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Can 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 birds. Is laughter just a waste of time?

You've decided to take up the practice of the essential success skill of speed reading. You start your practice, perhaps using a software program that helps to get your eyes moving 2-10 times faster through the print. You zip right through the reading selection and get to the end. Then, you notice that you don't have any idea what the material was about. Although this experience may be quite common in the initial phases of learning to speed read, it can often happen with traditional reading as well. Here is the key to stopping this time waster.

Can 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 like a charm. Earplugs are not exactly high-tech, but work instantly to eliminate unwanted noise. The first earplugs written about were wax and used by the crew of Odysseus to ward off the Siren’s Song and a shipwreck. How old? 8th Century, B.C.

Before you make the journey in learning to become a master speed reader, answering the question in the title can go a long way to motivating you to keep practicing and mastering the art and science of speed reading. A review of academic research in this area can confuse most people.

How 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 concluded our consciousness (reason, logic and thinking) was the basis for western civilization and its progress. Imagine an executive at Apple being told his conscious mind is almost an illusion, and all their success is the product of non-consciousrn(auto-pilot) decision-making. Ridiculous.

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle recently released his new book, “The Talent Code”. Regarded by Tom Peters as the most important and useful book in 2009, we feel it helpful to any educator or parent wanting to increase the success and skills of their students. Mr. Coyle’s research unfolds that greatness isn’t born, instead, it’s grown. He shares his findings regarding what created the world’s most talented athletes, scholars, artists, and leaders.

Multi-tasking, multiple projects, multiple goals, multi-media pretty much describes the state of the workplace and school environments today. With all this flurry for our attention and focus, it is amazing that anything actually gets completed. With all the distractions around us, unless you know what your CORE is, you may never master speed reading, or get anything notable accomplished. Do you know what your CORE is? CORE stands for Cost of Reading Effectively. As an employee, every minute of your day can be broken down to the cost of your employment.

As a speed reading coach, I am frequently asked the question, "How can I increase my comprehension as well as my speed?" It seems that everyone gets the "speed" of the eyes part, but the comprehension, or understanding of the material is the question, or challenge for most people. The speed of the eyes is not as important as the speed of the mind's response to the print. First, all approaches to speed reading gives training in the movement of the eyes. The goal is to make the mechanical aspect of speed reading as efficient as possible. There are various approaches to accomplishing this.

How to Gesture And Double Your Communication Skills 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 are Malignant, right? Benign means Healthful, Good, Favorable or Friendly. Malignant, on the other hand, means Bad, Harmful, Diseased or Lethal. But you know that. What if your doctor says the results are Benign, and air-writes with hisr

Five Minute Eye Exercise to Self-Help We Homo sapiens refuse to do things without a good reason. Why? Back two-thousand years ago, our ancestors were already skeptics, and it has become a human instinct and reflex. Why should I do what you say? Why should I believe you – you must have a vested interest – so tell me,rn(WIIFM) – What’s in it for me? Be patient! Control your need for (IG) Instant Gratification for 60-seconds. 1. “You can’t depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out-of-focus.”r

Is Your Memory As Good As a 5th Grader? If you got five-minutes, you can discover how to remember rnabstract (tough-stuff) permanently. We teach this long-term memory strategy to ten-year olds (5th graders) and they get it. How about it? Now if your life centers on ditch digging – this is not a big-deal. But if you are involved in the Knowledge Economy as an executive orrnentrepreneur, student or smart-ass, maybe this five-minutes is worth your while. Tell me, just between us, when was the last time you learned something practical for your brain’s sake? Let’s do it, huh?

Do You Zone-Out 46.9% of The Time (at your office)? Although I am a Contrarian (trained at law school) I have done the research about Mind-Wandering, Day-Dreaming and Zoning-Out. Result: you and I are OOI (Out Of It) a minimum of 30% (at school) to 47% of the time (at your career). Weird. Google: the jou al Science by Daniel T. Gilbert, Harvard University, Nov. 2010. So What Mind Wandering is a lack of attention and loss of comprehension. Like being seriously overweight – when I got on the scale I was dumbfounded with the reading.r

Do you like listening to music while reading? If yes then have you ever thought how it affects your reading process? Does it allow you to read faster or does it slow you down? How does it affect the reading comprehension? First, it must be stated that if you want to read fast then you have to concentrate well to the text you are reading. Your thoughts have to be focused and you should not let your mind to wander away. Poor concentration leads to slow reading speed. In addition, it hurts your reading comprehension.

Are 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 real life? Reading a book, article or report? Nyet. You read to yourself – silently. Giving a presentation? Nada, it sounds too contrived. At a job interview? Not. You are almost always a Silent-Reader. In school the teacher read stories aloud to us.

Do You Start Yawning At 2:30pm And Finish At 5pm? If you are still breathing and own a TV you have viewed a commercial for 5-Hour Energy Drink. Each dose contains 2-ounces in five different berry flavors. This is an alte ative to coffee crashing with its tired, dopey, and sluggish feedback. Does this new gimmick work? Are there side effects, and when can I start?

A 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 lambs, is that correct?” You do not deny the lamb creature in question has legs?” 4. “Yes, Dean Reppy, but I never stopped in midstream to count their legs, which undoubtedly propels its lamb body.” 5.

Why 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 you know 92% of email readers (not just you and me) instantly delete the message when it becomes complex and incomprehensible for longer than 10rnseconds?

Five Minute Eye Exercise to Self-Help We Homo sapiens refuse to do things without a good reason. Why? Back two-thousand years ago, our ancestors were already skeptics, and it has become a human instinct and reflex. Why should I do what you say? Why should I believe you – you must have a vested interest – so tell me,rn(WIIFM) – What’s in it for me? Be patient! Control your need for (IG) Instant Gratification for 60-seconds. 1. “You can’t depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out-of-focus.”r

The Ophthalmologist answered: Floaters are bits of protein that pass along your retina like spots on a leopard. Past age 65 everyone has them. But when they are a new event for you, it may be a sign of Detached Retina. Are they ever a symbol of an Aha! Experience? He answered with a question, ...

A recent visitor to my site inquiring about speed reading asked, "How can I move away from actually saying the words, and learn how to identify the symbols?" The question demonstrates a knowledge of one of the difficult habits to overcome in learning to speed read - sub-vocalization. Sub-vocalization is seeing the words, then saying the words in your mind, then hearing the words, and finally understanding them. It is a four step process. Reading is defined as getting meaning from printed materials - seeing them, and creating understanding. Theoretically, reading should be only two steps.

What is Peripheral Vision? Normal, everyday vision is called Central vision, it produces high resolution vision. So what? We use it for reading, TV, internet, and driving. Anything requiring maximum acuity (sharpness) of vision requires Central (foveal) vision.

A lot of reading strategies is adopted by the speed reader to accomplish his goal of reading fast. Among many of the strategies are word for word, fast reading, reading faster and so on. However, the most effective strategy to accomplish speed reading is the thought unit. In this strategy, the reader reads group of words simultaneously as singular ideas. He forms the habit of mentally grouping words as ideas and concludes reading in an amazing short time span. He does not rea

Speed reading is a skill that elevates the level of comprehension, understanding, absorption of material, and overall ease of scanning information that can affect a wide range of life factors. The skill of reading is one that encourages higher school marks, fosters a better-prepared employee, and catapults some into international fame. Each year, contestants gather for the World Championship Speed Reading Competition, which assesses comprehension as a vital part in the speed

Learning to speed read can be a daunting challenge for those who want to master the skills in the very beginning. One of the biggest limiting factors of traditional reading is that as adults we read with a see-say-hear-know method known as subvocalization. It limits the speed you read to the speed of your voice. But when starting out to learn speed reading, too much attention is given to this habit, and not on learning how to replace it.

When learning to speed read, the saying that a little information can be a dangerous thing still applies. Consider the term "eye-span." Even though I've been teaching people from all walks of life how to speed read for 30 years, I have only recently received many questions about it. For new learners coming into my programs, the question keeps coming up early in training. I don't even use the term in my training. The new learner has read something about it somewhere. There is too much conce for it though.

Why Symphony Conductors Live Longer. If you read the obituaries for fun and as social history, the #1 occupation producing healthy, long living folks – I mean into their 90s – are musical conductors rnmaking ridiculous arm gestures. Can their secret of healthy, long lives, work for others? Inquiring Minds need to know because we want to be around for the fun and games. The critical exercises are easy to employ at your desk and requires a miserly five-minutes to implement daily. We have recommended these baby-easy exercises to a legion of executives whor

6 Quick Tips on Improving Reading RecallnnnDo you find yourself having to re-read a paragraph you just read? Do you have trouble remembering what you read just yesterday? Here are some easy exercises you can do to put a stop to this time wasting endeavor of information overload.nn1. Turn to the editorial page of your daily newspaper. Read the lead editorial. What’s the major point the editor is making? Is it reflected in the title of the piece? Rewrite the title to reflect

How to Hum Your Way Back to Health Can you keep an open mind about knowledge that is NOT scientific? I have to force myself not to giggle at beliefs and practices of non-scientific cultures. But, recent research on Tibetan practices have proven as real as a heart attack. Do you have to be a computer scientist to surf the Internet and make satisfying discoveries? How about being an electrical engineer in order to throw the light switch? Do you need a degree from Ford on auto mechanics to drive your car? Physical Healing

I'm a homeschool dad. I'm now also very big into "Being Prepared" (my brother was living in New Orleans when hurricane Katrina hit). These are two of the big reasons that I was so interested in making a Rocket Stove when I found out about them recently. I did some research on Rocket Stoves ...

Speed Reading Myths Debunked There is so much misinformation about speed reading that as a user for over 30 years, and as an instructor of tens of thousands of learners from all walks of life and all levels of education, I feel compelled to debunk some of the most prevalent and popular myths. However, before we begin, it is essential to define what is reading. Reading Defined

In the "always-on" electronic information rich and interconnected culture we live in, challenges to our ability to focus and concentrate is an extremely essential trait that few people can claim is not a problem. Concentration becomes even more difficult when learning to speed read. This article will outline 9 tactics you can easily apply while you learn to speed read and they will pay dividends beyond the process of reading.

Many of us work with a computer all day long and it is usual that you read far more texts from the computer screen than from paper. Can you apply speed reading techniques for reading from computer? Yes, you can as on the general the speed reading techniques are applicable both reading from computer or book. However there exist some differences and you will benefit in case of reading from the computer screen if you will apply the following tips. In case of reading from the computer then you may have an advantage of processing the text and making it easier to read.

The Universe has many laws that people understand, but I'm going to talk to you about the opposite of the Law of Attraction, the Secret that everyone has been talking about for 3 years now. There is an unspoke Law of Repulsion and since no one knew much about it, I figured I'd discover it.

"Why do Dyslexics make such good Fast Readers?" Not too long ago, I learned about a discovery that is sure to revolutionize education of all Dyslexics. In Jeffrey Freed's book "Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World", he says: "While our schools have been harping on the deficits of ...

Actors & The Laws of Memory I sat at this Broadway Theater and saw an impossible one-man show. Impossiblenbecause the actor recited his lines for 90 minutes without making one (1) memory mistake. Can you imagine you-or-me reciting Shakespeare from memory withoutnreading off a prompting ...

Did you know that neuro-science (the study of how the brain works) has proven there are four essential principles that insure learning success? Without knowing these, you will probably be frustrated, confused, and possibly fail in your attempts to learn this complex set of behaviors called speed reading. The 4 essential, but little known secrets to all successful learning attempts, especially speed reading are: 1. Brain Plasticity - it has amazing regenerative capability. 2. Frequency - more often is best! 3. Intensity - fully engaged and participating in the experience.r

Most people assume that the eyes glide smoothly from left to right when they read. But what the eyes actually do is to move in little jumps. There are 130 million light receivers at the back of the eye, in an area no larger than a thumbnail. Each light receiver decodes hundreds of light bundles of energy per second. Some cells respond to specific colours, others to overall light intensity. At the centre of the retina is the fovea where 2,000 cones and rods are crammed into a space less than a tenth of a millimetre square.

Why 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 foveal (central) vision. When you are jerking around on the Internet, playing video games, watching TV, add reading-and-writing, you are focusing your eyes through a tiny keyhole in your retina called the Fovea < Latin for Pit.

Speed reading is a vastly popular keyword internet search term with several million searches per month. Many people want to discover how to do this vital information management skill today. However, before someone learns to speed read, it might be helpful to take a step back and observe something that is taken for granted. When you read, whether it is speedy or not, what does your mind do? If you take it for granted, you might be able to move through print quickly, but then you probably won't comprehend well. There is no such thing as speed reading without comprehension.

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

Does speed reading really work? No, it does not work! You work it. Now before you stop reading thinking, "that last statement is obvious," I'll ask you to stop and think for a moment. Most people think that reading is a passive activity. Passive readers are slow readers who often have great difficulty with reading comprehension. Highly effective readers on the other hand show great activity in several areas of the brain while reading under brain scanning machines. Most people take reading for granted.

A favorite pastime of mine is to ask people what it means to “speed read?” Invariably the more people I ask, the more different answers I get. Usually their answers have something to do with reading faster than they currently do. Rarely does someone include in the definition mentioning comprehension, or understanding printed material along with the speed. Unfortunately if you do not understand material while reading it, then it is not reading! In fact, one of the most often questions I get conce s the possibility of comprehending at fast speeds, especially speeds over 600 words per minute.r

If you have been searching for information about speed reading, you probably have been confused by both the abundance of information as well as the contradictions in the statements and "facts" you read. One of the most common statements someone who is looking for free information about the topic will see is, "speed reading is merely about skimming, scanning, and key-wording." Is this statement true, or false? As a user and teacher of the skills for over 30 years, I can empathically state that the statement is false.

With nearly any material you come across about speed reading, you will find some discussion about the habit of subvocalization. This habit can be defined as the process of seeing the words in print, then saying the words in your mind, hearing the words in your mind, and then it finally leads to your understanding. Nearly all who write or teach about the habit recognize it as limiting your success to speed reading and will instruct you to stop. Unfortunately, they do not teach you how to stop.

How Ben Franklin Invented Speed ReadingnAnd How it Can Improve Your Productivity There are six secret strategies to reading and remembering three (3)nbooks in the time others can hardly finish one. In the 300 millio U.S. population, only 20% are interested in personal growth, if younare one of ...

Whether you have just started to look into speed reading, or whether you are a frustrated learner who has tried and not mastered the skills yet, there are 6 essential concepts you must understand if you hope to master the skills as a lifelong habit, or skill set. Notice I mentioned "frustrated learners" in the first paragraph. I have observed that many of my learners come to me as a matter of having not succeeded in learning the skills from trying some program in the past.

What 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 not believe. Example: “Whatever you believe and expect to happen, with confidence, are most likely to occur.” Life is a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’, you get what you expect. So expect all positive stuff and you will receive it.” What else?r