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Do you like listening to music while reading? If yes then have you ever thought how it affects your reading process? Does it allow you to read faster or does it slow you down? How does it affect the reading comprehension? First, it must be stated that if you want to read fast then you have to concentrate well to the text you are reading. Your thoughts have to be focused and you should not let your mind to wander away. Poor concentration leads to slow reading speed. In addition, it hurts your reading comprehension.

Can Tickling Dramatically Improve Your Health? Is Nature wasteful or thrifty? Evolution uses the same structures by Adaptation for human survival over the millennia. You read that fish gills evolved into the human face and neck, while dinosaurs with tiny feathers evolved into present day birds. Is laughter just a waste of time?

You've decided to take up the practice of the essential success skill of speed reading. You start your practice, perhaps using a software program that helps to get your eyes moving 2-10 times faster through the print. You zip right through the reading selection and get to the end. Then, you notice that you don't have any idea what the material was about. Although this experience may be quite common in the initial phases of learning to speed read, it can often happen with traditional reading as well. Here is the key to stopping this time waster.

Why Symphony Conductors Live Longer. If you read the obituaries for fun and as social history, the #1 occupation producing healthy, long living folks – I mean into their 90s – are musical conductors rnmaking ridiculous arm gestures. Can their secret of healthy, long lives, work for others? Inquiring Minds need to know because we want to be around for the fun and games. The critical exercises are easy to employ at your desk and requires a miserly five-minutes to implement daily. We have recommended these baby-easy exercises to a legion of executives whor

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Speed Reading Myths Debunked There is so much misinformation about speed reading that as a user for over 30 years, and as an instructor of tens of thousands of learners from all walks of life and all levels of education, I feel compelled to debunk some of the most prevalent and popular myths. However, before we begin, it is essential to define what is reading. Reading Defined

Before you make the journey in learning to become a master speed reader, answering the question in the title can go a long way to motivating you to keep practicing and mastering the art and science of speed reading. A review of academic research in this area can confuse most people.

A recent visitor to my site inquiring about speed reading asked, "How can I move away from actually saying the words, and learn how to identify the symbols?" The question demonstrates a knowledge of one of the difficult habits to overcome in learning to speed read - sub-vocalization. Sub-vocalization is seeing the words, then saying the words in your mind, then hearing the words, and finally understanding them. It is a four step process. Reading is defined as getting meaning from printed materials - seeing them, and creating understanding. Theoretically, reading should be only two steps.

With nearly any material you come across about speed reading, you will find some discussion about the habit of subvocalization. This habit can be defined as the process of seeing the words in print, then saying the words in your mind, hearing the words in your mind, and then it finally leads to your understanding. Nearly all who write or teach about the habit recognize it as limiting your success to speed reading and will instruct you to stop. Unfortunately, they do not teach you how to stop.

"Why do Dyslexics make such good Fast Readers?" Not too long ago, I learned about a discovery that is sure to revolutionize education of all Dyslexics. In Jeffrey Freed's book "Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World", he says: "While our schools have been harping on the deficits of ...

Can Ten-Cent Earplugs Improve Your Learning, Memory & Reading Speed? NASA’s Astronauts could not use their pens in space so they spent ten million to invent a special ink-flow device. The Russian space cadets had no dinero, and solved the same problem by writing with pencils, which worked like a charm. Earplugs are not exactly high-tech, but work instantly to eliminate unwanted noise. The first earplugs written about were wax and used by the crew of Odysseus to ward off the Siren’s Song and a shipwreck. How old? 8th Century, B.C.

As a speed reading coach, when I get a new learner who has been frustrated by trying to learn speed reading in the past, I frequently hear something like, "I was zipping through materials at high speeds, but I just didn't understand the material." Here are 7 simple, but powerful tips that can make the difference. 1. Understand that moving the eyes faster and more efficiently is only one piece of the process. The second most important piece to speed reading is to get your mind to respond the print. The mind's response to the print is what comprehension is all about. 2.

Does speed reading really work? No, it does not work! You work it. Now before you stop reading thinking, "that last statement is obvious," I'll ask you to stop and think for a moment. Most people think that reading is a passive activity. Passive readers are slow readers who often have great difficulty with reading comprehension. Highly effective readers on the other hand show great activity in several areas of the brain while reading under brain scanning machines. Most people take reading for granted.

Many of us work with a computer all day long and it is usual that you read far more texts from the computer screen than from paper. Can you apply speed reading techniques for reading from computer? Yes, you can as on the general the speed reading techniques are applicable both reading from computer or book. However there exist some differences and you will benefit in case of reading from the computer screen if you will apply the following tips. In case of reading from the computer then you may have an advantage of processing the text and making it easier to read.

In the "always-on" electronic information rich and interconnected culture we live in, challenges to our ability to focus and concentrate is an extremely essential trait that few people can claim is not a problem. Concentration becomes even more difficult when learning to speed read. This article will outline 9 tactics you can easily apply while you learn to speed read and they will pay dividends beyond the process of reading.

“...in the time that it takes one average reading nchild to practice one spelling lesson of ten nwords they can easily learn one hundred nwords correctly with speed reading methods.” Such was the experience of a homeschool mom who taught SPEED SPELLING techniques to her children, one of whom is ...

To Master Speed Reading - Know the 5 Proven Roadblocks to Speed Reading Success The term "speed-reading" delivers 55 million results on Google. There is an overabundance of information related to this topic. Even if you are highly motivated to improve your reading and comprehension, the information overload is enough to make you want to quit before you start! Obviously, quitting is one of the reasons why speed-reading does not work. However, there are several more reasons why people do not master speed-reading that you should know.

Multi-tasking, multiple projects, multiple goals, multi-media pretty much describes the state of the workplace and school environments today. With all this flurry for our attention and focus, it is amazing that anything actually gets completed. With all the distractions around us, unless you know what your CORE is, you may never master speed reading, or get anything notable accomplished. Do you know what your CORE is? CORE stands for Cost of Reading Effectively. As an employee, every minute of your day can be broken down to the cost of your employment.

How to Make Big Decisions Consciously – Instead of on Auto-Pilot It is an insult to tell anyone living that they make their most important decisions non-consciously. Homo sapiens pride ourselves on behaviors using logic and reason, math and science, right? Neuroscientists until 2008 concluded our consciousness (reason, logic and thinking) was the basis for western civilization and its progress. Imagine an executive at Apple being told his conscious mind is almost an illusion, and all their success is the product of non-consciousrn(auto-pilot) decision-making. Ridiculous.

As you begin to research and select an approach to developing your speed reading skills, you will inevitably find continuous references to the fact that untrained readers need to expand the number of words that the eyes take in with each eye stop. These stops are called fixations. In theory, the more words your eyes take in per fixation, the faster your reading becomes. Programs that focus on primarily training to increase the number of words per fixation are misguided in understanding the nature of comprehension.

Did you know that neuro-science (the study of how the brain works) has proven there are four essential principles that insure learning success? Without knowing these, you will probably be frustrated, confused, and possibly fail in your attempts to learn this complex set of behaviors called speed reading. The 4 essential, but little known secrets to all successful learning attempts, especially speed reading are: 1. Brain Plasticity - it has amazing regenerative capability. 2. Frequency - more often is best! 3. Intensity - fully engaged and participating in the experience.r

Speed reading is a set of skills that is necessary for nearly everyone's survival in this age of information overload. Whether you are a student, returning adult student, employee, manager, executive, or business person reading more efficiently and effectively is set of techniques that are key to your survival. Here are 8 fatal mistakes you need to avoid when learning this set of powerful learning tools and how you can overcome them. 1. Too much focus on speed. All speed reading programs and approaches want you to focus on speeding things up.

We were discussing how to read a newspaper in my introductory speed reading lesson the other night. I always teach my students to read the first and last paragraph in jou al articles and newspaper human interest stories (along with headings and visual aids) and the first paragraph in news articles. One of my students said that she had noticed that the writers in our newspaper had started to get creative and were not getting to any facts until about the third paragraph. So the next morning I did a survey by reading all of the first paragraphs of all the articles in our paper.

As a speed reading coach, I am frequently asked the question, "How can I increase my comprehension as well as my speed?" It seems that everyone gets the "speed" of the eyes part, but the comprehension, or understanding of the material is the question, or challenge for most people. The speed of the eyes is not as important as the speed of the mind's response to the print. First, all approaches to speed reading gives training in the movement of the eyes. The goal is to make the mechanical aspect of speed reading as efficient as possible. There are various approaches to accomplishing this.

ou've bought into the idea that speed reading can be an essential skill for success in today's knowledge economy and academic success, or you probably would not be reading this article. These are skills you don't have now, but want to learn and master. After doing some research, you discover that there are many options of learning media you can choose from. But which one is really the best to insure your success? Your available options are: 1. Buy a book. There are a few good books out there. But, I don't know anyone who successfully mastered the skills through a book.

If you are just beginning to search for help in learning to speed read, you may easily become overwhelmed. With such a variety of approaches, mediums of learning, and contradictory information, it would be easy to give up learning this valuable life-long learning set of skills. Please don't give up! Mastering speed reading can change your life for the better. Here are some important things for you to consider before you start. To succeed at mastering speed reading, you need to understand that it is about training your brain, not just getting your eyes to move rapidly through the print.

Recently someone asked me directly, "is it possible to read 2000 words per minute?" Yes, it is possible. Faster is also possible. It is possible to read even faster than that. We're not sure how fast is possible for us humans. However, considering that the average ending rates for our students is 1600-2000 wpm, and some have read at 24,000 wpm with 95% comprehension, the speed the inquirer asked about is certainly possible. From having taught tens of thousands of people in the past these skills, I'll share the 2 most important keys to success.

If you have been searching for information about speed reading, you probably have been confused by both the abundance of information as well as the contradictions in the statements and "facts" you read. One of the most common statements someone who is looking for free information about the topic will see is, "speed reading is merely about skimming, scanning, and key-wording." Is this statement true, or false? As a user and teacher of the skills for over 30 years, I can empathically state that the statement is false.

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Is Replaying An Emotional Trauma Good Or Bad For You? Who Cares – But Why Controlled mental replaying of your negative experience (event) is excellent therapy. Repetition with new understanding deadens, dulls and benumbs the pain from the original occurrence. Mental repetition of a traumatic event desensitizes your emotions. Examples: a severe car accident, the boss firing your fundament, a dirty divorce, war battles or personal physical attacks (rape).

How to Hum Your Way Back to Health Can you keep an open mind about knowledge that is NOT scientific? I have to force myself not to giggle at beliefs and practices of non-scientific cultures. But, recent research on Tibetan practices have proven as real as a heart attack. Do you have to be a computer scientist to surf the Internet and make satisfying discoveries? How about being an electrical engineer in order to throw the light switch? Do you need a degree from Ford on auto mechanics to drive your car? Physical Healing

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle recently released his new book, “The Talent Code”. Regarded by Tom Peters as the most important and useful book in 2009, we feel it helpful to any educator or parent wanting to increase the success and skills of their students. Mr. Coyle’s research unfolds that greatness isn’t born, instead, it’s grown. He shares his findings regarding what created the world’s most talented athletes, scholars, artists, and leaders.

I started teaching Speed Reading to children in 1997. At that time, it was a daring thing to propose that children as young as 8 years old should learn to Speed Read. I remember a conversation that I had, once, in which I mentioned the concept of teaching school children how to Speed Read, to a professor of Education (who was a friend of mine). He advised me that such a thing as teaching Speed Reading to elementary-aged children would be “Extremely Inadvisable” (while he gav

The most often asked questio I get when people either see me read or when they submit a question to my website goes like this: “Does it really work?” Or, “Can you really comprehend when you read really fast? The short answer is yes! This article will explore the question behind that question. Because I’ve been using the skills so long, I’ve been perplexed about why this question is so often asked. In my mind, if you’re not understanding or comprehending the material, you’re not reading! You must be doing something else.

You want to learn to speed read and you're doing a web search on the topic. Unless this is the first thing you have read, you have probably come across much negative talk about the possibility of ever really reading super fast and achieving good comprehension with speed. (Usually that comes from people who have either not engaged in the right type of training, or didn't train in the proper manner, but that's not the point here.) Many people have tried and failed to master comprehension at super fast speeds.

Congratulations on taking a step towards learning to read faster by "speed reading." If you're like most people who are trying to improve their reading skills to the level of super fast speed reading, you are probably wondering how to do it while maintaining, if not improving, your comprehension. Many of my students come to me after they have invested time and money in learning to speed read only to report that they can move through reading material at the rate of 1200 - 2500 words per minute, but cannot understand what they have read.

If you want to read fast then you have to see well what you are reading. It is extremely difficult to speed read if you do not have good eyesight. As we usually read texts from near distances then you need good near vision for being a fast reader. Being short-sighted is actually not a problem as when you are reading at 30 or 35 centimeters then it does not matter if you can see well at longer distances, for example 2 meters or 200 meters. Unfortunately near vision tends to get worse, when people get older. Many of us start developing near vision problems in forties or fifties.

"Within minutes of starting to read, my mind wanders off. When I come back to the page, I realized I have gone through several pages and don't know what I just read!" This is a common problem for all readers, not just speed readers. Does your mind wander? Alte atively I hear, "I have practiced speed reading and get to 2200 words per minute. But I don't understand what I have read!" is another common complaint from "trained speed readers." Although the scenarios might be different, they both have the same fatal flaw.

How to Save Your Brain By Playing Dumb Word Games If it is dumb, why should I do it? Because you are going to live into your late eighties or nineties, and you want to have all your cognitive (senses and memory) skills. See, fifty-percent of seniors past 85 live with Alzheimer or other forms of dementia. No good. What about helping your brain now – in the present?

“Did You Know - You Can Improve Your ‘Working-Memory’, Up To 65% With a Two-Minute Strategy. Ask me How?” • 1. Before this new research: the prevailing scientific belief was ‘working-memory’ is fixed, and Not trainable. • 2. “So-What?” When you improve (train) your ‘working-memory’, you trigger the ability to communicate between different areas of the brain. That helps you master complex language comprehension, problem-solving, and even decision-making. • 3. “I don’t get it?”

Do you want to read faster? I guess do you do so in at least some cases. Well, then turn pages faster. Sounds ridiculous? Actually, it does matter how much time you spend on paging. During my speed reading courses I have observed carefully how the trainees perform the reading exercises. I have noticed that different people spend considerably different amount of time on turning the pages. Most people can turn pages in one or two seconds, but some people waste too much time on it.

Reading this article on speed reading tactics demonstrates some level of desire on your part to master these essential skills to help you overcome your information overload. Congratulations! Although this is a good start, it represents the beginning of your path to mastering a complex set of mental skills that will provide lifetime benefits. Unfortunately, many well-intentioned people give up their attempts too early because they do not understand the nature of the learning process.

When people watch me read they will often say something like, "Oh, you're a speed reader. Does that really work?" I will usually respond, "No!" I know that sounds flippant, but truthfully, it does not work. You work it. Speed reading is a systematic approach you apply to learning and absorbing printed material. I learned how to read faster and better about 32 years ago. I was desperate. I was a terrible student in my undergraduate days, and about to start a graduate school program while still needing to work full time. If I was going to succeed, I had to learn to do things differently.

When most people start to learn to speed read, they have to focus on moving their eyes more efficiently. This takes the mind off track from responding to the print. All reading requires some level of comprehension, or understanding, otherwise it is not reading. Reading can be defined as the mind's response to the printed symbols. Effective comprehension requires full engagement of your mind with the material. Unfortunately, many people start their journey of learning to speed read, and they suffer from mind wandering regardless of whether they are going fast, or slow.

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After almost three weeks of speed reading, I am reading faster but I had been struggling to truly comprehend everything that I was reading. I’ve spent several hours practicing and testing speed and comprehension on everything from short stories to technical writing, and I’ve learned that not all reading is the same! I tend to be able to read a light book at close to 700 words per minute now and then I struggle to get through more dense material at 500 words per minute. Now th

Speed reading is a vastly popular keyword internet search term with several million searches per month. Many people want to discover how to do this vital information management skill today. However, before someone learns to speed read, it might be helpful to take a step back and observe something that is taken for granted. When you read, whether it is speedy or not, what does your mind do? If you take it for granted, you might be able to move through print quickly, but then you probably won't comprehend well. There is no such thing as speed reading without comprehension.

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How to Double Your Memory Permanently Is Intelligence the other side of the coin of Working Memory? When kids and adults have poor working memory, are they automatically stupid? What’s “working memory”? Is it’s your brain’s ability to hold information and manipulate it mentally? Some examples please: how can we understand the idea in a sentence unless we remember the first half and combine it with the last half? What is the 5th letter of the English alphabet? You can hear (subvocalization) them in your mind and count them simultaneously.

Have you ever wondered what happens in your brain when you read? When you understand how different parts of your brain become activated doing different types of mental tasks, then you can take control of your ability to read better and faster. On the other hand, by not understanding some simple facts of how your brain works, the process of learning to read better and faster will continue to be a mystery. Speed reading mastery requires you to know how to unlock your whole brain.

If you cannot comprehend at high reading speeds, it is not reading! There is a mistaken notio "out there" that if you speed read, you will not fully comprehend. That is a myth! Many of my students come to me after having failed some other training. A recent new student said to me, "I bought a software program that got my speed up to 2500 words per minute (wpm), but I don't comprehend anything." If he didn't comprehend, he wasn't reading! It was a waste of time.

I recently discovered a couple of speed reading programs that are free plug-ins for electronic reading especially web-based reading. I excitedly downloaded and installed them onto my desktop machine. Unfortunately these free plug-ins were a major disappointment that built upon common a misunderstanding about speed reading.

This tip title will probably cause you to go, "huh?" or have an "aha!" when reflecting on your own experience trying to learn to read faster. This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get about speed reading – ”Can you really read fast and still comprehend and remember?” The short answer is yes, but you have to understand the differences of these cognitive processes. Although it isn't possible to teach everything there is know about comprehension in this single article, I assure you, this tip you are getting is not revealed by anyone else teaching speed reading.

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Speed reading is a skill that will allow you to read much faster than the average reader is capable of. Still many people ask a question: what kinds of texts are suitable for speed reading. For increasing you reading speed you have to learn speed reading techniques and these skills can be more or less applied to different types of texts. These skills will help you in your professional career, but also for academic activities such as studying in high school or college.

Increasing the speed at which you read and comprehend information can have a huge impact on your life. Not only will it shorten the time it takes you to read, it might even ignite your passion and motivation for reading and learning new things. When we first learned how to read, we were taught to sound out each letter at a time to produce the word, and read each word at a time to produce the sentence. This system is good for learning how to read, but it makes it difficult to

Why Resistance to Change is Painful We are not philosophers but like you – very practical folks. Half our job isrnholding workshops for executives at major corporations to train them in two-days to 3x their learning skills and 2x their long-term memory. What that means is these up-and-coming divisional VPs and heads of departments can read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time their peers can hardly finish one. Are these new skills beneficial for soon-to-be corporate rntop guns?

Is Your Memory As Good As a 5th Grader? If you got five-minutes, you can discover how to remember rnabstract (tough-stuff) permanently. We teach this long-term memory strategy to ten-year olds (5th graders) and they get it. How about it? Now if your life centers on ditch digging – this is not a big-deal. But if you are involved in the Knowledge Economy as an executive orrnentrepreneur, student or smart-ass, maybe this five-minutes is worth your while. Tell me, just between us, when was the last time you learned something practical for your brain’s sake? Let’s do it, huh?

Speed reading requires training the brain, not just the eyes. Getting the eyes unstuck from looking, and sometimes staring, at individual words is essential, but that is merely one aspect of learning a set of complex behaviors and skills. Training the eyes is the mechanical part of learning the skills. That's easy part. The more difficult aspect is training the brain/mind to comprehend. All speed reading programs will teach you how to move your eyes more efficiently through print. However, many of these actually do this rather improperly.

How would you like to remember 90% of what you read from anything? the newspaper, your favorite novel, business reports, your child's MySpace blog? How would you like to be able to read faster? Perhaps youll even read 3x faster and still remember almost everything you read! How would you like this to happen in just one single hour? Impossible? Not hardly! With speedreadcomplete.com and the Speed Complete Speed Reading Program, hundreds of thousands of people have done just that! But what can one do with the ability to read over 600 words per minute and remember almost every word?

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Mentally, quickly fill in the blank of the following statement with a word or words that best describes your reading ability: I am a __________ reader. Your response will most likely fall into one of two major categories: negative or positive. Some negative terms I typically hear from people in my workshops include "slow", "lazy", "overwhelmed" or "frustrated" while the more positive ones include "good", "avid", or "voracious". Whatever your attitude, it makes sense that those with a more negative attitude typically read less and find reading to be more boring and a chore.

Twelve years of grueling school and significant effort is the preparation needed to go to college, but it is not all you need in order to get in. Before you can submit your papers to the schools of your choice you first need to have your ACT or SAT score for the standardized tests. The ACT and SAT tests are very difficult tests and they are designed to max out every student's level of knowledge to see how well they will perform in college.

How to Permanently Double Your Memory in the next 11 Minutes Did you know that after finishing an important article, report or rnnon-fiction book, both students and executives retain about 10% ofrnthe key points after 8-hours, and around 5% after 24-hours? So reading alone is not the secret of LEARNING. If we cannot retain the key points – did we really READ the material? What is the secret ofrnconverting information to long-term memory? Ya gotta have a system, a strategy, a schema to encode the new knowledge, and later to instantly decode its meaning.

Subvocalization is the procedures of "saying" words on a page, and while it is ridiculously helpful to developing readers, it is a big hindrance on the speed reading abilities of older people and those who are previously strong quick readers. The explanation is simple: we speak, and thus tend to be allowed to listen to and comprehend, around 140 words per minute. By comparison, the average brain can make sense of virtually 600 wpm (words per minute). somebody only learning tr

I just got an email from someone who writes, " The reaso I am writing is that a client of mine is doing a computer speed reading program called (name protected). He mentioned that while his speed has increased dramatically, his comprehension has gone down. Is this normal? " The short answer is yes. However, it is not normal for all programs on effective speed reading. The writer touches on a very sore spot for me, a researcher, educator, and trainer on accelerated learning for 30 years.

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Do You Use Repetition in Your Life? When I asked this question of our staff and students, they answer with their own ‘defensive’ response, “Why should I?” My answer to them and you is, your parents were right. “About what?” “Repetition is the mother of “learning”. I know a ton of learningrnand memory strategies, but “repetition” of important ideas you need to remember, beats them all. The problem doing “repetition” is the time. It takes 21rnconsecutive days to create a habit, and reprogram your brain. What’s The Alte ative to Repetition

Whether you have just started to look into speed reading, or whether you are a frustrated learner who has tried and not mastered the skills yet, there are 6 essential concepts you must understand if you hope to master the skills as a lifelong habit, or skill set. Notice I mentioned "frustrated learners" in the first paragraph. I have observed that many of my learners come to me as a matter of having not succeeded in learning the skills from trying some program in the past.

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Speed Reading is a term that has so many instant meanings, many of which are myths, in the minds of those who are seeking to find out its potential for them. Additionally, to the potential new learner, it brings a perception of dread and hard work because they have difficulty envisioning themselves as competent efficient readers.

“Follow-The-Bouncing-Ball!” • 1. “Pop, in plain English, tell me why using a Pacer or pointer to underline or overline the words of each sentence is worth the bother?” • 2. “Fifty years of reading research show that students from 5th grade through high school, college & grad school, and all adults, including executives.” • 3. “They lose their place on each page of text they read, not once or twice, but five to six times – continuously.” • 4. “How come I never notice I lose my place?”

I must confess, I hate the term "speed reading." Since the popularization of the approach in the 1960s, there has been such a flood of approaches to the term "speed reading," and so many who have tried to cash in on the promise it offers by unskilled practitioners and program developers, that there is no standard definition. With that being said, then how would you answer the question, "how fast is it, really, to speed read?" Answering the question depends on your perception of the term.

“Are You ‘Normal’ and Hate Learning?” • 1. Me: “Normal is the opposite of Abnormal, right? Dictionary.com defines ‘normal’ as Average-Ordinary-Common. Add: mediocre & second-rate. • Normal makes you Defensive toward Change, Improvement, and expanding your Comfort-Zone. Are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet & Donald Trump Normal?” • It’s not just Semantics - ‘Normal’ is for losers. Extraordinary ideas and actions bring home the bacon.”

“Affirmations Change Your Brain?” • “Wait. Are you saying that ordinary, dumb words, repeated in a sing-song fashion, can change my thoughts and emotions? Sounds ridiculous to me”, said Stephanie. • “More incredible, the latest scientific research at Carnegie-Mellon University, and published in the jou al, PLOS ONE, says these “dumb” words, repeated like a parrot, can boost your problem-solving skills. Our experience is “affirmations” can improve your results up to 80%.” • “Tell me more.”

Three (3) Strategies to Attract Wealth 1. Bagha 2. Positioning 3. Rhythm For Money-Magnet You and I are skeptics, and that means we disbelieve most of what we hear and read, unless we are presented with proof. We consider ourselves followers of Cause-And-Effect, not superstition, right? This is plain common-sense. Einstein said, ‘Common-sense is the accumulation of our prejudices for the first eighteen years of our lives.’ But common-sense is better than believing nonsense, and being a fool. We are and remain practical folks, skeptics.

Nobody will question that the purpose of school is to educate us and to prepare us for a successful future. But why, then, don't schools teach us some of the most important skills and lessons of life? Like what, you may ask? 1. The dangers of credit cards and other debt, for example. Think ...

Do Inquiring Minds Know This? A hobby that feeds my sense of curiosity is collecting facts and definitions nobody else knows or cares about. Statistics 1. The human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels for circulation. If you Google it, scientific research papers quote this number for the past decade. How do they know? Vas You Dere Sharlie? That’s almost three-times around the planet. We must be very important entities. 2. Our lungs are filled with Alveoli – tiny air sacs that exchange rncarbon dioxide for oxygen. Good idea.

How to Overcome Fear Of Change Does this make sense to you? Humans are wired as a species to haver Danger-Avoidance functions take precedence over our Pleasuring-Seeking functions. What does it mean? Fear overrides our desire for pleasure. Is it hard to believe 40-million Americans, according to the National Institute rnof Mental Health suffer from Anxiety Disorders – Panic Attacks? According to UCLA professor Michael Fanselow - “Fear is the most powerful emotion.” It spreads out to Fear of Failure, of looking stupid, criticism, and rnappearing incompetent.

The most often questio I get asked is, "How can I read over 1500 words per minute and still understand, or comprehend the material?" Stated in another form, "Does speed reading really work?" Without writing an entire course, this article will try to answer these questions. When people question about reading fast and not comprehending, there is a basic misunderstanding of terms. As I've written in previous articles, reading is the mind's response to print. If your mind is not responding when you are applying any speed reading technique, then you are in fact not reading.

“Science Finally “Gets” Meditation, Do You?” • 1. “Have you tested “mindfulness-meditation”? You seem to know that you hate it, and it’s a waste of time.” • 2. “Sure, a dozen times, and it gives me a headache, and seems like it’s a way to take a nap when you should be working.” • 3. The University of Califo ia, Davis, Johns-Hopkins School of Medicine, and the jou al, Health Psychology, (March 28, 2013), say meditation reduces the stress hormone, Cortisol. That a serious physical indication of its usefulness.

How Critics Influence Behavior – And So Should You Half of the major theater critics said they liked Jersey Boys, while the other half called it 1970s corny. The NY Times gave it a moderate rave on November 7th 2005 and in the middle of June 2010 it is still a major hit on Broadway. George Orwell said, “We are all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.” NY Times is More equal than the other critics. Addams Family opened April 9, 2010 to lousy reviews. NY Times was begrudgingr

Can intelligence be increased? That's a radical question that has been hotly debated for well over a century. As with most "radical" questions the debate is usually centered around the lines of demarcation or differing disciplines. Historically intelligence has been measured as a factor of abstract numerical capabilities as tested by the dreaded IQ test.

Who Needs a Boot Camp (basic-training) For Learning & Critical Thinking? Neuroscientists estimate about 83% of students and 76% of executives are missing the link between knowing and doing. It is called the “critical-thinking” step. Use-it-or-lose-it. My Pop used to say, “Something for nothing? Nix it, kid.”

How Different Are Lefties? Are folks hand-eye-foot Dominant? Yes, but more important, handedness influences our decisions on good or bad, clever or ordinary, skillful or clumsy, and positive or negative. Judgments often hang on our Attitudes, Aptitudes, and only third, Intelligence. Get this: left-handed people associate whatever is on their Left side as good, smart and correct, while the majority (90%) Righties, identify the Left with death, females, clumsiness, and negativity.

“Can you “Scientifically” Attract Money & Wealth or Is It Bull? My friend’s daughter was 21, and always complaining about the absence of money in her bank account. “Paycheck to paycheck, behind in the rent, & worse, always thinking of the “Lack” of funds. I hate my life, and I see “debt” 24/7.” • 1. Is it “science”, superstition, or “willpower” to believe there is a “strategy” (algorithm: step-by-step) to Attract money into your life? You decide.

Why Peripheral Vision is Your Secret Asset “Always look people in the eye,” my Pop said, “because Gonifs (thieves, swindlers, and rascals) never look you in the orbs. They are too busy figuring how to steal your 401K like Bernie Madoff.” That remark got me thinking about peripheral and foveal (central) vision. When you are jerking around on the Internet, playing video games, watching TV, add reading-and-writing, you are focusing your eyes through a tiny keyhole in your retina called the Fovea < Latin for Pit.

How to Gesture And Double Your Communication Skills Adults are learners too, so how do we get our point across (comprehension) without sounding like a dominating school teacher? If you visit your doctor and he says your x-rays are Benign, you are a lot happier than if he says the results are Malignant, right? Benign means Healthful, Good, Favorable or Friendly. Malignant, on the other hand, means Bad, Harmful, Diseased or Lethal. But you know that. What if your doctor says the results are Benign, and air-writes with hisr

How to ADD 51% to Your Long-Term Memory – Permanently • 1. This is a conversation I had with my teenager, Mike about a system we teach at our one-day workshop at Columbia University. • It helps our graduates ACE school & their careers. It works for kids age 10, to high school, college & grad-school. We train corporate executive with this strategy. • 2. Me: “Michael, you’re a good high school student without my help. Would you be interested is learning a baby-easy system to improve your comprehension & long-term memory about 51%, permanently?

How to Learn to Love Your Mistakes Why do executives suffer emotionally when the world discovers they are not perfect and make mistakes? Making mistakes, errors or failing makes them feel stupid, embarrassed and worse – incompetent. These emotions lead to chronic stress, a weak immune system and even heart attacks. The negative feelings about making future mistakes make them gun-shy rnabout decision-making, that leads to the Unemployment line. Stop

n EVELYN WOOD'S SPEAKING SUGGESTIONS Here are our memories of a short but brilliant lecture by "Evelyn Wood", nthe Mother of Speed Reading, to a small group of us about, "how to give a speech". It was a half-century ago, so we admit some lapses, but it has stayed with us and nserved ...

Why Mindfulness 101 is a Lifesaver Are you curious about new scientific research on baby-easy meditation that can help overcome chronic insomnia, reduce high blood pressure, and support self-control over anxiety? Would you be interested in scientific research on how about 9 minutes of Mindfulness meditation can seriously help reduce backaches, and even chronic arthritic pain? We do not offer medical advice, so Google Mindfulness, and then discuss it with your physician. Science - Not Quackery Scientific research on the results of meditation on our mind, body and emotionsr

Five Minute Eye Exercise to Self-Help We Homo sapiens refuse to do things without a good reason. Why? Back two-thousand years ago, our ancestors were already skeptics, and it has become a human instinct and reflex. Why should I do what you say? Why should I believe you – you must have a vested interest – so tell me,rn(WIIFM) – What’s in it for me? Be patient! Control your need for (IG) Instant Gratification for 60-seconds. 1. “You can’t depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out-of-focus.”r

How to Dissolve, Destroy And Chew-Up Anxiety & Stress My grandma told me something at our Thanksgiving Day feast that I will never forget. For those who don’t know me, I am a skeptic, doubter and contrarian, and those are my positive character traits. Would you believe a close relative (middle 80s) who suddenly announced she was a healer with special knowledge? She said I should know I have two angels – not baseball players –rnbut the Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel as my personal guides and guardians. They accompanied me 24/7 on either side as myr

Is Memory The Enemy of Learning? Did you know that Cursive (connected letters), Printed Lettering, andr Spelling are being slowly eliminated? Many teachers in elementary schools have already stopped giving writing and spelling lessons leading to these ancient skills. The use of our ubiquitous Word-Processor and Texting are the modern replacements, right? Plato (not Mickey’s Dog) In a dialogue by Plato called Phaedrus (15 BCE – 50 CE) Socrates says, “Theuth the Egyptian invented writing. The god, King Thamus suggested, ‘Writing would

Double Your Influence And Ability to Persuade? When we ask college students and corporate executives if they know about the power of Influence, students strike out, while up to 74% rnof executives name a book called Influence: the psychology of persuasion. What’s It All About Alfie Picture training little girls going door-to-door selling Girl Scout cookies. Fund-raising even for a worthy cause is a pain in the fundament.

When you think about doing some business or academic reading, do you have the perfect place in mind that assures you peace, quiet and good concentration? Or do you desperately try to read where ever you are and hope you can get some done? After many conversations over many years with people in my workshops, it is clear that those who get a lot of reading done, have a "special place" to do it. Those that don't get a lot of reading done, don't have that special place.

What E.W. Whispered in My Ear For Your Benefit I was sitting in my freshman contracts law class when a drone from the administration office walked in the room. He whispered something to the instructor who pointed at me and wiggled his finger to follow the administrative assistant. My stomach rumbled because I was certain it was not a notification of being chosen Freshman of the Year.

Like More Brain Memory Today? If you have a baby-easy strategy to deeply relax that requires 1-2 minutes maximum, you can improve your long-term memory up to 40%. That’s a lot and we know three ways. So what? Relaxation releases chronic stress and even adds to your mental health and longevity. Three Facts 1. Fact: deep relaxation helps you receive new information and improves your personal learning and memory skills. Improvement will aid your career and finances. 2. Fact: learning is based on long-term memory. Get this: learning is directly related to your attention-span.

A Second Aha! Experience 1. “Counselor Wechsler – please rise and listen carefully. How many legs does a lamb have?” 2. “Dean Reppy, I have never personally met a lamb and counted his/her limbs. I defer to someone with farm experience.” 3. “You have seen pictures, movies, videos of lambs, is that correct?” You do not deny the lamb creature in question has legs?” 4. “Yes, Dean Reppy, but I never stopped in midstream to count their legs, which undoubtedly propels its lamb body.” 5.

Speed Reading 101 So I'm at a party and someone asks me what I do. If you're like me, you could say many things! But when I choose to say "I teach speed reading," the reactions vary though the most common is something like "Wow, I could really use that! Can you tell me how to do it?!" So I've gotten pretty good at condensing down the content of my books and 20 years of experience into a very short synopsis.

Do you remember Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare? As you read this article about speed reading you probably think I'm going to talk about the fast hare. On the contrary, I am going to sing the praises of the lowly tortoise. The lesson of the tortoise is the character trait development of consistent effort towards a goal. As you recall from the story, the tortoise astonishingly won the race. The persistence of effort is what won the day.

Are there Urban Myths That Block M-o-n-e-y From Your Life? • 1 “Aw quit it, I know you believe it, and mean well, but what I say out loud or hear in my head are “white-noise”, just meaningless chatter. My words are powerless, and so am I.” • 2. When I said that to my mother, I was convinced she was a poor, deluded fool, “superstitious, ignorant, and without scientific knowledge.” Now, maybe I was too quick on the trigger.

Believe it or not, the act of reading involves an eye rhythm. Faster readers have a flowing rhythm while slower readers read choppy and disjointed. Flowing rhythm readers read more efficiently and effectively - and their eyes tire less - when they read either on paper OR on-screen. You can learn to create this eye rhythm on your own by using a regular tick-tock sound of a clock (old wind-ups are especially useful for this purpose) or by using a metronome. (A metronome is a rhythm-keeping device used by musicians.).

So What? Did you ever notice that there is an endless conversation going on in your mind called Self-Talk or Internal Dialogue? We stopped being aware of it because itrnhas always been there. It is called – Thinking or Steam of Consciousness. We hold conversations between our – I, (personality) and our – Me, (mind-body connection) 24/7. Don’t you ask yourself questions before making decisions? How about searching your mind for alte ative ideas or suggestions? Well, tell me, who are you talking to? So What

How to Double (2x) Your Memory – Permanently If you have a kid in school, or are in college or grad-school, this baby-easy strategy is guaranteed to raise your class rank - one-full-grade. Your exam scores will improve up to 37%, and your opportunity for a scholarship doubles. Works for executives too. Why? It’s because Memory is Everything. It’s the secret to academic success, right? V-A-K V stands for “Vision”, you have to see what you want to remember. A stands for “Auditory”, you must hear the word or phrase you want to recall.

Many people do not believe they have the ability to read faster because if they had, they already would be reading faster. And, they've gotten so many years of proof (like taking their current age and subtracting 4 to 6 years) and that read in the same way --- yes for years! Not only is it a well established behavior pattern, but you also firmly believe that that's normal for you. And they also believe that if they try to read faster, they'll lose comprehension. Yes, too many people believe that by reading faster they'll lose their level of comprehension.

Are You A Reading Genius? Indeed. Were we taught to read well in school? It’s easy to be a critic, but teachers can only transmit to students what they themselves were taught. They were trained in Reading-Aloud, not Silent Reading. You learned to read aloud. When do you read out loud in real life? Reading a book, article or report? Nyet. You read to yourself – silently. Giving a presentation? Nada, it sounds too contrived. At a job interview? Not. You are almost always a Silent-Reader. In school the teacher read stories aloud to us.

Work or Fun – Do Words Change Minds? Are you in the business of influencing, persuading and convincing folks to use your product or service, and not your competitor? We all have a boss, someone to report to, even if it is the Board of Directors. Decisions are not mechanical or mathematical – they are at least 50% and more likely up to 85% emotional. If you are depending on your Will-Power, you left-brained logic and reasoning to make the optimal decisions or convince others – NGH it is Not-Going to-Happen. Homo sapiens are emotionally-driven by their right-hemisphere.

If you are having problems at work, or don't understand why there are numerous debts, you need to take a free online speed reading test. Among other things, a free online speed reading test will show you where you have poor comprehension and absorption skills. Without a question, before taking out a car loan, credit cards, or student loans, every person should take a free online speed reading test before making such dangerous decisions.

“Why Using, “I-AM”, is a Game-Changer!” Remember this? “I-Am-What-I-Am, and That’s All That I-Am, I’m Popeye-The Sailor Man. I’m Strong at The Finish, Cause I Eats Me Spinach. I’m Popeye-The-Sailor-Man.”rn [Repeat the Lyrics]rn “I-am-what-I-am, and that’s all that I-am. I’m Popeye-the-sailor-man. I’m strong-at-the-finish, cause I eats-me- Spinach. I’m Popeye-the-sailor-man.” By Sammy Learner, 1933 www.speedreading101.org 877-567-2500. • The name for God told to Moses is:r

Why Inquiring Minds Care: It’s Health And Longevity Do you find that 95% of all Internet articles never teach you anything practical? Can you even remember the last useful strategy or schema (diagram/pattern) you implemented to improve your life? Inquiring Minds read books, articles and reports to learn, remember, and apply knowledge to improve their lives or they take-a-nap. I am a Contrarian – a skeptic who has great difficulty believing information because an Authority Figure (expert) or Ancient Book (Bible) tells me to have faith. Not-good-enough, sir.

The mind is a source of immeasurable power, and we only use a tiny portion of it. In the book, "Speed Reading in only One Hour" I show you how to tap some of that unused power and how to use it for your own improved grades in high school, college, and great successes life. Your brain is capable of understanding from 10,000 - 50,000 units of data per minute; one unit equals one word. This information is based upon old statistics (1980's). Based on recently developed speed reading technology, and strides in brain and mind development, you can achieve even greater reading speeds.

“Numbers Do Not Stick In Your Mind – Pictures Do. Mark Twain “A picture is worth a thousand words,” is about 75% true. There are Power words that override the pictures because they are associated with our past experiences and emotions, and Fight-or-Flight. Bill Gates turned Microsoft away from Nerds Only, toward universal appeal by making Windows work by Icons (symbols, pictures). Point-and-click the icon and anyone can be computer literate, right?

Are You On-Top-Of-The-World or Down In the Dumps? After studying (not just reading) “Motor Action and Emotional Memory”, either the scientists at Radbourd University, Netherlands have made a monster discovery or they need a minimum of one year of therapy to recover their healthy minds. This Dutch research stands for the principle – “Bodily Motion - Triggers Emotional Memories”. Upward Motor Movements retrieve Positive (happy) long-term memories. Downward motor activates retrieve Negative (distasteful) long-term memories.

I Dare You To Use the “D” Word With Someone If President Obama used the “D” word on TV – he would be impeach by the following week. I didn’t say convicted – but surely impeached. See, the House of Representatives is the Grand Jury and the Senate does the actual trial. Don’t get nervous about the economy tanking, the stock market dumping two-thousand points or losing your personal source of revenue – it will never happen. How come? It is a Conspiracy of Intelligent Folks not to use the “D”. We all know that saying so does NOT make it so.

Guided Reading Strategies For Kindergarten: How To Teach A 2 Year Old To Read When you decide to teach your child to read, there will be many choices and decisions that you will have to make; when I decided to home school my son, and by extension to teach him to read, there are many things that I wish I had known beforehand. It took me a long time in my experiment to get my son to read by himself and I could have shortened my journey a lot if I had known any of the following:

Is Willpower the Butterfly Effect in Humans? The author has been searching scientific research for five years to discover the physiological site of human willpower (a/k/a volition and conation). Volition is the act of willing, choosing of resolving. < L to want or wish. Conation is a psychological term meaning mental life conce ed with striving, desiring, and volition. Location A team of neuroscientists at Califo ia Institute of Technology in 2009 pinpoints will-power in the Ventro-Medial PreFrontal Cortex.

Are Affirmations Worth Doing? A poll of our graduates including 81% of corporate executives and 89% ofrncollege students absolutely hate daily rituals. They do not make a habit of daily prayer nor reciting positive statements to program their mind. Our research indicates there are very powerful benefits and results tornconsistent repetition of affirmations. Like what? Money, creativity, health, and improved relationships. Affirmations appear to counterbalance daily chronic stress. So what?

How to Fool Yourself Into Health If you were told by your doctor that he was giving you Sugar Pills for your (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome, would you expect any improvement in your condition? Would you take them twice a day as he/she prescribed? Wait – printed in large letters on the pill bottle was – Placebo. In New York – folks would say, GetOUTTAhere. Placebo Effect Scientists know the power of placebos (Latin for - I will please you), forr

Is Listening The Secret to Helping Others Improve Their Productivity? How many times do we want to talk things over with a Silent Partner, compared to hearing what he/she thinks or knows? Is silence Platinum, Golden or Silver? Neuroscientific research has proof. I heard – if you give a JackAss a Harvard education, all you end up with is a SmartAss.

Why Text Messaging is The Future of English Speed reading is your secret tool for success. You and I both know how easy it is to criticize and be judgmental, but we get terminally upset when other folks call us weird. The U.S. is a Christian country, over 92%, so when you challenge believers about their Bible, the imminent return of J.C. or Evolution – watch out. Don’t ask, don’t tell - works for me. When you read the results of legitimate polls – Gallup, Zogby, or the NY Times, things begin to get scary.

After 30 years of teaching speed reading to people from all walks of life inside and outside of workplace organizations, I've come to realize that there are three big problems people have to overcome if they really want to master the skills involved in speed reading. Listening to people who have been dropouts of other speed reading programs have given me these key insights. The reason the dropouts of what might be called "competitors" programs have given me these insights is that they do not suffer from these mistakes.

How to Learn Something Important You Never Knew What is more important to your personal success, knowing HOW to do what it takes to succeed, or WHY you want to succeed? Is it the skill-set or your motivation? Are we talking about opinions or scientific research? Does This Help The LEFT frontal region of your brain is directly involved in experiencing POSITIVE emotions like laughter and happiness, while the RIGHT frontal region of your brain causes you to experience NEGATIVE emotions like fear and blame. Don’t say, So What - yet. Motivation Direction

“Seeing Aint Believing, & Talk Aint Cheap, Yes Really” • 1. Cliches are on auto-pilot in our brain, so there is NO left-brain analysis about what they really mean. • 2. Successful people do NOT wait until their GOALS materialize completely – before they add a Mustard-Seed of faith in beginning new behaviors. • 3. If we WAIT to see our goals in reality, before we believe in them, we are not motivated to learn new skills required to create our GOALS. Conclusion: “Believing-Is-Seeing!”

Five Minute Eye Exercise to Self-Help We Homo sapiens refuse to do things without a good reason. Why? Back two-thousand years ago, our ancestors were already skeptics, and it has become a human instinct and reflex. Why should I do what you say? Why should I believe you – you must have a vested interest – so tell me,rn(WIIFM) – What’s in it for me? Be patient! Control your need for (IG) Instant Gratification for 60-seconds. 1. “You can’t depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out-of-focus.”r

We constantly update the latest research on brain processing – and what it tells us about the simple – stupid, act of smiling is worth your time. Fact: you cannot think negative thoughts with a Echt (real) smile on your puss. Credit UCLA researchers with experiments proving the power of actively changing the muscles used on your facial expression. There are two-kinds of smiling – you gotta know the difference. 1. Pan-Am phony smile is just using the muscles of your mouth. It was invented by an old airline (Pan-Am) for their Flight-Attendants.

The Day I Forgot How To Breathe “Allergy season may be the worst ever. A monster allergy season is in store for Spring 2010, according to experts. Our alert allergy level is 10.7 out of arnmaxium of 12.0.” Providence (R.I.) Examiner. Fact: an allergen is a substance, often a protein that causes an allergic reaction from pollen-grasses-trees-dust-mold and some medications. Humans and some animals suffer fits of sneezing, coughing, vision problems and itchy throat during Spring and Fall from allergens. In NYC (my town) the forecast for Thursday 4.22.10 is 11.1 (out of 12.0).

How to be Outrageous And Win The Prize Called Mo… Do you delete 90% of your emails unread? Me too, because Clutter wastes my time and makes feel like a Mooch (patsy, jerk). What makes us stop to read the other unsolicited 10%? Curiosity, and the belief it may just give us Pleasure and help avoid Pain. A Bit of History We have been involved in teaching Speed Reading to students and executives since 1959. When the Internet went commercial October 25 1994, we were the one-and-only listing under Speed Reading.

How to Accelerate Performance of All Kinds – Fast • 1. Get this: According to the latest (11.09.12) neuroscientific research in Japan by Professor N. Sadato: “To the brain, receiving a compliment is as much a social reward as being rewarded with Money”. • 2. If you want better learning and increased long-term memory, from yourself, and others (team, family, associates), offer a direct compliment to individuals during an activity. Your words become Power Suggestions for improvement.

Why Resiliency Decides If You Get H1N1 Flu And Survive Yaacov Stern, professor at Columbia University Medical Center offers research that even though the brain has amyloidal plaques and neurofibrillary tangles –rnsigns of Alzheimer, patients with Cognitive Reserve will survive and thrive. Resiliency is a characteristic of folks who bounce back from disease, depression and chronic stress to enjoy life and its pleasures.

What is Associative-Conditioning And Who Cares? Have you checked out Mental Movies.com? Hold it – not yet. They use basic psychological laws to create new habits for success, health, and personal growth. It takes six-minutes daily and is corny, but it is the Real-Deal. I know you don’t believe in New Age rituals, me neither. Don’t be stubborn, you snooze, you lose. Mental Movies is the sleeper that breaks the rules. Disclaimer: we have absolutely NO financial affiliation with MM.

Ever hear of the term – autodidactic? Yes, it is important to understand this principle because it goes to the heartnof all learning for students, and continuous education for adults. Short and sweet, autodidactic is from Greek and means self-taught. It places the nresponsibility for ...

Didja Know Emotional Verbs We Read Affect Our Judgment? So What How important is persuading, influencing and convincing folks to your career and relationships? For me it hits 99% because we are social animals and work with others or present what we accomplish to others. Get this: seeing someone or an audience Smile, Laugh or Frown triggers the muscles in our own face to duplicate their emotional expression. How Come Fact: Facial expressions are genetically hardwired in our brain. They activate NonConsciously without our conscious imput.

Do You Zone-Out 46.9% of The Time (at your office)? Although I am a Contrarian (trained at law school) I have done the research about Mind-Wandering, Day-Dreaming and Zoning-Out. Result: you and I are OOI (Out Of It) a minimum of 30% (at school) to 47% of the time (at your career). Weird. Google: the jou al Science by Daniel T. Gilbert, Harvard University, Nov. 2010. So What Mind Wandering is a lack of attention and loss of comprehension. Like being seriously overweight – when I got on the scale I was dumbfounded with the reading.r

Can Self-Talk Implement Success or Failure? When you were a little kid, you probably talked out loud to yourself. Maybe you had an invisible playmate. Perfectly normal. Today you hold internal dialogues, but they are silent. A survey of scientists indicates it is common to ask questions and discuss possibilities between yourself, you, and your shadow. We test our ideas internally, even before make written or word processing notes. Problem/Solution is a standard format.

Speed reading is a necessary skill for everyone, as it allows you to read faster, be more productive on your work and save time. For increasing your reading speed you have to learn speed reading techniques and there are many of them. If you search internet for "speed reading tips" then you can find a number of ideas how to change your reading techniques for reading faster. It is true that speed reading is about many different methods and putting them all together to the reading process will give you maximum boost in reading speed.

Speed reading successfully requires you to train and use your eyes in new ways. All speed reading training covers some approach to getting the eyes to move more efficiently. Did you know that there are eye training methods that could actually be harmful? Here are some mistakes to avoid. 1. Focusing on eye span development exclusively. Speed reading does require the reader to learn to use the eyes more efficiently. Moving the eyes more fluidly and "attending" to more words for each fixation (stop of the eyes) is essential.

How to Dissolve Information-Overload Do you experience information-overload from too many daily emails, telephone calls, books, articles and reports? If your career is in the Knowledge Economy and requires updated information to stay competitive in your industry, you are rnsuffering chronic stress from constant interruptions and disruptions to your concentration. Numbers There are 310 million folks in the U.S. in December 2010. In the world, there are just under 7 billion people. Wait – we just hit one-billion people who use the

Why Kids Must Cheat in School When G.W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind law on January 8, 2002, he set the standard for test scores deciding the future for schools and students. Produce good test numbers or no government money. Deliver or perish was the message from Washington, D.C. Superintendents of school met with Principals, who held Town Halls with their Teachers, who gave an earful to students each-and-every-day.

How to Ace The 2010 Interview Common sense would tell us that a job interview whether for your first employment out of school or for CEO of a NYSE company, requires planning and research. This same famous - common sense - tells us that holding a seashell to our ear retains the sound of the ocean. Scientists disagree. Many believe you are hearing the sound of your own blood moving through your ear’s arteries and veins. Maybe not. Some scientists explain that the seashell (by the seashore) is really a resonating chamber.

Why Does Criticism Make You Successful? The #1 smartest thing Speed Reading teaches us is the power of Keep-It-Simple-Stupid. No insult intended – but we are all ignorant (dirt-stupid) about one-million vital causes-and-effects. We call it Knowledge-Challenged or Information-Overload. Did you know 92% of email readers (not just you and me) instantly delete the message when it becomes complex and incomprehensible for longer than 10rnseconds?

How to be Outrageous And Win The Prize Called Mo… Do you delete 90% of your emails unread? Me too, because Clutter wastes my time and makes feel like a Mooch (patsy, jerk). What makes us stop to read the other unsolicited 10%? Curiosity, and the belief it may just give us Pleasure and help avoid Pain. A Bit of History We have been involved in teaching Speed Reading to students and executives since 1959. When the Internet went commercial October 25 1994, we were the one-and-only listing under Speed Reading.

Can B-I-N-G-O Brainwash Homo sapiens? Have you noticed that newspapers and magazines are going belly-up? Statistics are very persuasive 1. More than 105 newspapers have crashed and burned in 2009. 2. Ten thousand jobs in jou alism have ceased and desisted in ’09. 3. National print ad sales have hemorrhaged up to 30%. Classified ads, the blood and heart of profits have shifted to Craig’s List. 4. Circulation has descended about 11% and dropping like a boulder. Where Are The Eyes Going Get this: 73% of U.S.

Imagine you are a parent of a 9 year old girl, a 13 year old boy, and a 19 year old. You know that their futures depend upon their ability to read and assimilate information, putting it into memory and into use. What are you going to do? You can double, and even triple reading speed, improve your test-taking ability, your memory and recall and develop many other success skills. Live courses for all three kids could cost upwards from $500, some courses are $675 per person.

Do You Start Yawning At 2:30pm And Finish At 5pm? If you are still breathing and own a TV you have viewed a commercial for 5-Hour Energy Drink. Each dose contains 2-ounces in five different berry flavors. This is an alte ative to coffee crashing with its tired, dopey, and sluggish feedback. Does this new gimmick work? Are there side effects, and when can I start?

“What Makes one Graduate Wealthy, and the others ‘only’ Average?” • 1. Me: “This is new research, December, 2013, by experts at MIT and Harvard. They say stuff about education that is brand-new. This is relevant to parents who care about their kids’ future.” • 2. You: “Does it apply to adults too?” • 3. Me: “Yes, if they are willing to learn a new approach to making knowledge pay-off in their career. Interested?” • 4. You: “But no Theory or Philosophy, just practical stuff I can use to help my 6 and 9 year old kids, right?”

How to Get Hired For The Right Slot – In This Economy Is it a scientific fact that whatever is measured – improves? Does Attention create Concentration and Comprehension, leading to learning strategies and a better working-memory? Your attention varies based on your motivation to learn and remember a particular subject. Bricklayers are rarely interested in learning Greek. They may be motivated to spend years to discover the intricacies of an internal combustion engine.

Don't you just marvel at people at work who talk about the books they read and what they learned? You think, "Good for them, they've got time to read. . . but I don't." Yes, time is certainly a factor but what's one of the best ways to make time? Make a commitment to others and meet regularly. In other words, create a business book club! Being a member of a business book club is the easiest, most fun way to get you to read while infusing your brain with usable information.

Many people do not believe they have the ability to read faster because if they had, they already would be reading faster. And, they've gotten so many years of proof (like taking their current age and subtracting 4 to 6 years) and that read in the same way --- yes for years! Not only is it a well established behavior pattern, but you also firmly believe that that's normal for you. And they also believe that if they try to read faster, they'll lose comprehension. Yes, too many people believe that by reading faster they'll lose their level of comprehension.

The big hullabaloo from Roland Emmerich's film 2012, and all the disaster films we've been seeing for the last 50-60 years or so is scaring the heck out of viewers. So badly are they scared of the end that they are watching the same movies of disaster, over and over, with different actors, different titles, and different producers - all aimed to scare you and empty your pockets. The World Isn't Coming To An End, it's just scary Hollywood, or Horrorwood - as some label it. It's coming to a transformation - and it's already started. Let's get real.

Why You Need to Crack Your Brain’s Neural Code For F-U-N! “I never win anything, got no friends, and hate school. Nothing is fun.” It was my 12 year old son blaming “me”, for his experiences with people, the environment, and his lack of F-U-N. • 1. I bit my tongue to avoid exposing my own resistance to his fit of self-pity. Frustration is not just for 12-year-olds. When I hear anxiety from those close to me, I become defensive, as if the blame is mine. And I use the “F” word.

How New Scientific Research Adds to Your Health And Longevity If you are like me about wild medical claims, you are a skeptic and contrarian and believe almost no authority or expert without proof. Sure there are breakthroughs, but the drug companies are the last one to believe. But then again there are exceptions to even the best rules. But what about stuff that sounds like good old common sense? Al Einstein said, “Common sense is just conventional wisdom with the prejudices we learned up to age 18.” So who do you believe? The Jou al of Applied Psychology, March 1, 2011

Do you want to read faster? I guess do you do so in at least some cases. Well, then turn pages faster. Sounds ridiculous? Actually, it does matter how much time you spend on paging. During my speed reading courses I have observed carefully how the trainees perform the reading exercises. I have noticed that different people spend considerably different amount of time on turning the pages. Most people can turn pages in one or two seconds, but some people waste too much time on it.

How would you like to remember 90% of what you read from anything? Including reading the newspaper, your favorite novel, business reports, your child's MySpace blog. How would you like to be able to read real fast? You can read maybe even three times faster and still remember almost everything you read. How would you like this to happen in just one single hour? Impossible? Not really! With Speedread America's Speed Complete Speed Reading Program, hundreds of thousands of people have done just that!

What started as a university lecture course has evolved into an affordable do-it-yourself course designed to make everyone "from stay-at-home moms and dads to administrative assistants to MBAs to CEOs" more valuable to their company in the form of The Complete Speed Reading Program. The Complete Speed Reading Program, Family Edition, contains four books (available both as a PDF download and "if desired" in print): Speed Read in Only One Hour teaches the basic techniques and has multiple reinforcement exercises.

Act-As-IF • 1. “To become a Master of SpeedReading, first, you must follow the William James law: Act as-if, Think as-if, FEEL as-if, & Believe as-if you are already a SpeedReading Brainiac.” • For the next few hours “be-an-actor”. How? Be a kid again and ‘play’ “Let’s Pretend!” • 2. “Why, I’m not seven years old?” • 3. “When you become an “actor”, learning a part (role) for a movie, tv or Broadway, you create a different “mindset” than being a student at a boring lecture.

How to Think Quickly And Why It Makes You Happier If you know this – you are one-in-two-million. What? If you are feeling depressed (discouraged, disheartened or distressed), you own a tool that works 100% of the time to extinguish the four Ds within 10-seconds. If you pay attention and practice, you may dissolve your distress permanently. Answer If you can put a fake smile on your puss and keep it there for up to ten-seconds, you cannot continue to feel Depressed (discouraged, disheartened or distressed).r

Nothing is worse for an avid reader and a love of books than having a child who hates to read. Reading to a child early in life will help them foster a love of reading and prepare them to read themselves, but sometimes not even that can be enough to foster a love of the written word. Reading parents know that aversion to reading will haunt their child for the rest of his life, making school harder making the rest of his or her life harder.

Can We Be Too Skeptical? Has your view about President Obama stayed the same since January 21st 2009, or moved under the wheels of the bus? How about some hard numbers by the poll with the most credibility? The public perception on President Barack Obama on January 21, ’09 was arn(wow!) 70% approval rate. The latest Gallup poll reports a lead weight drop to 50%. What about the Disapproval figures? The Gallup Disapproval statistic has motored uptown from 10% to 42%.

Everyone is trying to save money these days. Finding bargains is quickly turning into the Western worlds favorite pastime. A close second is doing anything that one can to make oneself invaluable to his or her employer. What would you pay for that next promotion? What would you pay to practically guarantee a raise? In todays global financial market, what would you pay for simple job security? Self-improvement classes of all types starts from $200 to $2,000 and offer mixed results and mixed promises.

How to Turn Your Brown Eyes - Blue: A Technique For Health & Longevity Stop: I lost you because you do not want to change the color of your eyes – right? It’s a metaphor, a figure-of-speech for turning the impossible on its little cabeza. Wait. Visual The secret I am revealing is best explained by Burt Goldman, the American Monk. He is all that and more. If you do not follow his “Dear Burt” on YouTube, you are yesterday’s news. Creative Imageryr

New Brain Research in 2009: How To Influence, Persuade and Convince 1. Fact: speak toward your listener’s RIGHT ear to overcome objections. It is wired to their left hemisphere and is accepted as logical and reasonable. 2. Fact: Focus on your listener’s LEFT facial side to read their emotions. The left side of their face is dominated by their right hemisphere and rnfocuses on how they feel about your idea, plan or proposal. Emotion shows. 3. Fact: each time you call your listener by their name, he/she gets a dose of Endorphins the pleasure hormone. So what?

Stress Causes Gain? What is your automatic Association and reaction when you read – “No-Pain”? Right, “No-Gain!” We are not talking about pumping-iron, yet it applies torncognitive learning. Most of us invent reasons not to do the repetitious practice,rn(home work) it takes to create personal Mastery of new skills The first step in the cure of excuse making is Awareness. Why? Homo sapiens like you and me live in a perpetual state of denial rnabout potential failure and rejection.

Do You Learn More From Failure or Success? Do you agree with these scientific statements? 1. We make conscious decisions 95%% of the time? 2. Emotions drive our behavior, and emotions are the seat (core) of our subconscious mind? 3. We learn more from our failures than our successes? Inquiring Minds Want to Know Number 1: (false) we are aware of making decisions only 5% of the time.

What’s The Probability? After many years of knowledge and experience, we still get questions that require research. It’s new to us, and we consult a specialist. 1. “Hey wise-guy, what is the difference between Probabilities and Odds? Answer: Probability is based on how Often a particular event will occur. Example: Probability of being dealt a King in your two Private Cards. Probability of a King is 4/52 or 1/13rn Make it easy, there are 52 cards, and a total of four Kings.r

When bicycle riding becomes a competition, then it could already be considered a sport. And road bicycle racing is one of the most popular sports that make use of a bicycle. This type of bicycle sport is held on roads according to a particular area’s geography with the use of racing bicycles. This sport involves competing riders which will start their ride all the same time where the winner will be the first one to reach the finish line. This sport is quite demanding physic

Are People’s Judgments Rational And Stable or What? 21st Century Science: If you are a lifelong learner and want a healthy mind-body connection and longevity, you have to consistently and persistently use your brain to keep learning. What does that really mean? How? Did you know up to half of folks over 80-years old either have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia? You are going to live into your nineties so a healthy brain and longevity matter to you, right?

What Still, Small Voice? What is Stream-of-Consciousness, and why should you care? Synonyms for stream-of-consciousness are: internal dialogue, self-talk, inner monologue, subvocalization, and the still-small-voice. Professor William James (1842-1910) physician, first U.S. psychologist, teaching at Harvard Medical School, coined the term meaning fragmented thoughts and sensory feelings flowing from our mind, without a filter. So What When you and I were little kids we often spoke our thoughts out loud without censoring them first.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Permanently Own LUCK, Accelerated Healing… We have received this hidden knowledge from the Guru-With-No-Name. He lives in India and visited the U.S. where he gifted us with these baby-easy Tapping Rhythms. He was instructed to do so by his Guardian Angel. If you are like me, your Skeptical Mind asks: what are these Tapping Rhythms GOOD for? Tell me - WIIFM? (What’s In It For Me? (You!) Guru gave us the Four Tapping Rhythms, for these energetic gifts & talents.

Not being one who quotes the Bible, gimme some slack. Mathews: 25:32-33. It says, the Sheep are given ete al life, but the Goats are cast into the Lake nof Fire. The Goats have some personality traits somebody up there does not like. They are capricious, arbitrary, and erratic, plus ...

Have you ever wished that you had more time in the day? I know I have. Time is something we can never have enough of. There’s simply too much to do, and too little time to do it! Having said that, take a simple task like reading. We take it for granted that the speed at which we read is going to remain the same. In fact most of us don’t even think about whether our reading speed is ever likely to change! Well, with new techniques and tactics, one can double their reading speed and slash their reading time, in virtually no time!

William James, professor at Harvard, (1842-1910d), at the turn ofnthe 20th century, is an American psychology icon. He has morenquotes attributed to him than Mark Twain. A century later hisnphilosophy of "act-as-if", stands up under fMRI (functional MagneticnResonance Imagery), as a valuable ...

How to Shrink Insomnia to 55 Seconds If you are over the age of 35 you already have an intimate relationship with Insomnia. Sleep difficulties are SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). From Latin “somn” means sleep, and “in” translates to Not! I asked a class of 30 high schoolers if they ever experienced stress or insomnia at age 16. There was a tone in my voice that whispered the obvious answer was a big –rn“Of course not – that’s for old people like you!”

Would You Do This Two-Minute Breathing Exercise to Live Years Longer? For five thousand years the Hindus have paid attention to flushing their Lymphatic System by specific exercises. The question is whether it is rnworthwhile for you and me. You be the judge of this baby-easy experiment. Lymph is a clear, yellow, alkaline fluid, bathing and surrounding each and every cell of our body. Your body contains twice as much Lymph, as blood circulating.

(Don’t Laugh) - Can Specific Words Change Your Body’s Behavior? The latest neuroscience research makes skeptics nervous. And you and I are both skeptics, right? The normal (standard) mind-body connection for interpersonal communication is? All information transfer between humans is managed by our five (5) senses. If I cannot see, hear, touch or feel it, smell or taste it – I don’t accept it. Now that’s standard science like cause-and-effect. Maybe not.

What Is Your Competitive Advantage? Bank of America is repaying the U.S. Treasury its $45 billion TARP loan. What does TARP stand for? A recent survey found only 5% could define the Acronym (word from first letters of words) – Troubled Asset Relief Program. So what? Who cares? Is the ability to learn a power skill in our Knowledge Economy? Maybe more so than the 1920s when 50% of the U.S. economy was based on agriculture? B of A went to the equity market and raised $19.29 billion for this governmentrnpayoff, the rest they had in their piggy bank.

Monograph - A Breakthrough in Reading - 1960 Evelyn Wood, Dynamics Reading Institute To destroy the Western tradition of independent thought, it is not necessary to burn the books. All we need to do is to leave them unread for a generation or two. Robert M. Hutchins If you could read a ...

“These Experiences Impact Your Annual Income.” • 1. “But Pop, I get Bored fast. Don’t say it, ‘I have a limited attention-span’. I remember. A goldfish has 9-seconds, and my generation has only 8. Tell me something I can use.” • 2. “I’ll tell you some stuff I learned this week Online. You stop me if it’s irrelevant to your life. Just the top-5.” • 3. “Yeah, a Chinese menu. I like options, multiple-choice & learning, if-it-doesn’t-put-me-to-sleep.” • 4. “Why is it better for you to see yourself as the Underdog in school and at-work? Even in relationships and in making money?”

“Are you Saying We See With our EARS?” • 1. “I showed my teenager Mike, this new scientific research that came to a weird conclusion about how we SEE. • 2. “Pop, I don’t get it. We don’t just see with our eyes, the retina part, they say past experience and our expectation change the visual info, huh?” • 3. “That’s why I’m showing to you. It is weird science. Should you believe it? Yes, neuroscientists for the last 5-years have been saying that Reading is Hearing overriding just Seeing.”

When you are starting to learn speed reading one of the common mistakes the learner makes is trying to read faster by speeding up what they already do. This approach may bring some gain, but they will be short lived. Here's how to overcome this mistake. The learner gives up simply because this approach is exhausting. It can not be maintained over extended periods. Think of a day when you woke up late and had to rush to get out of the house. If you have to do that all the time, you burn yourself out. Almost all speed reading programs will begin with some form of visual eye-span training.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------rn“Can Two-Minutes Produce Up To Six-Hours Of Energy?” • 1. “Would you spend two-minutes programming a new thought & emotion into your Mind - if you had experiential proof it delivers your Goals?” • 2. “Things you set as goals & work for, are almost always producing – ‘What-You-Want’ in-your-relationships-and career.” Your consistent thoughts & emotions create your most important behaviors & success.

Whatever is reinforced - improves. Praise raises the probability of a behavior being repeated. Two rules govern human existence: the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain (punishment). How? One is called Operant (operating) Conditioning and the second, Behavior Modification (B-Mod). Wait. We want to influence, persuade and convince others to modify their behavior tornfavor us, and we want to improve our own behaviors for personal growth in health, success and better relationships, right?

My Favorite Two Words R – So What? One of my law professors once called me a Miscreant, and Irncould not get mad until I looked it up. It turns out I was evil, depraved, wicked, and base. Wait – immoral, degenerate, a villain, and a rascal. Latin: beyond belief. It was political. Get this: words are not just empty, random letters arbitrarily constructed. Hearing, reading, speaking emotional words (positive-negative-neutral) involuntarily trigger our brain into moods and behaviors. Hardwired or conditioned? Why should you believe me?

Why Guilt Feelings Are Required For Learning And Success a) “It’s not my fault, he started it.” b) “Don’t get mad at me, I couldn’t help myself.” c) “My genes made me do it.” Speed Reading is a requirement for success. Temptation We expect to see kids give into temptation and be impulsive. Sort of like obese people and the sight of chocolate.

“Why You Should Know “Subliminal-Smiling” & “Deconstruction” of The Elements of Speed Reading 3x.” • 1. “If you’re such a ‘smart-ass’, teach me how to get more tips in my Summer job,” asked my son’s girlfriend. • 2. “You don’t want to know the physical actions, just “how-to”. Answer: it’s called “Subliminal-Smiling”. • 3. “I already know how to smile, that cannot work.” • 4. “When people catch you smiling, as a part of your personality, they figure it’s “phony”, and go negative. Subliminal-Smiling is a ‘millisecond’, and seen out of ther

Analyzing A Whole Brain Thinker in Action What does selling shoes have to do with using your whole brain effectively? Nothing if you are merely trying to sell shoes. But if you are someone like Tony Hsieh of Zappos, selling shoes is merely the starting point of something with much greater significance and implications.All your important decision making ultimately has more significance that you normally take for granted. Important decisions carry long term consequences that are often overlooked and not discovered except in hindsight.

The Secret strategy of Buzzing of The Bees We trained a NYC atto ey in Tripling (3x) his Speed Reading and Doubling his long-term memory. That was not what he emailed us about. One of the side-issues in the 12 hours of sessions includes a strategy called The Buzzing of The Bees. This is a simple strategy that most students and executives totally ignore. It was created by a French Psychologist called Emile` Coue` (pronounced Quay) in 1922. So What Please pay attention and see if you can mentally visualize this powerful procedure. But what is it for?

What would you do if you found yourself with an extra hour a day? Would you get a jump on the next day's projects? Would you use it to work on that never-ending honey-do list? Would you use that extra hour to ensure you would have an extra hour every day to make yourself invaluable to your employer, your spouse, or your community? Whether you are a stay-at-home mom or a CEO, chances are if you are "at least at certain times during the year" required to do extensive reading for your job.

Would You Invest Six-Minutes Daily For Health & Longevity? Have you ever noticed that you and I require Immediate Gratification in order to continue doing daily rituals and practices - for our own best interest? How long can you stick to a diet before falling off the wagon? How about daily physical exercise? My number is about 7 days. Question: how can we have Immediate Gratification if it takes practice and repetition to develop Mastery-Autonomy-Purpose of new skills? Fact: the smallest new habit requires 21 consecutive days of usage to put itrnon Auto-Pilot.

True or False: “There Are Two-Strategies I Can Do At My Desk to Rejuvenate Me.” • 1. “You decide after you do a mind/body experiment.” • 2. “I like being the judge & jury.” • 3. “The first exercise is called “Friction” and changes your brainwaves (ElectroMagnetic Field), leading to a high better “vibrational frequency.” You expand the fixed boundaries of your “comfort-zone”. • 4. “Sounds too complicated. What’s your definition of my ”Comfort-Zone?”

Your Eyes Begin to “Age” After 30: Discover a New Baby-Easy Strategy To Improve Them – Permanently – Into your Nineties. • 1. NeuroScience: School teaches us to read one-word-at-a-time, while hearing the words in our mind. We reinforce it daily from age 6 to 30. • “So what?” • 2. We can never read faster than we can speak, but we do think five-times faster than we read. Result: you get bored easily. You let random (daydreaming) thoughts, distract & slow, both your learning & memory.

A Secret About the Reading-Code Can Reading More – Help You Live Up to 10 Years Longer? * Can Reading More - Help You Reduce The Risk of Alz Up To 60%? * The average college graduate in the U.S. reads one (1) book a year reluctantly. He/she hates reading, learning, and education. Here’s why: America’s educated class reads text like a snail crossing the highway –rns-l-o-w-l-y. We’re talking about lawyers, CPAs, physicians, and other professionals. They read complex text (not sexy novels) as low as 100 words per minutes, to a maximum of 200 wpm.

“If You Hate Popeye, Squinting & Smiling, Forgettaboutit”. • 1. “I find your columns boring and mostly irrelevant, but you have wandered off the cliff when you drag in Exodus 3:14. What on-this-planet does the Bible have to do with your damn SpeedReading101? • 2. Oh yeah Professor, your Squinting and Smiling did help me trigger Peripheral Vision, and upped my reading speed 80%, and double my long-term memory. But why throw the damn Bible in my face?”

“What is the Two-Letter Word that Your Brain Considers a Threat to Your ‘Survival’? • 1. “It took the invention (1999) of the fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) to show your Brain changes for the ‘worse’ - when it Sees, Hears or even rnreads the word: No!” • 2. “That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard you say, Pop. I use the word ‘no’, all-the-time, and hear it from everyone, including You! 24/7.” • 3. “If you remember this, you will learn (if you implement it) the secret of “Influence-Persuasion-Conviction in business, at-work, at-home, and creating financial-wealth.”

Yoga Eye Exercises Help Double Reading Speed If you get bored by these facts about your eyes, hang in because coming up are baby-easy two-minute exercises to improve your vision to function up tornninety-five years. Have you noticed that many Seniors past eighty years old, read with glasses as thick as the bottoms of Coke bottles? It is statistically true that NOT the legs, but the eyes go first. We have seen test results of Senior adults who executed daily Yoga eye exercises, and the control group who let nature take its course. Four-to-one.

The Ophthalmologist answered: Floaters are bits of protein that pass along your retina like spots on a leopard. Past age 65 everyone has them. But when they are a new event for you, it may be a sign of Detached Retina. Are they ever a symbol of an Aha! Experience? He answered with a question, ...

Jim Rohn Lives Do you believe in the power of personal growth and lifelong change for the better? Wait. That you can improve your core knowledge and personal experiences up to age 93? Well, maybe? Now please read on. December 10, 2009: neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Timothy Keller and Marcel Just submitted their research to be published in the Neuron jou al. The human brain can physically rewire itself through 100 hours of intensive rninstruction. Yes Virginia, you can fix broken brain circuits by behavioral training. So what?

How do we read books? It may seem that there is nothing special in it. We take a book, open it from the first page and read it till the end of it. That is the way most of us do and actually it is an inefficient way to read books. It will result in relatively poor reading speed and low comprehension. Have you ever watched professional athletes train or compete? No matter if it is basketball, tennis player or weight-lifting, athletes always perform some warm up exercises before training or competition. It probably includes some jogging, bends and stretches etc.

Did Ya Know This One? Play along with me – which of these motivators beats the rest to excite executives? a) Money b) promotions c) respect d) personal satisfaction Wait. One got 45% rating; the runner up got 29%, next motivator got 18%, and last and maybe least, got only 5%. Credibility: the leading Personnel and executive search company – Monster.carnsurveyed 6,624 unrelated corporate personnel. So What You deal with peers and have personal relationships, right?

Is Our Brain in Conflict? No trick question – Professor Emmanuel Donchin, University of Illinois says, “99% of cognitive activity may be NonConscious.” Weird? Google it. His research stands for our Conscious (cognitive-thinking brain) is subordinate to ourr NonConscious brain by a country mile. Please follow me because it matters. We are talking about the difference between our Conscious (logical, reasoning, planning) Left-Hemisphere, and our spatial, pattern recognition, imaginingr Right-Hemisphere.

Is Einstein Right About Miracles? First things first, I know nothing about Einstein’s E=mc2. So I researched this much. Matter and energy are different forms of the same thing. One can be turned into the other. Oh yeah, “C” stands for the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second. Why “C”? It Comes from Latin, the initial letter of Celeritas, meaning - speed. Picture a stalk (piece) of Celery with little Toes (Celeri + Tas) and see the ‘Celery-with-toes’ flying around the room at 2,000 miles per hour – and link it to ‘speed’, ‘C’, and ‘Celeritas’.

Scary Experiences & Pain Are Gone in 30-Seconds • 1. “Gettoutahere!” you are Not a medical doctor, psychologist, or ophthalmologist, what the hell do you know about pain removal or trauma?” - he yelled at me. • 2. “Right-on. I suggest you go to your physician, or get a referral to a psychiatrist or an eye-specialist for your ailment. I got enough difficulty with five new contracts, and Speed Reading101 training workshops.” • 3. This conversation was important because we have a disclaimer on everything we do. We aint doctors, and what we teach is informational, not meant for treatment.r

Does this make sense? 1. The first thing we do before we read or listen to an expert is examine his/her credentials – sorry, but I am a born and legally trained skeptic and contrarian. 2. Test it myself. Do the specific Mind and Physiological experiment on myself. 3. If it works and is safe from side effects, we ask participants to do these “mind experiments” using the same strategies. They report back their results. About us The undersigned has been involved in speed reading since around 1959.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Should You Push yourself to “Speed-Up? • 1. “But Dr. Franklin, what good is your new invention of Electrics?” • 2. “Dear Lady, what good is a new-bo baby?” • 3. Get it? We just don’t know in advance the weird “apps” the little computer will run. Will it save “time”, make us creative, or just make ‘millions’. And it may just flop there like the beached-whale at Jones Beach. • 4. Forget philosophy and theory, we are practical people who need a problem to solve before we start something.r

Could You Make One Positive Change? Do you have a seer, mentor or commentator you automatically believe based on past experience? It is called the Law of Association – meaning there is ar LINK, joining and union with their ideas or beliefs. Association (from Latin) means soci(us) – partner or comrade. So What? We Homo sapiens work 24/7 to find people and ideas that make us comfortable, enforce the status quo, and are predictable. What does that describe? Repetition. Even the word sounds boring, but it is the mother of learning, habit and memory.

Have you ever experienced a situation when you are in a hurry but your guests just do not want to go away from your office or home? They keep talking and talking about different topics, but your time is running. You have so much work to do, but you can’t do it because you have visitors. What should you do? The problem is that when your visitor is sitting on a chair or a sofa then he is less likely to leave. If he is sitting on a comfortable sofa then he may forget himself sitting in pleasure.

What is The Chain-Reaction For Personal Success If you learn this baby-easy system to use your electromagnetic field RHYTHM consciously – you have a strategy to change (improve) almost anything and everything in your life. Right, and cows can fly and drop off their milk! What is your Rhythm? First, we have a rhythm for everything we love and a different one for everything we dislike. Wait – do you want change in your life of health-money-better relationships? If you can switch to a positive (love) rhythm to things you hate in your life, you change your thinking,r

Why Air-Writing Doubles Your Long-Term Memory You have seen kids play the AIR (make-believe) guitar, while listening to music. Strangely, each time they ACT like performers playing a genuine guitar – they IMPRINT the music and fingering on their long-term memory. How come? They are using V-A-K, the three most powerful human senses, Vision-Auditory-Kinesthetic (touch). The brain principle is: the greater number of senses you use to learn and remember, the easier your future recall and access of specific knowledge and information from memory. So What

No matter what you do for a living, whether you’re self-employed or working a 9-5 job, there is one universal truth in business – you have to keep learning and honing your skills in order to get ahead and stay competitive in the marketplace. This fact has only become more evident with the current state of our economy. Job security no longer exists. The employees that survive the layoffs must adapt and learn new tactics in order to stay on the payroll. Those who are unempl

What Are Money-Players? Cliché: “the rich get richer, and the poor have babies.” In sports many of the same faces win the MVP awards, batting titles, and play in the All-Star game again-and-again. They bat .300 con-sistently, way more than the average big-league player, In Texas Hold’Em poker, the most popular game of poker in the world, the same “money-players” win the tou ament gold-bracelets rntime-and-time-again. If they don’t win first prize, they share the money by coming second or third. Second can pay one-million dollars.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Luck is a Skill you Can Double (2x), And Win at Texas Hold’em – Consistently Our research asked Law School seniors what they learned to use from law school in their relationships, and private lives. 1. To ask of everything: “Who Cares?” (Relevance) 2. “So What?” (WIIFM) What’s In It For Me? 3. Can you PROVE it? Show me the evidence. There’s more. One of our professors said, “AGE only matters with Cheese-Steak-and 20-year old Scotch. Keep on trucking regardless of your years.”

If You’re Grounded, Your Left & Right Brains Are in Alignment For Winning • 1. Get This: everything else depends on it! Human folk are living in the PAST or the Future (in-their-head) about half-their-waking-hours (46.5%) of the time. “Not-grounded” is triggered by Daydreaming, & mind-wandering. • 2. Define: “being grounded”. Living in the “here-and-now, & exclusively in the living-Present. Three-things: you’re aligned, balanced, and centered into ACTIVE consciousness.

Use These “3”, & Your Willpower Makes You a Brainiac • 1. “Tell me what makes SpeedReading101 work.” • 2. “You control the three (3) elements of your life, & work them. Do you really care, or just want to focus on the “take-away”, the end-results?” • 3. “If I’m going to be an expert “instructor” to corporate executives, I really want the “theory” behind SpeedReading101.” • 4. “Simplicity means how to explain a complex subject so that a smart 10-year-old kid gets it.” Here are the three (3) parts that produce SpeedReading101. Get-it-now.

Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule Do we see reality as it is, or as we feel at the time? Don’t we all believe that we are objective - while others are emotional? The world is right-brained and only I am rational and left-brained? Wait. In a scientific study of physicians – 90% stated confidently they were in the top 10% in knowledge and effectiveness. Aren’t half of them average? No one rated himself or herself in the lower half. They were shocked to lea 33% of them were ranked below average by their hospital administration

Are There Five Streams of Consciousness That Run Us? You probably know Home sapiens come with a switchboard between our left and right brain to process new sensory information. Remember its name and you win arnprize – Corpus Callosum (Latin for firm body). You and I hold conferences and Q&A sessions with one or more of our five (5) Section Chiefs in order to problem-solve make important decisions, reading and thinking.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What Picture Comes to Mind With The Word, Synchronicity? If you have to stop and analyze it – Latin: combining Syn (together) with Chronos (time), like I do, and still cannot get a handle on it, read on, it’s a really hot, powerful word. One of the fathers of psychology, Carl Jung, concocted the term after he experienced some ‘weird- weirder-weirdest’ stuff in his psychoanalytic practice. Synchronicity is reserved for events occurring against-the-odds. Fancyr

What is Peripheral Vision? Normal, everyday vision is called Central vision, it produces high resolution vision. So what? We use it for reading, TV, internet, and driving. Anything requiring maximum acuity (sharpness) of vision requires Central (foveal) vision.

Why Paying Attention Is The Only Thing When Vince Lombardi, star football coach was asked about winning in 1959, he said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” So what? Reading is everything and it is also the only thing to learn Math and Science. Even Engineering and Computer-Science depend on reading to understand the problem and then attempt to solve it. It aint funny, but bear with me, “Our family was so poor when I was a kid, we couldn’t afford to PAY attention in school.” When you don’t pay attentionr

Why Your Voice is King-Kong to Your Left & Right Brain, & Wins Your Present-Goals, & Influences Others to Follow Your Directions. 1. Your Tone (deep or high voice), and your Pitch (smooth or rough voice), is what often convinces people to follow your suggestions or not. We all luv the sound of a D-E-E-P and Smooth voice. • 2. We are all convinced that folks judge our arguments (suggestions & beliefs) based on our WORDS – what we say, our meaning. That’s statistically only 17% of our appeal. • 3. Please remember that 55% of how people judge us, is how wer

Are There Five Universal Questions For Success? Homo sapiens are left tongue-tied and brainless under emotional rntsunamis like failure-rejection-defeat (loss of love-occupation-health). When we most need input from our PreFrontal Cortex, Executive (Top-Down) Brain with reason-logic-meaning – there is Nada – Nothing – Nobody Home. Have you ever experienced the feeling of worthlessness after a career termination, rejection in school, or the loss of an emotional relationship?

Can These Two-Minute Rituals Improve Your Health & Longevity? This baby-easy anaerobic (no oxygen required) exercise at your desk can reduce your waistline and improve your blood circulation.

Do you read the first three or four sentences of an article or report,and stop to ask (internal dialogue) the two-word valuation question,Who Cares? Fifty percent of us decide Go/No-Go based on the headline alone. How about the powerhouse question, WIIFM? (What is In It For Me?) I do it all the ...

“Our Licensees “Do-Good-Works!” While “Earning Real-Good” • 1. Would you like to profitably help the 30% who drop-out of high school & college annually? You’d be improving lives & helping families live the-American-Dream. • This Work-At-Home niche has an audience of thousands in your county & towns. How many Community-Four-Year & Graduate schools teach in your area? (see: www.speedreading101.org) Call Gene, 1-877-567-2500 • 2. The #1 reason for ‘dropping-out’ of school is Not lack-of- finances. It’s inability to keep up with daily homework assignments in their core subjects.

A lot of reading strategies is adopted by the speed reader to accomplish his goal of reading fast. Among many of the strategies are word for word, fast reading, reading faster and so on. However, the most effective strategy to accomplish speed reading is the thought unit. In this strategy, the reader reads group of words simultaneously as singular ideas. He forms the habit of mentally grouping words as ideas and concludes reading in an amazing short time span. He does not rea

Speed reading is a skill that elevates the level of comprehension, understanding, absorption of material, and overall ease of scanning information that can affect a wide range of life factors. The skill of reading is one that encourages higher school marks, fosters a better-prepared employee, and catapults some into international fame. Each year, contestants gather for the World Championship Speed Reading Competition, which assesses comprehension as a vital part in the speed

Learning to speed read can be a daunting challenge for those who want to master the skills in the very beginning. One of the biggest limiting factors of traditional reading is that as adults we read with a see-say-hear-know method known as subvocalization. It limits the speed you read to the speed of your voice. But when starting out to learn speed reading, too much attention is given to this habit, and not on learning how to replace it.

Does Science Admit Being Wrong? Do human cells have a memory different than our standard neural (brain) recall? According to Skepdic.com a contrarian organization that exposes urban myths offering facts without researched scientific proof. They state, Cellular Memory is a speculative notion ...

How to Use Your Voice to Influence-Persuade-Convince Others • 1. “Tell me something Pop, how much does good-looks, intelligence, and money affect how women see me?” • 2. “You want the psychology or neuroscience answer? Not much, maybe 15%. You didn’t name the Killer-Factor that others consciously and subconsciously Judge you by.” • 3. “Tell me, don’t keep it a secret, Pop.” • 4. “Just listen, don’t tell me you know better. This is based on 25 years of proven science, using fMRI scanning. Hold your water – it’s your Voice.” • 5. “No way. And don’t say, ‘Yes-way!”

When learning to speed read, the saying that a little information can be a dangerous thing still applies. Consider the term "eye-span." Even though I've been teaching people from all walks of life how to speed read for 30 years, I have only recently received many questions about it. For new learners coming into my programs, the question keeps coming up early in training. I don't even use the term in my training. The new learner has read something about it somewhere. There is too much conce for it though.

Speed Reading: Got Belief? If you are like me, you are not 100% sure whether the sun rises in the east or the west? I am weak in science and math, and have no intention of improving. Why? Because I am strong in law, clear headed analysis, and business acumen. Recently I saw a commercial by ...

What’s The Secret of Speaking to a Group & Convincing Them? My teenager Michael, asked me to help him improve his Talk for Class President. • 1. “Mike, there are two-things that rivets our attention other than Ben Franklins ($100) falling from the sky.” • 2. “In my circles $10 bills would do it, Pop.” • 3. “The sound of our own name, and the words, “You-Your-Yours”, meaning ourselves, right?” • 4. “Sure, we are in love with ourselves, and I get interested in anything that will make my life easier & better.”

6 Quick Tips on Improving Reading RecallnnnDo you find yourself having to re-read a paragraph you just read? Do you have trouble remembering what you read just yesterday? Here are some easy exercises you can do to put a stop to this time wasting endeavor of information overload.nn1. Turn to the editorial page of your daily newspaper. Read the lead editorial. What’s the major point the editor is making? Is it reflected in the title of the piece? Rewrite the title to reflect

Speed Reading: Got Learning Skills? How smart am I, when I just typed illiteracy with one L instead of two? Do Inqualify as a certified illiterate? Nyet - because I have the spelling knowledge and corrected the mistake when I saw it. Tell me if you know that 10% of the U.S. population of 306 ...

If You Know How to Arouse Curiosity, You Win the Prize • 1. Science tests, everybody else – guesses without proof. If you want super success in school & your career, do the research. • 2. We tested ‘Subject Lines’, the email “message” we all use to decide if we Delete-or-Read. Ten-thousand decisions later we learned that “curiosity” is the moving-force. • 3. “Facts tell, while ‘curiosity’ sells.” In deciding to open or delete an email, the Subject Line causes us to lean-in and pay attention, or roll on to the next.

Body Language is Critical to Success By H.Bernard Wechsler March 12 2012 Body Language is Your Competitive Advantage The right Questions lead you to winning solutions 1. Visual Image: Do you look like an expert? Don’t we all expect arnlawyer, doctor, professor, computer-nerd, teenager, to dress and look the part? When they don’t, we mentally question their credentials. 2. Eye-Contact: it is a subconscious, hereditary force. If I cannot see your eyes, you are sneaky, and dangerous. Eye-contact is the basis folks rndecide to trust you, or not. More is better than less.

The Universe has many laws that people understand, but I'm going to talk to you about the opposite of the Law of Attraction, the Secret that everyone has been talking about for 3 years now. There is an unspoke Law of Repulsion and since no one knew much about it, I figured I'd discover it.

If You Can Fake a Smile For 17 Seconds, You Control How You Feel • 1. “It’s not what we don’t-know that does us in. It is what we ‘do’ know, that isn’t so, like facts, rules & principles.” • 2. If we all knew everything about “smiling & laughing”, why would the University of Kansas (7.30.12), Lund University (Sweden), 9.08, University of Maryland (Med School), 8.28.12,rn& Loma Linda University (Cal.) 4.10.08, continue to do research?

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Why “Use-It-Or-Lose-It”, Can Buy You More Years You are going to live into your 90s, if you don’t get run down by a municipal bus. We want them to be healthy, fun, & productive years. So what? We want to avoid Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. • Here’s the latest research of baby-easy additions to your life to win the game of longevity. • 1. Use a spice in your food that is common in Indian Curry dishes. “Tumeric” is the spice that contains the essential ingredient, “Curcumin”. It is also sold as an additive in pill-form.

Actors & The Laws of Memory I sat at this Broadway Theater and saw an impossible one-man show. Impossiblenbecause the actor recited his lines for 90 minutes without making one (1) memory mistake. Can you imagine you-or-me reciting Shakespeare from memory withoutnreading off a prompting ...

Most people assume that the eyes glide smoothly from left to right when they read. But what the eyes actually do is to move in little jumps. There are 130 million light receivers at the back of the eye, in an area no larger than a thumbnail. Each light receiver decodes hundreds of light bundles of energy per second. Some cells respond to specific colours, others to overall light intensity. At the centre of the retina is the fovea where 2,000 cones and rods are crammed into a space less than a tenth of a millimetre square.

A favorite pastime of mine is to ask people what it means to “speed read?” Invariably the more people I ask, the more different answers I get. Usually their answers have something to do with reading faster than they currently do. Rarely does someone include in the definition mentioning comprehension, or understanding printed material along with the speed. Unfortunately if you do not understand material while reading it, then it is not reading! In fact, one of the most often questions I get conce s the possibility of comprehending at fast speeds, especially speeds over 600 words per minute.r

How Ben Franklin Invented Speed ReadingnAnd How it Can Improve Your Productivity There are six secret strategies to reading and remembering three (3)nbooks in the time others can hardly finish one. In the 300 millio U.S. population, only 20% are interested in personal growth, if younare one of ...

Speed reading success requires you to understand and embrace certain qualities of your mind if you are to succeed. Due to the radically different approach and necessary new behaviors, an unprepared learner can easily give up. Rather than to succumb to this premature emotional reaction, speed reading success demands that we appreciate the natural reaction of our mind to new and different ways of behaving, and do something about it.

“How Daydreaming Success, Overcomes Impulsive Acts” • 1. “Pop, what’s with this stuff on “immediate-gratification”, and impatience? Doesn’t every sane person want “it” now, not later?” • 2. “You wanna fight or hear the latest neuroscience. Good. When you’re a little kid, you don’t analyze, and want it now, and give up the future. Mature folks will give up the present benefit, if the future” reward” is worth it.” • 3. “The only we know for sure is what is in my hand. The future is not guaranteed, huh?”

One of the most frequently questions I get before someone starts a speed reading course with us is, "How do I stop subvocalization?" Beginning learners also ask.

“How You Can Read-&-Remember 300-pages-daily - Like JFK, LBJ, Nixon & Carter.” • 1. Bill Gates: “What I want? To be able to read, superfast!” • 2. Warren Buffet: “I’ve wasted ten (10) years reading slowly.” • 3. My partner, Evelyn Wood, the creator of Speed Reading, trained the White House Staffs of four U.S. Presidents. • 4. We signed an agreement with JFK, LBJ, Nixon & Carter - Not to Advertise that each of these four Presidents took our “SpeedReading” workshops.

Body Language is Critical to Success By H.Bernard Wechsler March 12 2012 Body Language is Your Competitive Advantage The right Questions lead you to winning solutions 1. Visual Image: Do you look like an expert? Don’t we all expect arnlawyer, doctor, professor, computer-nerd, teenager, to dress and look the part? When they don’t, we mentally question their credentials. 2. Eye-Contact: it is a subconscious, hereditary force. If I cannot see your eyes, you are sneaky, and dangerous. Eye-contact is the basis folks rndecide to trust you, or not. More is better than less.

“Why StressBusting Can Reduce Your Anxiety & Help Ace Your Career.” • 1. “But is this meditation stuff “practical” or just hot-air?” • 2. “Let’s keep it simple, unless you’re a “Brainiac” & have to know where the “feet-grow-from”. Go to: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, lead author, Fadel Zeidan. Read itr At Jou al, Social Cognition & Affective Neuroscience.” • 3. “Summarize it please.” • 4. “This is the first Proof that a short relaxing meditation can activate your brain to reduce stress & anxiety. How much? Up to 39%, and that has serious positive consequences.”

Nothing is worse for an avid reader and a love of books than having a child who hates to read. Reading to a child early in life will help them foster a love of reading and prepare them to read themselves, but sometimes not even that can be enough to foster a love of the written word. Reading parents know that aversion to reading will haunt their child for the rest of his life, making school harder making the rest of their life harder.

10. Skim Before Your Read - Speed read for main ideas in nonfiction works and textbooks. Scan the table of contents and first and last sentences of each paragraph. You'll improve your reading speed and comprehension if you understand a book's main ideas first. After you've skimmed the material, ...

Want a Two-Minute Strategy to Win Your Goals – Now? • 1. Research by Dr. T. Temple Tutler, Cleveland University, indicates that chanting (repetition of a sound or word) produces serious physiological effects. How long? Minimum of Two-Minutes. • 2. Chanting a meaningless sound (Ex. Shreem or Kleem) in a UP & DOWN (divided) tone (ex. SH-H-REE & EM, or Klee-e & Em-m) causes the following: lowers your blood pressure, normalizes your heart beat, balances your brainwaves, lowers Adrenalin & Cholesterol. And it attracts your present GOALS into your life.

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Speed Reading .Speed Reading is a reading technique that allows for the assimilation of several words or phrases at a glance. Ed Caldwell is The Official Guide to Speed Reading . Breakthrough Rapid Reading , by Peter Kump, is a valuable resource for people interested in Speed Reading Programs , and it is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble . n The former National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Readin

How to Raise Your Tolerance For Frustration The CEO walked into the meeting with the banknofficials requesting a line of credit of 2 billionndollars. He had the assets to justify the loan andnthe company had a past history of repaying all their loans. His application was rejected because the ...

What Are the Top-Ten Worst Human Fears? Who cares? Inquiring Minds must know. #10. is the mind-boggling fear of Public Speaking and being unprepared.rn# 9. is the stomach-chu ing fear of Heights and maybe falling off the roof.rn# 8. is the panic attack by the thought of Claustrophobia (locked in a small space).rn# 7. is creepy insects like roaches, spiders and bedbugs.rn# 6. is Dr. Frankenstein inserting a 2-foot Needle (hypodermic) in our ….rn# 5. is the touch of Rats chewing on your body. rn# 4. is not flying, but crashing while a passenger in an Airplane.r

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Speed Reading .Speed Reading is a reading technique that allows for the assimilation of several words or phrases at a glance. Ed Caldwell is The Official Guide to Speed Reading . Triple Your Reading speed , by Wade E. Cutler, is a valuable resource for people interested in Speed Reading Training , and it is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble . n This fourth edition of Triple Your Reading Speed does just th

Bill Smith, the manager and team leader at a Fortune 500 company rarely hires young recruits. He doesn’t trust them to make the right business decisions. He’s not prejudice, and has made young hires in the past, but it just didn’t work out. “Young executives just ...

One simple question: would you be willing to invest a few minutes right now to save an hour a day for the rest of your life? To read a book twice as fast as you can now? To get through the morning paper in minutes? To absorb those reports, Web pages, e-mails, journals, and magazines with less stress and more enjoyment?n nYou can, and it is actually easy. All you need is a timepiece (a kitchen timer that counts down to a beep works best) and a willingness to explore a new way

As you sit down to study for a big test or finally decide to consume 500 pages of encyclopedia information - imagine how convenient it would be to digest the information at a faster rate. Speed reading is a helpful technique that allows one to complete more books, magazines, and other publications and texts than ever before. Depending on the software or other training program encountered, a variety of methods can effectively elevate the rate of reading and comprehension for a

You've decided to learn about speed reading and maybe pursue a program to change your outdated skills to a level that can help you better cope with today's massive overload of information. You're excited! You read some information about learning to move your eyes more efficiently. You may even start practicing. Then it dawns on you: you've moved through several pages of print and you have no idea what the material is about. What should you do?

Woody Allen famously went on a speed reading course and boasted that he managed to read War and Peace in 20 minutes’. ‘That’s great’, said his astonished friend. ‘What’s it about?’ And Woody replied, ‘It involves Russia!’ This story illustrates a common problem for people who are starting to learn how to read faster: their speed improves at the expense of comprehension. The result is that they feel that the whole thing is a waste of time and they give up. It’s not real reading if you can’t understand anything – so what’s the point?

Speed reading has become an essential business and academic success tool in the knowledge economy. With the onset of PCs, and the internet, live classes have diminished as a result of "instant access." One of the seemingly easiest choices someone might take to learn the skills is to buy a software program. But does software training work? Although I can't state that I have reviewed all software programs, I have reviewed the most popular ones on the market.

Is speed reading a myth, or a method? Searching through the web for information on speed reading can lead to mass confusion, especially if you read the majority of posted views on non-commercial sites. The verdict from reviewing these personal experiences can cause an interested learner to have great doubts about the claims we see on the commercial sites. Why is there such great debate? The reasons why there is great debate about the effectiveness of speed reading training are varied.

Are you someone who often either wants to fall asleep or actually does fall asleep while you are trying read something more than a couple of paragraphs? I get this question, especially frequently from students or professionals who have a lot of in-depth reading to do. Many factors can lead to this problem. Learning to speed read in a dynamic approach can overcome this problem. Here are some useful tips: 1. Position/Posture: Because reading, whether fast or slow, is a thinking skill, we need to shape our environment to best induce an alert mind. For example,

SCIENCE NOW March 14, 2012 If you choose to place your full, 100% Attention, Concentration, and Intention on the facts of this article, you will discover how to double (2x) your memory, and triple (3x) your learning speed – permanently, for the rest of your life. 1. Testing up to 5,000 students, (ages 10 to 21) and about 4.500 career executives for rnreading speed and comprehension, both groups lose their place while reading a page of Text, five-to-seven times. That is “per” page. Loss of Attention-Concentration-Intention while reading does NOT improver

Most people can't believe it until they've tried it. 11 Minute Speed Reading is an amazing course because Dr Jay Polmar, founder of speedread.org, cut out all the hot air, and teaches you the major techniques in 11 minutes. How can this course do it? Simply, you'll learn how it was developed and why. Then, you'll learn the fastest reading techniques ever developed and you'll start to use the methods immediately. By the end of the 11 minutes - you'll be a speed reader.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------rn“Ancient Discovery of Triggering “Sleep” is…” “I just can’t fall asleep”, my 13 year old son said. “It’s eating all that junk that is the culprit, that & 7-hours a day of SyFy with Captain Kirk.” “Pop, you’re two Star Treks series out-of-date. But anyway, hit me with that Neuroscience to fall asleep.” • 1. I-Am Googling everything: example, the U.S. government funds the National Sleep Foundation.

“Do You Live in a Touch-Phobic Society?” • 1. Me: “Are You a skeptic like me? Here something that I researched in scientific jou als that Surprised me. Interested?” • 2. You: “Is it long and drawn-out, or philosophy & theory? Will it do me any good? Tell me.” • 3. Me: “It’s about influencing and persuading people to your point of view. That’s what we’re doing all day except when we’re sleeping, right?” • 4. You: “Right. Marketing is another name for convincing people that we have something that will benefit them. Solve a problem they have, agreed?”

Words are everywhere. No matter where you go "work, school, home, video games, even the Internet" you cannot get away from the written word. Being able to read faster and comprehend more of what you read will help you not only when you have to read for business or classes, but it will help you in every aspect of your life.

Speed Reading: Top 10 Ways to Improve Reading Speed and Reading Comprehensionnn10. Skim Before Your Read - Speed read for main ideas in nonfiction works and textbooks. Scan the table of contents and first and last sentences of each paragraph. You'll improve your reading speed and comprehension if you understand a book's main ideas first. After you've skimmed the material, return to the beginning and read every line with improved reading speed and comprehension.nn9. Prioritize

founder of www.speedread.org Many people discover that the book they have grand hopes of gaining enlightenment from turns out to be very difficult to read. Realistically, any book intended for the general publiccan be understandable if you approach reading it in the right manner. So, what is the best way to read a book? The answer is one important rule of reading. Read, or scan a book superficially before you try to deep read it. Look first for the things you can make sense of. Start with this: 1. Look at the front and rear jackets of a book.

When learning to speed read, the saying that a little information can be a dangerous thing still applies. Consider the term eye-span. Even though I`ve been teaching people from all walks of life how to speed read for 30 years, I have only recently received many questions about it. For new learners coming into my programs, the question keeps coming up early in training. I don`t even use the term in my training. The new learner has read something about it somewhere. There is too much conce for it though.

The world is dominated by life-long learners: the people who take the time to learn everything they can about their chosen field and everything they can about corresponding subjects. The 400 most successful businesspeople "the Forbes 400" attribute most of their success to reading at least one non-fiction book a month. But, when you have a family and work wants to dominate your time, carving out the time to read all those books can be difficult. New books on every subject are being published every day.

If you are tired of the common index-card review plan, or the tedious vocabulary word write-ups, endeavor some of these spelling games with your students. The first strongest vocabulary games is to challenge your students to write their own stories, poetry, or plays using a massive amount of their words. They can work alone, or in gatherings, despite this, a common advantage of gatherings is that you could also have them perform their functions with the classes. You might don

Remember when you were young and went to your favorite swimming hole and couldn`t wait to dive into the water and your parents, or other adult would tell you to look before you dive in? Or, have you ever ventured out on a long road trip; did you first look at a map? Or, do you remember the Aesop Fable of the Fox and the Goat?

Speed reading materials often concentrate on the brain by tweaking the ability to choose and process printed information in a matter of seconds. In order to increase the speed at which this takes place, the brain needs a bit of sharpening and training. With the assistance of decent speed reading software, books, and other programs, one can learn how to not only read faster, but also gain a better understanding of the text they scan. nnWith this higher level of information ret

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The term hack has been used in recent years to refer to a short cut, or more efficient way of doing things. From time to time I will continue to post reading hacks that can help you with both your speed and comprehension, as well as being tactics for more efficient reading. Today`s reading hack is going to look at your day and your time management as it relates to reading, whether you read traditionally, or with a Dynamic Speed Reading approach.

With so many mediums to choose from to learn how to speed read such as books, audios, software, videos, etc., why should you consider needing a live personal coach? After all, you already know how to read, so why not save yourself the extra money? The answer uncovers the difference in learning about speed reading and learning mastery and actually achieving it.

Comments You Can Use By H. Bernard Wechsler July 11 2011 Comments on Scott Adams: How to Get a Real Education at College 1. Combine Skills: Be a fairly-well provider of multiple skills and talents. It is unusual to have one person who can successfully multi-task skills a) Moderate Art talent b) basic writing (cartoon dialogue) c) ordinary sense ofr Humor, d) limited biz world experience. How to make Nothing into Something. Scott Adams created “Dilbert”, the #1 syndicated cartoon in the world. See the world from the view of an Entrepreneur’s (Point-of-View)rn.r

(This is the second in a series of 5 posts on the keys to supersonic reading – reading at speeds above 600wpm) If we were in a conversation with each other I might say to you, Can you imagine a pink elephant? Immediately in your mind you would probably picture this unrealistic image of a large mammal with big drooping ears, but colored pink rather than grey. Your mind fills in all the details. How does this apply to reading fast you ask?

Do You Use Words That Motivate, Persuade And Convince? You know the expression – All-Talk, No Action. Recent neuroscientific research proves that when you use Direct-Action verbs the listener feels and visualizes the meaning in the Supplemental Motor Region of their brain. They tend to comply. So What Fact: A metaphor is Figure-of-Speech, not to be taken literally, but to make a comparison. Examples: Man-of-Steel, Motor-Mouth, Looks like Ten-Miles-of-Bad-Road, and Fat-As-A-House.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------rn“Small Changes (tiniest words) Lead to Massive Reactions” • 1. Imagine this. In 1687, old Isaac Fig Newton at Cambridge, wrote that our Universe was a tidily, predictable, mechanical system. Until 1958, the world agreed. • 2. This meant Man could predict the future, in the present, by checking out the Past. There was no room for Unpredictability. Picture this: Newton’s principle, the “Clockwork Universe,” prevailed until about (get this!), “1958”, two-hundred & seventy-one years.r

In this 3rd part of the series “How to Read supersonically,” or reading above 600 words per minute (wpm), we’ll be exploring the use of the eyes, or the mechanics of reading. If you are to be able to read and understand at rates above 600 wpm, then learning to use your eyes more fluidly and efficiently is certainly important. Unfortunately most other programs focus exclusively on this aspect and miss comprehension, the cognitive aspect of reading.

With so many mediums to choose from to learn how to speed read such as books, audios, software, videos, etc., why should you consider needing a live personal coach? After all, you already know how to read, so why not save yourself the extra money? The answer uncovers the difference in learning about speed reading and learning mastery and actually achieving it.

These days, speed reading classes are on rise and good numbers of people looking for some best learning methods to increase their linguistic proficiency. Still there are people who wonder about the advantages of reading classes in their lives. As you all know that in this 21st century everything is getting faster and people looking to save good amount of time with some leveraging reading courses. Certainly, time saving plays a crucial role in speed and at the same time there

In many studies of the reading process and the nature of linguistics, it has been established that the reader knows well over 90 percent of the words. It is therefore unnecessary to have to pronounce each of the words to oneself as you have already learned them.

As someone begins the journey to learn speed reading immediately speed takes center stage. The learner knows something must change, and engages in exercises to move the eyes more efficiently. This initial approach is sound up to a point. However, the learner can often get overwhelmed and frustrated and then give up the process and return to the old inefficient patterns.

How Your Brain’s Executive Network Wins After You Surrender Control Speed Reading Rules 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.

With contributions by Thornton Massie Tice nnMy son came to me one night while I was working on the computer and asked, "Poppa, can you find something about speed reading on the Internet for me? I'd like to learn it.” "Sure" I replied, and within a few seconds I had a page of speed-reading courses that were offered. One particular one caught my eye. It read, "25,000 words per minute minimum!" I chose that one and clicked on it and up popped a presentation by a company named