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- Comments On Scott Adams: How to Get a Real Education at College - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2011 from Hal WechslerComments 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 ...
Views: 1342 - How to Dissolve Information-Overload - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2010 from Hal WechslerHow 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 suffering chronic ...
Views: 1341(1 vote) - How to Accelerate Performance Easy & Quick - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2012 from Hal WechslerHow to Accelerate Performance of All Kinds – Fast • 1. Get this: According to the latest (11.09.12) neuroscientific research in Japan by Professor N. Sadato: “To the brain, receiving a compliment is as much a social reward as being rewarded with Money”. • 2. If you want better learning and ...
Views: 1328(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: 1323 - What Really Matters in Persuading Folks? - by Submitted on May 20, 2011 from Hal WechslerWhat Really Matters in Persuading Folks? If you want to save time and get to the next thing on your to-do-list, the answer is your Voice. How you use your voice-box makes folks listen intently or go blind to your pitch. This is not in an isolated area of your life; it covers sales ...
Views: 1323 - "Why Jana's Brain Exercise Aces School & Career." - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“What’s Jana’s Secret for Acing School & Career?” • 1. “I want to explain the steps to juicing up your brain.” • 2. “It’s easier to perform, than to analyze. Do you have an ‘algorithm,’ like 1-2-3?” • 3. “Here’s what you DO. The “how” of it. • First step, take your left index finger & ...
Views: 1318 - 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: 1314(3 votes) - Got Circadian Rhythm? - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2008 from Hal WechslerSpeed Reading: Got Circadian Rhythm? Sound boring and irrelevant, right? What if the new scientific research produces evidence for your increasing longevity? A professor in NYU College of Dentistry, Timothy Bromage, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (April, ...
Views: 1306 - 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: 1297(1 vote) - "What's With Left & Right Brains?" - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“What’s With Left & Right Brain?” • 1. “I’m confused, professor. Is there a left & right brain dominance? Which is better?” • 2. “The answer is too important to leave it to “educators”, who like things complicated, so they have a job explaining intentionally, abstract ideas. My cousin Albert ...
Views: 1294 - Kaizen Means Continuous Improvement - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2008 from Hal WechslerKaizen Means Continuous Improvement “Now is the time that tries men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell is not ...
Views: 1294 - Got Must-ibation? - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2008 from Hal WechslerGot Must-ibation? Speed Read Consider this: How many times this week have you heard the expression – obviously – introduce an answer? I counted eight on CNBC interviews in one day. When we start off with – obviously - you are telling the listener to shut up because your view ...
Views: 1291 - Body Image And Illness - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2008 from Hal WechslerDo you believe your feelings direct your brain? Do you think it’s a scientific fact your emotions overwhelm reason and logic in major decision-making? Does new information (knowledge) offer you the power to put your thinking-brain back in the driver’s seat? Columbia University ...
Views: 1288 - 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: 1285(4 votes) - Got Optimism? - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2008 from Hal WechslerIf you ask 100 folks if their glass is half full or half empty, meaning optimistic verses pessimistic, 99 will give you a positive answer. It is an instinct, part of our originally programming. Research over seventy-five years indicates our language, memory, and analysis (thinking) are ...
Views: 1281 - "What's With Left & Right Brains?" - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“What’s With Left & Right Brain?” • 1. “I’m confused, professor. Is there a left & right brain dominance? Which is better?” • 2. “The answer is too important to leave it to “educators”, who like things complicated, so they have a job explaining intentionally, abstract ideas. My cousin Albert ...
Views: 1261 - Got Self-Illusion? - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2008 from Hal WechslerSelf-Illusions And Your Success Would Warren Buffet be insulted because you, and ten million of your logical friends told him his strategies are nothing but illusions? Half the psychological community thinks self-illusions are healthy to successful functioning in our Knowledge Economy. Why? ...
Views: 1261 - Use these Three to Win in Your Career - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2013 from Hal WechslerUse These “3”, & Your Willpower Makes You a Brainiac • 1. “Tell me what makes SpeedReading101 work.” • 2. “You control the three (3) elements of your life, & work them. Do you really care, or just want to focus on the “take-away”, the end-results?” • 3. “If I’m going to be an expert ...
Views: 1257(3 votes) - Aristotle Rules - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2007 from Hal WechslerAristotle’s Model Still Works Frankly, we personally would not know Aristotle’s principles if the Google information system landed on our thick, three-pound cabeza. If we ever learned his ideas, they are buried in the same crypt with algebra, geometry and Shakespeare. Just to sound ...
Views: 1252 - "Questions for Parents" - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2013 from Hal WechslerQuestions: • 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 ...
Views: 1242 - Got Exercise? - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2008 from Hal WechslerSpeed 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 ...
Views: 1236 - Got Willpower? - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2008 from Hal WechslerDid you know maybe half of all scientific researchers do not believe there is such a thing as willpower? They cannot see, measure or track it with an fMRI, so many believe it is another urban myth like the alligators in the New York sewer system. Joseph Stalin, Soviet Czar for 24 years ...
Views: 1223 - Why Use-It-Or-Lose-It? - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2012 from Hal WechslerWhy “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 ...
Views: 1218(1 vote) - What's The Difference between Gimmicks and Strategies? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2011 from Hal WechslerWhat’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 ...
Views: 1214 - "What's With Left & Right Brains?" - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“What’s With Left & Right Brain?” • 1. “I’m confused, professor. Is there a left & right brain dominance? Which is better?” • 2. “The answer is too important to leave it to “educators”, who like things complicated, so they have a job explaining intentionally, abstract ideas. My cousin Albert ...
Views: 1211 - Why Subliminal Smile leads to success - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“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 ...
Views: 1204 - Got Sand In Your Hourglass? - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2008 from Hal WechslerDo you read the first three or four sentences of an article or report,and stop to ask (internal dialogue) the two-word valuation question,Who Cares? Fifty percent of us decide Go/No-Go based on the headline alone. How about the powerhouse question, WIIFM? (What is In It For Me?) I do it all the ...
Views: 1201(1 vote) - Why Boring is Dangerous to Your Life - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2013 from Hal WechslerWhy “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 ...
Views: 1189 - Do You Spend 60 Minutes at Your Computer? - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2008 from Hal WechslerWe asked for a show of hands and examples from a class of 30 highschoolers, whether they had serious stress in their daily lives. They wouldn’t shut up. We asked a class of IT executives about stress. Half denied it existed; the other half claimed it never ended. What is Stress The term ...
Views: 1185 - Are You A Closet Contrarian - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2007 from Hal WechslerAre You a Closet Contrarian? If you know yourself and can analyze others, you recognize if you are a core skeptic and suppress a sarcastic personality. Many of us hide our Contrarian belief system under a mien of teeth-flashing and words of pleasantry. To get along, you go alone, is a ...
Views: 1179 - Speed Reading is a Science - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2005 from Hal WechslerWhat ‘Instinct’ Produces Speed Reading? Instinct What’s a 3rd grade definition of ‘instinct’? Is it reflex? Which is closest - ‘intuition’, ‘hardwired’, ‘gut-reaction’ or habit? In college we get this definition – a biological-drive, an inborn pattern of behavior shaped by ...
Views: 1170 - Bugs Bunny Was Right - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2007 from Hal WechslerHeadlines Bugs Bunny was absolutely right; Beta Carotene (four carrots daily) improves your memory and reduces dementia. Ok, you have to chew up a slew of carrots daily, or a pill with 50 milligrams of Beta Carotene taken 3x a week. So far the scientific evidence is for men only; if you want ...
Views: 1165 - Reading Brain Breaththrough 2012 - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2012 from Hal WechslerReading & the Brain Has a Breakthrough. Wow, It Works. • 1. For Brainiacs & other “smart-folks”: up to 70% of U. S. high school students are lousy (not proficient) readers. So what? • 2. N.A.E.P. (National Assessment of Educational Progress), indicates average high school “reading-scores” ...
Views: 1158 - Got Breathing? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2008 from Hal WechslerDo 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 ya cause I’m outta here. I just finished half a book this ...
Views: 1156 - What's The Difference between Gimmicks and Strategies? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2011 from Hal WechslerWhat’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 ...
Views: 1143 - Save Your Eyes - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2007 from Hal WechslerSave Your Eyes How many folks take a do-it-yourself program or self-help workshop and go to the next step of using the new knowledge in every day life? No more than 8% of learners will put their new skills into practical use. Why did they spend their money and time in the first place, if they ...
Views: 1138 - Two Significant Discoveries - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2008 from Hal WechslerTwo Significant Discoveries in 2008 You Can Use Yes or no? You and your Significant-Other will be trying to lose 10 pounds or more for the rest of your life. It’s a pretty good bet you will be testing one fad diet or another ad infinitum because 60% of the U.S. population (300 million) ...
Views: 1138 - Is Science Ever Wrong? - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2008 from Hal WechslerDoes 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 ...
Views: 1089(1 vote) - Story-Telling Rules - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2008 from Hal WechslerDo 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 souls lose 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 ...
Views: 1089 - Learn to StressBust to Save 20-years of life - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“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 ...
Views: 1082 - Got Persuasion? - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2008 from Hal WechslerSpeed Reading: Got Positive Persuasion? Executives in particular, and the rest of us most of the time, are in the business of persuading, influencing, and convincing folks, agreed? Salespeople of course, but lawyers and doctors have a vested interest in getting others to follow their ...
Views: 1066 - Save Your Eyes - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2007 from Hal WechslerSave Your Eyes How many folks take a do-it-yourself program or self-help workshop and go to the next step of using the new knowledge in every day life? No more than 8% of learners will put their new skills into practical use. Why did they spend their money and time in the first place, if they ...
Views: 1066 - "Would you Check Out a Free Business Opportunity?" - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2013 from Hal Wechsler“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 ...
Views: 1060 - Spoken vs Reading - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2008 from Hal WechslerSpoken vs Reading Words Ever believe you’re absolutely certain you’re right, but ask 3-4 folks around you just to be sure? “Excuse me but is it just me, or did the floor just move as-if an earthquake hit New York?” Your writer has been studying the influence of words on ...
Views: 1059 - Wanna Kill Procrastination? - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Hal WechslerMotivate Yourself to Ace Studying or Test Taking If you had a scientific formula to ace your exams and motivate yourself to study, and it took about five-minutes, would you use it? All of us have days when we are procrastinators, feel bored and tired, and just want to hang out and do ...
Views: 1052 - Got Learning? - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2008 from Hal WechslerSpeed Reading: Got Learning? Do you have an Inquiring Mind? We know the answer is yes - or you would be snoozing or playing video games. Are you aware that having an Inquiring Mind changes your brain’s structure and function? Experience and learning constantly rearrange your brain ...
Views: 1045 - Sitting On Your Can Is Unhealthy - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2007 from Hal WechslerSitting 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, watching tv, reading, and playing video games. Some of the time I am at conferences and company meetings – and telephoning, ...
Views: 1041 - Got Stressbusting? - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2008 from Hal WechslerIs it people, places or things that cause us the most daily stress? Listen to this: 1. “Adopting the right attitude can convert negative stress (distress) to a positive one (eustress).” 2. “As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.” 3. “Every ...
Views: 1037 - Got Summaries for 2008? - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2008 from Hal WechslerHalf of the scientific studies I read in ’08 required a reincarnation of A. Einstein for full comprehension. The other half is clear as crystal, and memorable. The media knows that only 10% of the 310 million Americans are interested in science stories. They do not print 95% of scientific ...
Views: 1022 - "Questions for Parents" - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2013 from Hal WechslerQuestions: • 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 ...
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