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Why Text Messaging Will Replace Writing

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.

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Five-Minute Eye-Exercises For Self-Help

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

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Got Two Brains?

You Got Two Brains? Dr. Paul D. MacLean (pronounced McLain) is the scientist who proposed humans have a Triune (3) separate but linked brain system. Based on evolution, McLean who passed on in 2007 at age 94, labeled the oldest brain the Reptilian Complex, the second oldest, the Limbic System, ...

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The Power of Peripheral Vision

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.

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Why Putting your Feelings Into Words.....

Why Putting Your Feelings Into Words Empowers you • 1. “Pop, I have to stand up in front of 25 clients & convince them our new system is the solution. I have done my homework, but am scared I might blow it.” • 2. “Right. You think Positive affirmations are “Hot Air”. Do you feel that icy feeling in the pit of your stomach? • 3. You have the statistics & test results, but you need to deliver your message to influence, convince & persuade, Am I on the right track?”

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Got Exercise?

Speed Reading: Got Exercise? Mae West, the sexual innuendo bombshell of 1930-1949 said three things you should remember, “I used to be – Snow-White, but I drifted.” (Me too.) “Too much of a good thing – is just wonderful.” (More money, please.) “You ...

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You Are More Than Your Left-Brain

“You are more than 65% Water & 18% Carbon, some Hydrogen, Calcium & Phosphorous, Huh?” • 1. “I slept through Chemistry, so this is all new to me, Pop.” • 2. “Me too. Like father, like son. Here’s what I remember from college Chem, which I failed. “Homo sapiens are Carbon-based life-forms, that require Oxygen to process Protein. And Trees take Carbon and turn it into Oxygen.” • 3. “So what? - Who-cares? What’s In It for me? – Pop?” • 4. “Right. In just released research at the University of Pennsylvania, they reversed what scientists & the rest of us always believed.

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Is Body Tapping Real or Surreal?

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.

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"Want to know some weird tips about your Health?"

“Want to Know Some Weird Tips About a Healthy Body?” • 1. Me: “I’m a certified skeptic with a Master’s in Sarcasm cynicism & Contrarianism. But some weird stuff really…” • 2. You: “I don’t gotta believe it, right? OK.” • 3. Me: “My kids screamed bloody murder before getting an injection at the doctor. Solution: tell ‘em to cough out-loud simultaneously with the needle penetrating, and guess what? No Pain at all. It’s a masking effect.” • 4. You: “I can use that one for my kids.”

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"If You Hate Popeye, Think Again."

“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?”

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Five-Minute Eye-Exercises For Self-Help

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

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I Dare You

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.

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Science Changed Its Mind About Reflexology in 2012

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Science Changed Its Mind About Reflexology, November, 2012 • 1. Both the American Medical Association and the National Cancer Institute have changed their mind about Reflexology. It’s an ancient form of foot-hand-ear manipulation (massage) that isrnmoving from Fringe-care to Standard (mainstream) cancer treatment. • 2. The important difference between religious thinking and scientific analysis is that Science likes the NEWEST research (done in 2012 is better than research in 1999).

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Are People's Judgments Rational And Stable or What?

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?

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What Are the Top-Ten Worst Human Fears?

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

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Stop Scaring Me

Even one dose of morphine given to soldiers inhibits (blocks) the ability of the brain to form new memories for learning up to a thirty-days. But you are not a soldier,nso who cares? One dose of an opioid prescription drug can block your brain from strong memory and learning for up to a month. ...

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What's The One-Change?

What’s The One-Change You Can Make to Improve Motivation-to Win? If you want people to take action, be induced and incentivize, do this one thing. This applies to a physical goal like finishing a game successfully. Most of us quit in the middle of effort because we get distracted or bored. This single-change applies to improving the results of sales and marketing people. It also works to keep folks from deleting (75% quit before the end) while waiting for a download. If you are interested in persuasion, influence or convincing (including lawyersr

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Reward-Yourself to Double your Learning & Memory Permanently

“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.

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Got Paralysis from Analysis?

Got Paralysis from Analysis? Speed Reading rules. How did you learn to use your computer? How about typing or driving your car?nna) Listening to a lecturenb) Reading a book or articlenc) Observation – watching othersnd) Trial-and-Erro e) All-of-the-abovenf) None of the above. Did you have ...

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Numbers Do Not Stick In Your Mind - Pictures Do.

“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?

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How to Dissolve Information-Overload

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

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Technology v Education

The U.S. economy is a horse race between educationnand technology, and the gap is widening between rich and poor Americans. Have you noticed unskilled labor (white, black and Latino)nhas lost its bargaining power in the marketplace? There are no jobs of last resort like ditch digging and ...

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The Day I Forgot How to Breathe

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).

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Could You Make One Personal Change?

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.

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Why Boring is Dangerous to Your Life

Why “Boring” Leads to Drugs, Drinking, or Smoking • 1. Brainiacs only: what’s your brain made of? Answer: 78% water. Some of us have replaced the liquid with “fat”, hence the expression, “Fat-Head.” • 2. “So what? Who-cares? What’s In-It-For-Me? • 3. Your 3-lb brain requires continuous liquids to function optimally. Long-Livers drink a quart of juice of daily. Did you know your 3-lb brain requires 22% of all the Oxygen & Glucose of your entire body?

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Your Eyes Begin to Age After 30, Do this about it.

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.

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"Do You Rely on Your Medicines?"

“Do You Rely on Medicines?” • 1. Me: “I sure do, when I get a headache, I run for the Aspirins. Indigestion calls for Alka Seltzer. My testimony your Honor, is that they work 100% of the time.” • 2. You: “So what, who-cares, and mainly, WIIFM, (What’s In It For Me?) Everyone runs for the medicine, doctor or hospital. So what’s new?” • 3. Me: “Expand home remedy medicines to Drugs proscribed by physicians, and we hit a wall called ther Placebo-Effect. Don’t get nervous, this ties in with SpeedReading101.org n

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New Scientific Breakthrough

Brain Wiring: And How Your Hands Influence Your SightnHow to Double Your Reading Speed And Improve Comprehension Why Califo ia is Absolutely Scientifically Right Califo ia law requires you keep both hands on the wheel. No use of hand-held cell phones while driving. Humans see when light ...

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Work or Fun - Do Words Change Minds?

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.

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Can Tickling Dramatically Improve Your Health?

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?

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Got Breathing?

Do you ever give a second thought to your breathing? Unless you got COPD(Emphysema) the pro forma answer is no, who cares; it’s working just fine. Wait, are you going to give me one more stupid thing to worry about? See yancause I’m outta here. I just finished half a book this ...

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Can We be Too Skeptical?

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%.

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How to Double Your Memory in 11-Minutes

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.

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Boody Language is Your Competitive Advantage

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.

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"Specific Strategies to ACE school & Career with Dinero"

“If you don’t have specific strategies to help me, get out of my face.” • 1. Me: “Mike (my 15 year old), which is more important, your LEFT or your RIGHT hemispheres?” • 2. Mike: “Oh, it’s time for my Speedreading101.com education. Do I have to answer this question, I got homework.” • 3. Me: “Forget it, you’re out of my will. More for your siblings. See ya.” • 4. Mike: “Is this stuff going to really help me win a scholarship, a hot-girl-friend, or get rich working?”

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Kaizen Means Continuous Improvement

Kaizen Means Continuous Improvementnn“Now is the time that tries men’s souls. The summer soldier and thensunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country,nbut he that stands now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell is not ...

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"Is the Power of Suggestion Making your Life Better & Rewarding You with Wealth?"

“Is The Power-of-Suggestion How You Make Money, Cement Relationships, & For Personal-Protection?” • 1. Me: “Mike, (my teenage kid) do you intentionally use “Suggestions” to motivate yourself to ace exams & classes, and to influence, persuade & convince girls?” • 2. Mike: “Pop, you just got my full ‘Attention’. I know another lesson is coming, but this sounds like a good one.” • 3. Me: “Have you heard the expression, “Mind-over-matter?” It’s connects to the Power of Suggestion.”

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Why BEING GROUNDED is Step 1 for Power & Success

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.

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Got Eye-Floaters?

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, ...

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Why Paying Attention is The Only Thing

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

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What's The GAP and What good is it"

“What’s The “GAP” in your lower-abdomen (sacral) area?” • 1. “I dunno, & I don’t care much, wait, should I?” • 2. “Would you like to access pleasure, knowledge, and be in the ‘mood’ for s-e-x, at your will? How about Acing exams, and retrieving long-term memories?” • 3. “Anything else, like making a million dollars by 12 noon? When it’s too good to be true…” • 4. “This GAP knowledge is ancient, maybe 3,000 years old. Here’s the trick, it is known by ‘few’, and implemented by ‘less’. Do we agree YOU do a mind-experiment and then judge?”

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Which Came First, Gestures or Speech, And Who Cares?

Which Came First, Speech or Gestures, And So What? 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.

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Is Science Ever Wrong?

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 ...

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"These Experiences Can Raise Your Annual Income up to 53%."

“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?”

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How to Save Your Brain By Playing Dumb Word Games

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?

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"Would you Check Out a Free Business Opportunity?"

“Would you Check-Out a Free! Business Opportunity?” • 1. “Wait. It’s worth $75,000. And there are no-strings-attached. Well, would you? I thought Not.” • 2. “Conventional-Wisdom says, ‘If it’s too good to be true…’ We’re asking you to “click” it, not give away your damned wallet and creditcards. Still No? ‘The American ‘dream’ just suffered a stroke.’ • 3. “What the Catch?” • 4. “We set aside four (4) free Biz Ops on the East Coast, but nobody wants to play.”

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How to Ace the Interview

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.

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How To Ace School And Career

How to Win All the Marbles At School and Career. It’s Positive Priming And Is a Little Bit Weird. My background is law so I am a certified skeptic andncontrarian by training. My mindset is if you are a nsuper expert in your subject, you still have to present nreplicable evidence and ...

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Success, Money & The Ideomotor Effect

Have you ever seen a true believe using a Dowser to find water or oil? What about a seemingly sane person using a pendulum to answer financial questions? Yes, like the ouija board. According to the skepdic.com and other famous revealers of truth,nthe messages are caused by unconsciously moving ...

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