it forces me to be present.

Do 3 minute workout to get my heart rate up first thing in the morning, take a cold shower. go through series of breathing exercises to fully oxygenate my body. 20 minutes of meditation . Make “brain tea” combination of gotu kola, ginkgo, lion’s mane, mct oil, and few other things. Journaling, accomplish 3 things for work and 3 things personally, and set agenda. Read half hour of reading. make brain smoothie, a combination of many of brain food.

4 stages of flow

Stage 1 - Struggle - This is when you’re digging deep to access whatever it is that you need to reach the flow state.

Stage 2 - Relaxation - This is the break you take before fully diving into flow. It is an essential step, as it keeps you from burning out over the struggle you’ve just been through.

Stage 3 - Flow - This is that flow state that hopefully you’ve experienced at various points in your life, where you’re doing your absolute best work and it almost seems to be happening automatically.

Stage 4 - Consolidation - You pull together everything you accomplished during the flow stage. All the kind of positive chemicals have been running through your brain while you’re in flow, and now that high is ending.

Motivation and flow need to wok together, and they must be coupled with a solid recovery protocol, like good sleep and nutrition.

Finding flow

Eliminate Distractions - It can take you up to 20 minutes to reconnect with what you’re doing after you’ve been distracted from doing it. So put everything else aside and concentrate completely on what you’re doing
Give yourself enough time - Make sure you have a block of time set aside to get into flow. It takes about 15 minutes to achieve a flow state and that you don’t really hit your peak for closer to 45 minutes. Set aside at least 90 minutes and ideally a full 2 hours.
Do something you love
Have Clear goals - If you don’t know what you’re trying to accomplish. It’s likely that casting around for a mission will keep flow at bay. set yourself on a mission at the outset, and it is something that you’re excited about achieving. you’re likely to find yourself deeply immersed in that mission
Challenge yourself … a little - if you do something that you love that also has a moderate level of challenge to it, this level of challenge is likely to keep the task exciting for you and therefore engage you deeply.

Methods are the procedures or processes for accomplishing something. In this context, method is the process of learning how to learn, also called meta learning. When we go through the education system, we are taught very antiquated and inefficient ways of learning.

Most of us think of lack of concentration as a function of our mind bouncing from place to place. It isn’t your mind that’s moving, it’s your awareness. He sees awareness as a glowing ball of light that moves to different parts of your mind. In order to excel at concentration, you need to make yourself keep that ball of light trained on one spot in your mind for an extended period. if you notice the light of your awareness beginning to shine on something else, bring that ball back to the report.

You might not even realize it, but all the input you’re getting on any given day is causing you a considerable amount of stress. Anxious thoughts can overwhelm you, making it difficult to make decisions and take action to deal with whatever issue bothers you.

Help you calm your busy mind ( if can’t afford to get away from busy life)

Breathe
4-7-8 - close you mouth and inhale quietly through your nose to a mental count of 4
Hold your breath for a count of 7
Exhale completely through your mouth, making whoosh sound to a count of 8
Do something that has been causing you stress - things weighing on our minds are going to continue weighing on our minds until we deal with them.
Schedule time for distractions - Instead of worry about something later but saying i’ll worry about that at 4:15 is better.

Learn faster and study better

Habit 1 - Employ active recall - it’s a process through which you review material and then immediately check to determine how much of it you’ve remembered.This allows you to draw the distinction between simple recognition (familiarity with the words on the page) and recollection ( making the material an active part of your memory)

Review the material you’re studying
Then close the book, turn off the video or lecture, and write down or recite everything you remember from what you just reviewed.
Now, look at the material again. How much did you remember?

Optimal learning occurred when an initial learning session included repeated study and forced-recall testing of all items at least four times in a row.

Habit 2 - Employ spaced repetition - Spaced repetition is simple but highly effective because it deliberately hacks the way your brain works. It forces learning to be effortful and like muscle, the brain responds to that stimulus by strengthening the connections between nerve cells. by spacing the intervals out, you’re further exercising these connections each time. It produces long-term, durable retention of knowledge.

Habit 3 - Manage the state you’re in - If you’re feeling great, when opportunity arises, you would definitely produce better result. The more positive and resourceful your state, the greater the results you’ll produce. Studying is no different.

Habit 4 - Use your sense of smell - The scent of resemary has been shown to improve memory, peppermint and lemon promotes concentration. Incoming smells are first processed by the olfactory bulb, which starts inside the nose and runs along the bottom of the brain. The olfactory bulb has direct connections to two brain areas that strongly implicated in emotion and memory : the amygdala and hippocampus.

Habit 5 - Music for the mind - Music stabilizes mental, physical and emotional rhythms to attain a state of deep concentration and focus in which large amounts of content information can be processed and learned. Baroque music, 50 to 80 beats per minutes creates an atmosphere of focus that leads students into deep concentration in the alpha brain wave state. Learning vocabulary, memorizing facts, or reading to this music is highly effective.

Habit 6 - Listen with your whole brain - Listening is critical to learning, and we spend a large percentage of our waking time listening. While listening is the core of most of our communications, the average adult listens nearly twice as much as they talk. One of the reasons we don’t listen well is that we tend not to apply all our brainpower to the exercise.

H - Halt - do everything you can to tune all of this out (distractions) to be completely present with whomever you’re listening to. Listening involves more than just the words a person is saying : vocal inflection, body language, facial expressions etc.

E - Empathy - If you can imagine yourself in the speaker’s shoes, you’re likely to learn more from this listening experience than if you do it dispassionately.

A - Anticipate - Engage in the experience with a sense of anticipation.

R - Review - Ask clarifying questions or maybe even for a point to be repeated. If you’re in the position to take notes, do so. And afterward reflect on what the speaker said. Paraphrase it in your mind and imagine yourself teaching it to someone else.

Habit 7 - Take note of taking notes - The ultimate advantage of taking notes is that they customize the information you need to retain to your vocabulary and your mode of thinking. Notes allow you to organize and process information in a way that makes it most likely that you can use this information afterward. When you use your own words in your notes, you begin to process the information and that greatly enhances learning.

Tip for upgrading your note taking

T - Think - Before you begin any session where you’re going to be taking notes, think about what you’re hoping to retain most from this session. This will help you filter the high-value information from the information that is less relevant to your goal.
I - Identify - Listen carefully to the information being presented and identity what is most important in the context of your goal.
P - Prioritize - As you review your notes after the presentation, prioritize the information that is most valuable to you.

5 reason why improving memory is essential

Memorization is discipline for the mind - Memorization helps train the mind to focus and be industrious
No, you can’t always “google it”
Memorization creates the repertoire of what we think about.
We think with the ideas held in working memory, which can only be accessed at high speed from the brain’s stored memory - Understanding is nourised by the information you hold in working memory as you think.
The exercise of the memory develops learning and memory schema that promote improved ability to learn. - The more you remember. the more you can learn.

To train your memory (MOM)

M - Motivation - Simple fact we likely to remember things that we are motivated to remember. if you can convince yourself that there’s value in retaining a memory, there’s good chance that you will.
O - Observation - If you’re serious about boosting your memory, condition yourself to be truly present in any situation where you want to remember something.
M - Methods - Always carrying set of tools to be able to use when you remember something in your mental toolkit.

A Quick way to remember everyone’s name (BE SUAVE)

B - Believe - Believe that you’re going to be able to do this is the essential first step.
E - Exercise - As with other tools in this book, doing this is going to take some practice.
S - Say it - When you hear a person’s name for the first time, say it back. This will confirm that you heard the name correctly and offer you the opportunity to hear the name twice
U - Use it - During the course of your conversation with this person, use their name. this will lock it in
A - Ask - Ask where a person’s name came from.
V - Visualization - Vision is an incredibly powerful memory tool as we already saw with the loci method. Try to attach an image to a person’s name.
E - End - When you part ways with that person, end your conversation by saying the person’s name.

A quick way to remember vocabulary and languages - Vocabulary is one of the cornerstones of learning. To remember the meaning of words is easy; just use the very same systems you have been using. One of the most powerful concepts is word substitution ( the process of turning intangible (hard to picture) information into a image).

How reading makes your brain limitless

Reading kicks your brain into gear - reading gives you an incomparable level of mental exercise, and the brain is always a “muscle” that gets stronger the more you challenge it.
Reading improves your memory - studies suggest that exercising your brain by taking pat in activities such as reading and writing across a person’s lifetime, from childhood through old age, is important for brain health in old age.
Reading improves your focus
Reading improves your vocabulary - people who sound smart tend to have access to and a facility with a wider vocabulary than the average person. Reading allows you to build vocabulary than the average person and organically. The more you read, the more you are exposed to an expanded range of language and the use of that language in a variety of context.
Reading improves your imagination - A great imagination helps you see more possibilities in your life, and reading keeps your imagination on high alert.
Reading improves understanding

Reading misconceptions

Myth 1 - Faster readers don’t comprehend well - The key to better reading comprehension is focus and concentration. But some people read so slowly that they completely bore their own minds. A bored mind doesn’t concentrate well.
Myth 2 - It’s harder and takes more effort to read fast - trained readers tends not to back-skip as much as slower reader, slow readers stop at words, reread them, go to another word, regress to a previous one. This takes a lot more effort and extremely draining and boring. Faster readers go though words much easier and in a lot less time.
Myth 3 - Faster readers can’t appreciate reading - you do not have to study each and every word in a book, to realize its value.Faster readers have the option of speeding through boring/nonessential material and slowing down or even rereading the exciting/important information. Flexibility is power.

Thinking hats

This regularly used to help groups problem-solve in a more productive way, it is easily adaptable by any individuals hoping to keep their thinking fresh.

White hat - When you’re information-gathering mode - focus is on collecting details and getting all the facts you’ll need to address whatever issue you’re tying to address. (white lab coat)
Yellow hat - to bring optimism to your thinking, you’re trying to identify the positives in any problem or challenge you’re facing, highlighting the value inherently in place. (yellow sun)
Black hat - to pivot from looking at the good side of the challenge to facing its difficulties and pitfalls. (judge’s robe)
Red hat - allow emotion to come into play. this is also where you can allow speculation and intuition to enter into the conversation. (red heart)
Green hat - creativity mode (green grass)
Blue hat - management mode (blue skies)

How are you smart

Spatial - someone who usually thinks from the perspective of the space around them.
Bodily-kinesthetic - Someone with a dominance of this form of intelligence uses their body as a form of expression or problem solving.
Musical - Strong “sensitivity to rhythm, pitch, meter, tone, melody and timre”
Linguistic - Someone with a dominance in linguistic intelligence is particularly attuned to all the implications of words, not just their strict dictionary definition.
Logical-Mathematical - This is a strength in seeing the “logical relations among actions or symbols”
Interpersonal - Someone with a dominance in interpersonal intelligence has a deep innate ability to connect with other people and a rich understanding of how others might be feeling at any given moment.
Intrapersonal - Have a particularly refined sense of what is going on inside of you.
Naturalistic - Expresses itself in an ability to see the world of nature in all its complexities.

Learning Style

Visual - you tend to learn through illustrations, charts, video, and other visual media.

Auditory - most confortable learning by listening, either to a lecture, a discussion, a podcast, an audiobook

Kinesthetic - prefer to learn via physical interaction.

Mental models are constructs for thinking that help us make sense of the world around us. Think of them as shortcuts. Mental models train your mind to think, you don’t rise to the level of your expectation, you fall to the level of your training. Models can act as shortcuts that save you valuable energy and time when you’re evaluating and idea, making a decision or problem solving.

Decision-making - the 40/70 rule - Never make decision with less than 40 percent of the information you are likely to get, and gather no more than 70 percent of the information available. less than 40 percent and you’re just guessing anything more than 70 percent you’re stalling over making the decision.

Productivity - Create a not-to-do list - this tactic is used best for directing your attention to the essentials and avoiding what doesn’t matter in the moment

Problem solving - Study your errors - this is to evaluate what went wrong so you can get a better result next time.

Strategy - second-order thinking - few of us think even two steps beyond the immediate effects our actions will have on our lives, simple and yet not always easy.

Thinking exponentially - incremental mindset focuses on making something better, while exponential mindset is focused on making something different. Incremental is satisfied with 10 percent. exponential is out of 10x.

get to the underlying problem
posit a new approach - one of the keys to exponential thinking is filling your thoughts with what if statements.
read about it - Reading is especially important when it comes to exponential thinking. You can’t make huge cognitive leaps if you don’t have a well-rounded view of a subject
Extrapolate - You’ve now identified the underlying problem, posed questions that allow you to imagine a world without the problem, and done your research.