Put words into actions and start your path to becoming limitless.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Kwik tackles brain training and memory improvement in his book, Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life. Kwik combined his experiences with research- and science-based techniques in order for you to unlock your potential and start your path into becoming limitless.
This workbook
Chapter by chapter summary and analysis; Goals that you can aim for; Questions to help you absorb the information and help you self-reflect.In today’s digital age, we can access millions of information within our fingertips. But how do you know which ones are relevant to you? That is why we have carefully curated all the essential points from Limitless into an easy-to-read, short but concise workbook.
This workbook can
your sneak peek before you buy the original book; your reading companion while reading the original book; your supplementary material after you read the original book.Let's get your brain training on and make that first step into achieving being Limitless!
*This is an unofficial workbook for Jim Kwik’s Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life. This book only serves as a guide, is not the original book, and is not endorsed by Jim Kwik or his publisher.
In this book, the publishers give what they call a chapter-by-chapter “analysis” with extra information (though it seems like more just a plain summary to me) with each chapter ending with questions to reflect on, goals, and action steps. Before this chapter-by-chapter breakdown, they also give a little background information about the original book and, essentially, a summary of the summary. I've read several workbooks or summaries, and this latter point just mentioned was too long. In this publisher's supposed overview of the book, they've summarized each chapter in a long paragraph. I’ve seen other summary books where the book overview is literally a page or two summarizing the original book’s key takeaways. I think that would have been better here. Much of this overview came across as, for lack of a better word, fangirling over the author. The summary overview was not an objective look at the book from a high level, which is what a good overview should be. It's almost as if they were talking to the author and trying to impress him with how much they were impressed by the book! I didn't think that the reflective questions were well written. I thought, in general, that the book was a little overwritten as well as awkwardly written in places. Here is a line from the book, “Do not exercise multitasking.” Why not just say, “Don't multitask”? For a summary of a book that seemed action-oriented, the reflective question seems more about the why than the how. For instance, when discussing a particular way that someone could improve, the author ended with asking why you would do such a thing instead of asking how you might consider doing this improvement. The action steps sometimes didn't make sense. There weren't specifics about how to do anything, or the step didn't explain enough about the topic so you would know what to do. I find myself wondering if the full book does a better job of providing full action steps. Hopefully, it would answer the questions this workbook leaves hanging.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
The wonderful workbook that gives you not only a lot facts about your brain, but also powerful techniques on training your memory, learning skills and how to achieve your goals thought work with your core beliefs and changing the mindset. I have heard about Jim Kwik before but always postponed reading his book. I'm glad that I saw this summary workbook as it gave me the important ideas and working methods on how I can improve my productivity and use my brain more effectively. I determined my mistakes in my working habits and was impressed to discover that multitasking doesn't make you productive. Before, I didn't believe that fact. I would recommend this book if you learn new things or simply on the path of self-improvement.