How To Unleash Your Super Brain & Be More Efficient With Jim Kwik | Flagrant 2 w/ Andrew Schulz

so there's no such thing as a good or bad memory there's a trained memory and an untrained memory your genetics loads the gun right but your lifestyle is what fires it you change your brain you change your life you change your brain you change your world what's up everybody uh it's your boy schultzy and i'm here with um someone i'm very excited to talk to i saw your i don't even know what you call them do you call them a performance it's it's more than a talk you're interacting with the crowd yeah yeah right i wouldn't call it a talk a talk like a ted talk is kind of boring right like i did a ted talk once there's no interaction but you're back and forth you're like making us stand up sit down you're actually making us do these exercises that are like potentially improving our lives and uh i was just blown away i mean i was blown away we're here with jim quick and he's gonna make all of our brains work so much better and i'm very excited for this convo um i have to give you a uh a huge compliment one specific thing from the talk we'll get to a bunch of them but one specific thing you did in the talk we you we've heard so often people talk about like the secret right and like the power of belief yeah and you executed the power of belief with physical results yeah and that was so satisfying because you read all these books and it's just like yeah think about it and then it will happen right right but it doesn't right like you could think about wanting water so much but like if you're in the desert there's no water it's not gonna disappear yeah but you did this cool exercise where you basically said hey try to reach your arm as far back as you can yeah and then you made us visualize twisting around in a 360 and then like a 720 doing the same thing without actually doing it and then the next time we went to go reach back with our arm it went back another like [ __ ] 90 degrees i couldn't believe it isn't that wild unbelievable so right there i was like okay this guy is a brain expert proven it was it was official in that moment and i i was like i'm just so blown away and um yeah it was just so cool it was great to go there we're at the final rows yes shout out to pablo find rose's place in miami that has these amazing events and great speakers and uh we were lucky enough to go watch you uh so jim quick we start here why did you need to figure out how our brains work why did you need to hack it and why did you need to optimize it that's a great question i would say my inspiration is was my desperation okay i i struggled you know despite what people see on video and these performances where i do these mental feats is you know i i grew up in learning challenges when i was five years old i was in kindergarten class and uh i had an accident where i took a very bad fall right in the emergency room head trauma traumatic brain injury and uh from there you know my parents said i was never the same from there before i was very curious very energized very playful and then after that i just became very shut down i had horrible focus concentration teachers would repeat themselves over and over again nothing registered a horrible memory i don't know if anyone could relate to these things but it took me three years longer just to learn how to to read you know i taught myself how to read by reading comic books but it was it was a hard my mess has really become my my message you know i remember when i was nine years old i was slowing down the whole class and the teacher pointed to me because i was being teased by their kids and said that's the boy with the broken brain and that was uh that was heartbreaking you know and so that was my label and that label became my limit but i've noticed like through adversity you know sometimes it can be an advantage right through struggles that everyone has gone through it could lead to strengths you know when you're challenged it could lead to some kind of positive change right yeah so when did you realize like okay all right was there any point time where you're like am i just dumb and it wasn't the fall yeah that that was part of it because i didn't know i mean i would always say every single time i did badly on a test or quiz wasn't picked for sports which was like all the time yeah i'd always say oh because i have the broken brain that became my identity yeah you know and there's a lot of there was a pressure you know my parents immigrated to the united states and didn't speak the language you know where from china china yeah and um they live in the back of a laundromat that my mom worked at you know so it was it was also that so i wanted to make them proud i'm the oldest of uh you know three siblings i want to be a good role model for the youngans and yeah but i still i couldn't hack it i would work hard but it just didn't show up was there another expectation like being asian and usually you're supposed to have all this success in school and was it like weird for your classmates like what's going on it was i was one of two asians in my in my school the other one was uh roger uh roger roger lee he was one year ahead of me and he was what he was you know he missed one question on the s.a.t he was so upset and he had to take it over to get a perfect score he was president of the debate team the math team class valedictorian and so i think he said a bar you know where people like that's you know what to expect and i came around and i was the one that allowed you know that hat you know like i was on the other side of the bell curve yeah that made me spin it out yeah yeah yeah yeah so that was added a little pressure on to it as well i didn't kind of kind of fit that mold were your parents pissed um you know i i i'm anything that's good that's come out of me i i attribute to them anything that's fallen short that's all on me right you know they they they're not the the wealthiest or the most intellectual or the healthiest or spiritual or any of that but they're just really good people okay you know they they work hard they're very kind they do no harm and good good role models but you know obviously they want to encourage me to to do better you said something uh interesting the talk you said uh and i want to quote you here you get uh we get paid uh for brain strength not brute strength yeah it's like you know back when i don't know agricultural age the beginning of the industrial age it was more like muscle power pick [ __ ] up yeah yeah be able to move things yeah and hard labor and i think nowadays it's shifted from muscle power to mind power 100 you know like everyone who's listening this as you're hustling and you're getting your education your personal growth you know i think knowledge is not only power today knowledge is not just profit yeah right you know the faster you can learn the faster you could earn and not just money but just all the treasures you like so that was something i wanted to ask you yesterday during the uh the conference and you gave us the opportunity to ask questions right or the talk or the performance uh and i have this problem where i know how valuable information is and there's so much [ __ ] information out there that i have like information paralysis i don't know if i'm just making up that term but like there's so many things that i have to read in order to get the truth out of this story okay i gotta read the right wing side i gotta read the left-wing side then there's a libertarian side and then there's this and i just go i don't care enough and then i kind of just don't consume any of it i just i just refuse to digest in a weird way how do i get past that yeah i mean i think thinking is good uh overthinking you know could stop progress and wanting to be perfect you know before it even starts i i don't think you're alone i think a lot of people who are with us today they suffer from information overload like this is like a real like medical condition like information anxiety you know too much it sounds feels like we're drowning in information but we're starving for those practical ways to kind of keep up with it all yeah it's like you're taking a sip of water out of a fire hose trying to keep up with all the news and everything right i did a program at google years ago and i heard this quote from the uh the chairman it was um the amount information that's been created from the dawn of humanity since humans walked the earth to the year 2003 that amount of information think about that yeah like the library of congress all that information that now is created every two days online you think about like your youtube and your podcast and social media and we're producing so much information how can you possibly keep up with it all yeah they were so proud they made like the constitution it's like we do three pods a week exactly exactly step it up founding fathers exactly so there's so much information but how we learn it and retain it it's all the same so that growing gap creates you know stress right you know and people are suffering higher blood pressure compression leisure time more sleeplessness as we talk about the presentation so you know and nowadays you feel like you need to know it all and the amount of information gets dated after you know it's getting shorter and shorter people graduate that information is not as relevant so what's the most efficient way to digest information yeah and so my thing is always upgrading our skills school taught us what to learn what to read what to remember what to focus on a lot what to think yeah but not how to do those things you know i think a missing ingredient in our education system is this thing called meta learning okay meta learning means learning how to learn yes so it's one of those things school taught us you know subjects like math and history and science and spanish but have been really useful to learn classes on on focus you know on on study techniques on on reading faster and i always thought it should have been a fourth r in school reading writing arithmetic obviously spelling wasn't one of them but but what about remembering retention socrates said learning is remembering so um you know i feel like the trick is to learn how to learn and i think it's the biggest superpower you could have nowadays okay how do we learn how do we learn more efficiently more efficiently yeah yeah i mean we could turn this into math class i mean if people were listening if they could grab some notes too and hopefully drop some practical wisdom for everybody you know whether you're in school you're starting a business wherever you are age or stage or your life i would say um four keys to learning faster remember i'll use acronyms just to make it you know you use acronyms in school of course like homes to remember the great lakes like h's huron oh is ontario these like little tricks i never knew a single lake yeah yeah yeah you guys knew the great lakes iran ontario michigan erie superior that's amazing yeah there you go so like holmes was like what mexicans would call each other gotcha yeah so so so these little things like um so i remember fast f-a-s-t these are four tips learning faster yeah um so think about a subject or skill you want to whether it's money marketing martial arts mandarin whatever right um the f in fast it stands for forget which is interesting for a memory expert to talk about but i feel like a lot of people don't learn faster because they feel like they know it already and our ego could get in the way you know sometimes so i think sometimes we have to empty our cup to put new information in okay so have a beginner's mind i would also say forget about distractions you know so many people i mean we live in a culture of rings dings app notifications social media alert you know likes shares comments and we are driven to distraction and sometimes it helps to learn when you can just focus and if something comes in your mind i know it's difficult but focus is a muscle and it's use it or lose it question about that yeah i open my phone i imagine everybody in this room does this i open my phone to do a single thing yeah dove will say hey can you do us a favor and text the restaurant and let them know that we'll be late i open my phone because i want to do that and then i'm on instagram i'm on twitter i'm like every and then i forgot why i opened my [ __ ] phone in the first place is this just not a useful tool for executing tasks you know i i i love technology technology for me is uh you know it has a light and a dark side right like fire is technology fire could cook your food or fire could burn down your home it's just how it's applied i love technology because it makes our lives convenient like it it soaked me allows this to happen right allows us to to reach an impact and encourage and uh challenge people and i would say that you want technology as a tool for you to use but if the technology is using you then who becomes the tool yes you know in the equation and so we're being used essentially at some time i would say that use it uh purposefully but when you know um i i have on our podcast we had um dr bj fogg and he is the he runs a lab at stanford university yeah on habits and he's like the number one habit expert i believe first you create your habits then your habits create you but one of his students actually co-founded instagram and think about how habitual that app is right how pretty how addictive it is and you know we open it 100 times a day and if somebody's not opening 100 times if they're doing it 10 times that means somebody's opening it a lot more to get that average and i'm just saying that for doing it mindlessly yeah then it's kind of driving us to distraction but we're using purpose i'm sure somebody has done this analogy before but like you know in like movies back in the day when the people who had sex the night before would wake up the first thing they would do right is they'd roll over and they'd grab a cigarette they light the cigarette and smoke it right what is the first thing yeah that we all do the second we wake up in the morning before i kiss my fiance yeah i grab my phone and just oh did we get some likes and some validation like i have the validation i need next to me asleep for the rest of my life but i'm looking on the phone did some strangers think i was funny yesterday it is so addictive it's terrifying yeah but it is so at least for me they've convinced me it's so useful and it has provided so much right it's provided a career for me my friends you know salvation in a lot of ways in terms of like uh economic yeah mobility so it's like it's hard for me to hate it and it's really hard for me to tell people not to be on it yeah like who the [ __ ] am i to say don't be on your phone when like being on your phone helped me build this yep i i think it's a balance i mean so people i mean and i'm not one to say for anybody just you know to judge people should do whatever works for them and i'm just saying sometimes when we say yes to somebody or something make sure we're not saying no to to the important things for ourselves you know what i mean that where if you're touching your phone the first thing in the morning you're rewiring your brain for like distraction you're rewiring your brain for reaction to fight fires and respond to everybody else as opposed to designing your day you know around the things that are most important for you so i'm not and again i love i'm i'm online and we we do a lot of things online and i would just say having some kind of balance and so everyone can make a choice in in my book limitless i have a quote from a french philosopher and he says life is the sea between b and d and you think about like we're speaking in tongues b stands for birth d is death and c life choice you know i believe that everything comes down to choices that our life is a reflection of all the choices we made up to this point yeah who are we going to spend time with who who are we going to eat what are we going to do and that sum total is where we are today and we could always at any time make a new choice and so i'm saying yeah if you have your phone you know beyond your phone and and ask yourself is this getting the result that i want you know so if it's distraction and you're just doing it people are just doing it out of habit that's where i'd be concerned do you break up and i want to get back to what you were talking about with fast and but uh memory do you break up your technological devices for the different things that you use them for like you have a tablet just to read so you don't have messages popping in or are you able to just do everything there and you just work that ability enough yeah i mean my my focus is pretty strong because i train it and it's a practice so there's ways we could talk about about train your focus yeah most people are training their distraction muscles so they're flexing it all the time and they wonder why they read a page in book and forgot what they just read they get somebody's name and it disappears out of their mind they were going to say something and they're like lost that thought because they're just driven to distraction because their mind is always multitasking and trying to do multiple things and i would say that if you can control your environment yeah it would be great if you could if you people could afford it to have a device just for entertainment and another device just for work you know just to help them to focus and eliminate distractions but it's it's hard you know it's that simple but it's that difficult at the same time how are we training ourselves for distraction so one of the things is especially when you wake up right when you wake up you're in this relaxed state and you're very very suggestible right and so if you pick up your phone you're you're rewiring your brain for distraction because like we talked about every like share comment cat video whatever it just you get this dopamine flood right and dopamine gives you happiness and it it goes along the learning and motivation centers of your nervous system and that's what makes it addictive right you just want more and more and more and and keep in mind like these platforms have invested countless dollars billions of dollars they have the best like psychologists to be able to engineer uh spending more time and again it's just giving people free will and choice so i would say that having this device there you know as much as you can be able to control it and exercise your your your will and as long as it's not taking you from a way like distraction the opposite is traction right and so if you're making traction in your life in your career in your business in school distraction is things that take you away from that path and so i would just ask yourself is this giving me what i want in the moment and it's it's not easy at all right it's it's very addictive i i we have videos online where we talk about just even having a phone at a dinner table stresses people out their anxiety goes up even if it's face down you just feel the you know the the the the drive to pick it up yeah yeah it's uh it is so true there's two phones on the table a buddy of mine like janice pappas has a funny joke about this but uh that i'm not gonna butcher right now because i don't remember it unfortunately but um but you having the phone on the tables like you're in this conversation and if that conversation lags at all your eyes just start like drifting to that thing that can make you feel good in the moment hmm so they're hiring people like you essentially to do bad things so you're you're a force of good you're like hey be careful guys this is how you should live your life and this is how we can optimize our brain and not be tricked by these scientists that are basically going how do we trick people i i would say that i don't know i want to talk about conspiracies but i'm just saying that we we have to be 100 responsible for our life we're not we're not a victim or at the effect okay and as much as as you know control we could have in directing the course as opposed to you know being at the effect and then yeah here's my question if you can get me addicted to my phone can that same technology get me addicted to working out can it get no yeah yeah yeah oh it can't work yeah the same principles well let's [ __ ] go i mean is that what peloton is is that what like soul cycle and all the things that people get like big rushes from yeah yeah yeah i would love you know for me it's always habits is all about making what's good for you easy and what's making what's bad for you more difficult like if picking up the phone is really driving you to you know in putting a wedge between you and your relationship or your health or your work then you know ideally don't have the phone in the in the bedroom if you can help it because then it just makes it easier it's just like let's say somebody doesn't feel good when they eat bread but they love bread and and the waitstaff brings bread to the table it's easier to say no up front than having it sit there and just like no no 50 times during dinner right and so set up the environment for you to win yeah i think that that would be pretty pretty wise you were you were talking a little bit yesterday about uh the morning routine yeah yeah yeah yeah and now i've heard a lot of people talk about morning routine every one of these like books about like billionaires they're like oh every billionaire has like the same morning routine um and this is something that i really appreciate about what you do is it it becomes practical when you do it yeah yeah you know like they go every billionaire is the same morning routine like they wake up you know they brush their teeth it's like yeah poor people have that too like yeah i don't think that's the thing making them a billionaire but what you were talking about was brain state yeah yeah so can you get into that a little bit yeah i believe the treasure we seek is hidden in our in our routines and uh you know and where we pick up these routines probably when we're kids or somewhere along the way that we didn't sit down and design what would be best um i'm probably part to blame for that there's a video out there if you search billion or morning routine somebody took one of my interviews and kind of click-baited it so it looks very catchy and has seven million views um i wouldn't say having spent some time with some very wealthy individuals yeah they don't do all these things no not at all but um yeah my thing is if you want to win the day you got to win that first hour of the day because there you want to get some momentum right and so my day some of the things to think about first my day starts the night before because you really need to get a good night's sleep and i don't know who i'm talking to but if you're hustling at the expense of your sleep the challenge is you can't cram if you're gonna run a marathon you can't just wait the night before and just you know exercise seven hours that night right or if somebody has got to go you know play play basketball you know for a big game you can't just cram the night before things certain things take a natural process and i would say um you know going to bed uh max mice how's your sleep eh yeah yeah it's okay i mean we have you know these dogs kind of wake us up a little bit but i'm getting to sleep earlier i would say seven hours a night maybe six seven hours a night is that you feel rested when you wake up not really yeah i mean i think that and and people are watching this they're young they could plow through it but it's just important to have these these habits early on when you can yeah and nobody gets this perfect right the goal is not perfection it's just making some kind of progress what is the right amount of sleep so um and how do i stop peeing in the middle of the night yeah yeah does that count against my my rems it could yeah certainly could affect your sleep i would say it's not the quantity of your sleep it really is the quality you you know these like sleep devices like aura ring and stuff like that as you sleep so for it's the deep sleep and it's the rem sleep the deep sleep is when you repair your body the rem sleep is where you restore your mind and so it's not just the quality some people get eight hours and they still feel like exhausted you know and so it's the quality of the sleep so um imagine we can't manage anything you can't measure so i would recommend people kind of do a sleep study stuff like that my sleep i don't talk about this a lot but um for five years i slept 90 minutes a night yeah it was it was rough and this was in the really the the height of my my career and uh you know maybe two hours total and i would wake and i found out i was misdiagnosed i had a sleep test and i have um severe sleep apnea and i don't know if anyone knows what that is but it's a breathing disorder yeah and uh usually for fat people right yeah because what happens is you gain weight especially in the neck area it can it restricts your your air flow and so you wake up not be able to breathe and for me it wasn't a weight issue it's just a genetic thing i found out later my parents have sleep apnea both and my brother and my sister also do and i would stop breathing 200 and like 20 times a night and each time was at least a count of 10 seconds so imagine so the doctor at ucla was like no wonder you're in such bad shape it's like somebody coming in 200 times a night and putting a pillow on your face yeah and you're waking up suffocating i couldn't breathe and i would use a cpap breathing device yeah yeah you know a dental device which is real sexy night baby yeah yeah darth vader for the rest of the day exactly and so i would do all these things and still one move it and eventually i was um i was having breakfast with um with larry king and he was like a big role model lincoln we live in la and and you know one of my mentors and he brought me literally walked me into his uh ent to get analyzed and i actually got diagnosed properly and we went to the head of ucla surgery and they they did this surgery on me where they took out my tonsils my uvula my soft palate extremely painful to create more place uh you know a place where i could breathe yeah and that helped a lot so i went from there to about four or five hours and that was life-changing for me you know i don't know how you slept for 90 minutes you know what it was years it's and that's why i wrote this book part of it and there's a whole area of sleep that i really became like you know like read every book talk to every every expert on the subject yeah but but when you don't sleep and i'm just i don't know who i'm talking to right now who's struggling with this you know it impairs everything like your temperament your feelings your relationship you know you how you could think and focus how you can remember things so a few sleep tips what i do the night before my evening routine is i want to make sure your brain loves continuity and consistency so going to bed at the same time waking up the same time even on the weekends is a big score i know it's not easy yeah all right so nothing about success and performance is easy i'm not saying it's easy but i'm just saying it's worth it right and so going to bed at the same time having it dark because you know with modern day conveniences you know with lighting and screens we fool our brain there's the blue light in your screens for your devices that fool your brain to thinking it's still daylight and so it doesn't produce the melatonin and help you relax and go to sleep you know the other trigger besides light is temperature you know back when your hunter gathered you knew to go to sleep because it the lighting dipped and so did the temperature but in controlled environments you know it doesn't get cold and so making your your room a little colder will help you sleep get that restorative sleep you kind of hibernate you know yeah yeah and so uh yeah and uh and before i go to bed one of the best things you could do is go through just your day you know people can't remember things following day or what you like what you did that day okay so there's something called episodic memory and episodic memory is very useful because you notice even with with the pandemic it's really exasperated this where days blended together i could keep going no no no so relatable yeah there was a time where you couldn't even ask me what day it was yep we just been working straight through i don't know if it was a tuesday was thursday especially you're not going out there's nothing on tv exactly there's nothing like positioning your week that's so true if you're not going to the movies not going out to restaurants or clubs or whatever peg the week to these different events and they weren't happening because you don't have those distinctive things that stand out in your memory so they all blend for days right yeah yeah yeah and so that's your episodic memory and so what you could do is just spend as you go to bed take three minutes and so there's no such thing as a good or bad memory and and some people think uh yeah i actually there's a train memory and an untrained memory and what are those so so there's no such thing as a good or bad memory when people say have a bad memory it's just you haven't trained your memory because we weren't taught how to do that and one of the things you could do a simple exercise that anyone could do is at the end of the night when you're lying in bed just take three minutes close your eyes and just review your day right what did what did you put on what were you wearing what did you eat for breakfast who what calls did you make right and that helps to train your brain so you start remember what a lot of people don't remember what what happened you know that day or they talked to yeah and these the thing the reason why memory is so important is because you know i lost when i was going through these learning challenges and my my grandmother was my my primary caregiver right because my parents always had all these jobs and stuff and and so when i was going through my challenges she um at five and six started showing the signs of dementia and alzheimer's yeah and if anyone you know my heart goes out to you if anyone has pops yeah yeah all right so you know what i'm talking about like she would call me by my dad's name uh she would say something she just said 45 seconds ago and when people lose their memory it feels like they're they lose who they are so while we teach people to remember facts figures formulas whatever it's really about remembering your life remembering your loved ones remembering your lessons right those those special moments but um that really affected me early on and that's why you know i dedicated you know the all the proceeds of the book to alzheimer's research and children's education because we're so passionate about that but that just broke my heart and it just made me think about you know what's good for the for the brain and if you're not sleeping that could really add they say your genetics because i'm concerned because that's you know genetic your genetics loads the gun right but your lifestyle is what fires it and so that's why it's so important to to to treat yourself well and especially your brain because your brain controls everything right you want to change you change your brain you change your life you change your brain you change your world so so the night before you were reflecting on the day i go through the day for a few minutes and it's just hey what are some events that happened today i just want to log these after a week of doing it you start getting more and more clarity you start remembering the things you know like that that are special and then what i do is i pull one or two little things out of that day that i'm just grateful for right so you have this this sympathetic and parasympathetic state and the parasympathetic states the state rest and digest right and that's the state you know what the best way one of the best ways to get in a state is gratitude dude this gratitude thing yeah yeah yeah what is it about tell me you know i really think gratitude rewires your brain because it first of all it's one of these hacks i i want you to explain to us but it's one of these hacks that like you have to experience it in order you have to experience it in order to understand why it works it's like burning man like i don't know if you've ever been a burning man or like even game of thrones you know like you ever try to describe the show game of thrones to somebody you just sound like a nerd you're like oh there's dragons and then you're like just watch it it's really good the gratitude thing is the same way just be grateful for what you have it's so easy to practice but the moments where i feel like truly grateful yeah right you're like tingling yeah if is it that easy is that easy to just sit down there man i had a great meal today that everything bagel was unbelievable and then literally you're rewiring your brain in that moment yeah so you can rewire your nervous system because gratitude tells you that there's enough you know and especially in a world full of stress a world full of fear you know chronic stress shrinks our brain uh you know when your adrenaline and cortisol put you in fight or flight or freeze but you're not gonna you're not gonna study your best you're not gonna do your best in your job you're not going to be there for your loved one as much when you're just fight or flight you know or frozen and so the antidote to fear i think is gratitude you know chronic fear actually suppresses your immune system you know which is very topical right now it's the area of science called psychoneuroimmunology but it makes you more susceptible to colds the flus the viruses so controlling that and i think you know when you feel grateful and most people are like i'm gonna wait till i have something to be grateful for it's like you don't have to wait for a greater life to feel grateful if you feel grateful you'll have a greater life for sure for sure and here's here's here's a simple thing exercise practical people could do you know make a list take out take out a piece of paper and write down like i s i imagine a lot of people want to feel wealthier right write down everything that you have in your life that money can't buy that you want trade for money relationships your sense of sight your whatever your any assemblage to your health just all that or here's one what if the only things you had in your life tomorrow were the things you expressed gratitude for today you know simple simple exercise you know and and the reason why you do that is because you know tomorrow is not promised you know that's why it's so important for your loved ones and everyone just to sh you know to show and tell them because we we don't know right you know what tomorrow brings it's it's an interesting flip though because a lot of people what is stressing them out the most is tomorrow yeah so it's a crazy thing to get their mind to go from [ __ ] tomorrow's gonna be so horrible too hey you might not even have tomorrow because i'm sure some of them on some level are going well that'd be nice if i didn't have to deal with tomorrow not saying that they should do anything about that but it is a it is a very different perspective for most people yeah a lot a lot of this practice i mean it the bad news is it takes work yeah good news i don't think it takes as much as people think yeah you know it's a lot you know when you do the easy things in life all the time which is just putting things off or procrastinating or just like binge whatever distraction then life gets hard though you know when you just do easy things in life life gets very hard but if you do the hard things in life life somehow gets a little bit easier you know when you have that difficult conversation you know or the things that you like working out the things that are difficult life gets a lot easier also as well i want i want you to keep going on on what happens the next morning but uh at some point i do want to touch on like what stress does to not only memory but like performance you know like times where i'm feeling like my most confident i feel like i can perform the best and i feel like these ideas are coming into my brain like it's amazing these synapses are just firing and the times where i'm like scared or nervous self-conscious yeah it's like my brain is a empty void like i'm just sitting there going is something going to happen is a joke going to come to my mind am i going to have anything interesting to say at all why could fear induce a a reaction that would like limit my ability to succeed in that moment yeah i think emotions um for me my point of view with emotions is they're uh they're like signposts you know when you feel sad or you feel guilty or you feel afraid you know i think each of those emotions are to signal something you know emotions it's like the energy of motion it's like if you feel fear of you know giving a toast at a wedding i think that fear is useful because it gets you to prepare you know right there's some kind of emotional driving force yeah yeah like i don't know how you feel before you go on stage is it just are you you've done it so much that you could just kind of roll out of bed at 4am and just yeah i mean there's some times we're really excited like i know if there's a new joke or new idea i want to talk about i'm really excited i i can't wait to get to the point where i'm gonna talk about it and sometimes i'll try to like do it in the middle of my set and then everything before that i'm just unenthusiastic about and it just doesn't go so i just got to start with the new thing that i'm passionate i can kind of ride that passion but but yeah i could see situations where i may be like feel nervous and i've gotta almost like fake it till i make it yeah you like set up these i'm sure with your you know performance as well it's like you set up these structures where you concede even if where you can succeed even if you're like so nervous and i try to do that i'm sure comics try to do that with a set and sometimes there's like i don't know comfort within the structure i guess there is safety exactly and also that structure that you set up for yourself gives you flexibility too you know i can always go back to the structure if i need it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you have like a little safety net there but allows you to go a little you know take some risks and that's that's amazing you know i think they're that excitement you feel and it's very close to fear right that the feeling of fear and excitement your heart's beating maybe are yours yeah yeah like they're like same coin different sides right yeah yeah but attaching a label to it you know i think that that the words we use are the language of our mind and and the feelings that we feel it's like the language of our body yeah but when we put a label to it then all of a sudden like if somebody gets fearful of public speaking which is a lot of people yeah you know it's calling it and we're kind of reframing it like this is excitement just changes what it feels like you know and i'm sure you know a lot of people in the entertainment world that are really phobic of that kind of work you know sometimes but you know some people transform it and they do it's like with um with athletes right you ever see like athletes before they get in the ring or before they go you know play a game of basketball or something like that they're going let's go jumping up and down fighters often time before they get in the ring they're hitting themselves in the face and maybe that's it they're trying to take those those anxious nerves and turn them into excitement it's like the energy is running through your system regardless yeah like what are you gonna do with that energy okay so now you're getting ready to bed you reflect on the day you've been grateful yeah and then the last thing i do is i set some kind of and now again you don't have to do all these things you're just some suggestions that don't take a lot of time right but i would ask people to not judge it but just test it because ultimately you are your best expert right yeah don't don't look at somebody else but just test it for you and maybe it works for you like some people are really good on kale some people like hate kale so don't don't do it right kale like the salad yeah like i like that like you know not everything's for everybody yeah yeah not everybody's for everything leafy greens leafy greens yeah good memory good memory very good memory yeah we'll get to that yeah yeah yeah we did it today and there was like three no is it last night we went out for a couple drinks last night so maybe we're a little bit a little bit intoxicated and the four of us were just going what is it blueberry really oh yeah it was locked it was so impressive we'll get to what that is later it's really confusing but okay we're good yeah so the last thing i do is i just want to remind people that the power of their mind um i have a question have you ever had to wake up early particularly early and you set the alarm and you kind of obsess about a little bit but have you ever woken up within minutes of your alarm going off seconds yeah yeah yeah it's unbelievable like how does that happen right and it's before it's obviously it's always before right sometimes what happens is i'll wake up and then i set the alarm for p.m instead of a.m oh wow but i'm up yeah and it's almost like i've i baked in a time yeah till my biological clock to like get me yeah it's so weird isn't that remarkable how powerful like that intention or the power of your mind to be able to wake up within moments of your alarm going off and that's a good thing because you said it for pm especially yeah but like what if we use that power of our intention or our mind before we go to bed to maybe set another intention besides waking up maybe thinking about a problem or thinking about a new set or a joke something that you you know you see when you when you learn or study all day or you work on your business your brain doesn't shut off at night it's actually more active and it's what is it doing it's consolidating your short to long-term memory it's integrating all the things that you've learned and it's coming up with ideas like these gems like when you dream we'll probably spend like 20 years of our life sleeping maybe three to five full years dreaming three to five years that's a lot of time right it's so insane to think about it yeah 20 years knocked out that's it it is right and so three to five years dreaming and you're dreaming like i i mentioned this like last night that mary shelley came up with frankenstein in her dream yeah paul mccartney came up with a song yesterday in his dream yeah you know elias howe created this sewing machine his dream a chemist created a periodic table dream what are we dreaming about and so sometimes i dream and i bomb on stage yeah yeah i'm not finding my masterpiece at home i gotta not do that joke but imagine like using that intestine intention of waking up at a certain time and you do it just to kind of prog maybe like i don't know a program is a weird word but just asking yourself a question that you really want to know the solution for and let your brain work on it throughout the night and uh and maybe you happen to dream about those things so that's what i do when i wake up in the morning i um the first thing i do actually is remember my dreams i i feel like that i just if my dreams are there i have a i just have right by my nightstand i'm curious what you have about your nightstand it's like i have a glass of water a book a fiction reading book that i read sometimes before i go to bed because i don't want to read anything like real heady and get my executive brain but fiction is a nice way of decompressing and i have like a little journal like nothing fancy a little notebook but i just write my dreams in there each morning okay and it trains myself to pay attention to my dreams have you heard of this uh idea of lucid dreaming yeah i've actually done it really in like pretty intense ways naturally since you're a kid yeah just naturally like fly when i want to and i've been able and it's quite often what happened to me in a dream is i'll go oh i'm dreaming oh cool and sometimes i can go i know i'm dreaming so it's time to fly and i just fly and there's some times where i go i know i'm dreaming yeah fly and i can't you can why yeah yeah yeah well first of all if people listening to this they might be seeming like really weird because they experience this they call it lucid dreaming this isn't that common people don't no it's it it it is common for some people but not often for a lot of really they never experienced so lucid means you're aware and so lucid dreaming is you're aware that you're asleep and dreaming and uh and some people do it naturally right and for those who don't do it naturally like anything else you could train yourself to be able to do it and it's wonderful because if you're spending three to five years of your life dreaming then you can pick up that time and you know what can you do you live out fantasies you can meet people you can learn you go on adventures do all these things yes and still get the restorative benefit of sleep right so it's wonderful and one of the tricks that we talk about to lucid dream i did a podcast episode on this is just train yourself throughout the day ask yourself this simple question is this a dream so simple right yes it's a dream you ask yourself 100 times a day and then the first time the answer is yes then you're lucid dreaming right because remember you obsess about something you know throughout the day and you start dreaming about it yeah but if you start asking yourself that question or you start looking at your hand and just like every time you look at your hand just think about your dreams and then when you look at your hand you know when you're when you're in a dream and yeah reminds you of that but um so i write down my dreams and i get these little these little gems and then the second thing i do when i get up is i i actually don't get out of bed i don't touch my phone all right because i think successful people we all have a to-do list yeah everybody who's listening you have your to-do list but i think the people that are like really make guy crushing it they also have like a not to-do list you know whether it's explicit or it's just something that they just won't these non-negotiables that it's there's this book good to great by jim collins says you have to say no to good so you could say yes to what's on your not to-do list yeah and so on top of that list should be not touching your phone right the first time half an hour to last half an hour of a day you know that should be something there certain things that you just won't won't indulge in or and you know what you could do is just when it comes to your brain i spoke on the brain i always wear brain shirts because i think it's so important to take care of your brain is ask yourself is this good for my brain or is this bad for my brain you know before every activity or food that you eat or things that thoughts that you have people that you spend time with because you know it's kind of warren buffett has this thing where he says thought experiment says when you're 16 imagine you're gifted a car but this car is the car you're gonna have for the rest of your life you know how well would you take care of that car yeah you know you would right but this is think about it the vehicle we have is our body and you know our mind and we got to take care of it so the first thing i do is i i come up with this thought experiment that i came up with years ago and i said okay instead of just waking up and hoping i have a great day what what has to happen in order for me to feel that way my friend clay bear he has this champagne moment idea he says that when they crack open champagne at a sporting event it's very clear who won right and what has to happen on the scoreboard for you to just be celebrating yeah but we don't have that for our life and we don't even have that for our day so imagine you're coming back at home and you know your fiance asks how was your day and you're like today was amazing yeah and then just ask yourself what had to happen in order for me to feel that way you know piss her off if every day yeah yeah yeah yeah oh i can't wait for this but there's three things like you know like maybe three things that work three things for personal and they don't have to be big things but just come maybe come up with those things before you get out of bed and just say hey these three things if i do this this and this then it was a great day and then get out of bed next thing you could do make your bed and that's so simple and it's so no brainer but i believe are you the initial make your bed guy yeah you've been talking about it for 20 years jordan peterson is also you know jordan peterson right yeah he has also popularized make your bed yeah but he might be taking your material i i don't i don't know i need to sit down with you no no no i wouldn't say he he is i mean it's it's it's it's obviously many people make their bed so i'm not i don't know i thought you started it no united i thought people weren't making their bets before until i started talking about it that's the fun part about going to the hotel that is made yeah there you go i mean who doesn't love a well-made bed right yeah but um your brain loves a clean environment and my things is all about your brain so you do it because your brain loves a clean environment and i believe excellence is a habit that if you could take two minutes do it well you could potentially take that habit into other areas of your life i have never made my bed yeah in my whole life what i've never made it sometimes if a girl was coming over i would just like do this with the blanket yeah and then i'd set it i i do not make the bed it's so weird yeah what if you did like one time like what what if what if tomorrow yeah like you know after you guys get up and you just started making it with that freaker out guys if i become a billionaire because i started yeah i'm not making that claim either no she actually makes the bet yeah and that's something that like a habit that she's built don't get me wrong it looks great it's awesome i love it yeah yeah um i'm not saying i know whether or not elon musk and everybody makes their bed and everything else like that normally will make that claim but i would just say test it out i mean every once in a while like throw it through a curveball and start making the bed and just like you know is there something about like having a success in the beginning of the day yeah i think there's a science of momentum right yeah and success breeds success yeah and if you get good at things that really don't matter then you could take that into the things that that do you know even little things like right after that um drinking water simple thing but right the night before i'll put a glass of water there like in my bed like in the nightstand yeah and i'll drink it because you could lose up to a pound of weight just through respiration and perspiration you know just losing water and staying hydrated your brain is 75 water yeah it's so a no-brainer it could boost your reaction speed your thinking speed 15 to 30 percent just staying hydrated man like i need a lot of water you know at the table here but just drink some water i when i do it i just down a couple of probiotics because that's good for your your second brain which is your gut yeah you know and then i do three-minute exercise and there's the next there's a study done at appalachian state university i'm gonna get a little geeky here but they said for weight management and better sleep when's the best time to exercise morning afternoon or evening and they tested groups at seven a.m 1 p.m and 7 p.m and they found it was 7 a.m it doesn't have to be your full workout but if you just did three minutes of you know what's good for your heart it's going to be good for your head get some blood flow and oxygen there push-ups sit-ups yeah yeah burpees jumping jacks whatever for three minutes then those individuals got upwards of 75 deeper sleep and just doing that for a few minutes first thing in the morning you know and so jump starts your metabolism you get some oxygen you're in your brain they slept deeper the next night even though they were working out that night doing seventh yeah and the most important thing you do for your sleep actually is get sunlight if you and it's tough sometimes during the seasons but you can expose yourself to a few minutes of it's resets your circadian rhythm so if you have sleep issues getting into what is that i've heard that before circadian rhythm what do you think yeah it's a 24-hour biological clock that we have and so that's why it's so important to have consistency but it's hard you know this uh you know with all the whole pandemic and everything people are stressed is that like jet lag is difficult because there's that you're you know and that really you know when i talk about my sleep issues going to different continents you know and touring and and doing those things you know sleeping in foreign environments like you know it's really bad when you're a memory expert you wake up you don't remember what city you know i mean you're in some kind of stale hotel room and you have you know gig that night and everything and it's you know it's it's tough but it could really mess up those rhythms and then you just you're on different times so your brain has its own clock yeah and it knows what time it likes to go to bed and knows the time it likes to wake up yeah and there's all these like cues in the environment to let us know when it's time even though these outside sources like our phones and like our air conditioning our heat in our home are kind of manipulating that circadian rhythm a bit of what was natural organic before right so if we're like you're saying we're out there like camping right yeah there's gonna be things that wake us up a [ __ ] wolf is gonna howl like that has to be kind of baked into our sleep you're not supposed to sleep eight hours straight through you'd die yeah i mean you think certain things that wake you up and so sound makes a difference also as well so you have light you have temperature i guess what i'm saying is like we should be able to like wake up a little bit and go back to sleep but yeah that should be baked into our dinner falling back to sleep is different you know like a lot of people could go uh some people have trouble falling asleep how's that for you i think i'm pretty good there yeah so the latency it happens within you know unless i have to wake up early yeah and then there's that anxiety of like uh now it's only five hours of sleep yeah four hours so the rumination of that that could create and then that stress puts you in the sympathetic mode and takes you out of that parasympathetic parasympathetic rest and digest you know that's what happens what do you got for that what do we do then yeah so we're worried about yeah do you wake so if you wake up um in the middle of the night right to go to the bathroom or whatever do you can you fall back to sleep yeah oh so that's great because a lot of people they're other challenges they can't fall asleep insomnia or they wake up and they can't fall back to sleep in the middle of the night or stay asleep you know and then that's different you know one of the simple things people could do for falling to sleep uh whether it's middle night or not is just doing a simple relaxation exercise of scanning your body and just going from you know your toes to the top of your head and just say it's like something simple like thank you toes and go to your feet your ankle something like that but most people won't make it all the way through they'll just fall asleep because it's such a boring process you know anybody gets them in their body as opposed to in their mind yeah kind of like counting you know sheep or whatever that's what i do i try to like just count breaths it like kind of pseudo meditation type thing but for whatever reason i'd stop thinking about whatever i was worried about and i'd kind of focus on the breaths and yeah that would work yeah i guess yeah i guess a little bit okay so that is your sleep routine so then i then i get up and i do the exercise and then um simple things that you mentioned even in passing is simple things to challenge your brain like brushing your teeth you know yeah so that i probably originated over 20 years ago brushing your teeth with the opposite hand and you know i'm a big proponent because when you use a different part of your body it actually stimulates a different part of your brain and we know that that if somebody has a stroke or a head trauma on one part of their side of the brain if there's paralysis it'll happen on the other side that one side of your brain controls the opposite side of your body but recent research has shown that when you use the other side of your body it actually stimulates that part of your brain it's not one way it's actually back and forth there's a study done at oxford university that says jugglers learning to juggle actually builds makes your brain bigger you create more white matter i don't know if you could juggle but if you watch i can do three yeah that's that's amazing so just doing that actually creates more white matter and so using your body as your body moves your brain grooves and so challenge eating with the opposite hand or brushing through that not only does it stimulate different part of your brain yeah but also it forces you to be present in the beginning you're not going to be good at it and so it forces you to be right here and as opposed to like your mind going everywhere and being distracted and flexing your distraction muscles and later you can't pay attention on a zoom call there's a i for exercise i i box right and one of the things i enjoy the most about it is um doing the pad work i can't get lost in my thinking it requires so much of that like cognitive energy for me to keep up with these different combinations that my coaches is saying and uh it's just really great for that reason yeah sparring is but i mean sparring's next level right sparring is like you're in survival mode and that's just that's so much fun but there's also like a heavy cost yeah for how fun it is but yeah every second you're like am i planning on something am i defending something but those types of exercise maybe that's why we're drawn to it yeah where you put your mind into your muscle like great things like that are good for your brain those kind of exercises had work uh ballroom dancing great for the brain i grew up in a barn dance studio that yeah that's why that's why you're so sharp right that's right um like table tennis like all these activities actually stimulate not only your muscles but also your mind yeah and so it's good to challenge and this is all about mental fitness right yeah you know we now don't we think about our brains like any other muscle in our body that's something we can improve it's almost like we have this kind of like passive attitude towards our brain this is the brain i was dealt with this is my iq there's nothing i can do about it this is how my memory is and and we just kind of like sit back as some passenger none of my friends have ever said you know what i need to build up that part of my brain yeah yeah yeah ever once we can build up every other part of our body i'd like to get a six-pack i'm gonna diet i'm gonna do abs and do all these things my memory sucks or my vocabulary is really small it's just what it is yeah why why do we have that attitude you know i think there are a lot of that this conversation really is about it's about transcending it's about ending the trance you know i think there's this mass hypnosis maybe it's propagated through media or marketing that somehow we're not enough that somehow like our potential is fixed like our shoe size we've discovered more about the human brain in the past 10 years than the previous thousand years combined this makes me really happy because now we can make fun of dumb people because they're just lazy i think intelligence is not fixed and that if people use discipline and determination then anything can get better dumb jokes are back think about it right if it's a choice if you're choosing to be dumb because you're not doing the things that you i obviously can to improve yeah i mean especially with the way we have unfettered access to podcasts and youtube ignorance is a choice for sure today you said you said something in the talk yesterday it was really great it was like what is the most efficient way to gain information it's like somebody put their whole life in a book yeah like decades of experience the heck you can get that in three days four days yeah four day whatever however long it takes you to read a book like right now this conversation you've put your whole life into i literally spent a fortune of time and money and everything that so people don't have to do that themselves you lucky yeah exactly you're getting you never get this up early isn't that crazy i that's why i love like if i you know like if i gave you a dollar you gave me a dollar same nothing nothing changes yeah but if i share a new idea that's worked for me and you share an idea yes then we have two brand new ideas and you know we could create change right that knowledge is not only power it's like and if knowledge is power learning is our super power yes you know so i think that the common trait behind all successful individuals athletes performers yeah business individuals whatever is they just they they they study right you know they they they they are addicted to that growth you i i want to get into a podcast i was listening of yours where you were talking about like a championship mindset you were one of your pods and one of the great things i love about your podcast is there it can be like 11 12 minutes they're so digestible i almost hope that when you brand them you say that because when people hear the word podcast like oh this is going to be an hour it's going to be two hours there's gonna be three i know joe rogan's podcast you know sometimes we did three hour episodes you know but 11 minutes is so digestible yeah for spotify it was one of them they binge listened you know so it's very popular because each one is a life hack each one of those games how to learn languages what are the best brain foods how do you hack your sleep and you know do all these things how you read faster but uh not to interrupt but there was a thing you said yesterday uh before we get into the champion mindset thank you you said that uh you have to think about your brain as a uh computer yeah and then your thoughts are the programs of that computer and the computer will execute those thoughts so choose your [ __ ] thoughts very wisely you have a great can you expand yeah i mean that there were those certain things like really touched touch me in there man because there's all these people if you have negative thoughts and your brain is just a computer it's going to go we're going negative today baby yeah and a negative mind will never yield a positive life it it just can't it's not possible you know people come to me all the time even last night and they say hey jim i got it i got you know in secret like i you know i just i'm i'm too old i'm not smart enough you know i have had this you know i have a horrible memory and i say stop if you fight for your limitation you get to keep them so many of us unconsciously are always fighting for what we can't do yeah and we just get because our brain really is like a super computer and our thoughts are the program it will run so if you tell yourself i'm not good at remembering people's names you will not remember the name of the next person you meet because you program your computer you know not to and so i just want to remind everybody that thoughts are things that there's a biology to a belief that literally when you have a new thought you're rewiring your brain for something and we're always rehearsing either success or something else and just whatever you're doing repeatedly you're getting better at and monitor because your mind is always eavesdropping on your self-talk and you know like if you wouldn't say it to like someone you love then why would you say it yourself exactly yeah and i'm sure there is a fine balance with like recognizing the things that you want to change and improve upon yeah yeah yeah and also not limiting your ability to improve upon those things so it's not like walking around lying to yourself all day that's not yeah and you don't even have to fake it to make it i'm just thinking in instead of maybe faking it to make it maybe you face it until you make it right that with with challenge and you challenge yourself then you'll change was that off the cuff because that was really good okay but like just like you challenge your body like champions do you know like if you had to if you want to grow your bicep you you know you do your 10 reps the one you at least want to do is number 10 but the one that gives you the most growth is number 11 right you know what i mean we challenge ourselves to that time i think that if we had exercises that yield positive results with our brain we would be more apt to uh make those changes with our brain right we believe that we could you know like the number exercise you did yesterday was great like you remembered like 30 [ __ ] numbers in a row i don't know how the hell you did it and uh and then you did them backwards as well right and i just remember going like think in that moment i was like man if i was eight years old and i did that in school i would really think i could memorize anything yeah you know and it's such a shame that like at 37 i gotta oh there's little techniques that i can learn to remember things a little better i don't just have to like stare at it and repeat it three times or you know write it down on a piece of paper six times whatever like goofy techniques i had built there are these and maybe you can expand on them a lot but like i don't know it's really empowering knowing you can change this thing when like before that i thought i don't really limit myself man i really don't limit myself but i i would say that the thing that was most limited for me would be my mind yeah i never limit in terms of what i can achieve i just go i'll figure a way around it that's amazing but around maybe a limit that i might have here oh okay well i can't learn another language i'm too old i'll figure a way around it i'll hire a frenchman you know what i mean but now i'm just like i'll learn french [ __ ] it yeah that everything is figure-out-able right eventually if you're committed to doing that that's a powerful core belief right yeah that if everybody had that that they could figure out a way yeah they're dedicated to it yeah you know and so yeah your memory is the same thing that a memory can be improved but going to somebody and saying you know focus or concentrate or remember is like going to somebody and saying like play the ukulele who's never taken a class on that they've never had any training right and i'm just saying some basic skills of learning how to remember names or things that you want to remember or numbers that that's useful whatever your outcome is because not everybody wants to remember numbers right but maybe they want to remember poetry or they're they want to be in a broadway show or they want to remember you know a comedy set you know whatever they whatever is important to them yeah they can apply those same principles yeah it was it was great you uh god what was the acronym that you had for it there was two you did there was mom and dad suave wow yeah i'm remembering them okay so which one do you think was more appropriate for just memorizing just what do you think the most difficult thing is for the average person most people complain about names and faces because it's something that they okay let's do names how do we lock in names yeah i mean it's just first of all knowing how important it is is really important you mentioned mom and so uh mom another acronym and we'll get back to fast also uh close but the m um so let's say uh anyone watching or listening to this if they have trouble remembering names which is 95 of the population right um but let's say that there was a suitcase of like a million dollars cash for anybody who remembers the name and the next stranger who's who's joining us who's going to remember that name yeah everybody right yeah and so the m in mom the first stem is motivation right and so i would say we're all great learners when we're motivated to learn right if we're motivated and there's some kind of reward that comes from it but i would just say that maybe connecting with the reason why studying something that but that's why we forgot a lot of things in school like what are we using the periodic table and the quadratic equation what are we using that for so we probably don't remember it right right but if you ask yourself simple technique a brain hack when you're meeting somebody ask yourself why do i remember this person's name maybe it's to show the person some respect maybe some make a new friend maybe just get a referral maybe it's to practice these things i learned on this podcast you know because if you can't come up with a reason you won't get the result so it's so important when you read and study if you're in school if you're preparing for something for work to tap into the purpose because without that motivation you're probably not going to remember the owen mom was very simple we did this kind of fun exercise where you shake out your hand make a fist you know i tell people to put it to their chin and everyone put it their cheeks did it to my cheek you know the o stands for observation and a lot of times people blame their retention and it's not your retention it's your attention you know because a lot of people they're not really listening what are they doing they're waiting for their turn to speak yeah they're thinking about how they're gonna respond yeah yeah you know and if they're talking to themselves and listening they're not going to listen to the other person so they're without forgetting their name they're just not hearing the name so even if you take a word like listen you write it down and you do this little mental you know gymnastics in your mind and switch the letters around it spells another word perfectly the word listen is when you scramble the letters spells the word silent and people could be so much better at remembering things if they were just quiet and silent yeah you know but a lot of times they won't because they're they're that monkey mind yeah sometimes they're just anxious you know they maybe want to impress somebody and they're not listening to what they're saying and sometimes the most impressive thing to somebody is just paying attention to them yeah i think that's and then that's so interesting to me because so many people are trying to impress by being interesting yeah yeah look how cool i am hey you're really cool and that person goes i like being around people who think i'm cool exactly and maybe it's not about being interesting it's about being interested yeah you know somebody right everybody wants to feel like they're heard and seen and asked questions because it's everyone's favorite topic yeah and then finally you know motivation observation the last m is are the methods that we talk about yeah like the b swab and some of the other techniques about saying the name repeating and visualizing the person's name and yeah yeah what was that like um putting their name what did you it was the example yeah it's mary and then yeah like here's the thing that i would imagine a lot of people are joining us they're better with faces than they are with names yeah right you look at somebody and say i remember your face yeah i forgot your name yeah you never go to someone say the opposite you never go i remember your name i remember your name but i forgot your face right dave you look different right exactly and so the reason why is there's a proverb that goes what i hear i forget what i see i remember what i do i understand what i hear i forget heard the name forgot it yep when i see the face i'm gonna recall it yeah and what i do going back to practice you know practice makes progress right practice doesn't even make perfect makes progress yeah then you really understand so i would say that when you visualize since you tend to remember what you see try seeing what you want to remember so a person's name is mike imagine you meet a mike and they they just jump on the table and start seeing karaoke on a microphone you know a split second and it makes you laugh you're probably gonna remember it okay it touches you emotionally his name is alex media yeah that's an invented name how are you gonna remember it yeah so i would say that take the name and transform it into a picture so if i say the word alex what do you think of the person that comes to your mind right now weird alex trebek there there there you go that's amazing and so if you can imagine alex right and you could see the jeopardy board and everything else like that then that that's a way of associating things together you meet someone named emma right and you think of you know like oh i have a relative that that's like that or emma you know like a famous emma or something that sounds like it so if a person's you know name is i mentioned andrew you know for something that sounds like if you're playing pictionary and you draw those ears like sounds like you know when you have to think in pictures yeah yeah yeah you know and somebody thinks about an android they're not going to call you android but have you ever forgot someone's name and you start going through the alphabet like does it start with an a does it start with a b and you get really nervous when you get to like w because there's not a lot of letters like after that but sometimes e and you think of eric right or you think of d and you think of dove or something like that it just reminds you so if you come up with something that sounds like like mary you know the person's getting married all of a sudden it's carol singing christmas carols for me david whenever i meet someone named david i think of a slingshot right to their nose because david and goliath goliath right and it's so silly but then it takes a split second and i can't forget it because when i leave that party or whatever later on i was like what did i do that what happened there oh i shot him in the nose with a slingshot you create like a cartoon almost in your head of an activity that's associated with the name it's a fun you know what it does it overcomes what i call the six second syndrome when somebody tells you their name or you read you have six seconds to do something with it otherwise it's gone in the ether right you're never gonna get it back so when it does it gets you to focus on the person and it gets you to focus on the name so even when it doesn't work it still tends to work because it gets you to concentrate and pay attention yeah so if a person's name is uh mark imagine you're putting like a little check mark on their forehead like you would never forget that and then that's what i remember and once you know the person's name is mark yeah or alex or anything else like that then the picture disappears i don't think of jeopardy anymore you know because it was a means to an end yeah right and how do kids remember names yeah like do they make do you have your name made fun of growing up or andrew not really andrew andrew i don't know yeah that's what they'll do they'll like they had their songs about it and you know the name like quick i got you know like nestle quick remember all this stuff kind that's how kids remember things so using your imagination is definitely a plus yeah you also said uh i think it was with the names you were you were saying that you can what was it put it in a scenario yeah yeah like if you um i think when you meet people with unusualness oh yeah yeah asking them yeah etymology is but just yeah why are you named that like if you said my name's alex media it'd be like yeah why are you named house yeah who are your names exactly everyone i think a lot of people are flattered when you hear a name that you haven't heard before but how did you word it because the way i say it is antagonistic yeah yeah yeah yeah why are you named that yeah so when somebody tells you their name like their name could be i met a rudiger the other day right i was like you know what's the origin how do you spell it you know where where's it from just right because curiosity that interest being interested in something yeah yeah because remember like we've all heard this but like name is a sweetest sound to a person's ears like think about like one of the first words you learn how to write and you know maybe growing up praising you for just doing it like sloppy and everything else you know and so a name is so important and so taking that name asking about how you spell it or who you named after or something like that it takes interest plus it just helps you to ingrain it also also as well and it's more than just names that you're doing that with right yeah having a curiosity over anything is gonna help you motivation and curiosity is gonna somebody told me a story about um bill clinton uh not an x-rated one and uh they said uh he's he was like they were at a party with bill clinton and they were at that party and there was also some family friends that are at that party and all them left the party thinking that bill clinton found them to be the most interesting human being yeah that has ever existed like they all left the party with the exact same feeling like that guy thought i was the best ever he's got great taste and then when they reconvened afterward they shared the story and they're like oh [ __ ] this is just this guy's skill yeah he has this amazing ability and maybe it's like what you're saying maybe he wasn't entertaining maybe he was paying attention maybe he was interested yeah i i um i met him briefly years ago and like two years later uh i went to a charity event and it was 2000 people on this gala for uh you know this this good cause and i sit at my table i was assigned to i was the first one there and uh when i sat down shortly afterwards force whitaker sits right next to me right and then richard branson sits next to him and i'm like whoa i think i got like sitting at the wrong and then ashton kutcher sits down yeah his twin brother sits down okay and bill clinton sits right next to me yeah and i was just like wow and i and i swear to you he remembered my name really and we only talked for like a couple a few minutes before unbelievable and and i was like okay he was fed that like he knew who's sitting at his table clearly and then i swear to you he picks up the conversation we had two years ago no yeah and i and and i and i was like i need to know how you do this you know i'm the memory guy and he starts talking to me about his grandfather in arkansas how in the living room he would tell stories to all the kids but something different he would quiz each of them individually to see if they were paying attention and while he was explaining this to me i was like i've got this eerie feeling because i felt like i was the only one in that room of 2000 people you know have you ever met somebody that they're just so fixated and you feel like you're the only one that exists and and i realized that his incredible memory and regardless of politics people would say that he has got this charisma sure great connector great communicator he's got this powerful presence and i think his incredible memory and his powerful presence with people comes from being powerfully present with people that his incredible memory and his powerful presence comes from being powerfully present right and you know when he's looking at you he's like asking you know thoughtful questions he's clearly he's listening with the idea that he wants to learn and uh and you feel like you're the only one there's many more important people in that room than me certainly at that table than i was but i felt like i was the only one and so i thought i was the only one that was special there hate to break it down yeah but again that's great that you asked him though and he was forthcoming with the information he very much so so his father would tell a story right and then or his grandfather yeah tell a story and then like during the story actually i would just quiz them to see if they were paying attention to what was going on and i think that's an incredible art you know i i had to um i got to i mentioned larry king and we did each other's show and uh and he has this curiosity he always thinks he's like the dumbest person in the room i love it you know and he has no ego about it and he's just like very real and when he asks a question he's sincerely you know yeah he sincerely wants to know the answer yeah you know and you know they say that you know if you're the smartest one in the room you're in the wrong room or whatever but he has this genuine caring sincerity you know and so it just comes so authentic i wonder if um an excellent memory increases self-confidence yeah because think about it like if every interaction you're having with a human being you can recall that last interaction you'd be pretty confident in that conversation you know something about that person you can always reference a past story picking up where you left off you're gonna baffle them i mean when clinton started that story again yeah you would have taken it back right and i've seen some fresh things but that just like yeah because you know he meets a lot of people he does it for a living yeah it literally just meets people yeah that's it i mean whoa yeah when when you when you meet i think he's writing down these events you think i i don't know about him but i just know that they're that this is a trainable skill that's available for all of us when you guys how you can again show somebody already care for their business their future their if you don't care enough just remember them when you can remember their their fiance's name right or you can remember important things about them yeah they feel like like you care right and i think that that's such an important skill now and like not just business etiquette and networking i think it's important skill in in life and every well we're all forgetful right it happens to the best of us and yet we could be better and it's worth it because even when it comes to names and faces unfortunately it's a standout skill because if you could walk into a room and meet 20 strangers and leave saying goodbye to every single one of them by name who are they all going to remember right they're going to remember you people remember people who remember them right and that's why it's so important right we we learn these laws it's like it's like it's what you know and that's why we teach accelerated learning so you can know a lot of information so you can make good decisions other people can't make because you know stuff right uh it's also who you know right and so you have to remember those people but it's also who knows you right and people tend to remember people who remember them and that's why i think it's very important it's in going back to confidence i i was the most like not confident person growing up because when you are labeled broken and you don't know anything and you're not picked for and you're not cool you just like like i spent time with all the the the geeks and the nerds because i you know i read comic books play video games and adventures and dragons yeah i didn't have their grades right you know at all i remember when i was in elementary school you know that's the worst a nerd but that's dumb i know that that was me so that was the poster boy for that but like i remember i was with all these smart kids and they like this the teacher came in the classroom they were playing these like what are you doing today exactly and the teacher was like okay class we we got we we we created this group in uh in the in the school called masp and and it stands for more able student program and i was i was the only one that wasn't part of it in that group and so i grabbed somebody else that would fit that billing and not that building in and we created a group called lasp less able student program right because i just didn't fit in i just felt like i couldn't do it so i was very not confident my superpower was shrinking down because i didn't want to be called on in class yeah sit all the way in the back sit behind the tall kid you know being invisible and i would do a book report but if a teacher asked me to present it i would lie and say i didn't do it because i was so not confident right because i don't you don't want when you're broken you don't want the spotlight you don't want to be heard and after everyone would leave i would i would walk out take it out of my book bag the book report throw it out it's like it was a symbol i was throwing out my potential yeah and so that was me but going back to confidence i think a lot of my confidence came from being competent right when you have a good memory and you could remember things confidently then it takes it it's like well that's a lot of work to visualize no it's a lot of work to forget things all the time to look for those keys to be able to find your phone to be able to forget people's names right and embarrass yourself and lose those deals and those relationships and so um yeah i think in psychology it's actually called confidence competence loop that the more confident confident you are yeah yeah the more confident the more competent you are at something right the more confident you are yeah yeah and because you're going to do that activity more confident and then you're going to get more confident and yeah yeah yeah create momentum right oh that's a confident competence loop and and so yeah that that when you're confident it leads to greater confidence when your competence leads to greater confidence so most people right now are going okay well where the [ __ ] did you get the confidence to switch it yeah like once you got the confidence yeah run with it great let's go to the top how do you start the loop yeah especially when you're at your lowest yeah i was at my lowest for a good uh decade and a half every single day okay you know with with this label i would struggle you know have anxiety and all these kind of issues and now i was introverted just personally but because of my issues i became very shy and chai is different introvert right introvert is just you know you like being by yourself you're replenished by yourself um are you an introvert or extrovert no but uh it's interesting that you make that distinction because there are people that they just don't need the validation of strange strangers constantly so we look at them we're like oh you're shy and they're like no i'm full yeah i don't have the void you have so i don't need you to tell me i'm great all the time i'll just speak when i want to speak where there's performers probably like me and many other comics and people in other fields as well where we're like i don't feel whole yeah am i funny am i whole yeah yeah am i funny in my whole we're good okay now i'm whole i got a couple breaths of oxygen as my buddy neil brennan puts it and i can be good for now so that's interesting to make that distinction that's right shy is different than introverted yeah shy is almost like a self-imposed introversion you don't want to be you want to be friendly you want to have these other people in your life that like you spend time with you want to speak out loud you just don't have the [ __ ] confidence to do it oof yeah yeah yeah that that i mean you do you think performers a lot of them come from feeling not enough and they that's the fantastic it must yeah yeah it must i mean like i don't think it's uh i i think on some level that's where like the that's maybe the catalyst yeah you know like that maybe is the spark like not getting enough attention in some way there's also just a love for it i don't think every comic has to have this like tragic story you know oh this this person was touched as a kid or his parents hated him or these type of thing like i think there are people that just truly enjoy entertaining you know and uh but it is odd to stand in front of people and just go aren't i good you know but my my relationship with it has always been kind of um before i had a crowd that like we all knew what we were getting in on when we came to the show before i had that experience i was almost a little bit resentful of the audience who would be like all right make me laugh and i'd be like who the [ __ ] are you like this is you signed up for this too right right right you want it to be made laugh and i want to make you laugh you don't got to cross the arms you know prove to me you're good at being an audience too so it's cool to be at this stage i don't want to distract too much so shy and introverted yeah and so i think it's sometimes it's a choice i i i was very depleted i didn't have that you know uh there's a great book called quiet and it's a power of introverts and by susan kane and she has uh this idea that uh introverts wake up and they have five gold coins and every single time they engage with somebody somebody takes their coin and they feel depleted so then they have to be by themselves to replenish extroverts wake up and they have no gold coins and every single time they engage with somebody they get energy and energy and energy and uh so i i could feel that and on top of it being damaged i felt like i was shy i wanted to be able to even though i was shrinking and being invisible i didn't want to be seen i didn't want to be seen right we all want to be heard we want to be recognized and so it wasn't and but i've always had that drive because i had purpose because i wanted to you know i don't know maybe just deep down i felt like there was something there and i just couldn't figure it out i guess what i'm asking is like the person that's listening right now and they go wow i'd like to make that change in my life what was the first step what is the easiest thing to flip in the positive direction so my my inspiration was my desperation right i was so desperate and what i would my advice for somebody in that same situation is to take a small simple step right i believe that you don't have to do little that little things add up to big things right little by little don't lose 400 pounds exactly exactly little by little a little becomes a lot yes consistency compounds and i would say that for greater confidence first of all i think confidence is not something we have because we always say oh i want to have confidence but i think that's also a way of brainwashing ourselves because i don't think we have these things i think we do there are certain things you could do that will give you confidence yeah like right now if everyone did this exercise and said on a scale of zero to ten you know how confident do you feel about something right and and or just about life in general yeah and people could say it's a five then you could do a thought experiment game you could gamified you're like okay well what do i need to do to feel a six yeah or a seven yeah right maybe i need to play some some you know good music maybe i need to just get up and you know move around or whatever it happens to be yeah um and i would say do something small get yourself out of your comfort zone there's this quote wasn't there a matt damon movie about um buying a zoo right whatever but there's a quote saying that you know 20 seconds of like you know insane confidence or courage could just change your life yeah and i would i would i would say that oh here's one then while the beauty is in the butterfly the growth happens in the cocoon right it's the struggle to come out that builds your strengths to be able to soar you said something last night about like uh it was inside versus outside yeah like i was i was using the metaphor of an egg that oh yeah yeah if an egg is broken by an outside force life ends but if an egg is broken by an inside force life begins so great things begin on the inside so what is that first thing like yeah even what is the smallest little thing that you would recommend first step so i would make your [ __ ] bed yeah i would say that fear right because usually what makes us not confident is uncertainty right it's the it's the unknown and it's not comfortable and while the comfort zone is a nice place to visit nothing nothing grows there right and you know this right to get on stage to be able to you are where you are because you put in the work and the sacrifice yeah and those late nights and those gigs that you know and then this that you made me didn't want to you know do and you know and so that's what success is you know most people see the tip of the iceberg and they see this lifestyle and yet below the iceberg is that discipline and income all the things that led to it the mess and everything yeah so i would say ask yourself this question what is the tiniest action i could take that will give me progress towards this goal where i can't fail so make it so minuscule so maybe if people aren't confident about their body and they don't work out maybe working out an hour a day is way too big so a small simple step put on your running shoes you know maybe reading we said leaders are readers and try to read a book a week but you know breaking it down it's about 45 minutes for the average reader a day which is a lot but if you get that's why we triple people's reading speed so they can do it in 15 minutes a day but me 45 minutes is too big maybe a small simple step opening up the book reading one line some people don't floss their teeth right get your get get yourself the floss one tooth because you're not going to stop at one tooth and you develop some kind of momentum right so that that's really the key start with one tooth isn't it yes and metaphorically for whatever you feel fearful of right you know take that small simple step break it down where you where it's digestible well before i don't want to take up too much of your time and then you're a very busy man but we got to get through fast yeah yeah yeah so f is forget forget about what you know about it so you can learn something new because if you go to an event about sales and starting a business you might think you know it then you're not going to learn anything new also forget about distractions because multitasking is a myth right it's actually task switching so when you say you're multitasking nobody is actually doing that you're going from one task to another to another and what it costs you is time yeah because it could take five ten minutes to regain your focus like you hop onto social media like you just that's that's like a wormhole and you come back and you're like oh my god just 30 minutes just disappeared because you could scroll til you die right that's never gonna end ever ever right so do one thing how was the worst when instagram used to tell you when there was nothing left right man i sucked today i reached the end there's no more [ __ ] so here's the thing so um so i would say forget about distractions because you lose time yeah you make mistakes when you're trying to multitask so if you're want to study something and learn it you're listening to a podcast you're taking note but if you're trying if you're on slack and social media and traveling you're not going to do anything well you're going to make more mistakes and the third thing you use up more energy you burn more brain glucose so if you suffer from mental fatigue which a lot of people do brain fog sometimes it's because you're trying to multitask you have too many tabs in your computer open and even if they're minimized they're still taking up energy right they're still taking a memory right so kind of close that tab something comes in your mind something you have to do write it down so you can release it right because what you resist persists if you try not to think do something you're just gonna do it more right yeah yeah so forget about those things the a in fast you gotta be active like because learning like life is not a spectator sport and so many people take they sit back passively and say okay you know teach me but that's not how the brain learn the brain doesn't learn through consumption it learns through creation and you can't learn by just being lectured to and a teacher is not it's not the responsibility to push information in your head and so as much as you get active so for example how can people be active i i mentioned the first thing just taking some notes right and actually handwriting notes and digitally taking notes is different right and so i don't know and people could could mention this i recall handwritten way better yeah and handwritten and and then you're not you're not using that you're not alone and i'll tell you one of the reasons digital is great for uh storing information yeah sharing it you know but handwriting notes has been proven to help your comprehension and retention one of the reasons why is most people could type pretty fast and you could type almost everything that i'm we're talking about right now but you can't possibly handwrite and so it forces time with it it forces you to reflect on it to filter it what's most important and relevant here right so those are little things plus you're it's very kinesthetic and personal when you're handwriting things you're also going shorthand so you're just writing the important words yeah it's super dense exactly you take notes handwritten much better you know even a whole brain note-taking way is because the reason why you take notes is because there's a learning curve there's also a forgetting curve you do know how much is lost and when you listen to a podcast read a book get a lecture at university after hearing it once after two days how much do you think you forget on average i don't know 25 30 80 isn't that wild listen to something we got to keep putting out the same apps every week we're working too hard so by taking notes it helps that to reduce that yeah and a fun way of taking notes that will help your comprehension retention take a piece of paper put a line right down the page on the left side capture on the right side create now this is nuance on the left side you're going to take notes on the right side you're going to make notes these are the things that are being said these are my thoughts about it exactly perfect that's great so that's a left and right brain away so left brain is usually logic and linear so you're going to capture how to remember names right what's the morning routine right and you're capturing it on the right side if you're if your mind your imagination is going to go somewhere let it go instead of distracting a mind wander let it go on the right side of the page yeah how am i going to use this how does this relate to what i know what questions do i you know just go on and on and you create the future belongs to the creators right i love being around creatives because like you know where jobs are going they're being automated they're going to machines ai but what's not is our ability to create and imagine that's what is limitless you said something i had a note about that specifically when you were talking about you can't what was the exact word ah [ __ ] i had to hear something about like you can't create a man no no something yeah there's no like when we talk about you know my so my book title i i chose to call limitless because what's truly limited the sky is not the limit our minds are the limit yeah what's truly limitless is our creativity there's no limit on our creativity there's no limit on our imagination yeah yeah there's no limit on human determination and so i want to unlock those those treasures in people's people's minds and so yeah the future belongs to creatives so the a is being active so one of the things you do is take notes one thing people do right now is being active take a screenshot of what you're watching or listening to right now you know and and tag andrew tag myself so we see it and share one thing that you learned right that's a way of being active online and and i'll be active right back i'll repost some of you know like the favorite like takeaways but those are the ahas so it makes you like own it a little bit more so that's the a is being active in your learning because learning is not a spectator sport you know but school taught you to just consume when you should consume and create right it was cool that you uh told us to take notes during the during this the performance because i would have felt guilty writing my phone yeah because i would have thought that you're thinking if you saw me oh he's texting he's not paying attention yeah yeah but i was like furiously writing notes i even had to like tell pablo i was like hey buddy i'm writing notes i'm not being like yeah yeah yeah but it was really good that you you kind of empowered the audience to do that if they chose yeah even the things that we did like getting up and turning and some of the exercise that we did it was more active than just listening to a lecture right you know and i think that's really you know one of the great things we offer is just entertainment is just it's so much grander than education but when you could take education and make it an entertaining way and you could really empower people right and so and that goes to the s in fast where you have f is forget a is active s is state and s state means emotional states like the mood of your mind and your body because as we talked about last night that information by itself is forgettable but information when combined with emotion becomes unforgettable locked like think about it like is i imagine everyone who's listening there's a song you could hear and take you back to when you're in high school right there's a fragrance or food that could take you back to when you're a child or a traumatic event right probably locked in your emotions we all knew we all remember where we were at certain dates of emotional intensity and so but the challenge is the emotion most people learn in is boredom you think about school you know and if it's emotion times you know times information if the emotion is zero then you wonder why you forgot the periodic table and all the things we learned in school so the state is how can you increase your your state when you're learning something to make it more entertaining in your mind like even when i go on stage and i'm waiting sometimes the speaker before me might be boring and i'll be watch and and everyone's falling asleep and i'll i'll be actually really excited because i'll think wow how's this person putting everyone to sleep that's so fascinating to me right i'll get really engaged because i want to be control of my emotions i don't want to be at the effect of the weather or anything else that's going on so state is if you want to learn something better get in that playful curious state you know bring some excitement you know like sit the way you be sitting if you're really engaged and focused and then your physiology affects your psychology right yeah and so control your state all learning like life is state dependent and finally the t in fast where f is forget a is active s is state this is the review t teach learn when you're learning something teach it to somebody else yes because your intent matters they call it the explanation effect that if you learned something and you had to explain it to somebody else the next day or give a ted talk about it yeah would your focus be better would you concentrate better would you take better notes would you ask more questions you would own it because you have to reflect on it and be able to share it with the world and uh and i would say when you teach something you get to learn it twice so if you want to accelerate your learning be a faster learner yeah learn think about somebody that you care about that wish that you wish was listening to this not only share this episode and everything in this you know video and everything else but teach them something cheap from one thing you got out of it yeah and you'll know it better yeah and it kind of exposes the the gaps in your knowledge base about the subject as well right like completely you try to explain you're like oh i don't exactly know what happened between 1920 and 1923 i should kind of do a little more research on that yeah it's interesting the teaching aspect is huge yeah i love that even when you did like if you wanted to repeat somebody's joke and stuff like you know where your gaps are you know when you're understanding even with your own like just material like talking it out to a crowd or like telling your friends you have an idea for a joke i don't ever like do bits to people but like here's this idea let's talk it out yeah there's something about that so you explain it you just know it better you know i always heard this you hear this phrase that you know if you those who don't know or can't do they teach right and he was like oh if you can make it in business then teach business in business school but i never saw it as a negative i always thought well if i can't do something teach it and i could do it better you know what i mean it's interesting like the two biggest challenges i had growing up learning and public speaking and the universe has a sense of humor because all i do is public speak on this thing called learning but by doing it i learned it so much better so can you that's great please tell everybody where they can see your stuff i mean i i really enjoy you call them podcasts i enjoy these quick bites these bites digestible digestible brain hacks i'm telling you they are it's just so easy that you have this great playlist that's up on youtube please tell them everything yeah if people go to quick brain you get to spell it right k-w-i-k yes um that's really my last name quick brand and we'll link to you down here yeah quickbrain.com you'll get uh these three training videos and links to all the podcasts the podcast as you mentioned is 10 15 no more than 20 minutes they're great binge listen start from episode one go all the way through you'll learn all these strategies in detail yeah um we have we have a book that came out limitless yeah upgrade your brain learn anything faster unlock your exceptional life you can get at limitlessbook.com when you go there and get it we give you a 10-day program on accelerated learning and speed reading because i want you to when the book arrives to be able to read it and finish it um we donate all the proceeds to charity and um and on social media you know like i i would challenge everybody as i mentioned to take a screenshot of this and share it so you could teach it to other people yeah and and tag us both in there and share your big takeaway i'll i'll actually repost um some of my favorites and i'll actually gift a few copies of the book oh sweet two people so great to everyone just as a thank you for just playing along and and all the links are in my instagram profile and we'll make sure that we include that as well okay i have a couple questions and then you're out of here all right yeah right this is our little lightning round okay okay you're on the hot seat right oh yeah yeah i like it okay um so you said that there was a kid that grabbed your chair and that's why you fell yeah did you ever find out who that was yeah it was uh it was julie uh yeah i i know exactly who it is what's julie doing now yeah i i don't know but she we there was this fire engine outside and we all got on our chairs to see it you know in kindergarten and she pulled the chair out not maliciously i don't think he just wanted to be able to get on the chair and be able to see what was going on outside but i took a head first into the radiator and created a whole ripple but i'm thankful because honestly yeah yeah there you go okay um what were your goals today and how many of you met so far those three what are my goals today remember you said yeah yeah yeah okay so personally it was to jump in the ocean today which i got it's not huge i love this seriously yeah yeah like it wasn't huge but i just said you know i was filming all day today from early morning till i got here right and i just like i'm gonna do myself a good you know favor by jumping into the ocean um i had a great green smoothie which was also personal and i got to spend time with with my bride and that was you know special also as well and those are personal things and then work thing was we filmed uh you know all day today which was big i got to do a little writing during a break and um and this is the final thing right here let's be here with you that's the highlight man okay um uh you talked about brushing your teeth with the opposite hand yes okay um is there anything else you do with the opposite hand as well ah good good that is also good all of you guys should have been thinking that same thing um does my fiance have a broken brain can i mention her name and stuff like that no she does not okay she's brilliant and she's bright and you are marrying up there let's go i'm marrying up baby okay uh now you've worked with a lot of celebrities elon musk will smith jim jim carrey um out of all of them who has the most broken brain [Laughter] they're they all really bright um well i i don't i don't coach a lot i mean i i did programs at space uh you know at spacex and everything and i learned from all of them you know one of the takeaways from jim carrey is we were making some brain foods as we talked about last night in his kitchen during a break at his home and and i was like why do you do what you do you know as a community he's like i act like a complete fool on camera because i want to give people at home permission to be themselves and he's like my religion is freeing people from the concerns of others because people are so wrapped up with the opinions and expectations of other that people impose on them and i just i thought that was a big big takeaway so i don't i wouldn't i can't talk about who's broken but i could tell you they're all amazing minds that's a good rationalization if i believe it but i'll i'll let you rock with it okay last one do you have any bitcoin um i have uh i'm die i dabble in it yes um and uh now yeah we um we're playing we're looking into uh an nft and some other stuff there you know because i'm really fascinated by the crypto world yeah yeah i i i am because every we live in an exponential world you know autonomous cars spaceships that are going to mars you know i like to i like to see things advance and i'm curious i love it i love it we're doing some dabbling ourselves okay so we're dabbling to the moon jim yes thank you so much guys this is jim quick please go check out all his stuff and again thank you so much for spending the time taking the time i really appreciate it man i appreciate you cheers

Channel: FLAGRANT

Views: 242,874

Keywords: andrew schulz, andrew schultz, comedy, comedian, stand up, flagrant 2, sports, entertainment, pop culture, commentary, comedy club, near me, jokes, interviews, akaash singh, alexxmedia, alexx media, alex media, eddin, eddin media, Thankyoueddin

Id: 71SSqvrUx18

Length: 100min 7sec (6007 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 01 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/JoshUchia]

Kinda want them to take break from guest stars for a little bit.

[u/adi005]

I have two thoughts about this episode: 1. Schulz is experimenting with not having Akaash on the pod 2. Feels as if this pod was paid for by Jim Kwik as a super long advertisement. The topic is out of character for this pod. Another potential money move attempt.

[u/iamanis]

Dudes just talking about basic self care and behaviorist techniques. Idk why Andrew is blown away by this guy. Every therapist has been telling people this everyday for years.

If this is what it takes to be a millionaire, I'm starting my own self care seminar.

[u/Bpool91]

Bobby is looking well.