Memory jars

 Memory jars


I listened to a podcast called 'Diary of a CEO' and the guest speaker was Jim Kwik, an entrepreneur and memory expert who is the CEO of Mindvalley. Jim suffered a brain injury when he was a child and for the rest of his childhood he believed he was incapable of achieving great things in academia and career. This was further cemented by one of his school teachers telling him and his entire class that he was the boy with the broken brain. Jim eventually broke out of the negative beliefs he had constructed for himself over the years and started making new affirmations. Today he is one of the foremost experts on memory retention and affirmation activation. He states his life's mission or overarching guide can summed up with a simple ven diagram.

This diagram, which conveys powerful concepts, is represented by three areas: Mindset which is comprised of possibilities, capabilities and belief; Motivation comprised of purpose, energy and small simple steps; Methods comprising of the procedures you take to achieve your goal. It is self explanatory and a hack to get you going when you feel overwhelmed or stuck. Sometimes all we need to do is visualise our thoughts in order for us to make sense of them. Thought is abstract and making a visual representation is usually the first step to actualising the ideas we have. The next step is to act upon it. Design doing takes us through a process where we place the user at the centre of the journey. If you think about your own journey how would you approach, implement and integrate your efforts so that you get the most out of your interaction with the world thus providing a more enriching experience for you and those around you. This ven diagram can be applied to any task and let's you steer through chance, chaos and control the controllable.


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