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Dan Fleyshman interviews brain coach Jim Kwik about memory, focus, and the importance of human intelligence in an AI-driven world.

What if the most valuable asset in your portfolio isn't in your portfolio at all? In this episode of The Money Mondays, Dan Fleyshman sits down with brain coach and author Jim Kwik for a conversation about memory, focus and why human intelligence is becoming more valuable — not less — in a world running on AI. Jim was called "the boy with a broken brain" after a traumatic brain injury at age five. Thirty-five years later he has run trainings for Google, Nike, SpaceX, Facebook and the US Air Force, along with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. He explains why the faster you can learn the faster you can earn, how memory quietly drives sales, referrals and trust, and walks through his SUAVE method for remembering names — including the story of a real estate professional who lost a $50 million deal because he called his client the wrong name twice. The conversation then goes deep on artificial intelligence. Jim breaks down cognitive offloading, the "AI slop" filling the internet, and the MIT study that found students who leaned on AI to write essays remembered the least of what they produced. He shares his BUILD framework — brainstorm, understand, imagine…

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