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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Work or Fun - Do Words Change Minds?

Work 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 mathematical – they are at least 50% and more likely up to 85% emotional. If you are depending on your Will-Power, you left-brained logic and reasoning to make the optimal decisions or convince others – NGH it is Not-Going to-Happen. Homo sapiens are emotionally-driven by their right-hemisphere.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"If You Hate Popeye, Think Again."

“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 Squinting and Smiling did help me trigger Peripheral Vision, and upped my reading speed 80%, and double my long-term memory. But why throw the damn Bible in my face?”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

My First Job - Wow!

My First Job Was a Pisser 1. I just hit age 16, went to the NYC Education Dept. and got my Working-Papers. 2. I got $35 in birthday gifts, and paid $25.50 for a used Schwinn bike. 3. Western Union on Pitkin Avenue hired me, (after-school) to deliver telegrams by bike. 4. It happened after one week of deliveries. I was given a telegram marked, “Leave before this telegram is opened.” 5. I found 108 Hart Street, Marie Latke, and knocked on the door of “2a”. 6. An old blind lady opened the door. I announced, “I have an important telegram for you,” and pushed it into her hand.r

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Yoga Eye Exercises Rule

Yoga 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 tornninety-five years. Have you noticed that many Seniors past eighty years old, read with glasses as thick as the bottoms of Coke bottles? It is statistically true that NOT the legs, but the eyes go first. We have seen test results of Senior adults who executed daily Yoga eye exercises, and the control group who let nature take its course. Four-to-one.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How your Beliefs Decide Your Success

How your Beliefs Decide Your Success or Failure • 1. We asked a dozen blog readers, “What’s a turn-on to keep reading, & what makes you hit the Delete?” • 2. Ten of twelve said, “Does it help me solve a problem orrndo I think, “So what?”, “Who-Cares?”, “WIIFM – what’s-in-it-for-me?” Conclusion: “Is-It-Relevant to my life?” • 3. Then we asked one-hundred graduates of SpeedReading101, “What makes you stay with an article, verses ‘Delete’?

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

1,729 views

By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Why You Must Reward Yourself First to Learn a New Skill."

Why You MUST Reward Yourself to Learn a New Skill • 1. Me: “Mike” (my 15 year old kid) do you know why Communism failed in the powerful Soviet Union?” • 2. Mike: “I want to win a scholarship, ace the SAT, and land “Hot-Girls”, so Who-Cares? So-What? And WIIFMrn(What’s In It For Me?)” • 3. Me: “And that’s exactly why understanding why the second most powerful military system in the world fell like that ton-of-bricks. Their example gets you what you want.” • 4. Mike: “Now I’m interested, but Pop, no theory or philosophy, just easy-and-quick facts.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

1,726 views

By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Reward-Yourself to Double your Learning & Memory Permanently

“Our Licensees “Do-Good-Works!” While “Earning Real-Good” • 1. Would you like to profitably help the 30% who drop-out of high school & college annually? You’d be improving lives & helping families live the-American-Dream. • This Work-At-Home niche has an audience of thousands in your county & towns. How many Community-Four-Year & Graduate schools teach in your area? (see: www.speedreading101.org) Call Gene, 1-877-567-2500 • 2. The #1 reason for ‘dropping-out’ of school is Not lack-of- finances. It’s inability to keep up with daily homework assignments in their core subjects.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Are You Still a Learning Machine?

Are you STILL a Learning Machine? If you are finished with school, for 95% of us, we quit learning. The problem with that is rna static brain begins to unravel and invites deterioration like Alzheimer’s. You know the expression,rn‘Use it or Lose it’. Put your arm in a cast for 6-weeks and the disuse atrophies the muscles. You needr Exercise to regain full strength, right? Stop learning, watch 5-hours of TV daily, and your brain gets stale and your ability to learn goesr South. So What? The latest scientific research indicated an opening for dementia. See, you arer

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

1,711 views

By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Got The Einstein Memory System?

Got a Great Memory? Would it improve your learning and produce career benefits if you couldnabsolutely, positively double your long-term memory? Ninety-five percent of students and executives learn the Einstein Memory Systemnwithin seven (7) days, and are actively using it to ace their exams ...

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Using I-AM, is a Game-Changer

“Why Using, “I-AM”, is a Game-Changer!” Remember this? “I-Am-What-I-Am, and That’s All That I-Am, I’m Popeye-The Sailor Man. I’m Strong at The Finish, Cause I Eats Me Spinach. I’m Popeye-The-Sailor-Man.”rn [Repeat the Lyrics]rn “I-am-what-I-am, and that’s all that I-am. I’m Popeye-the-sailor-man. I’m strong-at-the-finish, cause I eats-me- Spinach. I’m Popeye-the-sailor-man.” By Sammy Learner, 1933 www.speedreading101.org 877-567-2500. • The name for God told to Moses is:r

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Creativity is Your Secret to Winning Promotions At-Work

“Is creativity the Secret to winning Career Promotions?” • 1. Mike: “I see that look in your eye. You want to educate me like I don’t get enough in school all day.” • 2. Me: “Kid I got a lot to do, but making sure you never come back to live in my house After you graduate college is in the top-ten on my goals.” • 3. Mike: “Will it be about politics which I hate or culture which is Boring? Wait. Will it help me win hot-girls or make me a ton of money?” • 4. Me: “If you are bored, raise your right hand, and you go your way, and I’ll…”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

1,696 views

By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Inquiring Minds Care: Health And Longevity

Why Inquiring Minds Care: It’s Health And Longevity Do you find that 95% of all Internet articles never teach you anything practical? Can you even remember the last useful strategy or schema (diagram/pattern) you implemented to improve your life? Inquiring Minds read books, articles and reports to learn, remember, and apply knowledge to improve their lives or they take-a-nap. I am a Contrarian – a skeptic who has great difficulty believing information because an Authority Figure (expert) or Ancient Book (Bible) tells me to have faith. Not-good-enough, sir.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Luck is a Skill You Can Double

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why Luck is a Skill you Can Double (2x), And Win at Texas Hold’em – Consistently Our research asked Law School seniors what they learned to use from law school in their relationships, and private lives. 1. To ask of everything: “Who Cares?” (Relevance) 2. “So What?” (WIIFM) What’s In It For Me? 3. Can you PROVE it? Show me the evidence. There’s more. One of our professors said, “AGE only matters with Cheese-Steak-and 20-year old Scotch. Keep on trucking regardless of your years.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

So What?

So 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 itrnhas always been there. It is called – Thinking or Steam of Consciousness. We hold conversations between our – I, (personality) and our – Me, (mind-body connection) 24/7. Don’t you ask yourself questions before making decisions? How about searching your mind for alte ative ideas or suggestions? Well, tell me, who are you talking to? So What

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Putting your Feelings Into Words.....

Why Putting Your Feelings Into Words Empowers you • 1. “Pop, I have to stand up in front of 25 clients & convince them our new system is the solution. I have done my homework, but am scared I might blow it.” • 2. “Right. You think Positive affirmations are “Hot Air”. Do you feel that icy feeling in the pit of your stomach? • 3. You have the statistics & test results, but you need to deliver your message to influence, convince & persuade, Am I on the right track?”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

1,688 views

By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Are there Urban Myths Blocking MONEY From Reaching You?

Are there Urban Myths That Block M-o-n-e-y From Your Life? • 1 “Aw quit it, I know you believe it, and mean well, but what I say out loud or hear in my head are “white-noise”, just meaningless chatter. My words are powerless, and so am I.” • 2. When I said that to my mother, I was convinced she was a poor, deluded fool, “superstitious, ignorant, and without scientific knowledge.” Now, maybe I was too quick on the trigger.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How to Use Your Voice to Succeed in Anything."

How to Use Your Voice to Influence-Persuade-Convince Others • 1. “Tell me something Pop, how much does good-looks, intelligence, and money affect how women see me?” • 2. “You want the psychology or neuroscience answer? Not much, maybe 15%. You didn’t name the Killer-Factor that others consciously and subconsciously Judge you by.” • 3. “Tell me, don’t keep it a secret, Pop.” • 4. “Just listen, don’t tell me you know better. This is based on 25 years of proven science, using fMRI scanning. Hold your water – it’s your Voice.” • 5. “No way. And don’t say, ‘Yes-way!”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Is Your Memory As Strong As a Sixth-Grader?

Is Your Memory As Strong As a Sixth-Grader? President Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago for 12-years (1992-2004). He was a Senior Lecturer, on the faculty as a part-time professor, specializing in constitutional law. He was asked to teach full-time, but his law practice and work as an Illinois state Senator, and later U.S. Senator, caused him to decline the promotion. Professor Obama had a reputation as a lively lecturer with an almost photographic memory for law citations.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Both Cannabis & Chronic Stress Blow-Out Our Motivation."

“Both Cannabis & Chronic Stress Blow-Out Our Motivation” • 1. “But I’m smart, hardworking, why can’t I win success?” • 2. “Snap answer: you run away from Obstacles and your Mind-Set (Attitude) in not in alignment with Coping.” • 3. “I have no idea what “Obstacles, Attitude & Coping” even mean in this context. You are using “abstract” words that do not paint a mental picture. Be ‘concrete’.” • 4. “We both believe in science, right? I just read research that might clarify our feelings of getting dumped on, loneliness, and not winning our dreams.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Death of Insomnia

How to Shrink Insomnia to 55 Seconds If you are over the age of 35 you already have an intimate relationship with Insomnia. Sleep difficulties are SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). From Latin “somn” means sleep, and “in” translates to Not! I asked a class of 30 high schoolers if they ever experienced stress or insomnia at age 16. There was a tone in my voice that whispered the obvious answer was a big –rn“Of course not – that’s for old people like you!”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

What is the Chain Reaction For Personal Success

What is The Chain-Reaction For Personal Success If you learn this baby-easy system to use your electromagnetic field RHYTHM consciously – you have a strategy to change (improve) almost anything and everything in your life. Right, and cows can fly and drop off their milk! What is your Rhythm? First, we have a rhythm for everything we love and a different one for everything we dislike. Wait – do you want change in your life of health-money-better relationships? If you can switch to a positive (love) rhythm to things you hate in your life, you change your thinking,r

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How to Connect Your Right-Brain to Winning

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to Link Your Right-Brain to Winning in Under 60-secs “Daddy, Why is that football player – dancing up-and-down?” • Why you should use this baby-easy strategy as a “warm-up” to win at school & career. • 1. Believe it because of the neuro-scientific research at San Francisco State University, published in the jou al, ‘Evolution and Human Behavior’. • Lead author: David Matsumoto. This important strategy is “self-programming”, a form of “reinforcement.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Science Finally GETS Medications, Do You?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Science Finally “Gets” Meditation, Do You?” • 1. “Have you tested “mindfulness-meditation”? You seem to know that you hate it, and it’s a waste of time.” • 2. “Sure, a dozen times, and it gives me a headache, and seems like it’s a way to take a nap when you should be working.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

A Secret About The Reading Code

A 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 why: America’s educated class reads text like a snail crossing the highway –rns-l-o-w-l-y. We’re talking about lawyers, CPAs, physicians, and other professionals. They read complex text (not sexy novels) as low as 100 words per minutes, to a maximum of 200 wpm.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Specific Strategies to ACE school & Career with Dinero"

“If you don’t have specific strategies to help me, get out of my face.” • 1. Me: “Mike (my 15 year old), which is more important, your LEFT or your RIGHT hemispheres?” • 2. Mike: “Oh, it’s time for my Speedreading101.com education. Do I have to answer this question, I got homework.” • 3. Me: “Forget it, you’re out of my will. More for your siblings. See ya.” • 4. Mike: “Is this stuff going to really help me win a scholarship, a hot-girl-friend, or get rich working?”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How Daydreaming Overcomes Impulsive Acts

“How Daydreaming Success, Overcomes Impulsive Acts” • 1. “Pop, what’s with this stuff on “immediate-gratification”, and impatience? Doesn’t every sane person want “it” now, not later?” • 2. “You wanna fight or hear the latest neuroscience. Good. When you’re a little kid, you don’t analyze, and want it now, and give up the future. Mature folks will give up the present benefit, if the future” reward” is worth it.” • 3. “The only we know for sure is what is in my hand. The future is not guaranteed, huh?”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How to Permanently Own Luck, Accelerated Healing...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 baby-easy Tapping Rhythms. He was instructed to do so by his Guardian Angel. If you are like me, your Skeptical Mind asks: what are these Tapping Rhythms GOOD for? Tell me - WIIFM? (What’s In It For Me? (You!) Guru gave us the Four Tapping Rhythms, for these energetic gifts & talents.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How to be Outrageous and Make Mon...

How 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 avoid Pain. A Bit of History We have been involved in teaching Speed Reading to students and executives since 1959. When the Internet went commercial October 25 1994, we were the one-and-only listing under Speed Reading.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Beat Stress With Your Nose

Beat Stress With Your Nose Speed Reading Rules New scientific research shows that when we are under Stress-Overload, more than 100 genes push our body and mind into overdrive. So what? That weakens our immune system, and makes a lousy situation even worse. The Meaning of Stress When you suffer from stress-overload, your entire body and mind go into Fight-or-Flight reaction.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"These Experiences Can Raise Your Annual Income up to 53%."

“These Experiences Impact Your Annual Income.” • 1. “But Pop, I get Bored fast. Don’t say it, ‘I have a limited attention-span’. I remember. A goldfish has 9-seconds, and my generation has only 8. Tell me something I can use.” • 2. “I’ll tell you some stuff I learned this week Online. You stop me if it’s irrelevant to your life. Just the top-5.” • 3. “Yeah, a Chinese menu. I like options, multiple-choice & learning, if-it-doesn’t-put-me-to-sleep.” • 4. “Why is it better for you to see yourself as the Underdog in school and at-work? Even in relationships and in making money?”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How to Ace the Interview

How 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 the ocean. Scientists disagree. Many believe you are hearing the sound of your own blood moving through your ear’s arteries and veins. Maybe not. Some scientists explain that the seashell (by the seashore) is really a resonating chamber.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Do Inquirying Minds Know this?

Do 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 for the past decade. How do they know? Vas You Dere Sharlie? That’s almost three-times around the planet. We must be very important entities. 2. Our lungs are filled with Alveoli – tiny air sacs that exchange rncarbon dioxide for oxygen. Good idea.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought?

How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought? Do you have to understand the science of electricity, electrons and protons, in order to turn on the lights in your room, your TV or computer? Click the button, throw the switch, or wave your hand, right? If the public had to pass a test on how the internal combustion engine turns gas into driving, our highways would be huge parking lots, true? What Do You Make of These Scientific Statements 1. “Matter does not exist – it is all vibrational frequencies.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"What's the Secret of Convincing a Group?"

What’s The Secret of Speaking to a Group & Convincing Them? My teenager Michael, asked me to help him improve his Talk for Class President. • 1. “Mike, there are two-things that rivets our attention other than Ben Franklins ($100) falling from the sky.” • 2. “In my circles $10 bills would do it, Pop.” • 3. “The sound of our own name, and the words, “You-Your-Yours”, meaning ourselves, right?” • 4. “Sure, we are in love with ourselves, and I get interested in anything that will make my life easier & better.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

"Are You Saying We Read With Our EARS?"

“Are you Saying We See With our EARS?” • 1. “I showed my teenager Mike, this new scientific research that came to a weird conclusion about how we SEE. • 2. “Pop, I don’t get it. We don’t just see with our eyes, the retina part, they say past experience and our expectation change the visual info, huh?” • 3. “That’s why I’m showing to you. It is weird science. Should you believe it? Yes, neuroscientists for the last 5-years have been saying that Reading is Hearing overriding just Seeing.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Jim Rohn Lives

Jim 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, Timothy Keller and Marcel Just submitted their research to be published in the Neuron jou al. The human brain can physically rewire itself through 100 hours of intensive rninstruction. Yes Virginia, you can fix broken brain circuits by behavioral training. So what?

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Did You Know This One?

Did 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 5%. Credibility: the leading Personnel and executive search company – Monster.carnsurveyed 6,624 unrelated corporate personnel. So What You deal with peers and have personal relationships, right?

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Which Came First, Gestures or Speech, And Who Cares?

Which 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 are Malignant, right? Benign means Healthful, Good, Favorable or Friendly. Malignant, on the other hand, means Bad, Harmful, Diseased or Lethal.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

I Dare You

I Dare You To Use the “D” Word With Someone If President Obama used the “D” word on TV – he would be impeach by the following week. I didn’t say convicted – but surely impeached. See, the House of Representatives is the Grand Jury and the Senate does the actual trial. Don’t get nervous about the economy tanking, the stock market dumping two-thousand points or losing your personal source of revenue – it will never happen. How come? It is a Conspiracy of Intelligent Folks not to use the “D”. We all know that saying so does NOT make it so.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

ANTs Verses APTs Are Powerful Stuff

ANTs Verses APTs is a Head Thing Some people pick-up the strategies, techniques and tactics of Speed Reading in 20-minutes, others in 2-hours, some, in five-hours. Still others take up to “one-week” to feel comfortable with using Speed Reading 101.org We are all different based onrnthe ‘self-talk’ going on in our mind about “new-stuff”. Scientific Facts: a) we humans have an average of 60 thousand thoughts pass through our mind DAILY. One-per second. b) 95% of these thoughts are a repeat from yesterday, and the day-before. They’re an almost daily occurrence.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Can We be Too Skeptical?

Can 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 arn(wow!) 70% approval rate. The latest Gallup poll reports a lead weight drop to 50%. What about the Disapproval figures? The Gallup Disapproval statistic has motored uptown from 10% to 42%.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule

Why Emotions in The Workplace Rule Do we see reality as it is, or as we feel at the time? Don’t we all believe that we are objective - while others are emotional? The world is right-brained and only I am rational and left-brained? Wait. In a scientific study of physicians – 90% stated confidently they were in the top 10% in knowledge and effectiveness. Aren’t half of them average? No one rated himself or herself in the lower half. They were shocked to lea 33% of them were ranked below average by their hospital administration

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Be a Brainiac, And ACE Exams

Brainiacs Live For “Testing-Pops” to Ace Exams • The heart of Acing exams is not the text, but taking command of your emotions - first. Why? If you are human, you are stressed-out, full-of-tension, and in high anxiety. Your memory has gone South, and not to Miami. • Stop now, and take one-minute to close your eyes & take three (3) Diaphragmatic-Breaths, and exhaling, produce the sounds, “Hum-m, Hum-m, Hum-m, & Hum-m, on each breath. Why? • You switch from your agitated, Sympathetic Nervous System, tornyour relaxed, Parasympathetic Nervous System. Takes 45-our

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Boody Language is Your Competitive Advantage

Body Language is Critical to Success By H.Bernard Wechsler March 12 2012 Body Language is Your Competitive Advantage The right Questions lead you to winning solutions 1. Visual Image: Do you look like an expert? Don’t we all expect arnlawyer, doctor, professor, computer-nerd, teenager, to dress and look the part? When they don’t, we mentally question their credentials. 2. Eye-Contact: it is a subconscious, hereditary force. If I cannot see your eyes, you are sneaky, and dangerous. Eye-contact is the basis folks rndecide to trust you, or not. More is better than less.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Are Affirmations Worth Doing?

Are Affirmations Worth Doing? A poll of our graduates including 81% of corporate executives and 89% ofrncollege 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 powerful benefits and results tornconsistent repetition of affirmations. Like what? Money, creativity, health, and improved relationships. Affirmations appear to counterbalance daily chronic stress. So what?

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

SPEED READING AND "ACT-AS-IF"

William James, professor at Harvard, (1842-1910d), at the turn ofnthe 20th century, is an American psychology icon. He has morenquotes attributed to him than Mark Twain. A century later hisnphilosophy of "act-as-if", stands up under fMRI (functional MagneticnResonance Imagery), as a valuable ...

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Can Self-Talk Implement Success or Failure?

Can 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 and discuss possibilities between yourself, you, and your shadow. We test our ideas internally, even before make written or word processing notes. Problem/Solution is a standard format.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Do we have Five Streams of Consciousness That Run Us?

Are 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 arnprize – Corpus Callosum (Latin for firm body). You and I hold conferences and Q&A sessions with one or more of our five (5) Section Chiefs in order to problem-solve make important decisions, reading and thinking.

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

What's The One-Change?

What’s The One-Change You Can Make to Improve Motivation-to Win? If you want people to take action, be induced and incentivize, do this one thing. This applies to a physical goal like finishing a game successfully. Most of us quit in the middle of effort because we get distracted or bored. This single-change applies to improving the results of sales and marketing people. It also works to keep folks from deleting (75% quit before the end) while waiting for a download. If you are interested in persuasion, influence or convincing (including lawyersr

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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By Hal WechslerRecently published2 topics

Who Needs a Boot Camp (basic-training) for Learning & Critical Thinking?

Who Needs a Boot Camp (basic-training) For Learning & Critical Thinking? Neuroscientists estimate about 83% of students and 76% of executives are missing the link between knowing and doing. It is called the “critical-thinking” step. Use-it-or-lose-it. My Pop used to say, “Something for nothing? Nix it, kid.”

Primary topic: Learning

Learning Speed Reading

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