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“Can Imagination Change Your Reality – See & Hear?” • 1. Michael, (my youngest son), “Which is more powerful, which do you trust more, “Imagination”, or your experiences?” • 2. “No question, what I see, hear, & feel,” Mike shot back. • 3. “Remember this: your three most powerful learning tools (senses) are V-A-K, Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic. • 4. Kinesthetic Learning includes tactile, touch, feelings & emotions. Tasting & smelling are a distant four & five. Get this: when you take notes with a pen or type, you activate V-A-K.

“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

Introduction to Speed Readingnby Dr. Jay Polmar, founder www.speedread.org (drjay@speedread.org) Learning our speed reading methods is easy and financially beneficial in life. Even if you are just learning for pleasure, you can read an entire book in under an hour. Anyone can double their ...

What Are Money-Players? Cliché: “the rich get richer, and the poor have babies.” In sports many of the same faces win the MVP awards, batting titles, and play in the All-Star game again-and-again. They bat .300 con-sistently, way more than the average big-league player, In Texas Hold’Em poker, the most popular game of poker in the world, the same “money-players” win the tou ament gold-bracelets rntime-and-time-again. If they don’t win first prize, they share the money by coming second or third. Second can pay one-million dollars.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------rn“Can Two-Minutes Produce Up To Six-Hours Of Energy?” • 1. “Would you spend two-minutes programming a new thought & emotion into your Mind - if you had experiential proof it delivers your Goals?” • 2. “Things you set as goals & work for, are almost always producing – ‘What-You-Want’ in-your-relationships-and career.” Your consistent thoughts & emotions create your most important behaviors & success.

“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.

“Want to be YOU at age 93? New Research Offers Proof.” • 1. Me: Important news: “University of Texas, Dallas, 10.21.13, lead author, Denise Park, in jou al, Psychological Science offers verified evidence you can avoid Dementia and even Alzheimer’s as a Senior. • You are going to live to 95, if you avoid being run-down by a City bus. Problem: 50% of Seniors over 80 have Alz or other forms of ‘dementia’. Wanna avoid it?” • 2. You: “Sure, but will the solution be complicated, time- consuming and annoying?”

How to Dissolve, Destroy And Chew-Up Anxiety & Stress My grandma told me something at our Thanksgiving Day feast that I will never forget. For those who don’t know me, I am a skeptic, doubter and contrarian, and those are my positive character traits. Would you believe a close relative (middle 80s) who suddenly announced she was a healer with special knowledge? She said I should know I have two angels – not baseball players –rnbut the Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel as my personal guides and guardians. They accompanied me 24/7 on either side as myr

How To Teach A Child To Read At Home: 3 Year Old Reading Teaching a baby to read is not rocket science. There is no mystery, special techniques or special methods needed; no special equipment or reading 'scheme' required. There is no one method such as phonics or whole word methods which is any more effective than another. Reading schemes and trendy methods which go in and out of fashion are there to make money for the writers and proponents of the method and to make teachers

True/False: “What your eyes see, your ‘heart’ is bound to believe.” • 1. “I don’t even know what that means. What’s-In-It-For-Me? to even think about it?” • 2. “If you take this knowledge to mind, you will be in the top 5% of students and executives. Example: if we see it on TV, hear it on the radio, view it Online, or learn it from a friend, we take that info as proven Science. • You know I’m right. It’s “proven”. But what if it’s based on a mistake or bad reporting?”

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What Picture Comes to Mind With The Word, Synchronicity? If you have to stop and analyze it – Latin: combining Syn (together) with Chronos (time), like I do, and still cannot get a handle on it, read on, it’s a really hot, powerful word. One of the fathers of psychology, Carl Jung, concocted the term after he experienced some ‘weird- weirder-weirdest’ stuff in his psychoanalytic practice. Synchronicity is reserved for events occurring against-the-odds. Fancyr

How to Fool Yourself Into Health If you were told by your doctor that he was giving you Sugar Pills for your (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome, would you expect any improvement in your condition? Would you take them twice a day as he/she prescribed? Wait – printed in large letters on the pill bottle was – Placebo. In New York – folks would say, GetOUTTAhere. Placebo Effect Scientists know the power of placebos (Latin for - I will please you), forr

Why Your Career is Emotionally More Than Earning a Living It was Thanksgiving Day, the clan gathered at my Mother-in-law’srnhome to eat and drink triple (3x) their normal calories, but all is forgiven because it is a sanctioned feast day. Why? It is a ritual for God, U.S. and the Family. I have not watched a football game from beginning to end since high school, and I did not miss it. Today I will suffer through four complete games, two-college and two professional. I really hate it.

Do You Daydream (Mind-Wandering) Instead of Concentrating? • 1. New research (11.15.12) at UCSF (University of Califo ia), published in the jou al, Clinical Psychological Science, reports that Daydreaming instead of focused Attention, causes Unhappiness and premature Aging. • 2. We (Speedreading101), like verified statistics before we believe. For example: when folks are at work, almost half-of-the-time, we are thinking of what’s for dinner, bills to be paid, or the next vacation.

How to Learn Something Important You Never Knew What is more important to your personal success, knowing HOW to do what it takes to succeed, or WHY you want to succeed? Is it the skill-set or your motivation? Are we talking about opinions or scientific research? Does This Help The LEFT frontal region of your brain is directly involved in experiencing POSITIVE emotions like laughter and happiness, while the RIGHT frontal region of your brain causes you to experience NEGATIVE emotions like fear and blame. Don’t say, So What - yet. Motivation Direction

How to Double (2x) Your Memory – Permanently If you have a kid in school, or are in college or grad-school, this baby-easy strategy is guaranteed to raise your class rank - one-full-grade. Your exam scores will improve up to 37%, and your opportunity for a scholarship doubles. Works for executives too. Why? It’s because Memory is Everything. It’s the secret to academic success, right? V-A-K V stands for “Vision”, you have to see what you want to remember. A stands for “Auditory”, you must hear the word or phrase you want to recall.

New Research: Learning & Memory Up 33% - by Rhythm • 1. “Like a fun way to Ace school and work?” • 2. “Is it l-o-n-g and Boring, Pop?” • 3. “My students say it’s cool & like a video game. Yes or no?” • 4. “I’ll do a ‘Mind Experiment’, like Einstein called it. • 5. It’s tested & proven at neuro-physicists at UCLA. It appears in the jou al, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Senior author, M. R. Mehta. • 6. “Do you know the tune, “Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream?”

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.

“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?”

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

How To Teach Children To Read Using Phonics: Teaching A Three Year Old To Read When teaching your child to read using phonics, after the alphabet is learned the next step in teaching phonics through writing is to teach learners to listen for and write sequences of sounds. The objective of teaching phonics through writing sequences of sounds is to help learners understand that spelling requires writing the sounds within a word in the proper order or sequence. Here are some gui

Before you are able to truly appreciate the basic techniques associated with speed reading, you should familiarize yourself with some of the background concerning the subject. One of the first things you should do is think about the way in which text is approached. Most people begin tackling a large chunk of text by reading passages one letter at a time or most often, word-by word. nnSometimes, one can actually feel their eye muscles as they pass over the printed text, as som

Use A Blank White Card to Push Your Eyes Down the PagennA common problem all readers have is passive regression, or unintentionally going back over material previously read.nnThe habit typically stems from a reader's insecurity about their comprehension level initially instilled by our well-meaning reading teachers. Regression can be beneficial though if it is done actively with a purpose in mind, such as going back to check an unfamiliar word.nnTry this: To reduce passive re

Have you ever wished that you had more time in the day? I know I have. Time is something we can never have enough of. There’s simply too much to do, and too little time to do it! Having said that, take a simple task like reading. We take it for granted that the speed at which we read is going to remain the same. In fact most of us don’t even think about whether our reading speed is ever likely to change! Well, with new techniques and tactics, one can double their reading speed and slash their reading time, in virtually no time!

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.

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’?

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.”

“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.

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

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 ...

“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

“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…”

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.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.”

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

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?”

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.

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!”

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.

“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.”

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!”

I've been teaching speed reading courses in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut for about twenty years now. People often ask me about speed reading, and exactly what it is. I tell them that there is no commonly accepted definition of speed reading but that I have my own definition which I use ...

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

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.”

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “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.”

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.

You're a college student trying to juggle your on-campus job and three weeks worth of reading for required classes you need in order to graduate. When tackling the near-impossible philosophy, comprehension becomes a rather important skill to possess. As you face two novels in one week, the ability to run through two books at a faster rate in a short amount of time is priceless. nnWhen you enter training to learn how to speed read as a college student, you will cultivate skill

The written word is everywhere. In this days fast-paced, get-it-done-yesterday world, being able to speed read "and remember what you read" is nearly a matter of professional life or death. If your reading speed is more tortoise than hare, perhaps its time to look into a new way of reading. Learn to speed read actually involves teaching your brain to read in a new way. But wait! you say. It took years to learn how to read before. I just don't have that much of time.

“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?”

“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?”