Ever since I saw the movie Limitless starring Bradley Cooper I've been obsessed with the idea of using your brain to its fullest potential, more specifically the ability to remember everything you have ever learned and be able to communicate that information quickly effectively and charmingly.
自从我看过布莱德利·库珀主演的《永无止境》之后，我就对发挥你大脑的全部潜能这一想法很着迷，更具体地说就是能够记住你所学到的一切，并能够迅速、高效、充满魅力地就这些信息进行交流。
So after years of trying to make myself limitless and chasing this peak mental performance, I've discovered that some of the most effective things that will help you get there are actually simple daily habits you can start implementing right away. So let's just cut to the chase. Here are five habits that you can start implementing today that will help you become limitless in real life.
因此，在多年尝试突破自身的局限性，追求这种巅峰的脑力之后，我发现了最能够帮助你达到目的的，其实是一些你可以立即就开始实施的日常生活中简单的习惯。那么直奔主题吧。以下是你现在就可以实施的五个能帮助你变得无所不能的习惯：
Tip number one is learn broadly and thoroughly.
建议一是广泛而详尽地学习
What I mean by that is don't just read self-improvement books. If you want to be somebody who has just a mass of useful relevant information, you have to expand your horizons, read books about the Cold War, Bitcoin The stock exchange, ancient civilizations, start getting some hands-on experience with repairing vehicles, repairing electronics cooking good food. By really pushing yourself to expand the subjects that you learn not only is that useful for you in your own life but people will start looking at you like you're the most interesting man in the world.
我的意思是不要只是读自我提高的书籍，如果你想成为一个拥有大量有用信息的人，你必须开阔你的眼界，阅读关于冷战、比特币、证券交易、古代文明的书籍，开始获得一些维修车辆、修理电子产品、烹饪食物的实践经验。通过推动自己去扩展你所学的科目，这不仅对你自己的生活有帮助，还会让人们开始觉得，好像你是世界上最有趣的人。
The second part of this tip is to learn thoroughly. They say that you only need to read three books in a particular subject to know more about that subject than 99% of the population. Although this isn't concrete science, it makes sense. A lot of people in this day and age don't have the patience or focus to get through one book from beginning to end let alone three books. So if you're someone who read three books on a particular subject you'll be an expert in that subject compared to most people on the planet.
这一点的第二部分是要详尽地学习，有言道，在某一特定的领域你只需要读三本书，就能比99%的人都更了解该领域。尽管这并不准确，但确实有一定道理。在这个时代，很多人甚至缺乏耐心或专注力，从头到尾看完一本书，更不要说三本书了，所以如果你能就某一领域读完三本书，那么你就会比地球上的大多数人都更了解这一领域。
Also when you read these books, make sure to pay attention, don't be multitasking as you're reading. You might even want to bring a highlighter or a pencil or if you don't wanna mark up your book bring a notepad, so you could write down some of your thoughts on a chapter you just read. If you want to become limitless, reading isn't just an activity to pass the time, you're trying to soak in useful information that you can use in the future for when it's relevant. And if you're one of those people who sucks at reading or can't focus on reading books, I made a whole video about how to read when you hate reading, the link is in the description. It also happens to be my most popular video.
另外，当你在读书时一定要专心，不要同时还做别的事情，你还可以拿一支荧光笔或者铅笔，或者如果你不想在你的书上做标记，可以带一个记事本把你对于刚刚读完的一个章节的一些想法写下来。如果你想变得无所不能，那么你不能把阅读只是当作一种打发时间的活动，你需要努力吸收其中在未来某些时刻可能会用得到的信息，而如果你不擅长阅读，或者读书时总是不专心，我做过一期视频，是讲如果你讨厌阅读该如何进行阅读，链接在描述中，这也正好是我最受欢迎的视频。
So...tip number two is to talk to somebody about the things you were learning and the books you were reading.
第二点建议是与别人谈论你正在学习的东西和你正在读的书
So for the longest time, I'm talking several years I was trying to teach myself how to be conversational in Spanish, but every time I talked to somebody who actually knew conversational Spanish, I mean the biggest fool of myself. But that all changed in university when I took two semesters of Spanish. And it wasn't because I spent a long time with my nose pressed in a book memorizing vocabulary because I've done that before.
曾经在很长一段时间里，大概有几年，我都在尝试学习用西班牙语进行对话，但每当我与真正懂得西班牙语的人交谈时，我总是发现自己什么也不会。但这一切在大学里发生了变化，我学了两个学期的西班牙语，而这并不是因为我花了很长时间读相关的书、背单词，因为这些事我都做过了。
But the biggest game-changer was these conversation times that we had two to three times a week in Spanish in which the professor forced us for 20 or 30 minutes each lesson to implement all the vocabulary and new things we learned into our conversations with our classmates. As soon as the conversation went stale, we switched classmates, and we just talked and talked and talked and talked.
带来最大改变的其实是对话时间，我们每周有两到三次的西班牙语课，每节课教授会要求我们花20或30分钟将我们学到的所有词汇和新的知识点落实到与同学的对话中，一旦对话没什么新鲜内容了，我们就会调换同学，我们进行了非常非常非常多的对话。
And this process of soaking in information, thinking about it and then trying to use it in real life is integral that is the full learning process. If you just do step one you're just read and read and read and read, it'll stay in your head and it will never come out. So if you really want to be somebody who is just overflowing with useful information, you have to practice not only the input of information but also the output of information.
而这种吸收信息、思考信息，然后尝试在现实生活中使用信息的过程是不可或缺的，这才是完整的学习过程。如果你只做第一步，你只是一遍又一遍地读书，那么知识只能停留在你的头脑中，没有机会应用。因此，如果你真的想成为一个懂得非常多有用信息的人，那么你不仅要练习信息的输入，还有信息的输出。
This is as easy as just talking to a friend for 30 or 40 seconds about a drink coffee or something like that. Just be like hey I've been reading this book and there's a concept in it that I find really fascinating and it is this. And hopefully if you have a friend who's willing to actually talk about interesting ideas that'll spark a conversation and you can further reflect on the information and form new ideas around it. You can also join a book club or Toastmasters, just anything that'll help you communicate the information that you're putting in.
这很容易，就像你花30秒、40秒的时间和朋友聊起喝咖啡或别的什么事情一样。你可以说，嘿我最近在读一本书，其中有一个概念，我觉得非常吸引人，它是这样的。希望你会有一个朋友愿意谈论一些有趣的想法，你们可以展开讨论，使你可以进一步思考这些信息，并由此形成新的想法，你还可以去参加读书会或者演讲会，任何可以让你有机会讨论你摄取的信息的机会。
Number three is learn to meditate.
建议三是学会冥想
Now if you're somebody who still hasn't tried meditation or you're kind of weirded out because you think it's some sort of Eastern, Zen kind of something to do with chakras and spirit animals and stuff like that. That is not how meditation has to be and my version of meditation is almost like a breathing exercise, it's more like a tool that helps me focus. The longer the day goes on, I get completely scatterbrained. I'm such a multitasker and I think of a million things in a million different directions all at once. So if I'm presented with a book or one single video editing task or something like that, it's very hard for me to focus on that one thing because my brain is just everywhere.
如果你至今还没有尝试过冥想，或者你还有些犹疑，因为你觉得这是某种来自东方的，类似禅宗，与脉轮和灵兽有关的，或者类似的一些东西。其实冥想不一定要这样，我对于冥想的看法更接近一种呼吸练习，是一种帮助我集中注意力的工具，越到了一天的晚些时候，我越是变得散漫，我是个习惯一心多用的人，我会在一时之间考虑无数件事的无数个版本。因此，如果我面对一本书，或者一个视频剪辑任务之类的事情，我会很难专注于这一件事，因为我的大脑总是要想东想西。
The way I collect myself is by this very simple meditation that I do. I just set a timer for five minutes, doesn't have to take forever, close my eyes I breathe in and out very slowly for five minutes and I focus all my attention on my breath. I just bring all of my consciousness into my body instead of my mind that way when the five minutes is up I'm no longer scattered, I'm just in one place. And I can use that super collective state of mind to dive into the tasks that I need to dive into. My attention is now completely on that thing just does wonders for the input and output of information.
我让自己专注起来的方式是，通过我进行的这个非常简单的冥想。我会把计时器设置五分钟，不需要太长时间，闭上眼睛，非常缓慢地吸气和呼气，持续5分钟。我把所有注意力集中在我的呼吸上，我把所有的意识都集中于我的身体，而不是我的大脑，这样当五分钟结束时，我就不再分心了，而是全神贯注。而我可以利用这种非常集中的精神状态来潜心研究我需要专注的任务，我的注意力现在完全在那件事上，可以高效地进行信息的输入和输出。
Tip number four is to reduce the living hell out of social media and bad screen time.
建议四是减少使用社交媒体和一些带来负面影响的屏幕使用时间
I love technology. I'm a filmmaker, pretty much all my purchases are electronics. But when it comes to social media, I'm a lot more skeptical especially something like Instagram when you have a discover feed or Facebook with a you know main news feed or something like that, when you're endlessly scrolling through the explore page on Instagram, you're practically turning your rational brain off and your primal brain on and you become sort of this entity who only responds to what will give him the biggest dopamine rush like a hot girl or somebody getting whipped in the back with a pool noodle. I can't think of one good reason to enter into that kind of state it's completely useless and it makes focusing on more complex tasks really difficult.
