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Do you want to read faster? I guess do you do so in at least some cases. Well, then turn pages faster. Sounds ridiculous? Actually, it does matter how much time you spend on paging. During my speed reading courses I have observed carefully how the trainees perform the reading exercises. I have noticed that different people spend considerably different amount of time on turning the pages. Most people can turn pages in one or two seconds, but some people waste too much time on it.

How would you like to remember 90% of what you read from anything? Including reading the newspaper, your favorite novel, business reports, your child's MySpace blog. How would you like to be able to read real fast? You can read maybe even three times faster and still remember almost everything you read. How would you like this to happen in just one single hour? Impossible? Not really! With Speedread America's Speed Complete Speed Reading Program, hundreds of thousands of people have done just that!

Reading is highly important if you want to be successful in life. It will be important through school, in college when you have to study for finals, on your first job, and all through the rest of your life. The ability to read is important; however, the ability to read faster is even better. Of course it will take a bit of training to improve your reading speed, but it is definitely well worth the time. Sadly, there are many people are reading slower than they have too, just

Over 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 ...

“Thirty-Seconds to Control Yourself & Influence Others.” • 1. Me: “Want power over others who try to control you?” • 2. You: “Not particularly. I’m Ok with how I am.” • 3. Me: “Self-Control is important because you are being hit-on all day at home, at work & by the media. They want to influence you to be a good Robot, an obedient Cyborg. • How? Do what they say, buy what they advertise, pay higher taxes to the government. The Power Brokers want you to love what they say, and hate their identified enemies.”

Why You Must Not Keep Eye-Contact to Convince • 1. Me: “Mike, what do you think about making & keeping eye-contact with people you talk to?” • 2. Mike: “Pop, you always said it was critical if you want to influence & persuade.” • 3. Me: “We all hate change, it creates fear & anxiety. Yet we know from observation that change is a constant in our lives. Conclusion: the latest research published in Psychological Science Oct. 2013, says, “Sorry, Eye-Contact in most situations creates Resistance and makes people defensive your point of view.”r

“Are Today’s Geeks, the New-Sexy in 2014?” • 1. Me: “Ten-years ago they were called Health-Nuts. Today everybody is conce ed with our food, weight, & exercise huh?” • 2. You: “And ‘Geeks’, folks with valuable skills & knowledge, will dominate in 2014, yeah it’s technology.” • 3. Me: “But that’s technical and we want you to be the boss, not Google. SpeedReading101.org wants you to ‘get-personal’ about Learning & Memory. • Can you ask Questions as a Habit, a routine and ritual?” • 4. You: “I don’t get what you mean. What questions?”

How to Double Your Memory Permanently Is Intelligence the other side of the coin of Working Memory? When kids and adults have poor working memory, are they automatically stupid? What’s “working memory”? Is it’s your brain’s ability to hold information and manipulate it mentally? Some examples please: how can we understand the idea in a sentence unless we remember the first half and combine it with the last half? What is the 5th letter of the English alphabet? You can hear (subvocalization) them in your mind and count them simultaneously.

“Want to Know Some Weird Tips About a Healthy Body?” • 1. Me: “I’m a certified skeptic with a Master’s in Sarcasm cynicism & Contrarianism. But some weird stuff really…” • 2. You: “I don’t gotta believe it, right? OK.” • 3. Me: “My kids screamed bloody murder before getting an injection at the doctor. Solution: tell ‘em to cough out-loud simultaneously with the needle penetrating, and guess what? No Pain at all. It’s a masking effect.” • 4. You: “I can use that one for my kids.”

New Research in How to Lea Do you hear every word of text you read, in your mind? Don’t say no! because 99.9% of the rest of us subvocalize all-the-time. The fancy terms for hearing the text mentally, are ‘auditory-reinforcement’ and ‘subvocalization’. So what? Reading and hearing your little internal-voice is like ham-and-eggs, inseparable. Problem: you will always be a lame reader, a slow-poke mentally hearing the text because you can never read and comprehend faster than you speak.

How to ADD 51% to Your Long-Term Memory – Permanently • 1. This is a conversation I had with my teenager, Mike about a system we teach at our one-day workshop at Columbia University. • It helps our graduates ACE school & their careers. It works for kids age 10, to high school, college & grad-school. We train corporate executive with this strategy. • 2. Me: “Michael, you’re a good high school student without my help. Would you be interested is learning a baby-easy system to improve your comprehension & long-term memory about 51%, permanently?

The big hullabaloo from Roland Emmerich's film 2012, and all the disaster films we've been seeing for the last 50-60 years or so is scaring the heck out of viewers. So badly are they scared of the end that they are watching the same movies of disaster, over and over, with different actors, different titles, and different producers - all aimed to scare you and empty your pockets. The World Isn't Coming To An End, it's just scary Hollywood, or Horrorwood - as some label it. It's coming to a transformation - and it's already started. Let's get real.

How to Learn to Love Your Mistakes Why do executives suffer emotionally when the world discovers they are not perfect and make mistakes? Making mistakes, errors or failing makes them feel stupid, embarrassed and worse – incompetent. These emotions lead to chronic stress, a weak immune system and even heart attacks. The negative feelings about making future mistakes make them gun-shy rnabout decision-making, that leads to the Unemployment line. Stop

“How to DOUBLE your Profits from a Work-AT-Home Business” 1. Superstar Licensees teach in multiple NICHES because they earn more income and get more referrals. Examples are: • 1. Elementary school kids 1st to 8th grade. • 2. High school: freshmen to seniors. • 3. College: Community Colleges & Four-Year Universities. 2. How to get into these schools: • A) Parent-Teachers Association. Attend meetings. • B) Guidance Counsellors: • C) Principals & Vice Principles • D) Offer a FREE Mini-Session in SpeedReading101 for parents and students by mailing sent by school.r

Why Text Messaging is The Future of English Speed reading is your secret tool for success. You and I both know how easy it is to criticize and be judgmental, but we get terminally upset when other folks call us weird. The U.S. is a Christian country, over 92%, so when you challenge believers about their Bible, the imminent return of J.C. or Evolution – watch out. Don’t ask, don’t tell - works for me. When you read the results of legitimate polls – Gallup, Zogby, or the NY Times, things begin to get scary.

“How to DOUBLE your Profits from a Work-AT-Home Business” 1. Superstar Licensees teach in multiple NICHES because they earn more income and get more referrals. Examples are: • 1. Elementary school kids 1st to 8th grade. • 2. High school: freshmen to seniors. • 3. College: Community Colleges & Four-Year Universities. 2. How to get into these schools: • A) Parent-Teachers Association. Attend meetings. • B) Guidance Counsellors: • C) Principals & Vice Principles • D) Offer a FREE Mini-Session in SpeedReading101 for parents and students by mailing sent by school.r

Everyone is trying to save money these days. Finding bargains is quickly turning into the Western worlds favorite pastime. A close second is doing anything that one can to make oneself invaluable to his or her employer. What would you pay for that next promotion? What would you pay to practically guarantee a raise? In todays global financial market, what would you pay for simple job security? Self-improvement classes of all types starts from $200 to $2,000 and offer mixed results and mixed promises.

Seven Questions of Genius Speed Reading Rules Every year we read or hear a minimum of five (5) great ideasnthat would help us in school and in our careers. What happens to them? Our still-small-voice (Internal Dialogue) shouts at us – it will neve work – this thing takes too much effort – or ...

DYNAMIC SPEED READING becomes a part of long-term memory. We believe this is caused by intense concentration. Intense concentration causes the altering of states of consciousness which, in turn, accesses long-term memory. Another factor is photographic or tape-recorder memories. You have the potential to remember everything you have ever seen or heard, even if you weren't paying attention to what was said. Your brain/mind, like a computer, stores all memories.

“How do You React to Change at Home, At-Work, & in People?” (For me, it sucks.) • 1. Me: “How do we decide to pay attention or mentally SNOOZE when someone is talking?” • 2. You: “Uh, I don’t know and I don’t care. Why should I?” • 3. Me: “If you don’t get it, you’re leaving money on the table. No Fortune-Cookie advice, but EMOTION always trumps reason. I got baby-easy strategies to boost your winning the Influence game.” • 4. You: “What ‘influence-game’, why the heck should I listen to you?”

Many people do not believe they have the ability to read faster because if they had, they already would be reading faster. And, they've gotten so many years of proof (like taking their current age and subtracting 4 to 6 years) and that read in the same way --- yes for years! Not only is it a well established behavior pattern, but you also firmly believe that that's normal for you. And they also believe that if they try to read faster, they'll lose comprehension. Yes, too many people believe that by reading faster they'll lose their level of comprehension.

Speedread.org by Dr. Jay C. Polmar, contact: drjay@prodigy.net.mx Dec. 5, 2005 - Mexico City In a world gone crazy over the use of drugs, legal (pharmaceutical) and illegal (street drugs), a large problem faces governments attempting to control the flow of illegal drugs from the plantations of the world's third world countries and eliminate the criminal element. Legal drugs, pharmaceuticals, pose sufficient problems for governmental control.

“You know what Air-Guitar is, What is Air-Palm? • 1. “Did you know that Guitar companies internationally hold contests for big prizes for the best Air-Guitar pretenders?” • 2. “No, why, they are just like Elvis imitators or Mimes.” • 3. “Well, these contests attract thousands, and they end up purchasing expensive guitars. Before you ask, the imitators are ranked on Movements, Emotion, Rhythm, the Mouth Sounds they add to their act.” • 4. “Uh Pop, Who-cares? So-what? What’s In It For Me?”

Act-As-IF • 1. “To become a Master of SpeedReading, first, you must follow the William James law: Act as-if, Think as-if, FEEL as-if, & Believe as-if you are already a SpeedReading Brainiac.” • For the next few hours “be-an-actor”. How? Be a kid again and ‘play’ “Let’s Pretend!” • 2. “Why, I’m not seven years old?” • 3. “When you become an “actor”, learning a part (role) for a movie, tv or Broadway, you create a different “mindset” than being a student at a boring lecture.

Notes to Me, Myself, & My Shadow • 1. Our brain is a creator of ‘habits’. Its goal is to organize what we do as daily Routines on auto-pilot. That’s good & bad. The benefit of Habit is Not to have relea daily how to drive, read, dress ourselves & do our job. • 2. Excessive-Habits turn us into robots because it inhibits consciousness, learning & memory. • 3. Our brain comes preloaded (hardwired) with systems dedicated to survival. It’s in our DNA. Our left-hemisphere features analysis, logic & reason.

Beginning in 1980, Dr. Jay Polmar received the dubious nickname of Dr. Speed. He got the funny name because he rushed from one college to the next, from Texas, to New Mexico, to Arizona, to Colorado, to Oregon, to Hawaii, and on and on --- teaching a special 3 day course on Speed Reading. Hence the name Dr. Speed. The usual scenario was struggling students, and often their assistant professors (or full professors) who wanted to learn how to help the students. My experiences were great, and Dr.

How Different Are Lefties? Are folks hand-eye-foot Dominant? Yes, but more important, handedness influences our decisions on good or bad, clever or ordinary, skillful or clumsy, and positive or negative. Judgments often hang on our Attitudes, Aptitudes, and only third, Intelligence. Get this: left-handed people associate whatever is on their Left side as good, smart and correct, while the majority (90%) Righties, identify the Left with death, females, clumsiness, and negativity.

Does this make sense? 1. The first thing we do before we read or listen to an expert is examine his/her credentials – sorry, but I am a born and legally trained skeptic and contrarian. 2. Test it myself. Do the specific Mind and Physiological experiment on myself. 3. If it works and is safe from side effects, we ask participants to do these “mind experiments” using the same strategies. They report back their results. About us The undersigned has been involved in speed reading since around 1959.

founder www.speedread.org I. FIRST DAY: TOPIC A. Choose a subject to write about and narrow it down to three basic specifics you’ll cover. Be sure that you don’t create a monumental task.. Remember this is only a five hundred word piece you’ll be creating. When your term paper or thesis is assigned-say 1,000 or 10,000 words-you’ll simply expand the body of your work and allow more time for creativity to work on each part. Let’s say that your paper needs to be on the four main techniques used in speedreading, for example.

“Are You ‘Normal’ and Hate Learning?” • 1. Me: “Normal is the opposite of Abnormal, right? Dictionary.com defines ‘normal’ as Average-Ordinary-Common. Add: mediocre & second-rate. • Normal makes you Defensive toward Change, Improvement, and expanding your Comfort-Zone. Are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet & Donald Trump Normal?” • It’s not just Semantics - ‘Normal’ is for losers. Extraordinary ideas and actions bring home the bacon.”

Is Memory The Enemy of Learning? Did you know that Cursive (connected letters), Printed Lettering, andr Spelling are being slowly eliminated? Many teachers in elementary schools have already stopped giving writing and spelling lessons leading to these ancient skills. The use of our ubiquitous Word-Processor and Texting are the modern replacements, right? Plato (not Mickey’s Dog) In a dialogue by Plato called Phaedrus (15 BCE – 50 CE) Socrates says, “Theuth the Egyptian invented writing. The god, King Thamus suggested, ‘Writing would

Do You Own a Schema? Professor William James at Harvard in 1891 figured out how to double your nyour memory – you had to have a better system to record facts. A centurynlater a practical, relevant schema makes learning new information and doubling your working memory, a kids’ game. ...

What’s The Probability? After many years of knowledge and experience, we still get questions that require research. It’s new to us, and we consult a specialist. 1. “Hey wise-guy, what is the difference between Probabilities and Odds? Answer: Probability is based on how Often a particular event will occur. Example: Probability of being dealt a King in your two Private Cards. Probability of a King is 4/52 or 1/13rn Make it easy, there are 52 cards, and a total of four Kings.r

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?”

What is the Einstein Link (Chain Method) System? Example: Cheese & Giraffe “Please DON’T think of a Pink, Striped GIRAFFE - riding on a wheel of CHEESE.” Your brain goes into long-term autopilot when it hears Giraffe and ignores the word – “don’t”. It pulls from our sensory memory the image, odor and shape of a Giraffe riding on a wheel of Cheese.

“How to DOUBLE your Profits from a Work-AT-Home Business” 1. Superstar Licensees teach in multiple NICHES because they earn more income and get more referrals. Examples are: • 1. Elementary school kids 1st to 8th grade. • 2. High school: freshmen to seniors. • 3. College: Community Colleges & Four-Year Universities. 2. How to get into these schools: • A) Parent-Teachers Association. Attend meetings. • B) Guidance Counsellors: • C) Principals & Vice Principles • D) Offer a FREE Mini-Session in SpeedReading101 for parents and students by mailing sent by school.r

“Are You ‘Normal’ and Hate Learning?” • 1. Me: “Normal is the opposite of Abnormal, right? Dictionary.com defines ‘normal’ as Average-Ordinary-Common. Add: mediocre & second-rate. • Normal makes you Defensive toward Change, Improvement, and expanding your Comfort-Zone. Are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet & Donald Trump Normal?” • It’s not just Semantics - ‘Normal’ is for losers. Extraordinary ideas and actions bring home the bacon.”

“How to Fix Neck Pain & Headaches at-work in 5-minutes.” • 1. “Pop, my neck hurts, and I got a headache. Do something.” • 2. “Tell your mother, she’ll give you an aspirin. Is this an excuse not to do your homework?” • 3. “I am afraid of pills, and I want an exercise to keep it from coming back.” • 4. “Ok Mike, any idea what causes it?” • 5. “Sure, playing video-games on my computer.” • 6. “How about a Yoga exercise that takes 5-minutes and works on the cause, not just ridding you of symptoms.”r

“Is The Power-of-Suggestion How You Make Money, Cement Relationships, & For Personal-Protection?” • 1. Me: “Mike, (my teenage kid) do you intentionally use “Suggestions” to motivate yourself to ace exams & classes, and to influence, persuade & convince girls?” • 2. Mike: “Pop, you just got my full ‘Attention’. I know another lesson is coming, but this sounds like a good one.” • 3. Me: “Have you heard the expression, “Mind-over-matter?” It’s connects to the Power of Suggestion.”

Is Willpower the Butterfly Effect in Humans? The author has been searching scientific research for five years to discover the physiological site of human willpower (a/k/a volition and conation). Volition is the act of willing, choosing of resolving. < L to want or wish. Conation is a psychological term meaning mental life conce ed with striving, desiring, and volition. Location A team of neuroscientists at Califo ia Institute of Technology in 2009 pinpoints will-power in the Ventro-Medial PreFrontal Cortex.

When bicycle riding becomes a competition, then it could already be considered a sport. And road bicycle racing is one of the most popular sports that make use of a bicycle. This type of bicycle sport is held on roads according to a particular area’s geography with the use of racing bicycles. This sport involves competing riders which will start their ride all the same time where the winner will be the first one to reach the finish line. This sport is quite demanding physic

“Have you ever heard of “No-Win, No-Pay” Contingency Fee?” • 1. Do you get emails offering to help you and ask for ‘Money’ upfront?” We get fifty daily. • 2. In law, especially negligence & some contracts, we use “Contingency Fee Agreements”. No-Win, No-Pay. The secret is that lawyers can calculate which are winners & losers. • There is one other type. “Borderline-cases”. They want 100% ‘sure-things’, but will take 20% of the “maybe” cases. Why? The court costs are low, ($100s), and the return can be in the $1,000s.” • 3. “I was talking to my 15-year old, Mike.”r

New Brain Research in 2009: How To Influence, Persuade and Convince 1. Fact: speak toward your listener’s RIGHT ear to overcome objections. It is wired to their left hemisphere and is accepted as logical and reasonable. 2. Fact: Focus on your listener’s LEFT facial side to read their emotions. The left side of their face is dominated by their right hemisphere and rnfocuses on how they feel about your idea, plan or proposal. Emotion shows. 3. Fact: each time you call your listener by their name, he/she gets a dose of Endorphins the pleasure hormone. So what?

“Do You Know These Einstein Quotes?” • 1. “The only valuable thing is Intuition.” • 2. “A Little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. But, a Lot of knowledge is too.” • 3. “If you cannot explain your amazing idea, invention or theory to a smart ten-year old, you may NOT be on to something.” • 4. “It is better Cousin Harold, to be a man of Value (worth) than one of Success.” • 5. “I am often wrong. But I forgive myself and move on. I never worry about the future. It will take care of its self.”

The Complete Speed Reading Program includes world renown, Be Dynamic through Speed Reading. It's designed especially for college students who read large volumes of printed material. Sometimes they get frustrated when they can't keep up with all the reading workload they must accomplish while in college or university, and that would later continue throughout their lives.

Stress 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,nit includes insomnia ...

Why Air-Writing Doubles Your Long-Term Memory You have seen kids play the AIR (make-believe) guitar, while listening to music. Strangely, each time they ACT like performers playing a genuine guitar – they IMPRINT the music and fingering on their long-term memory. How come? They are using V-A-K, the three most powerful human senses, Vision-Auditory-Kinesthetic (touch). The brain principle is: the greater number of senses you use to learn and remember, the easier your future recall and access of specific knowledge and information from memory. So What

No matter what you do for a living, whether you’re self-employed or working a 9-5 job, there is one universal truth in business – you have to keep learning and honing your skills in order to get ahead and stay competitive in the marketplace. This fact has only become more evident with the current state of our economy. Job security no longer exists. The employees that survive the layoffs must adapt and learn new tactics in order to stay on the payroll. Those who are unempl

Do You Learn More From Failure or Success? Do you agree with these scientific statements? 1. We make conscious decisions 95%% of the time? 2. Emotions drive our behavior, and emotions are the seat (core) of our subconscious mind? 3. We learn more from our failures than our successes? Inquiring Minds Want to Know Number 1: (false) we are aware of making decisions only 5% of the time.

If your reading speed is less than 1,000 WPM, you are not adequately prepared for school, your job, or the information age. This powerful New Mental Technology has proven that it can very quickly adequately prepare you.