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- Like More Brain Ram? - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2010 from Hal WechslerLike 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 ...
Views: 1438(3 votes) - How to Ace the Interview - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2010 from Hal WechslerHow 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 ...
Views: 1532(2 votes) - Are You On Top of The World? - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2010 from Hal WechslerAre 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 ...
Views: 2232(2 votes) - Is Replaying an Emotional Trauma Good or Bad For You? - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2010 from Hal WechslerIs 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 ...
Views: 3195(3 votes) - Can Tickling Dramatically Improve Your Health? - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2010 from Hal WechslerCan 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 ...
Views: 12177(5 votes) - How to Double Your Memory - Permanently. - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2010 from Hal WechslerHow 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 ...
Views: 1865(4 votes) - What is Associative-Conditioning And Who Cares? - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2010 from Hal WechslerWhat 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 ...
Views: 1390(1 vote) - Five Universal Questions We Require For Success? - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2010 from Hal WechslerAre There Five Universal Questions For Success? Homo sapiens are left tongue-tied and brainless under emotional tsunamis like failure-rejection-defeat (loss of love-occupation-health). When we most need input from our PreFrontal Cortex, Executive (Top-Down) Brain with ...
Views: 1288(1 vote) - Is Listening to Your Internal Dialogue the Secret of Learning and Career Success? - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2010 from Hal WechslerIs 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 ...
Views: 1483(1 vote) - How Different Are Lefties? - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2010 from Hal WechslerHow 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 ...
Views: 1791(4 votes) - What is Human Nature, And What is Not? - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2010 from Hal WechslerWhatever 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). ...
Views: 1401(2 votes) - Do we have Five Streams of Consciousness That Run Us? - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2010 from Hal WechslerAre 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 a prize – Corpus Callosum (Latin for firm body). You and I hold conferences and Q&A ...
Views: 1514(1 vote) - Could You Make One Personal Change? - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2010 from Hal WechslerCould 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 a LINK, joining and union with their ideas or beliefs. Association (from Latin) means soci(us) – partner ...
Views: 1398(2 votes) - Do Inquirying Minds Know this? - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2010 from Hal WechslerDo 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 ...
Views: 1546(2 votes) - Would You Invest Six Minutes For Your Health & Longevity? - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2010 from Hal WechslerWould 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 ...
Views: 1349(2 votes) - Which Came First, Gestures or Speech, And Who Cares? - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2010 from Hal WechslerWhich 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 ...
Views: 1534 - Did You Know Emotional Words Affect Our Judgment? - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2009 from Hal WechslerDidja 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: ...
Views: 2039(3 votes) - Is Our Brain in Conflict? - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2009 from Hal WechslerIs 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 our NonConscious brain by a country ...
Views: 1993(1 vote) - Did You Know This One? - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2009 from Hal WechslerDid 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 ...
Views: 1531(2 votes) - What's New About Your Left and Right Brain? - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2009 from Hal WechslerCan 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 journalism have ceased and desisted in ...
Views: 1494(4 votes) - Jim Rohn Lives - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2009 from Hal WechslerJim 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, ...
Views: 1543(2 votes) - Brain Research 2009 is a Winner - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2009 from Hal WechslerNew 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 ...
Views: 1759(3 votes) - What Is Your Competitive Edge? - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhat 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 ...
Views: 1487(3 votes) - Do You Learn More From Success or Failure? - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2009 from Hal WechslerDo 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 ...
Views: 1727(3 votes) - How to be Outrageous and Make Mon... - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2009 from Hal WechslerHow 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 ...
Views: 1435(3 votes) - How to be Outrageous and Make Mon... - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2009 from Hal WechslerHow 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 ...
Views: 1557(3 votes) - Can We be Too Skeptical? - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2009 from Hal WechslerCan 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 a (wow!) ...
Views: 1528(3 votes) - Why Resiliency Decides Your Health & Longevity - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhy 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 – signs of Alzheimer, patients with Cognitive Reserve will survive and thrive. ...
Views: 1276(4 votes) - How Can a Fake Smile Produce Health and Avoid Stress? - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2009 from Hal WechslerHow Can a Fake Smile Produce Health And Avoid Stress? Howard Hughes owned a major airline called Pan-American World Airways from the 1930s to December 4, 1991. Pan-Am required all its flight attendants (Stewardesses) to be thin, attentive, and consistently smile at the passengers. Of ...
Views: 3666(4 votes) - Double Your Influence to Persuade? - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2009 from Hal WechslerDouble 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% of executives name a book called Influence: the psychology of persuasion. What’s It All About ...
Views: 2013(4 votes) - Stress Causes Gain? - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2009 from Hal WechslerStress 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 to cognitive learning. Most of us invent reasons not to do the repetitious practice, (home work) it takes to create ...
Views: 1334(4 votes) - Are You a Reading Genius? - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2009 from Hal WechslerAre 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 ...
Views: 1672(5 votes) - Yoga Eye Exercises Rule - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2009 from Hal WechslerYoga 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 to ninety-five years. Have you noticed that many Seniors past eighty years old, read with ...
Views: 1658(2 votes) - Can 10 Cent Earplugs Improve York Learning & Memory? - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2009 from Hal WechslerCan 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 ...
Views: 5734(5 votes) - Can Two-Minute Rituals Improve Your Health And Lovevity? - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2009 from Hal WechslerCan 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. It requires 2-minutes and works like a charm even for lazybones like me. The Bear Claw: ...
Views: 1428(2 votes) - Why Peripheral Vision is Your Secret Asset - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhy 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 ...
Views: 4417(1 vote) - A Secret About The Reading Code - by Submitted on Oct 09, 2009 from Hal WechslerA 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 ...
Views: 1592(3 votes) - What Still, Small, Voice? - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhat 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. ...
Views: 1374(4 votes) - Got Two Minutes For Health? - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Hal WechslerWould 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 worthwhile for you and me. You be the judge of this baby-easy ...
Views: 1308(3 votes) - Another Aha! Experience - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2009 from Hal WechslerA 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 ...
Views: 1394(6 votes) - Are Affirmations Worth Doing? - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2009 from Hal WechslerAre Affirmations Worth Doing? A poll of our graduates including 81% of corporate executives and 89% of college 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 ...
Views: 1494(4 votes) - Can Self-Talk Implement Success or Failure? - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2009 from Hal WechslerCan 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 ...
Views: 1498(3 votes) - Numbers Do Not Stick In Your Mind - Pictures Do. - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Hal Wechsler“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 ...
Views: 1993(3 votes) - My Favorite Two-Words R So-What? - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2009 from Hal WechslerMy Favorite Two Words R – So What? One of my law professors once called me a Miscreant, and I could 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 ...
Views: 1397(2 votes) - Why Do Kids Cheat at School? - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhy 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, ...
Views: 1937(2 votes) - Why Does Criticism Make You Stronger? - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhy 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 ...
Views: 1897(6 votes) - Is Einstein Right About Miracles? - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Hal WechslerIs 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”? ...
Views: 1407(3 votes) - Why Guilt Feelings Create Success - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhy 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 ...
Views: 1406(2 votes) - Why Text Messaging Will Replace Writing - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2009 from Hal WechslerWhy 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 ...
Views: 1831(3 votes) - Is Body Tapping Real or Surreal? - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2009 from Hal WechslerDoes 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 ...
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