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.

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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.

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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.

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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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