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Are People's Judgments Rational And Stable or What?

Are 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 half of folks over 80-years old either have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia? You are going to live into your nineties so a healthy brain and longevity matter to you, right?

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What Really Matters in Persuading Folks?

What 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 (persuading), convincing your Significant-Other of anything in your relationship, and getting out the vote. Who Says So

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Learning, Teaching And Learning

How do we teach to each other? How is it that we were taught everything that we now know? At some points in history, knowledge was elitist and even a forbidden concept. In 399 BC, Socrates explained that he was known as the wisest of all men since he understood that he knew nothing. Socrates was ultimately executed because of his unyielding questioning to the Athens population to find out how they knew all the things that they knew. In this days, we still ask Socratic questions and have yet to fully understand the answers; however, technology is bringing us closer and closer.

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"Why Jana's Brain Exercise Aces School & Career."

“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 & thumb & grab your right-earlobe. Now cross-over your right arm, & make an “X” with both arms. • Second step, take your right index finger & thumb & seizer Your left-earlobe. Your index-fingers are on top of the earlobes, between the thumbs.”

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Got Two Minutes For Health?

Would 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 rnworthwhile for you and me. You be the judge of this baby-easy experiment. Lymph is a clear, yellow, alkaline fluid, bathing and surrounding each and every cell of our body. Your body contains twice as much Lymph, as blood circulating.

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Definition: Speed Reading Training

Speed reading computer application programs are available. Vortex Speed Reading was the first; however, Vallier, the creator of the program, did not update it and it would not work on Windows XP. n Most speed reading programs use a different approach to the usual 'speed reading' tips where a few words are grouped together to be read. One method is presenting words to the reader one at a time in the same position, stopping the eyes from having to move around as they would on a

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"What's With Left & Right Brains?"

“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 said, ‘if you can’t explain your idea to a smart six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” • 3. “Personally, I like baby-easy examples, analogies or metaphors that I can visual & remember for the future.”

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Five Universal Questions We Require For Success?

Are There Five Universal Questions For Success? Homo sapiens are left tongue-tied and brainless under emotional rntsunamis like failure-rejection-defeat (loss of love-occupation-health). When we most need input from our PreFrontal Cortex, Executive (Top-Down) Brain with reason-logic-meaning – there is Nada – Nothing – Nobody Home. Have you ever experienced the feeling of worthlessness after a career termination, rejection in school, or the loss of an emotional relationship?

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Got Circadian Rhythm?

Speed 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 meetingnof the American Association for Dental Research (April, ...

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Why Resiliency Decides Your Health & Longevity

Why 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 –rnsigns of Alzheimer, patients with Cognitive Reserve will survive and thrive. Resiliency is a characteristic of folks who bounce back from disease, depression and chronic stress to enjoy life and its pleasures.

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Got Must-ibation?

Got Must-ibation? Speed Read Consider this: How many times this week have you heard the expression – obviously – introducenan answer? I counted eight on CNBC interviews in one day. When we start offnwith – obviously - you are telling the listener to shut up because your view ...

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Business Relationships at Work that Work!

Apapted from the original provided by Keith Dugdale and David Lambert co-authors of ”Smarter Selling - Next generation sales strategies to meet your buyer’s needs - every time”. The main focus for the ground-breaking book Smarter Selling is exte al customers. This focus emerged as a result of ...

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Kaizen Means Continuous Improvement

Kaizen Means Continuous Improvementnn“Now is the time that tries men’s souls. The summer soldier and thensunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country,nbut he that stands now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell is not ...

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Use these Three to Win in Your Career

Use 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 “instructor” to corporate executives, I really want the “theory” behind SpeedReading101.” • 4. “Simplicity means how to explain a complex subject so that a smart 10-year-old kid gets it.” Here are the three (3) parts that produce SpeedReading101. Get-it-now.

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"What's With Left & Right Brains?"

“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 said, ‘if you can’t explain your idea to a smart six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” • 3. “Personally, I like baby-easy examples, analogies or metaphors that I can visual & remember for the future.”

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Body Image And Illness

Do 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 ...

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Got Optimism?

If you ask 100 folks if their glass is half full or half empty,nmeaning 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,nand analysis (thinking) are ...

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Got Self-Illusion?

Self-Illusions And Your Success Would Warren Buffet be insulted because you, and ten million ofnyour logical friends told him his strategies are nothing but illusions? Half the psychological community thinks self-illusions are healthynto successful functioning in our Knowledge Economy. Why? ...

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"Questions for Parents"

Questions: • 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 Like your kid to be one of Top-Ten Fastest readers in the U.S. It could help win a Scholarship to avoid paying a Ton to college. And maybe, Dear God, get-a-job.” www.speedreading101.org

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A Common Mistake Most of us Make When Reading a Book

How do we read books? It may seem that there is nothing special in it. We take a book, open it from the first page and read it till the end of it. That is the way most of us do and actually it is an inefficient way to read books. It will result in relatively poor reading speed and low comprehension. Have you ever watched professional athletes train or compete? No matter if it is basketball, tennis player or weight-lifting, athletes always perform some warm up exercises before training or competition. It probably includes some jogging, bends and stretches etc.

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Aristotle Rules

Aristotle’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 ...

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Speed Reading Preparation

The allure of finishing a best-selling novel in record time or skimming a newsletter is enough to send an avid reader looking for ways to improve their reading speed and comprehension. A popular method of increasing skills as a reader is to invest in a speed reading program. In order to further enhance your abilities as a reader, there are various preparation measures you may follow to get the most out of a speed reading program. Below you will find a few things that makes th

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speed reading is not magic

Do you want to speed read?nnTry some experiments by yourself. nnFirst experiment: Open the text editor and delete all blanks from the text. Try to read. Do you well. What's wrong? Look to yourself and try to understand your reading strategy. How douse your eyes path throw the text. How do you understand how does words separate? nnSecond reading experiment: Delete from the text the next letters "a,o,i,e". Can you read the text now? Try to understand how do you read and how do

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What's The Difference between Gimmicks and Strategies?

What’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 and become a human learning computer. You have heard about speed reading for years, but you were never sure if it was a gimmick. One sure thing, you never became a speed reader. In the next five-minute you will know Speed Reading is real, andr Double (2x) your learning skills – permanently.r

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By Kurt Ferguson
Speed Reading Course

Speed reading can be considered one of the best ways to improve vocabulary and cognitive function when it comes to the written word. For many people, there's a stigma surrounding speed-reading. It stems from a collection of myths. However, the mythology surrounding speed-reading can be easily overturned. Speed-reading is actually a series of learned skills that can be useful to anyone willing to put in the time and effort to educate themselves. The best way to learn proper sp

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Why Use-It-Or-Lose-It?

Why “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 baby-easy additions to your life to win the game of longevity. • 1. Use a spice in your food that is common in Indian Curry dishes. “Tumeric” is the spice that contains the essential ingredient, “Curcumin”. It is also sold as an additive in pill-form.

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Why Subliminal Smile leads to success

“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 called “Subliminal-Smiling”. • 3. “I already know how to smile, that cannot work.” • 4. “When people catch you smiling, as a part of your personality, they figure it’s “phony”, and go negative. Subliminal-Smiling is a ‘millisecond’, and seen out of ther

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Got Exercise?

Speed 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 ...

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"What's With Left & Right Brains?"

“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 said, ‘if you can’t explain your idea to a smart six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” • 3. “Personally, I like baby-easy examples, analogies or metaphors that I can visual & remember for the future.”

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Why Boring is Dangerous to Your Life

Why “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 liquids to function optimally. Long-Livers drink a quart of juice of daily. Did you know your 3-lb brain requires 22% of all the Oxygen & Glucose of your entire body?

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Got Willpower?

Did 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 sewe system. Joseph Stalin, Soviet Czar for 24 years ...

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How To Improve Your Reading Speed

There are a number of ways by which to improve your reading speed One of the simplest method is knowing how to skim the content before you actually read it. It is always a good idea for you to speed read for the main themes in any text or work of non-fiction. You can achieve this simply by going over the table of contents , the first and the last sentence of each paragraph before reading the main text.nn Contrasting Prioritiesnn Differentiating your material according to prio

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By Lucas Oliver Young (LOY)
Comfort Zone and Speed Reading

Today we will talk about the Comfort Zone and its link with Speed Reading. This is a much broader topic, and that's why I will treat it in several episodes. First of all, when talking about the Comfort Zone everyone is panicked, it is said that you must leave that area, leave it definitively and as quickly as possible. For many, it does not matter where you go after that. Maybe you do not know very well or even have the problem to find out, all you know is that the Comfort

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How to Send Time-wasting Visitors Away? Get them up from the Chair!

Have you ever experienced a situation when you are in a hurry but your guests just do not want to go away from your office or home? They keep talking and talking about different topics, but your time is running. You have so much work to do, but you can’t do it because you have visitors. What should you do? The problem is that when your visitor is sitting on a chair or a sofa then he is less likely to leave. If he is sitting on a comfortable sofa then he may forget himself sitting in pleasure.

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Got Sand In Your Hourglass?

Do 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 ...

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Think Right And Change Your Future

Human beings have an amazing Power attached to their thoughts. Think about it. You have amazing POWER connected to your THOUGHTS. Let me rephrase it: Your have energy connected to your power of thinking. Now that I've informed you of this, do you instinctively worry about those thoughts that run endlessly through your head? What about that "babbling voice" that lives somewhere inside you? And, you know it drives millions of people to see their therapists every week. When you search for it - it calls out to you: "Voice? Voice? What voice?

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Definition: Speed Reading Courses

If you're interested in pursuing a speed reading program, you're in good company. Because of the over-abundance of information that we all have to deal with on a daily basis, speed reading is looking increasingly attractive. In fact, if you can more than double your reading speed without losing comprehension, it could benefit you greatly. It's no wonder that more and more students and professionals are looking for an effective speed reading program. nnIn order to take full ad

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Do You Spend 60 Minutes at Your Computer?

We 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 ...

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Discover 7 Powerful Tips To Improve Your Speed Reading Skills

No technology in the world can compete with the human brain. Our brain has the ability to pick and process the information in the printed matter in a matter of seconds. However, just as a knife needs sharpening to cut with perfection, your brain needs to sharpen its skills too, in order to carry out speed-reading.nnWith the help of speed-reading, you can read and understand faster. The more you retain the information with regular practice, the more knowledgeable you become. A

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Success With Help From Goal Planning

Did you realize that improving your bowling may not have anything to do with how you throw the ball? And, it may have everything to do with how you visualize throwing the ball and how you see yourself getting the strike or spare. If you are a bowler, you now have the potential of bowling even better - the easy way.

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Reading Brain Breaththrough 2012

Reading & 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” are up to 2-5 years “below” Grade-Level. • 3. “Forget succeeding in college, they are ill-equipped to compete in the “new” economy. Critical reading skills are required for computer use, automation, and robotics.”

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Bugs Bunny Was Right

Headlines Bugs Bunny was absolutely right; Beta Carotene (four carrots daily) improvesnyour memory and reduces dementia. Ok, you have to chew up a slew ofncarrots 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 ...

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Speed Reading is a Science

What ‘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 inbo pattern of ...

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Are You A Closet Contrarian

Are You a Closet Contrarian? If you know yourself and can analyze others, you recognize if you arena core skeptic and suppress a sarcastic personality. Many of us hide nour Contrarian belief system under a mien of teeth-flashing and words of pleasantry. To get along, you go alone, is a ...

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Choosing a Blog Commenting Service Provider

Blogging has been around for quite some time and numerous businesses have setup blogging internet sites to promote their products. It's popular popularity has resulted in the emergence of another marketing method in the proper execution of blog commenting. Blog Commenting Service Initially, marketing was only limited to the information section as the review section was left for conversation involving the blogger and their enthusiastic readers. But, it's the review section tha

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From Fiction To Truth - Write Your Story Today

It's amazing. I've been writing books for years, and selling them online for nearly 15 years, and previously only in print through selling foreign licenses, or printing them myself, advertising them, and selling them either online or in classes I taught. Now there is a better way. If you have something you want to say, you can put it in print, or sell it online and there is no difficult about doing that. If you don't know where to start, there are writing coaches that can give you a hand by discussing topics, subjects, and what you are passionate about.

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What's The Difference between Gimmicks and Strategies?

What’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 and become a human learning computer. You have heard about speed reading for years, but you were never sure if it was a gimmick. One sure thing, you never became a speed reader. In the next five-minute you will know Speed Reading is real, andr Double (2x) your learning skills – permanently.r

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Got Breathing?

Do 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 yancause I’m outta here. I just finished half a book this ...

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Two Significant Discoveries

Two Significant Discoveries in 2008 You Can Use Yes or no? You and your Significant-Other will bentrying to lose 10 pounds or more for the rest of nyour life. It’s a pretty good bet you will be testing onenfad diet or another ad infinitum because 60% of the U.S. population (300 million) ...

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