How to Easily Program Your Brain Each Morning & the Danger of Cognitive Surrender - With Jim Kwik

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There are a few things in our lives that we would accept artificial versions of. We don't want artificial ingredients. We don't want artificial relationships. We don't want artificial levels of success, but there is something artificial that has integrated itself into our worlds so quickly, and we've been so quick to accept. I'm thinking that we might want to put up just a little bit of a yellow light with all of this. And I'm talking about, of course, artificial intelligence.

Now, here's the rub. We see some phenomenal benefits in applications with AI. Absolutely. Absolutely. There's really limitless possibilities.

But it's simply asking the questions. Are we dealing with a potential Jarvis or a potential Ultron? You know, to reference a Marvel superhero outlook of this whole situation.

Today's episode is incredibly important and incredibly powerful because with the rise of artificial intelligence being integrated into our lives, we're seeing some very, very prominent red flags.

And again, at the same time, we're seeing some very, very powerful opportunities. And so being aware of those red flags are incredibly important when it comes specifically to your brain.

What's happening right now, we have strong data affirming this already, is that we are unknowingly outsourcing our cognitive capacity.

And so we're experiencing something known as cognitive surrender, cognitive surrender with our growing use of artificial intelligence. And this is placed on top of a society that has already, for lack of a better term, been dumbed down due to our relationships with technology, namely things like social media and this kind of scrolling paradigm where our attention spans and our cognitive capacities have been robbed due to these interactions as well. And we're seeing this especially with children.

Now this again is not to negate the value potential with artificial intelligence, but we need to do this with intelligence. And so we have the most incredible expert to help us to understand this. And today you're going to learn about this cognitive surrender and its real impacts, but also how AI used in a specific way that he's going to share with you can actually increase your ability to learn and to learn quickly. But again, it's doing things in a certain way. You're also going to discover the mind blowing ways that what you do first thing in the morning in what's known as your sleep inertia phase impacts your entire day. So there's this, again, this is a scientifically validated window of cognitive change, this cognitive cascade where what you do in this time impacts the rest of your day. How you respond to things, your creativity, the list goes on and on and on. You want to leverage this for your success. And also, speaking of success, you're going to learn how you can train your brain daily.

365, 366 days on a leap year, every single day, to train your brain for greater success. And I'm already doing this, I'm already taking part in what he's going to share with you today. And it's been amazing. It changed my life today. It changed my life today and what I'm going to be doing even this evening before I go to bed. Truly, truly powerful stuff. And there are very few people on the planet that can deliver it like this. And we've got the legend, Jim Kwik here for you today. Now, when Jim came in, as we always do, we had a special little gift bag for Jim that my wife often helps to put together. And recently, I did an interview on Jim's show and I talked about this experience that I had with a praying mantis and what a praying mantis symbolizes and how it just kind of like was an alignment and affirmation for me in my life at that time, which I share with them again. This was a while ago. But I go to my mailbox and I end up getting this beautiful, it looked like it was like hand painted mug with this praying mantis. And it was such a thoughtful gift. But inspired by that, we got Jim this very, very beautiful mug and something very, very beautiful to put into the mug, which was sun goddess matcha tea. And when he looked into the bag, he was like, oh my God, I actually have this all the time. This is incredible. He's like, I didn't bring it with me. I usually even travel with my matcha and he didn't have it with him. And it was just like, this was meant to be. And I was so grateful. I just had a feeling about the matcha being a resonance for him because he's so about the brain and cognitive performance. And if you didn't know already, matcha has one of the densest sources of L-theanine of anything ever discovered. And L-theanine is affirmed, and this was published in the journal Brain Topography, that it actually increases our alpha brain waves.