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Every book Jim Kwik recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Jim Kwik appears on, in one place — not just one.
Jim Kwik is an American brain coach, podcaster, writer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Kwik Learning, an online learning platform; the host of the Kwik Brain podcast; and the author of Limitless, published by Hay House in 2020. During various podcast appearances, Kwik has recommended and discussed several influential books focused on personal growth, mindset, and cognitive performance. On Modern Wisdom, he recommended Daniel G. Amen's book Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, highlighting the importance of eliminating automatic negative thoughts. While speaking on The Diary Of A CEO, he mentioned Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to illustrate how innovation often emerges from outsiders. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, Kwik named Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning as one of his absolute favorite books and also recommended Simon Sinek's Start with Why when discussing motivation and the formula for success. In conversations on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, he explored his own book Limitless, praised Jay Shetty's Think Like a Monk for condensing decades of wisdom, and noted Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking as a formative personal growth text that fundamentally transformed his early reading habits and perspective on learning.
Books recommended by Jim Kwik
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Daniel G.
Recommended“a psychiatrist he's run like 40 books on the brain change Your Brain Change Your Life I he talks about killing ants is good for the brain and ants stands for automatic negative thoughts”
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S.
Recommended“it's similar to Innovation where there's a there's a book called the structure of Scientific Revolution”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Recommended“it's funny because like one of my favorite books is a book called man's search for meaning my Viktor Frankl”
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Start with Why
Start with Why by Simon Sinek is a widely influential business and leadership book that emphasizes the importance of establishing a clear sense of purpose before engaging in tactical execution.
Recommended“write and start with Y by simon Sinek”
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Limitless
Limitless by Jim Kwik is a practical guide designed to help readers upgrade their mental performance, memory, reading speed, and overall brain health.
Discussed“Also, it's such a phenomenal framework; it's such a fantastic framework, and I know it's in the book 'Limitless.'”
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R.
Discussed“one of my favorite books growing up was my mentor mine dr. Steven Covey wrote seven Habits Highly Effective People”
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The Power of Positive Thinking
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale is a classic mid-century self-help book that promotes optimistic thinking, faith, and mental resilience as tools for personal achievement.
Discussed“I looked at these titles—classics, incredible biographies of men and women in history, personal growth books like Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking and Dale Carnegie’s works.”
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Think Like A Monk
Think Like a Monk is a self-help book by Jay Shetty that translates ancient wisdom and monastic practices into practical, modern frameworks for overcoming negativity and finding purpose.
Discussed“Somebody has decades experience like you do, you put it into a book, Think Like a Monk, and somebody sits down a few days and read that book. They download decades and days, but they're not reading every day.”
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Your Subconscious Brain Can Change Your Life
Discussed“he's done over a hundred thousand brain scans and and he wrote a famous book called change your brain change your life”
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Books Jim Kwik wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (15: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I open Limitless expanded with Joseph Campbell's like the stages of the heroes Journey because I want people to feel like that”
“yeah we have a couple Assessments in Limitless”
“and I really the reason why I put so many of this in Limitless in our podcast”
“it's one of the things that we teach in Limitless is & as six thinking hats”
“you know I'd use the story with Will Smith in the book”
“so going to this & um two-thirds & I'm going to give everybody right now the 10 Keys as you know it in the book”
“in my books I put the questions in the beginning”
“and so I think that that Limitless is A Treatise on an owner's manual for a brain the best diet sleep everything else”
“In Limitless I talk about seven lies to learning. Cuz my my my wheelhouse is teaching accelerated learning, teach people to read faster, learn languages, remember people's names, improve their memory, focus.”
“Somebody has decades of experience, like you do, you put into a book, 'Think Like a Monk,' and somebody can sit down a few days and read that book; they could download decades in days.”
“Like Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking, Dale Carnegie, I mean, Napoleon Hill, all the classics, right?”
“We actually had Quincy Jones, Don Miguel Ruiz from, you know, wrote The Four Agreements. I mean, the founder of the Four Agreements.”
“We've all read that book, 'Good to Great,' that says, 'Say no to good so you can say yes to great.' A lot of people have too many tabs open in their life—they keep saying 'yes, yes, yes.'”
“So we bonded over Ender's Game and all these great sci-fi books, but then the book we were talking about The Structure of Scientific Revolution”
“We bonded over 'Ender's Game' and various great sci-fi books, and we discussed 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.'”