These Seven Questions Make Geniuses

Seven Questions of Genius

Speed Reading Rules

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?

Endwords

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,

Speed Reading Rules

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www.speedlearning.org hbw@ speedlearning.org
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