How To Build Self-Discipline And Rewire Your Brain ft. Giulia Remondino

But before we do so, can you take us to the moment you realized your brain can actually be trained?

So there's many, many moments in life where that happened.

But I think that if I need to go back to one, when I was 18 and I took a memory and speed reading course and a friend of mine told me about it actually he didn't even tell me about it because I was good at school so he thought I wouldn't need it but he told my brother and then I went and I was like whoa people can actually do these things and memorize incredible stuff and like I can study but I'm not that good and and so I was really fascinated by it and I took this program and I saw how in two days I was able to do things that two days before I thought would be impossible and I was like wow if there's this that seemed impossible and now I can do how many other things I think are impossible but actually just by knowing how and finding the key actually possible and i saw the same happening to so many people and really their eyes change when they realize what they were able to do and that was my first contact with the fact that our brain is so much more powerful than we may think it is and then since then a lot has happened and a lot of other experiences but i think that was the very very first moment and

Yeah, I would say that one.

I love that.

And I think your story has made me or reminded me of a time in my own life when I think I was probably around the same time around 18.

And I was sitting in one of my maths classes with one of my friends.

And she was saying how she had memorized, you know, pi, like the mathematical theory pi is obviously an infinite number.

And she had memorized 100 digits of the decimal points.

And I was like, that's impossible.

And she was like, no, let me teach you.

And then every lesson I learned a bit more.

And I was essentially able to train my brain to remember 100 digits of pi.

And that was something I thought was impossible.

First of all, not a very necessary skill to have, but it was it was quite I thought it was very impossible.

But then through training myself literally day after day, I was able to do so.

And it's just incredible to see how the brain can work with just a little bit of training or rewiring how you're learning certain things.

Absolutely.

And it's a mix of rewiring it, having the patience and then, of course, having the skills to back that up, because based on how you do it, of course, it can be easier or harder.

But yeah, it can achieve amazing things.

So how did learning that change your own life before you taught it to anyone else? So in practice, I was

a student at the time, so I applied it to my studies.

In Italy, exams are super, super, super theoretical.

It's like very different from here.

You have just to study books and know every detail.