Seven Ideas to Raise Your IQ

Seven (7) Bits of Knowledge Inquiring Minds Should Know

Speed Reading rules.

Sure, we can change the channel, but it is nice to be reminded
the networks, and half the independent TV stations are operated
by brainless mutants.

The corpse called Jackson is not a President of the U.S. He could do a
little dance, and sing a pleasant song, but put him in prospective.
Have the morons really taken over access to our mind?

So what? We are not controllable by the Media as long as we can
read. The great benefit of our reading skill is the ability to amuse
ourselves, and even learn something new and relevant by our
choice of finding a book, or even an article on the Net. Rant over.

One. Our Reptilian brain – the one that controls heartbeat, breathing,
blood pressure, bodily functions, and sex is also called the Brainstem. It
is our nonconscious Puppet-Master in charge of our instincts and
reflexes for daily survival. How old? Remember 100 million years.

Overlaying the Reptilian brain (brainstem) is our Limbic System,
a second brain controlling our emotions, and strongly influencing memory.
Age: 100-150 million years. Remember the amygdala, hippocampus, and
hypothalamus, and pituitary gland. This one is also our nonconscious Puppet-
Master for feeling and decision-making.

Finally, our NeoCortex (new brain). When we analyze, learn, plan and
invent, we use our NeoCortex. It controls consciousness and what makes
us the different-ape, the thinking human. So what?

It is about 40,000 years old. That’s the point – our NeoCortex is a baby
compared to our survival brains – the Reptilian (brainstem) of instincts, and the
Limbic System of emotions.

Key Point: our youngster brain can be hijacked by either of the other two.
Our job is to limit impulsivity and the need for immediate gratification.
Just because we get a feeling or emotion does not mean we must exercise it.

We are new at this game, so wars, race hatred, and individual murders are frequent.

Give us another couple of thousand years and our NeoCortex will get the
hang of it. Remember – 40,000 years old compared to 100-million years for the
other two.

Two. Prime Interest Rate is 3.25%. Last year ’08, it was 5%. The Federal Discount
Rate (effects mortgage rates) is .50%. Last year it was 2.25% Wow! difference.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 5.34%. Last year it was 6.77%. If you want to
comprehend cause and effect in the economy, follow the Prime, Federal Discount,
and the 30-year mortgage rate.

Three: a) idiosyncratic – peculiar to a person or group. < Gk Idio – self + mixture.
Peculiar temperament. “The U.S. kills for freedom in foreign counties – that is our
idiosyncrasy/”

b) ultimate thule – the end of the world, < L furthest north. Thule air force base.

c) crack-spread: oil industry and future trading. The difference between crude and
usable petroleum. Crack is breaking down the long-chain hydrocarbons to short-chain products.

Four: Dieting. Why are 2/3 of Americans in 2009 overweight? Personally, I am a man ahead of my time because I have been fat for my entire adult life. These guys are late bloomers coming to the party.

Secret: hypoglycemia – low blood sugar. We eat a high carbohydrate diet deep in
hidden sugar and starch. Remember this: low blood cholesterol is linked to
aggression and anti-social behavior.

Anger, stress, and depression are linked to our eating patterns. Excess sugar causes an overproduction of Insulin, and we are stimulated to erratic behaviors. Solution:
seriously withdrawing from our dependence on sugar and starches.

Google: which foods are filled with both?

Five: Stop telling me there are 15 million unemployed in the U.S. (9.5%), and
focus on the 140 million who are actively working in July, 2009. Sure, we can
improve the economy, but not by getting depressed and falling into the Henny-
Penny, the-sky-is-falling syndrome.

Six: Neuroplasticity – you cannot be a 21st century intellect without understanding
the power of our neuroplastic brain. For 50-years scientists believed you could
not rewire an adult brain. After a stroke, you were done. Not so.

Our brain can reorganize itself (rewire its functions) to age 100. How? Forming
new neural (nerve cells) connections to compensate for loss through injury or disease.

So what? It requires volition – your will-power to create new synaptic
links into a new Neural Network. We care because neuroplasticity is deeply
involved in Speed Reading.

The Average American reads at a snail’s pace, 150-200 words per minute, with about 70% comprehension. So What?

Snailing at 150-200 wpm makes reading and learning boring, so we hate and avoid it. Why? We only read one-word-at-a-time, and hear each word in our mind as we read. Too slow and boring. Neuroplasticity can 3x your reading speed by creating a new Reading Circuit.

Coda: you can read, comprehend and remember three-books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one. Is this a serious personal competitive
advantage in school and career? More promotions? Want more personal productivity?

The secret is modifying your vision from central (foveal) to peripheral by using a
handheld laser pen to underline what you read for the first 21-days, to form a new
habit. You read (chunk) 3-6 words at-a-time instead of a lousy - one. Ask us how.

Seven: Ideo-Motor Effect

Scientists are convinced that the Ideo-Motor Effect is the power of suggestion,
like a Placebo. It does come from within us, specifically our sub-un-non-conscious
mind. See, they laugh off dowsing to find oil, water, and maybe gold. Think again.

If you can go into Alpha cycles per second (deep relaxation) you can access your
subconscious mind. It answers all the questions from the Ouija board using our internal resources. Call it the source of our internal dialogue, and intuition from
our right-hemisphere.

Coda: In 1833, French scientist Michel Chevreul investigated the Ideo-Motor
Effect – the use of a pendulum to receive answer to our inquiries. All scientists to
date, have concluded the responses are not outside magic, but is endogenous (within) our own mind. I use it, teach it, and get glowing feedback.

They are right, but what they missed is that our subconscious mind has a warehouse
of memories and knowledge unknown to our conscious mind. It is the home of
creativity and wisdom, and accessed easily triggered by the Ideo-Motor Effect.

Einstein said, Do your own mind experiments. You may discover a new dimension of your own mind, and new level of knowledge.

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DayDreaming is Your Greatest Asset

How Your Brain’s Executive Network Wins
After You Surrender Control

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In 5th grade, Mrs. Crawford screamed out to the class,
“Harold, stop daydreaming and pay attention. My 18-inch ruler
gives you five seconds to answer the next question or face the
consequences.”

In high school, Mr. Abbot punched me on the right shoulder and
strongly suggested, “Mr. Wechsler, no daydreaming in my class.
Wake up your attention now, or go to the principal’s office.”

Fact: normal healthy folks spend up to one-third of their waking
hours daydreaming without focus or concentration. Neuroscientists
in Canada suggest some of us spend 30 to 70% of our time daydreaming.

Is it Bad?

Sigmund Freud believed daydreaming was neurotic and infantile.
Walt Disney said he got the idea for his theme parks watching his
daughters and daydreaming. Tom Edison stopped working daily for a
20 minutes devoted to his daydreaming ritual seeking inventions.

The latest research – 5.13.09, lead author, K. Christoff, University of
British Columbia, was published in the journal – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offering a roadmap to successful daydreaming.

Mind Wandering

The difference between day and night dreaming is our power of personal
control, and long-term memory storage in daydreaming.

Rules: to productively daydream, you must consciously start within 20 minutes
of boring lecture or mind-numbing routine task. It must last for a minimum of
ten-minutes.

Think of a time you found yourself re-read the same paragraph three-times
and not grasping any meaning from the words. Your left-hemisphere (language-processing) turn-off, and dominance shifted to your right-hemisphere, the essence of imagination and creativity. Call it spatial skills and pattern recognition.

Professor Christoff

When you engage in a routine, repetitive task like counting, filing or cleaning,
we become less aware of our mind-wandering. Studying students using a functional
Magnetic Resonance Imagery (fMRI), she discovered two separate but parallel neutal networks triggered during productive daydreaming.

For the past 25 years scientists were exclusively aware of our Default Network, activated during simple, boring events. It links our Prefrontal Cortex and Anterior Cingulate Cortex, and causes us to zone-out unproductively.

Professor Christoff discovered a second neural network triggered when our daydreaming involves complex problem solving. This is our Executive Network, and integrates left-and-right hemispheres using long-term semantic memory (language), and imagination and creativity to solve problems.

We get valuable new inventions and creative ideas only when both Default and Executive Networks are activated in parallel.

Milton H. Erickson, M.D. On Daydreaming

I am not concerned with how much you learn about
the Whys and Wherefores (intellectually) of (hypnosis)
or anything else – i.e. SpeedLearning in this room.

You will continue to process both the procedures (strategies)
and analyze the principles during your “twilight”
(scholars call it “hypnagogic state”) daydreaming moments.

How often do we DayDream?

Neuroscientists estimate our Twilight Zone between waking
hours (beta cycles per second) and hypnagogic (alpha and theta
cycles per second) time, at up to thirty (30%) percent.

Hypnagogic (Twilight) Daydreaming

We all experience these moments as being neither here-nor-there,
not-awake and not-asleep, yet a time when serious learning and
memory fix in our synapses and neural networks.

You have your own individual patterns of hypnagogic learning.
Is your dominant sensory representation visual imagery, auditory hints
(stream-of-consciousness), or remembered creative feelings leading to
mastering your new SpeedLearning skills?

Some of us begin daydreaming about our new skills and knowledge
immediately, others require time to consolidate our conscious
classroom experiences. Long-term memory is fixed through our
non-conscious alignment between the left and right hemispheres.

Integration (alignment) does not require awareness, attention or intention to make it so. The triggers are our corpus callosum, hippocampal, and anterior
commissures (joints) and they operate like our nervous system, silently and
deeply.

We call these three the “switchboard”, the interhemispheric communication
system between our left and right brains. You own three very powerful tools.
They operate on autopilot.

Prohibition

It is natural in learning new procedural skills (typing, computing, driving, and
SpeedLearning), to attempt to understand Why (analysis) it works, while simultaneously experiencing (practicing) the How of your new skill.

Keep intellectualizing separate from the procedural (skill) drilling. They are
in opposition. Call it Analysis (separation) verses Synthesis (combining).
One cancels out the other, so don’t step on the accelerator and brake together.

SpeedLearning Principle: Why (?) it works is intellectual and left-brained; How (?) to do it - is a procedural, right-brained (motor) skill. They are contradictory during
the learning process, and later integrated and aligned.

Principle: keep the experience (doing) away from your intellect. Experiencing is right-brain dominant (pattern-recognition), while analysis is left-hemispheric
(language) centered. When you attempt to combine, you inhibit the firing of your new synapses, and hardwiring of new neural networks.

Google: Donald O. Hebb brain principles: the cells that fire-together, wire-together.
The connection between neurons (nerve cells) increases in efficacy, in proportion
to the degree of correlation between pre-and post-synaptic activity.

He helped explain the concept of Stimulus/Response in neuroscience.

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Are Contrarians Right More Often?

Are Contrarians Right More Often?

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Disputes between academics are not bread-and-butter issues for 99%
of us, but there is a Positive Feedback to apply to your career. Hold-your-horses.

Who believes in Flying Saucers, Blackbeard’s Treasure, and allegations
the CIA has been illegally reading our Email for the past 15 years?

How about the Government (CIA) conducting Mind-Control
experiments on the public, prisoners, and American soldiers since the 1960s?

Don’t we flip past the Conspiracy-Nut stories like Washington D.C. blew-up the World Trade Center? Me too.

Now view www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13845.htm

My father used to endlessly reiterate – What your eyes see, your heart is bound
to believe. Please view (I double-dare you!) this Discovery Channel 50-minute video originally shown 7.04.06. It would convert a corpse that the CIA is dangerous to
the good health of the U.S. It is fully documented, and offers a woman whose entire
memory was dissolved for a CIA experiment in mind-control.

Science

My personal religion is the use of the Scientific Method as much as possible in
personal decision-making. After the nit-picking is over – Freud was right 90%
of the time, and Darwin’s evolution is 98% on the money.

Any adult Homo sapiens who denies Natural Selection through evolution, and the validity of Origin of The Species, Charlie Darwin’s book published in 1859, is
on a par with denying the Holocaust of World War 2, and maybe the Principle of
Gravity.

For about fifty-years educators argued whether reading is best taught using Phonics
or Whole-Word. The third group jumped-up-and-down for 50-50, both Phonics and
Whole-Word. So what, who cares but stupid educators?

The population of the U.S. is 306,700,758, call it 306.7 million. And the population
of the planet Earth is recorded as almost 6.8 billion folks. So?

Reading in one form or another is a skill used by about 85% of these human statistics.

For the last 25 years reading has been taught by concentrating on Phonics.
That means our brain depends on Phonemes – sound-by-sound to create speech and
reading. Nice try, no cigar.

Neuroscience

The other side – Whole-Word – said no-way, our brain remembers entire (whole) words at a time, not letter-into sound. Memory recalls the Shape of words, and
once we got it, it is stored for future retrieval with the sounds and meaning.

The educators compromised and taught 50% phonics and 50% Whole-Word.

Wrong again. Our brain reads word-by-word. Words are seen as units and processed like a runaway-train. It took until April 30, 2009 published in Neuron, to provide scientific proof “the brain recognizes common words as WHOLE- units.”

One more thing – for Brilliant Stars – there is an area of the brain called –
VWFA (Visual Word Form Area) on the left hemisphere involved in recognizing
whole words. We do NOT focus on letters or letter combinations (syllables).

Wait! Meaning (interpretation) is assigned by Wernicke’s Area, only after
recognition of the words by our brain.

How Your Brain Does The Reading Trick

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mattaer in what oreadr the ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset
can be a toatle mses and you can still raed it wouthit portbelm.
This is becuseae the human mind deos not raed ervey lteter by istleft,
but the word as a wlohe.”

Now you get it, right?

We all believe a picture is worth 1,000 words, but a few well-chosen
words is worth 1,000 pictures. Right?

Google: Grill-Spector 4.30.09, Neuron 62, p. 161-162.
Title: Deeos the Bairn not Raed Ervey lteter by Istlef,
but the Wrod as a Wlole?

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You are going to live a healthy, productive life into your nineties, if you
don’t fall in front of a Mack truck. If you wish to be independent, and not
suffering from one form of dementia or another (Alz included), you must
be a lifelong learner. That means you might consider being a speed reader.

You still have a lot of years in front of yourself, so would it be a good idea
to have a unique competitive advantage over your peers in school and career?
You can easily learn to triple (3x) your learning speed – permanently,
and to double (2x) your long-term memory. How about disabling Stress
from your long life?

If you are interested, Ask-Us-How, it is baby-easy, and you can add it
to your personal skills. Do it to get promotions and make more dinero,
but also do it to create a Cognitive Reserve in your brain.

Why?

To maintain your brain in its optimal condition, and learn and remember
like Einstein all the years of your long life.

Speed Reading Rules. See ya,

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Food For Your Mind

Food For Your Mind

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You might want to remember the name B. F. Skinner. He was a psychology professor at Harvard from 1958 to 1974, and was cited professionally as
the most influential psychologist of the 20th century.

So what?

He showed scientific proof we can change others and improve ourselves
through Positive Reinforcement. Homo sapiens are motivated by rewards
that make us feel good – dopamine is the pleasure neurotransmitter.

Remember when your kindergarten teacher sent you home with a Gold
or Silver star on your Picasso-like first drawing, and your Mom hung it on the refrigerator?

We still need a Gold Star, a pat on the back, a few platinum words of approval,
or a prize to produce our best efforts. Why? Folks are instinctually competitive,
and simultaneously hardwired with a Fear-of-Failure.

If you and your peers do not receive Positive Reinforcement on a regular basis
for small successes, you freeze up and inhibit your creative nature and imagination.

Fear of Failure

Human are conditioned from the womb to the tomb, at home, career, school,
and by the media, that rejection, making mistakes, being wrong, and failing are the
greatest sins.

We are taught to stay within our Comfort-Zone, status-quo, and
homeostasis, and drastically fear change. Problem: life is change, and we are
wired for improvement, new knowledge and original experiences.

Yet our most powerful learning is Trial-And-Error. We must experiment, make mistakes, remember both our errors and successes, and improve our next performance.

Conditioned Negative Reinforcers

If you give someone a slight shock when they do not perform correctly, or stop
feeding an animal to punish for not obeying, they remember better the next time.
It is a negative reinforcer and produces results, but often results in resistance and
a negative attitude. Conditioned Positive Reinforcers work better.

Skinner on Learning

We are all in the business of lifetime learning of how to adapt to our environment.
All experiences change the structure and function of our brain. They create Synapses of learning, and hardwired Neural Networks of knowledge and habit.

See what you think of Skinner’s five rules of learning faster and better.

1. Search for immediate feedback (positive and negative) to
create permanent memories for learning.
2. Learn in baby-steps, not in large swallows of knowledge.
3. Repeat the directions: three-times for accuracy.
4. Start with Simple ideas, move to Harder to Comprehend,
and after greater experience, to Complex ideas.
5. Every step of the way – offer and accept Positive Reinforcement.

Now search this list of seven activities that inhibit learning and discovery.

1. Blaming others – even when we are wrong is a guaranteed we will
never stick our neck out again.
2. Bribing a team to work without collective desire or interest produces inferior results. Look for curiosity and a need to discover.
3. Condemning our results to others (or in print) is never forgiven.
4. Criticizing causes a freeze-up of our future effort.
5. Threatening is counter-productive and increases a failure mentality.
6. Punishing in any form destroys 90% of relationships.
7. Nagging: how do you feel when you are repeatedly told what and how to do an activity?

The Brain of the 20th Century

Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist, suggested two learning strategies
that went against the grain. See what you think.

Interrupted Practice

At home, in school and in our career we are conditioned to believe we must
complete everything we start. Sounds smart. We understand this principle
as meaning once we start a project, we must continue on it until the bitter
end. Wrong.

Dr. Erickson taught at medical schools to learn the same way your brain does.
Take small bites of the apple at a time. How do you defeat a 50-foot giant?
Start with his ankle and take one bite at a time until he disappears.

He called it Interrupted Practice. Wake up fresh in the morning and do a
high-speed practice of a new strategy or learning for no more than 10-minutes.
Have breakfast and return refreshed and do another full effect of 10-minutes.

Wait! What so great about that? The average high school student studies for
about 90-minutes before taking a break, and forgets 86% of what he learned in the
first 65-minutes before he/she finishes. College and graduate school students
study until they drop into a coma for up to three-hours at a time.

Their results are a forgetting curve of up to 90% because they do not analyze
(think) they underline, and do not synthesize (consolidate), nor summarize
new ideas into their own words. Gathering the text and ideas in one place
does not create learning, it is phony-baloney text underlining note-taking.

Coda: if you can do four separate ten-minute slots of learning in 90-minutes,
you will remember 2.5 times (long-term) more than steady-stream concentrating.

Interference

Erickson discovered by scientific research the need for Separation between the
practice (drill) of strategies, and understanding the Why of it.
Homo sapiens have a need to understand Simultaneously with learning the
skill, knowledge or experience.

So what?

It creates interference between the function of your left and right hemispheres.
Why? Don’t ask! Just let the Right-Brain use its Pattern Recognition to map
the new stuff, and later after you own the skill, permit your Left-Brain to store the
knowledge for later examination and understanding in a Neural Network.

We teach the use of a Pacer to underline the sentences you read to access your
powerful Peripheral Vision to triple your learning skills. It is a reading strategy,
and students and executives disrupt their own learning by constantly Intellectualizing the sensory process by asking questions like Why? How? What?

That is Interference. Say the magic word and win a Duck? Separation – first own
the skills, then ask deep questions about How. Forget about meaning, and first get reproduce your learning skills, strategies or knowledge. Then understanding is easy.

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These Seven Questions Make Geniuses

Seven Questions of Genius

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Every year we read or hear a minimum of five (5) great ideas
that would help us in school and in our careers. What happens to them?

Our still-small-voice (Internal Dialogue) shouts at us – it will never
work – this thing takes too much effort – or - I am not smart enough
to implement this new method! The result is we give up before we ever
start.

The Einstein Memory System is baby-easy to learn and use. Many of our graduates
swear it is responsible for their career promotions and great earnings.

How Many Careers Will You Have?

Some of us know that we will work for at least five (5) different organizations
during our lifetime career. Is it important to have a competitive advantage over your peers when the economy is tough? Who do HR departments choose for advancement?

The Einstein Memory System will permit you to be smarter than your rivals
in an interview for an executive position, and to deliver more once you are chosen.

Taking Notes

Most corporate meetings (as you well know) are a waste of time. How often do you
come away with a specific plan to implement the new ideas? Two days after a meeting, reading a memo or business article, 90% of us cannot remember
the title of what we heard, nor any of the core ideas.

We need a simple system to execute a form to save the great ideas we heard or read.

Einstein to The Rescue

The reason we take away nothing much from what we hear or read is because
we are not really involved in thinking about the ideas. We think our job is to just
listen or read and collect or underline data.

We have to analyze (figure it out), synthesize (combine, make whole), and summarize the key ideas, in our own words.

Now the article, chapter or subject of the meeting must be reduced to a single page of note taking. Have you ever done a visual Memory Map? It’s easy and will double
what you remember and use.

If we do not take the NEW ideas we heard or read, and link them to ideas we
previously KNEW, there is no long-term memory or learning.

Start Now

Make believe you just sat through a 40-minute meeting or read a five-page business
article. How are you going to remember it?

1. Take a single page and start a diagram with the main topic. You will write keywords that describes the big ideas you learned. Don’t copy – make up the keywords in your own language. Keep it short and simple.

You have just activated your PreFrontal Cortex for decision-making and organizing
the information into long-term memory.

2. Circle the 1-2 keywords in the middle of the page. It is your main topic.

3. Each next idea flows and is associated with the main topic.

4. Always print each idea so you can read it clearly a month later.

5. Use logic and common sense to connect each new idea as a subsidiary,
flowing from the previous idea. One will mind you of the next.

Any way you structure the page is correct because it is for your personal use
to remember what your heard or read. Our graduates use symbols, colors and
“doodling” on the page to link ideas for long-term memory with images.

For Genius Only

If you use this idea that combines a) Imagination (mental pictures), b) Association
(linking), and c) Location (a schema to remember), you will double your memory,
improve your comprehension up to 25%, and increase your reading speed up to
200%. Please hang in to the end – the benefits are worth it.

If you physically print the answers radiating from these seven
questions, your brain fires Synapses, and creates a new Neural Network of knowledge. So what? In a short time the Einstein Memory System goes on
autopilot and you organize ideas automatically because the system is a habit.

a) Who? Name the main characters, plaintiff or defendant, buyer or seller. Remember back in kindergarten: the Owl says Who! – Who!
From this moment you will associate the word Who? with a mental
image of an Owl.

b) What? Summarize what happened. Cause and Effect, stimulus/
response. Mental image: see a hat and let it remind you of the
Question – What? The word ‘hat’ is in the word - What?

c) When? Give the dates (timeline) involved. Be specific. Mental Image: see a Hen and permit to remind you of the question, When?
Why a Hen? It is part of the letters used to print the word,
When.

d) Where? In what country, state or city. What court? trial or
appellate. Your mental image for Where? is a rabbit – a
Hare. It reminds you of the word Where?

e) Why? We are searching for cause, meaning, or purpose. Each
party has their answer to Why? What do you think?
The mental image for Why? is an Eye. Eye reminds you of Why?

f) Which? You have to make the choice, exercise options. Which
decision was made? The mental image for memory is a Witch -
Flying on a Broom. The Witch reminds you of the question, Which?

g) How? This adverb asks for a strategy, procedure, or method.
The mental image is a Cow to remind you of How? It rhymes.
How milk? Cow, that is how?

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If you ask yourself these 7 core questions about what you hear in a meeting or
read in a business article, and record the answers in a radiating diagram, you
will have great comprehension, long-term memory and speed reading.

For more details ask us how to make these diagrams.

See ya,

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Can You Use a Super Memory?

Is Better Memory a Competitive Advantage For Promotion in School
And Career Advancement?

Speed Reading = Speed Learning

Can you land an executive slot in today’s economy because you
got more smarts than other interviewees?

When I was in my freshman year in law school, it was normal to
study one subject for three-hours without a break. Then you switched to
another subject, and did another three-hour session.

When the grades arrived a few months later, six-hours a day, seven-days
a week dedicated-learning did not prove out as a hot strategy.

Hardwired Learning

Fact: testing or self-testing enhances learning 2x compared to additional
study. The act of retrieval in critical in Long-Term retention.

What does that mean in plain English?

Answer: Study text for 15 minutes using a note taking system (BrainMapping).
Do some exercise (Breathe-Stretch-Shake, and Let-it-Go!) for 10-
minutes.

Return and learn for another 15 minutes and Brain-Map,
and exercise again for 10-minutes.

Do another 15-minutes of new information, and take a 10-minute break.

Why?

1. Constant stimulation does not cause Synaptic Connections (firing of cells)
to Switch-On a Neural Network for long-term memory.
2. You must have a Gap of time for consolidation of knowledge, when there
is no stimulation. Study for 15 and take notes, consolidate the info for 10-
minutes gaps of no stimulation.
3. The critical fact to learning is not stimulation, but Time to consolidate
the knowledge.
4. Each time you test your memory for keyword retention, you refire the neuronal synapses to create long-term memory.

Google: Professor Usha Goswami, Cambridge University, 2009; Roediger & Karpicke 2006

What is Breathe, Stretch, Shake, And Let-it-Go?

If you will get out of your chair – stand up and walk around, you will add
up to 10% additional oxygen to your lungs, and eliminate about 10% more carbon dioxide and toxins.

How about the fact that this consolidation Time-Out will release stress from your 12 ocular muscles, and avoid dry-eye from computer-page glare?

If you will do this baby-easy three-minute exercise, you will seriously improve
your nervous and immune systems, and activate your NeoCortex, Frontal Lobe,
and PreFrontal Cortex for stronger Attention, Concentration, and long-term
memory. So What? It will help 2x your learning and memory.

a) Standing, close your eyes. Take a deep, diaphragmatic inhale for a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, and three-one-thousand (three-seconds).
b) Slowly release the deep breath while exhaling to the count of three
one-one-thousands (three-seconds).
c) Do this inhale/exhale diaphragmatic breathing a total of three-times.
Takes a minute or so.
d) Open your eyes and stretch your arms out as far as possible. Lift each
leg separately and stretch it out, and draw it back. Bend your back
and twist your torso, and do a neck roll left to right, and right to left.
Notice how it releases muscle tension and makes you feel good.
e) Shake means to act like a big dog or horse and separately move your
arms, legs, torso, and move your head and neck around. It relieves
anxiety and replaces it with deep relaxation.

The last part is the most important for long-term effect. Close your eyes, and
mentally picture your entire body looking relaxed and stress-free. Now slap
both hands against your body (hips) and say out-loud, Let-It-Go! (stress and
anxiety).

Do – Let-It-Go! once, twice, and three-times, and you are done and much
improved.

Volition

It takes 7 consecutive days of Breathe-Stretch-Shake etc to see strong
positive results. N.B. It takes 21 days to make it a habit.

Now you have a will power choice; do this simple, valuable 3-minute exercise
for your brain, body and mind, or call it a waste of time, and forgetaboutit.

We receive emails from students and executives who use Breathe, Stretch, Shake,
and Let-It-Go! at school or the office as a StressBuster. Many claim it improves
their lives, work, and grades. Who is the Boss of You? Choose.

Endwords

Would it make you stand out as a student or executive to read and remember
three books, articles and reports in the time your competitors can hardly
finish one? Is your personal productivity important for promotions?

Ask us for details. Speed Reading and Speed Learning rule.

See ya,

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What's Your Aha! Experience?

My Aha! Experience

“Pop, can you help me with my homework? I got these five last words
I can’t figure out how to use each one in a sentence. “

“Sonny, you come to the right window. Gimme your problem. It is just as
important to know where to find the right answer, as learning itself.”

“Here, five easy words, but I have to use each one in a separate sentence.

First is Tsunami, that’s one I never saw before. Two, is Tutor. Number Three is
Denial, used as a legal term. Four is Defeat, used in a specific battle. Number
Five is Cataracts, which I don’t know at all.”

“Gimme that list. Are you ready? I’m not going to repeat it twice, so pay
attention.

1. Tsunami, it comes from Latin meaning Salt. I fried the Tsunami and eggs,
and added mustard on Italian bread for flavor.

2. Tutor, from the Latin for Horn. In the Bible, Joshua blew down the walls of
Jericho because he was a Tutor. Harry James played a mean trumpet, and he was a hot Tutor. See, two for one.

3. Denial runs 4,184 miles in Africa and feeds into the Mediterranean Sea. Oh
yeah, Denial separates into the White and Blue, and they collect in Egypt.

4. Defeat. George Washington had 2,300 Patriots at the Battle of Trenton,
against the Hessians on December 26, 1776 (day after Xmas). The Americans could not afford boots for their soldiers, who had to wrap Defeat with rags for the seven-mile march to Trenton, New Jersey.

5. Last, is Cataract. The word is taken from the name of a Native-American
chief and has come to mean luxury. General Motors owns the Trade Mark for
the name Cataract, since August 18, 1902.”

I sat there stunned, just 12 years old, but I knew Pop had scammed me.

“I will never ask you anything again. Thanks for nothing.”

“Wait – you don’t trust me and my answers?”

“No, I don’t trust you or anybody else after this.”

“Pay attention – this is an important moment in your life.
It is called an Aha! Experience. You don’t trust your own father, and nobody
else, right? You have to trust and depend only on yourself, right?”

“Yeah, right, so what?”

“Sonny, tomorrow I am going to sign you up at the New York Law School.
You have learned your first critical lesson about independent research.”

“That’s was my Pop. Yeah, I went to New York Law School graduated, and
passed the Bar (not Kelly’s) on the first crack.”
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Hands-On Learning is a Breakthrough

Hands-On Learning is The Breakthrough

Speed Reading Rules

My best friend in elementary school Bob, was lousy in learning from class lessons,
and semi-lousy when learning by deciphering text. He was plain suicidal when his report card came back and stunk up the room with two Cs.

I had no preferred style of learning because I majored in playing ball, and
had no time for school in my lifestyle. But I was a reader with a fat boy’s
appetite for discovery in the local library.

One day after three-hours of stickball in the park, I astounded Robert with the
comment: there are four kinds of learning styles: auditory, reading, observation,
and kinesthetic. He was convinced the authentic me had been kidnapped by the Cleons and taken to a far distant galaxy.

I read it in a book at the library picked up by absolute serendipity, a word I
discovered by looking for something else.

So What

Based on the hubris of a 12 year-old, I proclaimed he was a Kinesthetic (touch, muscle sense, movement) learner, one who had to be hands-on to absorb ideas. I explained: kinesthetic was tactile, hands-on, a/k/a haptic (sense of touch) learning.

I explained sounding like a demented professor; the reason he aced arithmetic and science was because he could feel it in his bones. He moved ideas from equations and calculations to his brain by doing physical work on them to make them real.

I added this idea to the mix, which really weirded him out: Bob, play a game with
the teacher’s class lesson and when reading a chapter in a textbook. Your job is to
prove how stupid the writer and teacher are by summarizing their entire
lesson into a one or a two-word phrase.

Later I learned it was called abstracting. I continued my solution:

Write the keywords down and later in your own words, write one-two sentences
with the essence (gist) of the 45 minute class or entire chapter. Use that to review
before exams, not the textbook nor class notes.

No, it wasn’t my idea, but from a college textbook on how to ace law school.
Later worked for me in passing the Bar on the first crack.

Why he believed me I’ll never know, but he did experiment, and really got
into it. Bob the new kinesthetic learner suddenly became a star, and never looked
back. He really did it all himself, and aced high school and went to MIT to be a
physicist.

Update

The latest neurological research reports: a contest between visual – haptic –
and visuohaptic training indicates, recall is significantly greater when the
student use visuohaptic training to learn sensorimotor skills like surgery.

In plain English it means – look-see-touch is better than just look or just touch
in isolation. Oh yeah, mental rehearsal is a very powerful learning tool.

Google: Prof. Dan Morris, Stanford University, Nov-Dec 2006, National Library of
medicine. Still cited as the authority in 2009.

And

My personal fixation is the use of Peripheral (ends, circumference, perimeter)
vision for speed reading. It is really life changing. The key (gist, essence) to
tripling your ability to learn is the use of a Pacer in your fist while reading text
or listening to a expert lecturer.

I can tell you all the intellectual reasons, but we are seeking Behavioral change,
not a change of intellectual assumptions. Wait – that means don’t worry about
getting your mind around the idea of holding a pen (Pacer or cursor) in your
hand when learning.

Just do it enough times to create the firing of Synaptic connections using Semantic and Episodic (experience) memories. Repetition creates a new neural network for peripheral vision learning, permitting it to go on autopilot – a physical habit of mind. Folks will believe you a genuine Einstein.

Endwords

Would you practice reading text holding a pen in your hand or computer cursor,
underlining the words of each sentence, to be able to permanently read three (3)
books, articles and reports in the time your career competitors can hardly read one?

Sure, your basic assumption is that it is weird reading with a Pacer in your hand.
Fight your fear of change, fear of failure, and fear of loss of your comfort zone of
not using a crutch to learn. You wear glasses, right?

Exercise your Prefrontal Cortex (executive brain structure) to experiment because
you command free will, (volition) to learn by Trial-and-Error.

We want behavioral change not intellectual change, nor how it makes you feel.

For details ask us how.

Speed Reading Rules

See ya,

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Wanna Kill Procrastination?

Motivate Yourself to Ace Studying or Test Taking

If you had a scientific formula to ace your exams and
motivate yourself to study, and it took about five-minutes,
would you use it?

All of us have days when we are procrastinators, feel
bored and tired, and just want to hang out and do nothing.

You need a scientific formula to chase laziness, and find
the winning attitude and state-of-mind to do our best work.

This program works for school and your career.

Are you ready to have a competitive edge over your peers?

How to Ace Learning

The pre-step to creating a winning attitude is deep relaxation.

1. Sit down, and please close your eyes.

2. Mentally visualize three separate, vertical sets of numbers,
Take a deep diaphragmatic breath for each set and see:

3 2 1
3 2 1
3 2 1

3. Now to go into deeper relaxation, count yourself down in
three-separate breaths:

10 7 4
9 6 3
8 5 2
1

You are now in Dimension 2, a deeply relaxed state-of-mind.

4. Please ask this question aloud of your non-conscious mind,
It is always listening, waiting to execute your orders 24/7.

5. a) “Please find me a mental-movie or long-term memory of
a time when I was really into acing a study session!”

6. b) “Thanks. Now retrieve and access that specific session (memory)
in a clear, bright, close-in daydream.”

7. c) “Great – I am there. Now let me feel all the same feelings
of that winning study session.

Let me look around at this mental image and see everything
I saw that time, and everything I heard (music) that session.
Please help me have the same feelings of fun, expectation,
and success.”

8. Now let your mind-and-body get into those same feelings,
sights, and sounds as-if you were burning-a-disk of that perfect session.
You are now in your Comfort-Zone of deep relaxation and are fully motivated.

You are in the flow, in the zone, and in the same state-of-mind
to have another Peak Experience of learning and studying.

9. Now you are going to count yourself down, open your eyes,
wide awake, and feeling deeply relaxed.

Now take a deep breath and see-and-hear
the following three numbers – One (breath) – Two (breath), and – Three
(breath).

Now, wide awake, feeling much better than when you first
started, and in a positive state of mind to study and learn.

Please open your eyes and Slap your hands together, making
a loud noise. You’re feeling good, and ready to slide into your
study session and do a great job because you are fully motivated.

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Would You do a 2-minute Eye-Exercise to Keep Your Eyes?

Would You do a 2-Minute Daily Eye-Exercise For Lifelong Sight?

Wait – how do you know it really works?

Some Ophthalmologists love and recommend it; others call it a waste
of time. It does not hurt, and has improved my eyesight, leading to
the same eyeglass prescription for the past 9 years. You judge.

Why We Care: SpeedBraining101 rules.

We got six eye-muscles in each eye, but we only exercise half of these
Extra-Ocular-Muscles. Four of the six produce Horizontal sight, and two produce
Vertical eye-movements. For brainiacs: they are called Rectus and Oblique.

History

Our evolutionary ancestors used all six of these eye-muscles; we only use about half of them for 8-12 hours daily. See, we use our Central (tunnel) vision 70% of the time. It is called foveal (sharp) sight. We ignore our Peripheral (side, external and outer) vision.

Based on our daylight waking hours, we use central (narrow) sight while on the
computer (average 4-6 hours). We use more of our narrow vision watching TV or playing video games (average of 3-4 hours). Finally, speaking to family, friends and office associates; we use narrow vision to look them in-the-eye (eye-contact) to prove
we are sincere and full of integrity.

The only people today who use a lot of peripheral vision are basketball players, and
folks who drive cars and trucks. The great majority of our waking hours is spent using Central (foveal, sharp, narrow) vision. It is a major cause of headaches, dry-eye, and office stress, anxiety and discomfort.

The Peripheral Exercise (2 minutes)

1. Sit facing a wall and raise your not-dominant hand. Over 90% of use
are right-handed, use your left-hand.
2. You are going to trace an air (invisible) reclining figure 8. The sleeping
#8 is about two-feet wide, by about one-foot long. Remember, it has two circles separated by an S shape. It is parallel to the floor.
3. Do six of these Infinity Symbols with your left-hand.
4. Now do the same air tracing with your dominant (right) hand.
5. Looking straight ahead, see how wide you can see. In a small room
you may see the side walls out of the corners of your eyes. You have just
exercised and helped enlarge the width (broad vision) of your Peripheral eye muscles processing.

If you do this two-minute exercise for 21 consecutive days, it goes on autopilot and
becomes a habit. Another thing, you are integrating (aligning) your left and right
hemispheres.

So What

Peripheral vision produces the following:

a) it causes deep relaxation of your face and jaw muscles.
b) it reduces self-talk (stream of consciousness) internal-dialogue
and subvolcalization while reading, up to 75%.
c) it shifts breathing patterns from shallow, high in the throat,
inhalation to deep, diaphragmatic inhalation.
d) you switch from stress and anxiety provoking Sympathetic
Nervous System functioning, to relaxing, balanced Parasympathetic Nervous System functioning.
e) it helps improve immune system function.
f) it inhibits cortisol, the stress hormone.
g) you integrate your left and right hemispheres (brains).

Finally, some recent neuroscience research indicates the use of peripheral vision
processing improves long-term memory, rapid learning, insight, and creativity.

You might want to remember that peripheral vision is based on our Rod photoreceptors, while foveal, central vision predominates with Cone photoreceptors.

Get this – we do not see with our eyes, they receive the light images, and forward
the light impulses to our Optic Nerves, which transfers the impulses of information to our brain for creating eye-sight. We really do see with our brain.
Google: Optic Chiasma, the cross over effect.

Endwords

There are physical and mental benefits to this two-minute peripheral vision
eye-exercise. Best of all, it triggers an integration, unity, and alignment of both left and right hemispheres. In our computer and TV culture, the visual dependence on
our foveal-central vision and left hemisphere, is stress inducing.

You can change the proportion between hemispheres, balance and synchronize the activity of your cerebral cortex. In other words, it is great for your eyes and brain.

Finally, we recommend you improve your personal productivity and competency by
learning to read three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers and
competitors can hardly finish one. Ask us about how to do it.

Can you use a competitive-advantage in tough economic times? Ask us how.

See ya, SpeedBraining101
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How to Permanently Double Your Concentration

How to Permanently Double Your Concentration
in Just 12 Minutes

Speed Reading reigns.

Concentration is what won President Obama the 2008 nomination,
election, and control over the sitting Congress. If his thoughts were
dispersed in four directions instead of centered on the economy, no
one would have voted for a ditz-head who could not focus his attention.

What is the meaning of the expression – she looked me straight
in-the-eye? How does it make you feel when the other person
to the conversation is looking to your left, right, or over your head?

What Good is a Peak Experience? Who needs it?

President Kennedy talked about being In-the-Flow, and In-the-
Zone when he concentrated 100% on a specific task, and ignored
all distractions. He received his intuitive, most creative ideas to
solve problems during these Peak Experiences.

Would it help your career, give you the competitive-edge, to double your
concentration (2x), compared to your peers?

A. Einstein

What do you make of this remark made by A. Einstein
in the year he passed on, 1955?

“If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then
is an empty desk a sign?”

He hit me with his arrow because I cannot stand it when my
desk is crammed with scattered papers. But when there is nothing
in my incoming box (To-Do), that stresses me out too.

My 3-pound coconut is only tranquil when the brain is pumping
Dopamine, the Pleasure hormone; that occurs only when it is engaged
in active behavior toward a specific outcome.

Will you remember the neurotransmitter – Dopamine, your pleasure hormone?
It is what motivates you and me to work to fulfill our heart’s desire.

Concentration is a Finite Resource

Most folks read words and never stop to ask if they understand the meaning of
any specific phrase, word or sentence. Their goal is to finish reading, not to understand the essence of the text. What does finite mean?

Finite means: with a limit. Money is finite, and has to be replaced once
you spend it. So what? Our brain produces a finite, limited amount of concentration
time. Once you use it up, you must wait until the brain refills it.

If you waste concentration on dreary and mindless conversations or watching TV Soap-Operas, it is not available for learning new information and self-improvement.

Concentration is Loaded (Hardwired) in Our Brain

Neurological (brain research) experiments over the past ten years indicate that the average college graduate has a maximum of 90 minutes of concentration available for a single subject. From the 91st minute, the gas tank is M-T (empty), and the flow for a peak experience stops.

Attention on the other hand, is limited to under thirty-seconds before our
mind is distracted to thinking about something else. That sounds like almost no
capacity. How can we increase focused attention and concentration for learning and memory improvement?

Multitasking is a Myth

Remember when you were a kid and you want to insult someone’s intelligence?

“He cannot chew gum and walk down the street at the same time.”

Scientific research offers evidence that Homo sapiens cannot successful accomplish
more than one task at once. You attention is selective, and once you pin the tail on
the donkey, your brain ignores everything else.

If you are keeping count of a specific occurrence – how many couples are entering the room, an 800-pound gorilla can walk in front of your eyes. Your brain totally ignores, and you consciously miss, the big monkey because you are concentrating on the couples. We can do well only one function at a time.

It is just how we are hardwired because your choice of attention selection is what your brain will experience. Choice is volition (will), and focuses our consciousness.

What about people who claim to multitask? They divide their mind and concentrate on reading text and listening to music, and lose up to 40% of the material read.

Using a Pacer to Double Your Concentration

A Pacer is a pen in your fist or the cursor (extended index finger) symbol made
by your Mouse. When you read a book, article or report the average college graduate will lose her reading concentration (place on each page) a minimum of five-times per page. Regression is the act of losing your concentration and going back to find it again, and again.

Regression reduces your long-term memory, reading speed, and concentration by up to 66%.

Your brain comes with a built-in hardwired program to improve concentration. It is an automatic reflex that triggers our eyes to follow a moving object. It has evolutionary survival value to use your peripheral (side) vision to see danger (predators and rivals) from the side of your eyes.

It gives you a 1-2-second heads-up to run from danger like your fundament is on fire. We use the same reflex – your eyes follow a moving object coming
into your field-of-vision, to trigger your peripheral vision to double your
concentration. You have to use a Pacer to activate this reflex.

If you practice reading with a retractable pen in your hand, not using the writing point, to underline the words of each sentence. You will beyond the shadow of a doubt, double your concentration in the first 12 minutes.

The better you concentrate, the greater your ability to process information into knowledge. Is that a powerful tool? To create this habit you must continue to
practice underlining using your Pacer for 21 consecutive days.

Ear Plugs

Another strategy to help double your concentration is to overcome distractions
and diversions from dividing your mind and thwarting learning and memory.

Any drug store sells ordinary earplugs for under two-dollars that last forever.

We want to shut out the conversations of folks around us when we are studying.
The distraction of voices reduces our concentration by more than 50%. It is an
Urban Myth, like the alligators in the NYC sewer system, and not neuroscience, that listening to Music while studying improves learning. Turn off the rhythmic noise.

All music and whispered conversations are noise, and a brain distraction.

Earplugs win the prize for permitting us to focus our concentration solely on learning and memory and inhibit distracting noise.

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Would the skill of reading three (3) books, articles and reports in the time it
takes your peers to hardly finish one, give you a school and career competitive-
advantage? How about doubling your long-term memory – permanently?

Ask us how to learn like A. Einstein and ace school and career.

Speed reading reigns supreme.

See ya,

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How to Double Your Attention Span

How to Double Your Attention Span in 21 Days.

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Today, 85% of parents use TV as a substitute baby-sitter for kids as young as two-years old. Well so what, when I spend my entire weekday evenings enjoying TV and it has not killed me yet.

A British study of 2,600 kids who had early exposure (age 2) to TV, offers evidence there is a reduction of Attention-Span occurring at age 7 and thereafter.

Pediatrics journal 113, 4.27.09: professor D.A. Christakis, University of Washington. Higher levels of TV (2.3 hours daily) viewing by kids, reduces by 24% their daily physical activity. No big deal? Guess what – it appears to establish psychological distress and loss of muscle strength in later years.

Definition

Attention Span: the amount of time we can concentrate on a specific task without
letting our mind wander due to internal (daydreaming) or external (email, instant
messaging) distractions. Focused attention is highest when we eliminae disruptions
like music, and the buzz of conversation, and enjoy the present experience.

So? If we have a limited attention span, how can we concentrate long enough to
learn and create long-term memories of practical knowledge?

Statistics: The average teenager has a reduced attention span compared to adults.
If you want to conduct an experiment watch one or two as a control, and
notice they are easily distracted from completing a task by external influences.

Adults can concentrate with undivided attention for up to five-minutes, while
teenagers are distracted by their own mental thoughts or external signals from
the high-tech world after approximately 30 seconds.

Does that make today’s kids dum or dummer? No, it merely reduces their ability to
learn and form long-term memories. Our world is not looking for smart ditch-diggers, but knowledge-workers, professionals, and experts.

We live in the Knowledge Economy and reduced concentration and limited attention span, limits our core knowledge for future career success. Personal productivity leads to promotions, and requires learning skills and strategies.

Internet

Since the Internet has become ubiquitous for 200 million Americans (out of 306 million population) we have learned limited attention span. We flip through emails,
instant messaging, and long articles like a blur. In fact we spend less than one-minute on each website we visit.

If you were a speed reader using peripheral vision to see more, it would be a solid scanning strategy. In reality we look at the headline, and if it does not intrigue us – we delete. This strategy reduces our ability to concentrate long enough to learn and absorb new information through Semantic and Episodic Memory.

Cause And Effect

Concentration occurs in our brain’s PreFrontal Cortex, controlling our thinking, analysis, and planning. The reason we focus our attention (concentrate) is chemical.
The neurotransmitter (hormone) dopamine, the pleasure chemical, floods our brain when we pay full attention to our task.

Our nonconscious mind feels good (pleasure) when we get a jolt of dopamine, and
triggers us to continue the task. If the book, article or movie is boring, dopamine is
inhibited from flowing because there is no pleasure to motivate us to increase our
attention span.

No pleasure, no dopamine. The result is a search for a substitute pleasure
source including emailing, instant messaging to friends, or alcohol.

Please take notice: Our nonconscious mind is located in our Midbrain, the site of the Limbic (emotional) System, and linked to our Brainstem and PreFrontal Cortex.
Our conscious mind is situated at our Neocortex.

School is Associated by Students And Adults With Danger

Our Autonomic Nervous System is divided between our Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System. When we are threatened Homo sapiens revert to our evolutionary survival system located in our Sympathetic Nervous System.

Epinephrine (adrenaline) pours into our Sympathetic Nervous System when we get stress or anxious. It excites us to survive through the behaviors of fight-or-flight.

Our Parasympathetic produces the chemical, acetylcholine, which causes relaxation and digestion once the threat is eliminated. Stress produces feelings of
danger and triggering our fight-or-flight syndrome for protection and survival.

The Parasympathetic produces feelings of homeostasis (return to the status quo) and our body and brain return to normal – the familiar, comfortable and predictable mental and physical state.

We change physically, chemically, and emotionally when Fight or Flight is activated.

The word or symbol of School triggers thoughts and emotions of being rejected, failing, and losing face. Students and adults become defensive when they think about school and inhibit their ability to focus their concentration.

Why? We mentally associate school with negative consequences. Our brain has synaptic connections and neural networks triggered by a single negative thought about school and learning.

Conclusion: change the looks and emotional contents of classrooms. Respect the
opinions of all students, and rely less on tests to trigger thoughts of personal failure.

Doubling Attention Span

Folks have trouble with simple solutions to complex problems, even when they are
effective. Harvard professor William James (1842-1910) said, Act as-if, think as-if,
feel, and believe as-if you are capable, confident and skillful, and your brain and body will make it a reality. It is a warm-up strategy.

Command Affirmation

Every day in every way my attention span is daily growing better and better.
Every day in every way my attention span is daily growing better and better.

Repeat this positive statement prior to falling asleep (hypnagogic) and again
immediately prior to awakening (hypnopompic) for sixty seconds each, for 21 consecutive days. This exercise produces a personal habit because it is accepted by your nonconscious mind as a reality.

Emotionalize (feel it) this Command Affirmation, and you double your attention span.

Creative Mental Imagery

Meditate (deep relaxation) or daydream situations where you can demonstrate your attention-span genius. Examples: in class, during your career, and during personal relationships. Mentally see the process in action. Problem? Ask-us-how.

Two-minutes daily for 21 consecutive days can double your attention span, and amazingly improve your learning and long-term Semantic and Episodic memory.

Endwords

Would it improve your competitive position in school or career by reading three
(3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one?
How about permanently doubling your long-term memory – would that help your
opportunity for a promotion? Ask-us-how.

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Acing Job Interviews

Acing Job Interviews

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MS-NBC proved you can destroy a career in two-minutes by being honest,
straight-forward and showing your true colors. When you go for a job interview
or speak out in public – you can win friends and influence people, or have folks
shaking their head thinking – What-an-oxymoron we got in front of our eyes.

Hardball with Chris Mathews wiped out a U.S. Congressman with a single question.
Do you believe in Evolution? Up to then the guy appeared as ambiguous as other
interviewees – he answered all the questions without offending or standing for
anything. He was a Congressional clone.

Don’t we all assume after the 44th President destroyed the Republican party, if
you belong to the minority party, you stifle yourself about stem cells research,
Guantanimo-torture, and Religion?

Just get laryngitis about those subjects, and smile a lot. It aint a liberal or
conservative strategy, it just shows your brain synapses are still firing, and your
neural networks have not disintegrated.

This mug pulls out his mental New Testament and makes sure to give the Divinity
full credit for creating us, the world and the little critters. He stood up for
Creationism and little kids deciding for themselves. Huh?

Would you trust a six, seven, or ten year old to decide if Charlie Darwin was correct
or maybe not? Mathews proceeded to melt him like the Wicked Witch of the West
in Oz. The Congressman needs a new line of work. So what?

Code Words on Job Interviews

1. Never speak to the HR (Human Resources) department for a position beyond
office intern or assistant for janitorial services. They know less than nothing,
are mechanical, and do not make hires. Speak only to the head of the
department you will work in. Yes, you always have a choice.

How do you get past HR? It is your first creative challenge. Discover her
name, find her email address, and telephone extension. Do a mini-interview
before you ever meet. If you are intimidated and snooze – you lose.

2. Never, (nunca, nada) hand them your Resume or even use the word
R-e-s-u-m-e. It is boring, full of as many lies as the applicant thinks
he/she can get away with, and dehumanizes you. Set fire to your beautiful
parchment letters, and get the hire. Your face and experience is your resume.

3. Never (ever) mention the word – J-O-B. You don’t want a measly, degrading
job, which is imprisonment within a cubicle for one-third of your life.
Say, I-am-here-to make-your-company MONEY, Moola, Dinero, or Gelt.

Imagine you are the head of her department: what would it take to convince,
persuade, and influence you to hire the banana sitting in front of you?

4. Oh yeah, we are all in sales. If you are a lawyer, accountant or engineer,
you are in sales. Why? You have to convince your company partners you
deserve a promotion, not to fire you, and offer more bread for your labor.

If you are a divisional v.p. you have to sell yourself to the president, CEO, and later to the Board of Directors. We are always selling our ideas and
ourselves, so consider yourself a professional sales person.

4. Figure out your unique competitive advantages over your peers. Express
them dramatically in the interview. Stop being boring and a clone.

One of our graduates emailed me – he was unemployed for
six months, his age was 56, and he had been shot down by 21 past interviewers.

Example

He figured out how to see the computer department manager, and spent the interview discussing not IT, but his speed reading skills (including memory).

Our grad forcefully showed he could learn the job in a single day because he could read and remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time the other stiffs could hardly finish one. The company saved money getting the new kid on the block into synch, and not two weeks to train him to work.

It was not the fact that he was a super IT genius with tons of experience, but that our guy had personal productivity like he had twin brains. He was likeable, smart, and had something special to offer the company.

Our speed-reader was offered the executive slot at the end of thirty minutes, for 40% more money than he had ever earned in his IT career. Why? Our guy was human, lively, and offered special skills that could produce profits for the company. WIIFM? What is in it for me – refers to the company.

The other 25 interviews relied on their fancy, inhuman resumes, and groveling for the position. They sounded like an expense, while our guy came across as a potential revenue producer.

Interviewing is tedious and a grind, so make yourself interesting to talk to (arouse curiosity). You have it in you to win the prize. You just need this new strategy and remember not to sound like a robot – cyborg – automaton.

Coda:

You are going to work for a minimum of five (5) different organizations (companies)
during your business career. Do you know who your real boss is? You, because wherever you move, it is your personality and skills that decide your value to the
organization. Being average and normal is for scared teenagers, not successful execs.

My experience is that you can change your mental set at any age or stage of your
career. In weak economic times, companies want more for their money. Ask yourself what makes you stand out from your peers. Show 21st century skills.

All those interviewing for executive positions are competent, and have extensive
experience. So what? That does not bring home the bacon. What new skills have
you encoded in your brain in the past few years? Show them your growing better.

A expert is defined as one who has ten years of knowledge, or 10,000 hours of experience, or 30,000 Chunks of specific information about her specialty, in her 3 pound coconut. In one paragraph, show-and-tell what makes you special and a must-hire. Why? Because you will Ace the interview and win the prize.

Suggestion

Would it make you a better hire to improve your skill set, by tripling your present reading speed and doubling your memory? Good learners follow the Pareto Rule.
We are only 20% of our department, but receive (win) 80% of the promotions.

Does becoming a speed-reader sound boring, something for a kid to learn?
Ask yourself the money question, are you presently fulfilling your heart’s desire
in your career? Then shake up the troops and give the winning interview.

May we encourage you to check out adding these new skills to your repertoire?
We challenge you to ask us how; we are here to help you succeed. Start now.

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See ya,

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Got Office Squinting?

Got Office Squinting?

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Ask pre-teens how many hours they spend on their computer for school
and socializing, and they grin in embarrassment. Would you believe
six to seven hours daily? So what, it’s good training for their career, right?

Adults tend to ignore the effect of computer use on their eyes. You too?

CVS Computer Vision Syndrome

It is a physiological fact that extended use of your computer (four hours)
without a break ( I used to do seven consecutive hours), are a hazard to
your vision and maybe the eyes themselves.

We have solutions to offer, not catastrophizing. Henny-Penny, the sky is not falling.

Glare

The monitor screen reflects off your glasses, and is often too bright, and without a
comfortable contrast adjustment. So what?

So: dry-eye, irritated, inflamed or sore eyes, headaches, and blurred vision. We can
overlook a lot, but it reduces your personal productivity up to 28%. It makes you
irritable, tired, and less focused on your work. Makes you less competitive?

Solution

Go to: Start – Control Panel – Display – Settings – Screen Resolution.
Now adjust brightness and contrast for your comfort zone. Why? It makes you feel better, think without eye problem distractions, and gives your spirits a lift all day.

Two- more facts:

a) If you wear Contact Lens, remove them for computer-glasses (ask your optometrist). Why? Contact lens reduce blinking, causing less chemical washing
of your eye lens. In fact you want more blinking when you are at the computer.

b) Make this your personal law of computer activity: you must stop reading or
typing after each sixty-minutes and jog around the office for five-minutes.

Sure, some will ask if you are bi-polar, but a minority of expert ophthalmologists claim damage to your eyes can trigger cataracts, macula degeneration, detached retina, and glaucoma. They include excessive computer usage as a dangerous trigger
event.

Eye Exercise

Sure, we know you life is too busy for nonsensical rituals, but would it be nice to
not have to use a white cane and a black German Shepherd dog in retirement?

It takes two-minutes at your desk, is baby-easy and effective.

Google: Extra-Ocular Muscles: you have six muscles in each eye, plus one extra
muscle in each to lift each eyelid. That is a total of twelve, plus two eyelid muscles.

Please sit down, look forward about ten-feet, and keep your head from moving.

a) Move your eyes to the far left, back to center, and to the far right – ten-times.
b) Next, move your eyes to look upward, to your extreme upper left, centered, and upward to your extreme upper right – ten-times.
So far, it is baby-easy, right?
c) Finally, move your eyes looking downward to your extreme lower left – ten
times. Now look downward to your extreme lower right – ten times.

Two-minutes and you have exercised your two Oblique and four Rectus muscles in
each eye. Benefit: four hours of eye protection, and it has a cumulative effect after
21 consecutive days of exercise.

Squinting

At the beach, when the sun hits you in the eye, you partially shut your eyes in a squint. At the office, the glare of the computer screen causes squinting. Doctors
call it Strabismus, and it can lead to cross-eyes in children.

Squinting is a misalignment of both eyes. We see an image in each eye, the brain
causes the two pictures to fuse for sharper vision. It is called Convergence. Squinting disables the brain from fusing the two images.

Office

We squint at the computer to reduce glare, and to bring the letters into better focus.
When we squint, we automatically reduce blinking from 22 to only 7 times per minute.
Reading a book, articles or email reduces blinking to just 10 times per minute.

Google: Optometry and Visual Science journal, and Dr. James E. Sheedy, Ohio
State University, College of Optometry. When you squint, you trigger Dry-Eye and
tearing, straining your twelve eye muscles. You cannot avoid spontaneous squinting,
but you can reduce and eliminate the results of involuntary squinting. How?

The Secret

We can reduce the effects of squinting indirectly. How? Consciously increase your
number of blinks per minute. Too much trouble? Blink an extra ten-times in a row
at the end of viewing each computer page. Takes an extra minute, and save your
sight.

Blinking

It causes three separate layers of tears to form across your eyes.
First layer of tears coats the Whites of your eyes with protein-rich moisture.

Second wash eliminates foreign objects. It simultaneously nourishes your
Cornea with minerals, proteins, and moisture.

Third layer of tears has an oily residual to stop evaporation of the lubricant
between the eye and eyelids.

One-more-once: relaxed you blink and average of 22 times per minutes.
Reading, your eyes blink only 10-times per minutes, and at the computer,
it is down to 7-times per minute.

Ophthalmologists

It is an acceptable practice to advise patients to voluntarily blink while reading,
using the computer and watching tv. One other thought, the aforementioned
exercises appear to reduce or eliminate Floaters in your field of vision.

Endwords

Would it help you be more competitive in your career to read and remember
three (3) books, articles, and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish one?

Ask us how. It may help win the next promotion. It is all about your eye-movements,
baby-easy, and quick to implement.

See ya,

Speed Read

copyright © 2009
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
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Got Haptic Sense?

Got Haptic Sense?

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Inquiring minds wanted to know of the first scientific evidence in 2,000 years that your haptic (sense of touch) creates a link between sight and hearing in reading.
So what?

Read on and discover the baby-easy method to double your learning speed with the same or better comprehension permanently. Best of all, you or your child can implement this new skill in under twenty-minutes.

For kids learning to read and adults learning a second language, the secret
of the Bond Effect (bonding touch to seeing and hearing) makes language
acquisition 50% faster and far more efficient.

Wait – this system is not just for beginners in a language, but permits students
in high school, college and graduate school, and corporate executives to almost
instantly double their learning skills. It is the secret of new knowledge acquisition.

Regression

How many of us are aware that the average college graduate regresses up to five times each page of text? Regress? Lose our place on the page and go-back to start
over, or find the sentence incomprehensible, and return to re-read it.

Middle schoolers regress up to nine times per page of text, and high school students
stop to reread seven times per page. What does regression do to their reading rate?

They snail along at approximately 100 words per minute with about 60% comprehension. So what again? Using their haptic (touch) sense, these same folks
can read at up to 600 words per minute with up to 75% comprehension.

The difference between 100 to 600 wpm means the student can enjoy reading and learning, and not drop out of school. Snailing (slow reading) is boring and mind numbing, and leads to a loss of motivation and hatred of learning and school.

Research Headline

Touch Helps Make The Connection Between Sight and Hearing.
Get this – to learn new words in your own language or in a foreign one,
you must Associate a letter (grapheme) with its sound (phoneme) in that language.

The new research at the University of Savoie (eastern France) indicates, the use of
a Multisensory learning method, combining our visual sense and simultaneously, with our sense of touch (of the letters), the result is greater and more efficient.

The lead researcher, B. Fredernbach called the sense of touch, a Cementing role between sight and hearing. The difference is significant for students and lifetime learners.

The full report appears March 26, 2009 in the journal PloS One, Learning of Arbitrary Association Between Visual and Auditory Novel Stimulus in Adults.

Use of a Pacer

The secret of accelerated learning is using a mechanical Pacer in your dominant hand to lead your eyes to speed up, and not regress multiple times per reading task.

How Come? The Homo sapiens brain is hardwired with an instinct that requires the
eyes to follow a moving object. This means when there is new movement within the visual field of humans, our nervous system uses an autopilot hardwired system to require our eyes to stop-the-presses and track the new action.

It can be a fly, a bear, or a human enemy. The first is a nuisance, the second and third, predators who wishes have us over for dinner as the main course or just expropriate our property. The Pacer activates our Peripheral Vision to enlarge
our ordinary central (foveal) vision and widens our visual span .

Etymology (history)

The first Pacer used almost two-thousand years ago was a thin stick held in our
dominant hand like a modern pen. It was used to track the words in sentences
while reciting aloud section of the Bible.

The benefit of using a Pacer was to avoid the multiple losing of one’s place in the paragraph and looking foolish. Another important value was focusing Attention and Concentration on the specific words recited. It was first used by a teacher (rabbi) in Jerusalem, and alleged to have resided in Bethlehem. He called the Pacer a Yad, < Heb. hand.

Today, the use of a pen as a Pacer, and the Cursor (shaped like a hand) when reading articles on your computer, will literally double your learning speed, while
maintaining or improving your attention and concentration.

Physiology

If you learn these few physiology definitions, you will command the knowledge of
one-percent of 306 million Americans. Yes, it is a challenge to lifetime learners.

a) Your consciousness is loaded in your Neocortex (< L new brain).
Thinking is activating the left-hemisphere of your cerebral cortex, and
in particular your neocortex.
It is your Forebrain in your neocortex that plans and creates new ideas and converts them to new behaviors.

b) Your subconscious (automatic) activities (procedural skills)
including touch typing, driving your car, and tying your shoe laces,
are located in your Cerebellum.

c) Your eye movements and other bodily movements are activated and managed by your cerebellum (< L little brain) and the Superior Colliculus. Both brain structures are coordinated in the physiological processes of seeing, reading and recreational activities.

Intentional rehearsal and repetition hardwires these learning strategies in your brain. It permits your conscious mind to remain free to be creative and imaginative.

Importance of Lifelong Learning

Sure, you know that we live in the Knowledge Economy, where the acquisition and
practical use of information decides our lifetime income. College graduates earn in
excess of one million dollars over the course of their working career, compared to
high school graduates.

What is not common, practical knowledge is that the amount of education and
continuing lifetime learning, appears to create a longevity difference of approximately ten-years. Lifelong learning also reduces up to 60%, the risk of
Alzheimer.

It appears from neurological research that daily knowledge acquisition improves the structure and function of your brain. It is called Cognitive Reserve.

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If you have questions about implementing the use of Pacer in doubling your learning skills, ask us how and we will respond by email. If you value a new skill
that offers you a unique competitive advantage over your peers, and is alleged
to add to your longevity, ask us for details.

No gimmicks, just enhanced learning for your lifetime.

See ya,

Speed Read

copyright © 2009
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500
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