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- Improving Your Long-Term Memory - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2008 from Hal WechslerOver 70% of students and executives we asked to rate their memory, complained it was not sufficient for the Internet Age. Like stress, everyone has it and no one can delete it without more effort than it’s worth. Stress destroys memory. Past age fifty, 90% of executives call memory loss ...
Views: 1949 - Age 95 With Excellent Memory - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2008 from Hal WechslerDid you know you have an excellent chance of living to age 95, keeping all your marbles? Jeanne Louise Calment a French citizen, died August 4, 1997, having lived the longest confirmed lifespan – 122 years. Based on the 2,000 censuses, over 34 million U.S. citizens were over the age of ...
Views: 906 - Living To 95 - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2008 from Hal WechslerWould you want to live to advanced old-age if you knew you would be lucid and active? Researching young people from 18 to 28 concluded they believed old age produced lack of independence, physical immobility and loss of mental acuity. What can we do to produce healthy brain aging? Physical ...
Views: 870 - 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: 1279 - 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: 1046 - Actors' Memory Secrets - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2008 from Hal WechslerActors & The Laws of Memory I sat at this Broadway Theater and saw an impossible one-man show. Impossible because the actor recited his lines for 90 minutes without making one (1) memory mistake. Can you imagine you-or-me reciting Shakespeare from memory without reading off a prompting ...
Views: 4628 - Hot Button To Winning - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2008 from Hal WechslerThe entire scientific community called him a head-case and tried to shut him up. He could not prove his theories for ten-years, but shouted his conclusions at his medical colleagues as if he had the evidence in hand. Dr. Hans Berger, German neuropsychiatrist and professor at the University of ...
Views: 835 - Personality Rules - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2008 from Hal WechslerPersonality Type? We taught two separate classes recently, one with kids (12-15), and the other executives at a Fortune 500 airline corporation. Here’s the connection – we inquired of the kids – ‘Do you experience stress much in you daily life?’ One hundred ...
Views: 897 - Cognitive Map - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2008 from Hal WechslerDo You Own a Schema? Professor William James at Harvard in 1891 figured out how to double your your memory – you had to have a better system to record facts. A century later a practical, relevant schema makes learning new information and doubling your working memory, a kids’ game. ...
Views: 1812 - Analogy And Metaphor - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2008 from Hal WechslerBill Smith, the manager and team leader at a Fortune 500 company rarely hires young recruits. He doesn’t trust them to make the right business decisions. He’s not prejudice, and has made young hires in the past, but it just didn’t work out. “Young executives just ...
Views: 3126 - Your 3 Pound Coconut - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2008 from Hal WechslerSee in your mind’s eye your computer functioning by your point-and-click commands following the internal software programs controlling operations. If you click Edit and then Select All, your hardware does not respond with a message “I don’t feel like it today.” It’s ...
Views: 878 - 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: 1286 - Money Luvs Speed - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2008 from Hal WechslerJoe Vitale has written for years that money requires speed of action. How about extending the principle to all successful activities. Career, relationships and personal growth are first dependent on the element of speed. There is more, but first comes speed. Think of it as getting there before ...
Views: 814 - 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: 1081 - What's New? - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2007 from Hal WechslerTime is of the essence - is a legal term meaning if we agree on a date to close, pay or complete, failure to meet the time stated can have lethal financial consequences. Let’s round out 2007 with some new research to internalize and implement. Call it time-is-of-the-essence knowledge ...
Views: 817 - Rules For Cool Vendors - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2007 from Hal WechslerRules For Cool Vendors, by H. Bernard Wechsler and Jackie A. Guiliano, Ph.D There are four answers folks want when they read or listen to your proposal or brilliant White Paper. If you remember them, you will influence and convince - verses making the reader yawn with an open mouth, and then ...
Views: 919 - 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: 1170 - New Research You Must Read - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2007 from Hal WechslerNew Research: Self-Control Requires a Shot of Sugar Do only coaches, teachers and therapists have to exercise self-control on-the-job? How about folks on a diet, parents with kids, and executives influencing and convincing their corporate team? Profound Fact: This may be the most practical ...
Views: 812 - 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: 1154 - Factoids For The Cool - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2007 from Hal WechslerFactoids For Cool Scholars When you add the suffix ‘oid’ to a word like anthropoid, the meaning becomes human–like. Factoid is appearing like a factual piece of information. It includes knowledge that is brief and trivial, but that conclusion is in the eyes of the ...
Views: 954 - 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: 1030 - Self-Defense - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2007 from Hal WechslerSelf-Defense: what is a Skunkgun? Statistics put me to sleep, but stories stick in your mind and teach us something. First, who says so, because being a Contrarian I figure folks make up numbers to sell something. The New York Times 10.12.07 reported a bunch of numbers that grabbed my 3-pound ...
Views: 944 - How Ben Franklin Invented Speed Reading - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2007 from Hal WechslerHow Ben Franklin Invented Speed Reading And How it Can Improve Your Productivity There are six secret strategies to reading and remembering three (3) books in the time others can hardly finish one. In the 300 million U.S. population, only 20% are interested in personal growth, if you are one of ...
Views: 4123 - Cooperation Produces Promotions - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2007 from Hal WechslerHow Cooperation Doubles Learning Skills College and graduate school are based on listening to lectures, right? A 2-year Pennsylvania State University (PSU) study says forgettaboutit. In kindergarten you played and learned with a buddy, and in your corporate career, teamwork (buddy-system) is ...
Views: 902 - 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: 1245 - 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: 1126 - 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: 1056 - Stress And Her Sister, Eustress - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2007 from Hal WechslerStress 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, it includes insomnia ...
Views: 1750 - Stop Scaring Me - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Hal WechslerEven one dose of morphine given to soldiers inhibits (blocks) the ability of the brain to form new memories for learning up to a thirty-days. But you are not a soldier, so who cares? One dose of an opioid prescription drug can block your brain from strong memory and learning for up to a month. ...
Views: 1495 - 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: 1160 - 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: 2840(1 vote) - 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 ...
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