How do you add more fascination and wonder into learning and life?

You heard me say many times that all learning is state dependent. The state you’re in while learning is so important because that information combined with emotion is what helps you to remember what you learned.

We have an extraordinary guest, Danica McKellar. She’s best known for her roles on The Wonder Years and The West Wing, as well as a three-time New York Times bestselling author, internationally-recognized mathematician, and advocates for math education – and now a new mom.

In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the power of wonder, the power of play, and how you can add more of it in your life.

Welcome to Kwik Challenge #2!

The purpose of these challenges is to take knowledge into action. There’s so much information around us, but knowledge doesn’t become power until we apply what we learn. So during this challenge, we’re going to take a little step each day to build long-lasting habits and results.

Today’s challenge helps to reduce inflammation in your brain & body, build grit, and do the difficult thing.

In this episode, I’ll explain how you can do this each day in baby steps to build a new habit.

And don’t forget to share your progress with me this week on IG by using the hashtag #kwikchallenge and @jimkwik.

Our bodies absorb light and use it as fuel for our bodies, but few of us have been taught about how to harness the power of light to boost our health and happiness.

Our natural environment deeply affects our bodies—our circadian rhythms are affected by sunlight and increasingly, negatively affected by the blue light so many of us spend hours looking at in the form of laptops and phones. This is problematic because of circadian rhythms regulate our body—telling us when to eat, sleep and produce hormones. We’ve talked a lot on the Kwik Brain podcast about the power of sleep for our brains, so this is an important issue to be aware of if we want to get the most out of our minds!

The Joovv red light therapy device is something I use on a daily basis to ensure I jump start my circadian rhythms and get enough light each day. Today’s guest, Wes Pfiffner, is one of the directors of the company, and he’s here to tell us how impactful red light therapy can be for our bodies and brains.

In this episode, we explain the benefits of light therapy, why being conscious of our circadian rhythms is so important, and why we need to watch our usage of blue light. To finish, Wes will give you some quick and simple to harness the power of light in your everyday life.

Welcome to the FIRST Kwik Brain Challenge!

In today’s episode, I’ll be explaining how this challenge will help you to build a happier brain and a brighter life.

By doing this challenge, you will:

• Create more brain-derived neurotrophic factors (BDNF)
• Train your brain to be mindfully present
• Train your brain-body connection
• Build grit and do the difficult work you need to do
• And more!

Today, we’re going to exercise your memory!

To teach you this 2500-year-old memory technique, I’m going to use 10 Sparketypes from our episode 99, Finding Work that Lights You Up with Jonathan Fields. Listen, here.

If you haven’t already listened to that episode, I recommend you go back and check it out.

In this episode, I’ll teach you how you can use visual, auditory, kinesthetic and creative imagination to ignite your memory and remember the list of things you need to recall in your day.

How do you create change that lasts?

If you want a new result in your life, you have to do a new behavior. To change that behavior, you need a set of capacities, capabilities, and beliefs.

If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.

They say an average person has about 60,000-70,000 thoughts a day, but the problem is that 90-95% of those thoughts are the same thoughts you had yesterday and the day before that. In other words, if you want to do something brand new, you have to stop doing the same thing.

In this episode, I will share 4 keys to turn your “I wish” to “I will,” and make real changes in your behavior and habits.