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- Is Willpower the Secret of Success? - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2009 from Hal WechslerIs 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. Views: 1754(2 votes)
- So What? - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2010 from Hal WechslerSo 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 it has always been there. It is called – Thinking or Steam of Consciousness. We hold conversations between our – I, ...
Views: 1582(3 votes) - SPEED READING, EVELYN WOOD & SPEAKING - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2003 from Hal WechslerEVELYN WOOD'S SPEAKING SUGGESTIONS Here are our memories of a short but brilliant lecture by "Evelyn Wood", the 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 served as a model ...
Views: 2843(1 vote) - True or False: two new strategies to give me energy - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2013 from Hal WechslerTrue 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 ...
Views: 1438(1 vote) - What E.W Whispered in My Ear For Your Benefit - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2011 from Hal WechslerWhat 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 ...
Views: 2032(2 votes) - What is The Buzzing of The Bees? - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2011 from Hal WechslerThe Secret strategy of Buzzing of The Bees We trained a NYC attorney 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 ...
Views: 1464(1 vote) - What is The LAw of Expectation? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Hal WechslerWhat is the Law of Expectation, And Who Cares? Now you are an intelligent person, wise in the ways of the world. If you do some quick internet research on the Law of Expectation, what will you find? Answer: Google has to remove this drivel. These articles contain facts a first-grader would ...
Views: 4059(1 vote) - What Two-Letter Word Terrifies Your BRAIN? - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“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 reads the word: No!” • 2. “That’s the ...
Views: 1401(1 vote) - Why Mindfulness 101 is a Career Saver - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2010 from Hal WechslerWhy 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 ...
Views: 2156(2 votes) - Your Eyes Begin to Age After 30, Do this about it. - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2012 from Hal WechslerYour 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 ...
Views: 1426(1 vote) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - How to Permanently Own Luck, Accelerated Healing... - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2011 from Hal Wechsler---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ...
Views: 1560(2 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) - SPEED READING AND "ACT-AS-IF" - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2003 from Hal WechslerWilliam James, professor at Harvard, (1842-1910d), at the turn of the 20th century, is an American psychology icon. He has more quotes attributed to him than Mark Twain. A century later his philosophy of "act-as-if", stands up under fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery), as a valuable ...
Views: 1525(2 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) - 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 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) - Work or Fun - Do Words Change Minds? - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2010 from Hal WechslerWork 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 ...
Views: 1654(4 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) - Are People's Judgments Rational And Stable or What? - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2011 from Hal WechslerAre 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 ...
Views: 1411(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) - 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) - How to Make Conscious Decisions - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2011 from Hal WechslerHow 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 ...
Views: 2925(12 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) - 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) - 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) - How to Fool Yourself Into Health - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2011 from Hal WechslerHow 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? ...
Views: 1677(4 votes) - How to Get Hired For The Right Slot in This Economy - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2010 from Hal WechslerHow 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 ...
Views: 1448(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) - 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) - 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) - "Act As-If Your Life Depended on it." - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2013 from Hal WechslerAct-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. ...
Views: 1783(3 votes) - "If You Hate Popeye, Think Again." - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“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 ...
Views: 1666(2 votes) - Are You A Sheep Or A Billy-Goat? - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2008 from Hal WechslerNot being one who quotes the Bible, gimme some slack. Mathews: 25:32-33. It says, the Sheep are given eternal life, but the Goats are cast into the Lake of Fire. The Goats have some personality traits somebody up there does not like. They are capricious, arbitrary, and erratic, plus flighty, ...
Views: 2607(1 vote) - 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) - Can Specific Words Change Your Body's Behavior? - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2011 from Hal Wechsler(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 ...
Views: 1500(3 votes) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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 ...
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