A Bit of Optimism · 2026-09-01 · 51 min · 10,894 words

Your Limits Are Learned (And They Can Be Unlearned) with Brain Coach Jim Kwik

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One day I was being teased in class, a teacher came to my defense, she said, Leave that kid alone. That's the boy with the broken brain. So that that label became my my limit. Adults have to be very careful of their external words because they often become a child's Internal words? Yeah. I'm curious what it was that that broke the narrative and help you recognize that You indeed.

You know, weren't broken, but in fact were quite the opposite. You're limitless. When we were young, somebody may have told us that we were bad at math. Or that we were lazy. Whatever it was, we still say those things about ourselves today. That label became part of our identity.

Worse. Those labels. become our limits. That's why I wanted to talk to Jim quick. Because that's exactly what happened to him.

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