Jim Kwik

brushing your teeth with the opposite hand, because it could stimulate a different part of your brain, but then what it's doing is it's getting you to do something difficult.

It forces you to focus, so you exercise your focus muscles, because you can't do it without focus, but also it becomes a great entry habit, because you're like, wow, I could try it.

Now it's a habit after a week or two of doing it.

What other habits can I stack onto it?

And so seeking difficulty in ways that's also not going to create any kind of permanent damage or hurting anybody, I think there's benefit.

Because if you just do the easy things in life, put things off, procrastinate, then life gets hard.

We tend to do the hard things and have that typical conversation and things tend to be easier.

I feel like those are two things that are never ever talked about, fragility and cognitive flexibility.

Meta-learning, the idea of learning how to learn.

Meta-thinking, which is the science of thinking about your own thinking, because most people just think these are just how things are and a belief is nothing but a thought that you've had thousands of times that you're reinforced.

But I think 40 percent of what we do, how we think is habitual.

right?

It's on autopilot.

And I feel like those are the programs we want to upgrade because it's shaping everything.

So multitasking, we know, is a myth.

You're really test switching.

And the thing you think you're gaining, you're actually losing, which is time.

When you go from one thing to another, I'm talking about cognitive things.

We call walk and listen to a podcast, right?

Because the walking is physical.