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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Are You Still a Learning Machine?

Are you STILL a Learning Machine? If you are finished with school, for 95% of us, we quit learning. The problem with that is rna static brain begins to unravel and invites deterioration like Alzheimer’s. You know the expression,rn‘Use it or Lose it’. Put your arm in a cast for 6-weeks and the disuse atrophies the muscles. You needr Exercise to regain full strength, right? Stop learning, watch 5-hours of TV daily, and your brain gets stale and your ability to learn goesr South. So What? The latest scientific research indicated an opening for dementia. See, you arer

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Beat Stress With Your Nose

Beat Stress With Your Nose Speed Reading Rules New scientific research shows that when we are under Stress-Overload, more than 100 genes push our body and mind into overdrive. So what? That weakens our immune system, and makes a lousy situation even worse. The Meaning of Stress When you suffer from stress-overload, your entire body and mind go into Fight-or-Flight reaction.

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Learning Speed Reading

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Comments On Scott Adams: How to Get a Real Education at College

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

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

What's New?

Time is of the essence - is a legal term meaning if we agree on a datento close, pay or complete, failure to meet the time stated can have lethalnfinancial consequences. Let’s round out 2007 with some new research to internalize and nimplement. Call it time-is-of-the-essence knowledge ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Questions for Parents"

Questions: • 1. True/False: “YOU are in the Top-Ten slowest readers of 316 million U.S. Citizens and ‘Proud’ of it.” www.speedreading101.org • 2. True/False: “YOU have a ‘delusion’, you are in the Top-Ten Fastest readers in the U.S.A” www.speedreading101.org • 3. True/False: “YOU would Like your kid to be one of Top-Ten Fastest readers in the U.S. It could help win a Scholarship to avoid paying a Ton to college. And maybe, Dear God, get-a-job.” www.speedreading101.org

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Sitting On Your Can Is Unhealthy

Sitting is Deleterious to Your Health And Life I am a lazy-fat-ass, always have been and maybe always will be. Awake 16 hours daily, I sit on my can at the computer, watchingntv, reading, and playing video games. Some of the time I am atnconferences and company meetings – and telephoning, ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Secrets of Work at Home Marketing

“How to DOUBLE your Profits from a Work-AT-Home Business” 1. Superstar Licensees teach in multiple NICHES because they earn more income and get more referrals. Examples are: • 1. Elementary school kids 1st to 8th grade. • 2. High school: freshmen to seniors. • 3. College: Community Colleges & Four-Year Universities. 2. How to get into these schools: • A) Parent-Teachers Association. Attend meetings. • B) Guidance Counsellors: • C) Principals & Vice Principles • D) Offer a FREE Mini-Session in SpeedReading101 for parents and students by mailing sent by school.r

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Got Scared?

Speed Reading: Got Scared? Did you hear Secretary of the Treasury, Paulson? He just figured out that the n$700 Billion he spent to bailout the banks to loan money to consumers, just didnnot do the trick. He’s not scared it is just, I am sorry; it was a nice try, but no cigar. If at ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Comments On Scott Adams: How to Get a Real Education at College

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

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Do You Learn More From Success or Failure?

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.

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

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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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Follow-the-Bouncing-Ball!"

“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?”

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

What is The Buzzing of The Bees?

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?

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Story-Telling Rules

Do you have a great memory for what you hear, read or see? If you do, you’re the exception because the rest of us poor soulsnlose more than 51% of what we hear, read and see within 24 hours. Each passing day another 10-15% of the original memory fades. Just picture ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Stress And Her Sister, Eustress

Stress and her sister Eustress Do you suffer more chronic (long-term) stress than your parents? How does modern stress affect your life? Is Stress like the weather, all-talk, and no remedial action? Chronic stress is not getting angry because of the bike in the driveway,nit includes insomnia ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Got Counterintuition?

Got Counterintuitive? Fifty years of scientific research agrees: folks believe the better we knownindividuals (familiarity), the better we like them. Our intuition, gut reaction,nand visceral (instinct) belief creates a positive (optimistic) expectation. Nyet. It is has been proven ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Why you must NOT keep eye-contact to convince?"

Why You Must Not Keep Eye-Contact to Convince • 1. Me: “Mike, what do you think about making & keeping eye-contact with people you talk to?” • 2. Mike: “Pop, you always said it was critical if you want to influence & persuade.” • 3. Me: “We all hate change, it creates fear & anxiety. Yet we know from observation that change is a constant in our lives. Conclusion: the latest research published in Psychological Science Oct. 2013, says, “Sorry, Eye-Contact in most situations creates Resistance and makes people defensive your point of view.”r

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Got Your Motivating?

Speed Reading: Got Your Motivation? If I ask you what turns you on, what moves you to action, and you answer Everything, you just made an enemy. It takes an awful lot to wake folks upnfrom their day dreaming, and get them to use their left hemispherenfor planning, logic and reasoning. Accept ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

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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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Use-It-Or-Lose-It?

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.

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Did You Know This One?

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?

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Resistance to Change?

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?

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Got Motivation #2?

Speed reading rules. Why would a divisional v.p. of a Fortune 100 company quit to joinna start-up internet operation? What moves her to hock the house to be an independent entrepreneur? Why would a lawyer give up a lucrative partnership in a 500-person international law firm, to start a ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Thirty-Second Strategy to Influence Others

“Thirty-Seconds to Control Yourself & Influence Others.” • 1. Me: “Want power over others who try to control you?” • 2. You: “Not particularly. I’m Ok with how I am.” • 3. Me: “Self-Control is important because you are being hit-on all day at home, at work & by the media. They want to influence you to be a good Robot, an obedient Cyborg. • How? Do what they say, buy what they advertise, pay higher taxes to the government. The Power Brokers want you to love what they say, and hate their identified enemies.”

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Questions for Parents"

Questions: • 1. True/False: “YOU are in the Top-Ten slowest readers of 316 million U.S. Citizens and ‘Proud’ of it.” www.speedreading101.org • 2. True/False: “YOU have a ‘delusion’, you are in the Top-Ten Fastest readers in the U.S.A” www.speedreading101.org • 3. True/False: “YOU would Like your kid to be one of Top-Ten Fastest readers in the U.S. It could help win a Scholarship to avoid paying a Ton to college. And maybe, Dear God, get-a-job.” www.speedreading101.org

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Got Self-Illusion?

Self-Illusions And Your Success Would Warren Buffet be insulted because you, and ten million ofnyour logical friends told him his strategies are nothing but illusions? Half the psychological community thinks self-illusions are healthynto successful functioning in our Knowledge Economy. Why? ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How to Stamp Out Personal Fear and Anxiety in Ten-Minutes

How to Stamp Out Personal Fear And Anxiety in Ten-Minutes Do you ever read articles or listen to experts who sound so slick you discount their knowledge as just old common-sense? What we are too nice to say is their great solution to your problem is too good to be true. When the answer is too-easy, something arnten-year old could come up with, we say, No thanks, I will do it myself. U of Chi The University of Chicago is a great school, it was started byr

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

What's The Difference between Gimmicks and Strategies?

What’s the Difference between Tricks & Gimmicks And Strategies & Systems? Major Breakthrough: learning is connected to a Brain Rhythm So what? Add one baby-easy element to your reading and you triple (3x) your learning speed, and double (2x) your memory. You save up to 2-hours daily and become a human learning computer. You have heard about speed reading for years, but you were never sure if it was a gimmick. One sure thing, you never became a speed reader. In the next five-minute you will know Speed Reading is real, andr Double (2x) your learning skills – permanently.r

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How to Fool Yourself Into Health

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

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

What Still, Small, Voice?

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.

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Science And Speed Reading?

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

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Subliminal Smile leads to success

“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

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

New Research on How-to-Lea Quickly

New Research in How to Lea Do you hear every word of text you read, in your mind? Don’t say no! because 99.9% of the rest of us subvocalize all-the-time. The fancy terms for hearing the text mentally, are ‘auditory-reinforcement’ and ‘subvocalization’. So what? Reading and hearing your little internal-voice is like ham-and-eggs, inseparable. Problem: you will always be a lame reader, a slow-poke mentally hearing the text because you can never read and comprehend faster than you speak.

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

First-Things-First, Right?

First-Things-First Two (2) Covert (disguised) SECRETS of All Learning 1. Your WILLINGNESS (Willpower) to take risks and sometimes fail. It’s known as Trial-And-Error, and Cause-And-Effect. Desire is NOT enough. 2. Exercising your AUTO-DIDACTED-NESS (Self-Taught). Everything of significance you know, you taught yourself. Like – walking-talking-comprehension-riding-a-bike, & driving-a-car. This includes tying-a- tie, and lacing-your-shoes, & thinking. And now, Speed Reading101.org What’s Better & Faster Than a (Five) 5-Hour Energy-Drink?

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Double Your Influence to Persuade?

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.

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Learn to StressBust to Save 20-years of life

“Learn to StressBust Anxiety or Lose 20-Years of Life.” • 1. “What did you say again, about the Mind and Matter.” • 2. “Oh yeah, “It’s Mind-Over-Matter, but if you don’t have any Mind – Nothing much matters.” • 3. “Is that about left-brain, right-brain thinking?” • 4. “Not. It’s about the thing that kills about 80% of Americans. It’s called Chronic Stress which initiates Heart Disease, Stroke and Cancer, the Big Three.” • 5. “You made that up.”

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Jim Rohn Lives

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?

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Learning Speed Reading

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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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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Is Replaying an Emotional Trauma Good or Bad For You?

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).

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Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Two-Secrets of YOUR Success for 2014."

“Two Secrets of Success: Repetition & Review for 2014.” • 1. Me: “We got 452 emails about “Thymus & Spleen THUMPING”. They remembered TARZAN of the Apes and his Thymus Thumping in the movies & TV.” • 2. You: “I remember one thing about it, besides TARZAN. I have NO idea of the Location of my Thymus or Spleen. Could you, would you explain – again.” • 3. Me: “It’s easy as eating apple-pie with chocolate ice-cream. Can you taste the chilled, delicious flavor now? Can I tell you the benefits of doing 20-seconds of Tarzan’sr Thymus Thumping?”

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Learning Speed Reading

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"Are Today's GEEKS, the NEW Sexy?"

“Are Today’s Geeks, the New-Sexy in 2014?” • 1. Me: “Ten-years ago they were called Health-Nuts. Today everybody is conce ed with our food, weight, & exercise huh?” • 2. You: “And ‘Geeks’, folks with valuable skills & knowledge, will dominate in 2014, yeah it’s technology.” • 3. Me: “But that’s technical and we want you to be the boss, not Google. SpeedReading101.org wants you to ‘get-personal’ about Learning & Memory. • Can you ask Questions as a Habit, a routine and ritual?” • 4. You: “I don’t get what you mean. What questions?”

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Learning Speed Reading

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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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Learning Speed Reading

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What's Synchronicity?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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Is Your Memory As Strong As a Sixth-Grader?

Is Your Memory As Strong As a Sixth-Grader? President Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago for 12-years (1992-2004). He was a Senior Lecturer, on the faculty as a part-time professor, specializing in constitutional law. He was asked to teach full-time, but his law practice and work as an Illinois state Senator, and later U.S. Senator, caused him to decline the promotion. Professor Obama had a reputation as a lively lecturer with an almost photographic memory for law citations.

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My Aha! Experience

“Pop, can you help me with my homework? I got these five last words I can’t figure out how to use each one in a sentence. “ “Sonny, you come to the right window. Gimme your problem. It is just asnimportant to know where to find the right answer, as learning ...

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Got A Stress Busting Strategy?

Quickie StressBuster to Save Your Sanity Would you invest two-minute of your day to create a Firewall in you brain against anxiety, fear, and stress? Sure, it’s easy to say yes, but you need to do it for 21 consecutive days in order for this strategy to go on autopilot (habit). Do you ...

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These Seven Questions Make Geniuses

Seven Questions of Genius Speed Reading Rules Every year we read or hear a minimum of five (5) great ideasnthat would help us in school and in our careers. What happens to them? Our still-small-voice (Internal Dialogue) shouts at us – it will neve work – this thing takes too much effort – or ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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Notes to Brainiacs or Those Who Are Becoming Brainiacs

Notes to Me, Myself, & My Shadow • 1. Our brain is a creator of ‘habits’. Its goal is to organize what we do as daily Routines on auto-pilot. That’s good & bad. The benefit of Habit is Not to have relea daily how to drive, read, dress ourselves & do our job. • 2. Excessive-Habits turn us into robots because it inhibits consciousness, learning & memory. • 3. Our brain comes preloaded (hardwired) with systems dedicated to survival. It’s in our DNA. Our left-hemisphere features analysis, logic & reason.

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Factoids For The Cool

Factoids For Cool Scholars When you add the suffix ‘oid’ to a word like anthropoid, the meaning becomesnhuman–like. Factoid is appearing like a factual piece of information. It includesnknowledge that is brief and trivial, but that conclusion is in the eyes of the ...

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Learning Speed Reading

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How to Use Influence Principles For Personal Success

How to Use Influence Principles For Personal Success And Win Big She was a ten-year old girl scout selling their annual stale cookies. Cut to the chase - she looked up at me and said, "Would you please make a $300 donation to the Girl Scouts of America?" If she were an adult salesperson I would have pointed at the door with a mean look on my face. Instead I looked down at her and said in my kindest voice, "Not a chance in the world, kid. In factr I am not that crazy about your organization." She looked sad, and I swear a tear ran from her left eye. "But yourr

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