Jim Kwik

But you're never getting the other side of it.

And you just feel like that's your newsfeed and that's your life.

But your mind also has a similar algorithm.

Whatever you engage with on a regular basis, your reticular activating system is being trained to look for that stuff.

and so if you just look at everything that's dark and doom scrolling whatever you start seeing that everywhere throughout your day and you feel like that's what life is or that's what possibility is or that's what the economy is or that's what the opportunity is so i think we have to stand guard to our mind you know just as we are with our body you know the water that we drink or the food that we eat we have to stand guard to what's going because food is just information but learning is also information also as well so we have to be very discerning

Also, even if you're debating somebody, maybe it's a family member or friends during holidays or whatever, it takes a lot of courage to have empathy, not saying that person is right, but an exercise would be like, if I had five minutes, how can I argue for that person in their favor?

and be able to take on and try a new point of view.

And I just feel like it's a certain level of mental maturity and strength to be able to entertain different ideas and then make decisions based on your current understanding of things.

So cognitive flexibility can be enhanced by going outside your domain.

And that's where a lot of innovation comes from, from an entrepreneur.

There's a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolution.

I think it's kind of boring, but what I got out of it is most innovation comes from people outside your industry because it takes somebody else from the outside to look in with a different point of view that doesn't have the same learned helplessness.

or this is the way you do something.

Like Elon Musk looking at the car industry saying, hey, if we're going to make automobiles today with today's technology from zero, thinking how would we do it?

That's amazing.

So listen to podcasts that you wouldn't normally listen to or follow other people that you wouldn't normally listen to.

Just kind of keep cognitively flexible.

And then in terms of resilience, how do you do difficult things?

Now let's start small.

I've talked for 30 years about, hey, when you wake up, try...