Are Contrarians Right More Often?

Are Contrarians Right More Often?

Speed Reading Rules

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

“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearcg at Cmabridgde Uinerstisy, it deosn’t
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?

Endwords

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,

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