Jim Kwik

Identify the 10 major talking points from your presentation. These can be keywords or phrases or perhaps quotations that you want to incorporate. They should not, however, be multiple paragraphs long, as that will make this process cumbersome and your presentation feel stiff and overly rehearsed. The assumption here is that you know your topic well and that you have some facility with the material. This method is designed to help bring each of the key points to the forefront of your mind when you need them.
Now imagine a place that you know well. This can be a part of your home, a street that you walk often, a nearby
park, or anything else with which you have a great deal of familiarity and that you can easily recall vividly.
Now consider a path through that location. If it’s a room in your house, for example, imagine walking into that room and traveling through it. Identify 10 spots in this room that you can quickly see in your mind. Maybe one is the lamp in the corner that you see as you enter the room. Perhaps another is the chair just to the left of that lamp. The next might be the side table next to that chair, and so on. Make this path as procedural as possible. Zig-zagging around the space is likely to be less productive. Just see yourself walking through this space clockwise noticing what you always notice as you pass each item.
Once you’ve picked out your 10 locations, assign a major talking point to each of these locations. Be sure to make the order of your talking points match the order in which you walk through the room. For example, using the room we just described, if the first thing you want to say is the keynote message to your entire presentation, assign that to the lamp. If the next major talking point is an essential product detail or a key historical fact, assign that to the chair, and so on.
Now practice your presentation, using your walk through the location as a tool for remembering each of the primary messages in the presentation. Each component of the presentation should come to you as you need it.

BONUS TOOL 1: A QUICK WAY TO REMEMBER EVERYONE’S NAME

To use second-order thinking when considering future actions:

Always ask yourself, “And then what?”
Think in increments of time. What do the consequences look like in five days? Five months? Five years?
Draw out the possible courses of action you might take using columns to organize consequences

If you want to fire up your exponential thinking ability—and take a huge step toward unlimiting your genius—consider these four steps the next time you contemplate a problem or task in need of a solution:

Step 1: Get to the Underlying Problem

Step 2: Posit a New Approach
One of the keys to exponential thinking is filling your thoughts with what-if statements.

Step 3: Read about It

Knowledge itself is not power, it only has that potential when you apply it.

As you can imagine, school became an ordeal for me.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

When you do what others won’t, you can live how others can’t.