Think Faster, Learn Quicker, Get Smarter: A Practical Guide to Train Your Mind
By Raza Imam
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Discover simple techniques to think faster, learn quicker, and make better decisions.
Despite today's technology obsessed world, you most likely feel more stressed, less focused, and waymore forgetful.
Your productivity is shot, and you find it hard to think quickly and retain information.
You struggle to make up by using MORE technology... more apps... more devices in a desperateattempt to gain more control of your life.
But it's NOT working.
Not only are we more stressed, we find it harder and harder to focus, think quickly, and retain information.
And it's taking a toll on us.
The good news is that the solution is much less complicated than you think.
How much easier would your life be if you could think quicker and learn faster? How much fastercould you achieve your goals if you could easily retain the information that you read? How much more productive would you be if you could harness your mind to process ideas more quickly and make better decisions.
In this concise, practical guide, I show you exactly how you can with 15 simple exercises that take no more than 15 minutes per day to complete.
Here's a taste of what you'll discover in this book:
- A simple technique to think faster and learn quicker -- today
- Why you should be making MORE mistakes (yes, more)
- The hidden connection between empathy and learning from OTHER's mistakes
- How the ancient the ancient practice of controlled breathing makes you think faster
- Why lifting weights and sprinting sharpen your brain
- How to use visualization to make better decisions
- The little-known skill to quick thinking that nearly all top salesmen have
- The secret computer programmers use to think so fast
- How to activate more parts of your brain
- The secret Einstein and Salvadore Dali knew about naps (need I say more?)
- Why being overstuffed makes you stupid
- The importance of talking to yourself
- Taking aggressive, persistent action (it's the only thing that matters)
It's time to take your power back and harness the power within you.
If you're ready to make a change in your life, you've come to the right place!
This is book 2 in the "Train Your Brain" series.
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Think Faster, Learn Quicker, Get Smarter - Raza Imam
Speaking and Training
If you’re interested in me speaking at your organization please contact me at:
Whether it’s corporate execs, salespeople, entrepreneurs, rockstar programmers, first responders, or medical professionals, I can share these simple strategies to have them perform at their best.
My live presentation will show them how to harness the simple principles in this book so that they can unleash their inner champion so they sell more, lead better, and make a bigger impact than you ever thought possible.
I blend performance psychology and high-level accountability to help your team how to get unstuck
, achieve massive growth, and unleash their inner champion.
Interested?
Contact me at [email protected] for more info.
Short and Sweet – No Fluff
Give me a one-page bullet-list of exactly what I should do. That’s worth more to me than a stack of books that I have to dig through to get to the good stuff. I may give you 50 bucks for the books. But I’ll pay you $5,000 for the one page.
That’s a quote from Alwyn Cosgrove, a world-famous strength coach and entrepreneur.
In this short book, I’ve given you some very simple and actionable exercises you can do to think faster, learn quicker, and get smarter.
This book is short, and that’s for a reason.
It started as an answer to a question that I posted on Quora.com
My answer got 310,000 views and 1100 upvotes, so it really resonated with a lot of people
Here’s a link if you want to check it out yourself
So I took that answer and made it the basis for this book.
I wanted to give you 100% actionable content, not a bunch of fluff and theory.
Sure I cite research and share practical examples to prove my point.
Yes, I give you specific action items to do and explain why.
Of course, I tell you exactly how to implement these steps to get the best results.
But I worked ruthlessly to keep this book short and sweet.
So remember to take action!
Chapter 1: Read More (Simple, but Powerful)
I’ve always been a reader.
I remember my friends (playfully) teasing me about how much I read as far back as the 4th grade.
Not fiction though - mostly history, current events, philosophy, biographies, and culture.
I remember wanting to be a cardiologist as early as 3rd grade - and while that didn’t work out (sorry Grandma!), I think I turned out ok.
Regardless, I remember getting a book about the human heart from the library and learning about the 4 chambers of the heart at such an early age.
My parents made me read a book on the history of optometry (yes, optometry in 4th grade!)
And to be honest, despite it being hard to understand, I kind of liked it.
Of course, I liked those choose your own adventure
type of books also (who didn’t?!?)
Needless to say, I loved books and I still feel that the respect for reading and knowledge in my family helped shape who I am today.
Though I’m no genius, I wholeheartedly believe in the power of reading to make humans smarter.
And it’s not just a hunch, there are TONS of real-life examples of smart, successful people reading vigorously. For example, Bill Gates makes it a personal mission to read at least 50 books a year. Likewise, other successful people, including Mark Cuban, Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, and Mark Zuckerberg all make an effort to read as much as they can. Clearly, these people know that reading is directly associated with success and intelligence.
In addition to there being TONS of anecdotal and experiential evidence, there is actual research behind the idea, it isn’t just anecdotal pseudoscience.
In this first chapter, we’ll delve into the science of exactly why and how reading makes you smarter.
Likewise, I’m going to give you tips for how to read effectively (you’d be surprised how few people know how to maximize the amount of information they get from books), tips on what kinds of books to read, and where to find them.
The Science of Reading
Time and time again scientific studies show that reading is directly associated with intelligence of all kinds.
For example, a 1993 study set out to refute claims that asserted that reading was overrated.
The study conclusively demonstrated that reading is directly associated with an increased vocabulary, verbal skills, and general knowledge. In other words, reading allows you to speak more fluently and allows you to draw on a larger number of words to make your point. Likewise, it directly increases the body of knowledge you have to draw upon.
Other studies support the connections between reading and increased intelligence. For example, a more recent 2013 study looked at the influence of reading on teenagers’ cognitive abilities. The study found that those who read in their teenage years experienced a direct increase in their VIQ
(verbal intelligence quotient). Likewise, those who didn’t read during their teenage years experienced a direct decrease in their VIQ.
But is non-fiction exclusively responsible for these cognitive improvements? Turns out that there’s been research on that too...
While reading about non-fiction subjects like history, politics, language, science, and philosophy definitely makes you smarter, you can still learn from fiction as well.
In fact, CNBC did an article on the value of reading fiction. After looking at several studies, they found that reading fiction increases one’s emotional intelligence, which can have enormous value in the workplace and in day to day relationships.
Tech giant Elon Musk credits The Lord of the Flies
with shaping his worldview and Mark Cuban talks about how The Fountainhead
influenced his work ethic.
So yes, even reading fiction makes you smarter, increases emotional intelligence, and improves thinking.
How to Read
Most people know how to read
in a very literal sense. They can make out the words on the page and they can read a book from cover to cover.
However, just being able to read the words on the page is not really enough; you need to be