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Jim Kwik

👤 Speaker
453 total appearances

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Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

Wow. That's, that's amazing. Yeah. So, so you could stay in your system. I mean, half, it's like, you know, 10 hours. So I try to not do any much caffeine. I do tea, but I'm kind of jealous of the people could do like expressos at night. Two of the biggest needle modes for me though, at night, like we would know thousands of years ago, it'd be time to go to sleep.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

Wow. That's, that's amazing. Yeah. So, so you could stay in your system. I mean, half, it's like, you know, 10 hours. So I try to not do any much caffeine. I do tea, but I'm kind of jealous of the people could do like expressos at night. Two of the biggest needle modes for me though, at night, like we would know thousands of years ago, it'd be time to go to sleep.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

Wow. That's, that's amazing. Yeah. So, so you could stay in your system. I mean, half, it's like, you know, 10 hours. So I try to not do any much caffeine. I do tea, but I'm kind of jealous of the people could do like expressos at night. Two of the biggest needle modes for me though, at night, like we would know thousands of years ago, it'd be time to go to sleep.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

Because the environment would tell you. It would decrease in two environmental factors, temperature and light. And so generally, you know, I try to keep it as cold as I can without bothering my wife.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

Because the environment would tell you. It would decrease in two environmental factors, temperature and light. And so generally, you know, I try to keep it as cold as I can without bothering my wife.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

Because the environment would tell you. It would decrease in two environmental factors, temperature and light. And so generally, you know, I try to keep it as cold as I can without bothering my wife.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

We keep it at about 66 Fahrenheit, and it's very good for us. You could also do a hot shower, a sauna, a bath, especially with some kind of salts, because magnesium, you're absorbing that transdermally, and that could help you relax.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

We keep it at about 66 Fahrenheit, and it's very good for us. You could also do a hot shower, a sauna, a bath, especially with some kind of salts, because magnesium, you're absorbing that transdermally, and that could help you relax.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

We keep it at about 66 Fahrenheit, and it's very good for us. You could also do a hot shower, a sauna, a bath, especially with some kind of salts, because magnesium, you're absorbing that transdermally, and that could help you relax.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

But when you get out of that hot bath or shower or sauna or whatever, your core body temperature drops, and that's a signal to produce the melatonin, which is the hormone to help you to relax. light is a big deal because the thing about it, like that was a thousand years ago, we couldn't control this stuff.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

But when you get out of that hot bath or shower or sauna or whatever, your core body temperature drops, and that's a signal to produce the melatonin, which is the hormone to help you to relax. light is a big deal because the thing about it, like that was a thousand years ago, we couldn't control this stuff.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

But when you get out of that hot bath or shower or sauna or whatever, your core body temperature drops, and that's a signal to produce the melatonin, which is the hormone to help you to relax. light is a big deal because the thing about it, like that was a thousand years ago, we couldn't control this stuff.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

And now in modern conveniences, the temperature could be the same all the time and the, you know, lighting everywhere. But the culprit really is the screens. You know, I saw a video on my Facebook reminders, like 10 years, Simon Sinek and I talking, it has 38 million views. It just, for me, I just say, don't touch your phone. The first 30 minutes a day, the last 30 minutes a day.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

And now in modern conveniences, the temperature could be the same all the time and the, you know, lighting everywhere. But the culprit really is the screens. You know, I saw a video on my Facebook reminders, like 10 years, Simon Sinek and I talking, it has 38 million views. It just, for me, I just say, don't touch your phone. The first 30 minutes a day, the last 30 minutes a day.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

And now in modern conveniences, the temperature could be the same all the time and the, you know, lighting everywhere. But the culprit really is the screens. You know, I saw a video on my Facebook reminders, like 10 years, Simon Sinek and I talking, it has 38 million views. It just, for me, I just say, don't touch your phone. The first 30 minutes a day, the last 30 minutes a day.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

They talk about the blue light and the screens and trolling your mind and thinking it's still daylight and so you don't produce melatonin. It's not just that. It's not just the light. It's the context and the stimulation from the scrolling. You would never invite 100 people into your bedroom when you're going to sleep, but it's like you're scrolling and you're hearing from all these strangers.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

They talk about the blue light and the screens and trolling your mind and thinking it's still daylight and so you don't produce melatonin. It's not just that. It's not just the light. It's the context and the stimulation from the scrolling. You would never invite 100 people into your bedroom when you're going to sleep, but it's like you're scrolling and you're hearing from all these strangers.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

They talk about the blue light and the screens and trolling your mind and thinking it's still daylight and so you don't produce melatonin. It's not just that. It's not just the light. It's the context and the stimulation from the scrolling. You would never invite 100 people into your bedroom when you're going to sleep, but it's like you're scrolling and you're hearing from all these strangers.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

And for me, habit design is a very important part of what we do because we want to make speed reading a habit, memory a habit, focus a habit. And one of the rules for habit design is you want to make the things that are good for you easier, and you want to make things that are not good for you more difficult, right? If you have those snacks in the kitchen, you're just going to eat them more often.

Healing + Human Potential
Discover Your Brain’s Power: Tools for Better Focus, Sleep + Productivity | EP 70

And for me, habit design is a very important part of what we do because we want to make speed reading a habit, memory a habit, focus a habit. And one of the rules for habit design is you want to make the things that are good for you easier, and you want to make things that are not good for you more difficult, right? If you have those snacks in the kitchen, you're just going to eat them more often.