Becoming an Active Learner & Leading Like a High Level Executive with David Novak

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

Education, Brain, Memory, Jimkwik, Productivity, Business, Kwikbrain

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How can you use learning to elevate your business, your relationships, and your life?

You already know how important learning is. After all, most skills can be acquired simply by learning more about them. But there’s a key step that you have to do in order to actually master what you want to learn about—you have to put it into action.

I’m excited to go on a deep dive into this topic with today’s guest. David Novak came from humble roots to become CEO of a global company. A feat he credits entirely on his ability to learn. He’s also the author of the bestselling book, How Leaders Learn: Master the Habits of the World’s Most Successful People.

When you put learning at the center of everything you do, everything in your life will grow. But being an effective learner means taking your observations and putting them into action. That takes insight, but more importantly, it takes practice. Listen in as David shares not only how learning shaped his career, but what the most effective tool he discovered that he still uses today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Quick Brain, bite-size brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more.
0:06.0	I'm your coach, Jim Quick.
0:08.5	Free.
0:09.6	You're mine.
0:10.5	Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.
0:15.5	I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.
0:18.2	I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.
0:20.6	I know Kung Fu.
0:23.3	Show me.
0:25.3	Welcome back Quick Brains. I'm your host and your brain coach Jim Quick. I am especially
0:29.8	excited about today's guest and the topic because of our somewhat overlapping journey that
0:36.7	led us both to the area of learning and now helping other people to learn better.
0:42.2	Starting life as a trailer park kid who lived in 23 states before high school, Novak built his career at PepsiCo, rapidly ascending to become co-founder and CEO of one of the largest corporations
0:56.0	in the world, the global restaurant icon, Yum Brands, with 55,000 restaurants plus and over
1:05.0	1 million employees. He credits active learning with helping them to get there. He is the author
1:10.4	of the bestselling book, which I highly recommend, how leaders learned.
1:15.0	Welcome to the show, David.
1:16.4	Well, Jim, it's a real honor to be with you.
1:18.2	I admire your approach to coaching and leading and your passion for learning, which we share.
1:24.8	I really appreciate reading the book.
1:26.7	So this is going to be an interesting conversation. I would encourage everybody to listen to the extended version on
1:31.2	YouTube, where we go beyond 20 minutes. You could join our 1.8 million subscribers there. I think
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