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In the movie 2011 movie Limitless the main character takes a clear pill (NZT) which endows superhuman mental abilities which allow for him to become a master communicator, pick up artist, and a wealthy, powerful businessman virtually overnight. While the movie is fictional, it’s certainly possible in real life to become influential, make money and achieve success relatively quickly by merit of cognitive ability development, mastery of communication skills and mindset transformation. In a few months to several years depending upon your learning style and aptitude for personal development you could become surprisingly close to like Bradley Cooper’s character Eddie Maura by focusing on improvements in the fallowing areas of your life: mastery of communication skills, influence abilities, improving memory, cognitive ability development, mindset transformation, skill acquisition, knowledge acquisition, dietary improvements & dressing really sharp. Get ready to hack your reality and become Limitless!
1. Mastery of Communication Skills It’s amazing that while communication skills are undeniably such a huge factor of our success in business, relationships and life we spend so little time developing them. Like in the movie, excellent communicators consistently end up in stations of success and power (Our President, Barrack Obama, is great example of this). In Limitless the main character’s silver tongue is what opens a lot of doors for him. Focus on learning these aspects of communication: • Body language techniques • Usage of creative metaphors • Demonstrating listening skills • Practicing topic depth escalation • Magnanimous conversation stealing • Speaking pace & tonality moderation
• Applying economics principals to communication • Emotional withdrawals and deposits (Supply and demand arbitrage method) Technique: Body Language Mirroring This is a body language technique where you mirror the body language of the person you are interacting with. If they put their hands on the table, put your hands on the table. If they rest their elbow on their seat, rest your elbow on your seat. Mirroring should be used with strategic timing though, do not mirror them 100% of the time. Mirror them to build rapport when they say something you like. 2. Influence Abilities Those seeking a Limitless lifestyle will also need to develop very sharp influence skills. It’s well said that you can get anything you want in the world if you know how to ask. Those who ‘know how to ask’ would pursue the following skill sets: • Neuro-linguistic programming • Embedded commands • Negotiating skills • Rapport building • Hypnosis & cold reading • Playing the young & ambitious card Technique: Use People’s Names Frequently During a conversation try to use a person’s name about once every 3-5 minutes or as often as you can without it being obvious you are name pumping. Using someone’s name immediately engenders rapport, captures their attention and increases their likelihood of going with what you are suggesting. 3. Cognitive Ability Development Cognition is the logical, reasoning faculty of the mind. This is the domain of mathematics and pattern recognition. The most important thing to understand is that your brain is like any other muscle in your body, gets more powerful as you exercise it. Have you ever wondered why you keep repeating the same patterns in life… Your brain prefers to process new situations using existing synaptic patters (formed by your past experiences). If you want to experience new things in life you need to give you brain
practice by building new synaptic patterns. Your brain is the most powerful pattern recognition computer tool on the planet but here’s some ways to sharpen it: • Try new things! This should be obvious, make it a goal to venture beyond your comfort zone in big and small ways to experience new things in life. By interrupting it’s patterns and exposing your brain to new experiences you make it faster to adapt. • Try mind mapping: these are software tools where you create a graphical layout of your thoughts or plans. By creating a graphical layout you are forcing your brain into a higher level of focus while making plans for the future. • Force yourself to use the scientific method when dealing with situations where you usually jump to conclusions or just repeat what you did in past. • Be content creator instead of a content consumer. Content consumption certainly isn’t bad (The content you are consuming right now is showing you how to be Limitless in your life!) but for the most part it is a passive mental activity whereas creation is like climbing a mountain in your mind. Content is a generalization for information that that people consume for entertainment or learning purposes. It could mean writing a book, creating art, making music, making movies for Youtube, doing a podcast, building a website or starting a blog. Ask yourself how much time in the day you spend consuming content (Surfing the internet, watching TV, reading, etc), try to cut that time in half and use your new free time creating content instead. • Do some logic puzzles. • Learn a new language: Language acquisition challenges and causes cognitive development on a variety of conscious and unconscious levels. When you start learning a new language practice talking to yourself in your mind in that language. • Try the Cash Flow board game by Rich Dad Poor Dad. It’s like entrepreneurial monopoly where your objective is to leverage the cash flow from your players day job into investments that will provide residual income. Technique: Move your mouse to the other side of the computer If you are right handed and have your mouse on the right side of your computer move it to the left and force yourself to use your non-dominant hand (or vice versa) for an hour a day. At first it will be very awkward and uncomfortable but practice for just one hour a day and you will greatly strengthen the bridge between the right and left sides of your brain. 4.
Improved Memory
In Napoleon Hill’s Think & Grow Rich he lists memory improvement as one of the things that helps contribute to a person’s success in life. An individual seeking a Limitless memory would want to focus on the following: • Visual based associations: It’s said that association is the basis of memory, memory experts utilize visual association techniques heavily to improve recall abilities. • The ability to remember names & details about people. • Spend time playing memory and cognition games. Technique: The AV Association Technique for remembering limitless names instantaneously 5. Mental Energy & Creativity In Limitless while on NZT the character has a surge of mental energy and creativity. A lot of times people think, if only I had a little more mental energy I would be able accomplish my goals; start that business, write that book or take that trip. Since there’s no such thing as limitless mental energy here’s some ways to make the most of it. • Sleep cycle management; we rob ourselves of a lot of mental energy because of mismanaging our sleep cycles. One of the biggest ways is by interrupting our REM (rapid eye movement) sleep cycles, REM cycles occur in 90 minutes intervals. Our body will naturally wake us up at the end of these sleep cycles. If we hit snooze at that time we will probably only sleep for another 20-30 minutes. By that time we will wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle, thereby disturbing our brain as it processes our short term memory into our subconscious. This results in low mental energy throughout the day. I’m sure you’ve had the experience before of sleeping and then not feeling as sharp throughout the day. Now you know why. • Daily mental energy cycle management. • Peak state management. • Proper diet for maximizing mental energy (more on this below).
What about creativity… Well the most creative people in the world are that way because they are surrounded by inspiration. If you’re life consists of commuting to work, work, commuting home, running errands and watching TV in the evenings then it’s no wonder you lack creative energy. Few easy ways for more creative energy: a) Read more (and no you don’t actually have to read, I consume the information of about 3 books a week via audio books and programs!) I recommend both fiction and non-fiction. b) Documentary Films: If you are like most Americans you spend several hours every day watching TV. Instead of turning your mind to goo by watching sitcoms or dramas be infotained by documentaries about real life. Checkout Top Documentary Films for +1500 free films. 6. Stress Management Mismanagement or excessive amounts of stress will definitely prevent you from living Limitlessly. Stress is defined as the measure of change of change occurring in your life at any given time. Things like a new job, moving, the break up with a partner, etc. Make sure you are spending time daily on the healthy stress management activities: • Working out. • Eating complete meals. • Physical contact with other people (If you don’t have a significant other get a massage). • Relaxation time. • Sex. 7. Enhanced Situational Awareness On NZT Eddie has a Jason Bournesque situational awareness for diffusing and resolving dangerous situations. Here’s some real life ways to increase situation awareness: • Survival and fire arms training courses • Martial arts training • Sensory acuity exercises Technique: Sensory Deprivation Exercises Turn off one of your senses while doing daily activities. This forces your other senses to sharpen. Start with something easy like watching TV with the sound off and reading the body language of the characters. Then you may way want to move on to something more challenging, like making a meal while blind folded!
8. Knowledge Acquisition Limitless individuals have an internalized understanding of information equity and knowledgeable about a wide variety of fascinating topics. At the same time though they are able to subtly guide a conversation towards topics that they have a mastery of. A Limitless individual wouldn’t waste their time taking irrelevant classes, they would consume information and acquire knowledge in the more efficient ways. Here’s my favorite way: Technique: Practice Task Batching in Combination w/Passive Information Consumption - Separate your work into 2 categories a) Creative/high mental energy consuming tasks (Examples: blogging, negotiating, sales calls, designing, meetings, strategizing, planning, communicating with other people, etc) b) Monotonous or repetitive tasks which require little mental energy (Examples: responding to emails, organizing paperwork, data entry, etc) Plan your Type B tasks at the end of the day when your mental energy is low and batch the most similar, monotonous tasks one after another. While you are doing this consume information passively. Here are my 3 favorite forms of passive information consumption 1. Listening to audio books – I recommend a membership with Audible.com. 2. Listening to podcasts – Which you download free from the Apple's iTunes. 3. Listening to documentary films – Top Documentary Films has at the time of this writing +1500 documentary films which you can watch for free. 9. Skill Acquisition In the business world knowledge workers who can quickly acquire new skills and abilities will have a huge advantage. • Teach; its well said that the best way to learn something is to teach it. While you are learning a new skill find a friend who you can share with weekly and teach the same things you are learning. A great way to practice this is that when you learn the AV Association Technique for remembering Limitless names instantaneously teach it to a friend (do that this week!) • Practice on the computer: For almost every skill imaginable there are (a lot times free) websites and software that you can use to practice and hone your new skillset. • Ready, Fire, Aim (NOT Ready, Aim, Fire) – This is the opposite of what people describe as analysis paralysis; when you embark on a new endeavor you focus on action, making progress and resist the temptation to over plan, over analyze and second guess. For skill acquisition this means that you begin using new skills as soon as possible in the real world before you have completely mastered them (obviously this doesn’t apply for brain surgeons). • Practice skill leverage; as opposed becoming a professional student who is always filling their head with new skills, learn the skill of leveraging the skills and strengths of others to accomplish your goals. 10.
Dietary Improvements
Most American’s & people in the western world do not eat a Limitless diet. Please check the Supplements & Nutrition for Enhanced Mental Abilities section of this site. You’d be amazed at how you can sharpen your mind (and body) by eating right! 11. Mindset Transformation I’m sure you heard stories before of a successful person who had it all and then through radical circumstances lost it all and then in a short while, had made it all back. The reason why should be obvious, it’s because they have winners mindset. Every book ever written by a successful person about success talks a lot about mindset. A fair warning though, some self-help books trivialize the mindset message by stating (in many more words) that positive thoughts + making goals will result in massive success and wealth. We’ll as any entrepreneur will tell you it takes whole lot more than positive thoughts to become successful. The mindset conundrum is that to be a winner you need to have a winners mindset but If you haven’t experienced massive success yet it’s debatable whether you can actually get yourself in a winners mindset. There’s a couple ways that those pre-Limitless mindsets can deal with this. • Visualization & Goal Association: This is a powerful method that I could write a book on (and many have). Here’s brief description: 1) Create some emotionally charged long term vision goals 2) break the vision down into smaller, accomplishable, measurable goals 3) Create visualization associations between the emotionally charged vision and the tedious day to day actionable tasks to get there. • The ability to banish negative thoughts from your mind • Watch the movie Limitless Technique: Mental Language Reframing We can drastically improve our mindset by changing the way we talk to ourselves. There are certain things we say in our mind that limit our potential. Here’s an example: I Can’t Afford It – This phrase is a mental limiter… Anytime you hear yourself saying this in your mind reframe it as: How Can I Afford? Or what do I need to do to afford it? By reframing this negative as a question we force our mind to work and figure out a way to afford it. 12. Dress Sharp In the Limitless, while on NZT the character is frequently shown looking very sharp in a fine suit. Don’t underestimate the empowering effect (especially for men) on your own mindset and over other people of dressing well. In the book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcom Gladwell documents numerous double blind case studies of how the way a person dresses drastically effects our perception of them and becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy of how our experience with them will go. Regardless of how non-judgmental people claim to be the way we dress when we meet people makes a big difference. People in suits and uniforms will always be figures of authority and command respect. For Gentlemen: Wear a suit, yeah I know suits aren't terribly comfortable but a suit makes a loud, clear statement: I do things important enough in life that I wear a suit. Unless it's a really swanky function I do not recommend a tie though. I recommend leaving the top bottom on the suit undone, this looks very sexy and sharp. I recommend buying your suits at Express for Men where they run around $300, I bought a suit about
4 years ago at there. I'm amazed at the amount of compliments I get on it after all the drinks that have been spilled on it and all the adventures it's been through. For Ladies: In business settings: Dress as stylishly as you can without it being a distraction at work. Forever21 & Express are your best friends. Buy a nice watch, in general men have more discriminating tastes in watches then ladies so it’s a great way to make yourself stand out. In social situations, I'd recommend a cocktail dress, there is truly no better way to strike the delicate balance between sexy and classy than with a cocktail dress. If it's more a business setting a lady suit is fine. Also get yourself a small purse for when you are going out. Women who are out socializing with large purses are just clumsy looking. 13. Join the Limitless Mindset Multi Media Coaching System As you can see from the links in this article, the subject of being Limitless is something I have a lot of background knowledge and experience with. I’m currently in development of a multimedia online coaching system which will go in depth into all of the above areas and provide a framework for your personal development into a becoming a Limitless. Click the link below for a free sample of that program in a 4 part video course (a $97 value) which will teach you in 30 – 45 minutes a powerful 'mental hack' that master salespeople, politicians, pickup artists and cult leaders use to remember limitless names instantaneously. Get instant access to it here.
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