Hal Wechsler
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- Speed Reading101
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- Speed Reading For Business - Barron's
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- SpeedReading101.org, SpeedLea ing.org
Author of the leading book on Speed Learning - 'Speed Reading For Professionals', published by Barron's Educational. Original business partner of Evelyn Wood, the creator of speed reading, graduating 2 million, including the White House staffs of four U.S Presidents.
Interviewed by the Wall Street Jou al and Fortune Magazine
for major stories. Educational director of www.speedlea ing.org
We recently completed a two-day seminar for 30 ADM executives in Central Illinois.
The company is a Fortune 100 organization, and listed on the NYSE.
Corporate goal was to increase executive personal productivity by tripling
(3x) their learning speed, doubling (2x) their memory, and reducing stress.
For interested companies and individuals, please contact us for the actual
statistics of success. Please ask for Gene, Director of Training, 1-877-567-2500.
www.speedlea ing.org --- hbw@speedlea ing.org
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"Why You Must Reward Yourself First to Learn a New Skill."
Why You MUST Reward Yourself to Learn a New Skill • 1. Me: “Mike” (my 15 year old kid) do you know why Communism failed in the powerful Soviet Union?” • 2. Mike: “I want to win a scholarship, ace the SAT, and land “Hot-Girls”, so Who-Cares? So-What? And WIIFMrn(What’s In It For Me?)” • 3. Me: “And that’s exactly why understanding why the second most powerful military system in the world fell like that ton-of-bricks. Their example gets you what you want.” • 4. Mike: “Now I’m interested, but Pop, no theory or philosophy, just easy-and-quick facts.”
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Who Needs a Boot Camp (basic-training) for Learning & Critical Thinking?
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.”
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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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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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"New Scientific Tool to Activate Your Brain For Quick Learning & Memory"
“New Tool to Activate Your Brain For Learning & Memory?” • 1. Me: “We have a NEW baby-easy way to add up to 35% to your Memory & Learning. And it’s permanent. Want it?” • 2. You: “I’m not negative or even skeptical but – who says so, how much, and how hard to use is this new tool?” • 3. Me: “University of Montreal, Prof. Steven Lockey, and Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Published in Jou al of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2013 – 2072 DOI.
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New Research Rhythm for Learning
New Research: Learning & Memory Up 33% - by Rhythm • 1. “Like a fun way to Ace school and work?” • 2. “Is it l-o-n-g and Boring, Pop?” • 3. “My students say it’s cool & like a video game. Yes or no?” • 4. “I’ll do a ‘Mind Experiment’, like Einstein called it. • 5. It’s tested & proven at neuro-physicists at UCLA. It appears in the jou al, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Senior author, M. R. Mehta. • 6. “Do you know the tune, “Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream?”
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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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Is Memory the Enemy of Learning?
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
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Is Listening to Your Internal Dialogue the Secret of Learning and Career Success?
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.
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How to Turn Your Brown Eyes Blue - Weird
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
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How to Learn to Love Your Mistakes
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
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How to Learn Something Important You Never Knew
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
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Hal Wechsler
"But Dr. Franklin, What GOOD is your new invention, Electrics?"
"My dear Lady, What GOOD is a new-bo -BABY?"
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Hal