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Speed reading has two facets, one of which is very apparent while the other may be more obscure. Of course, one of these facets is the ability to read faster, to get through text in a shorter period of time. The other facet, however, may not be that apparent. It involves actually comprehending what is read. Both facets of speed reading must be achieved in order for the act of speed reading to be accomplished. Speed reading is completely ineffective if the material is not comp

Why Paying Attention Is The Only Thing When Vince Lombardi, star football coach was asked about winning in 1959, he said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” So what? Reading is everything and it is also the only thing to learn Math and Science. Even Engineering and Computer-Science depend on reading to understand the problem and then attempt to solve it. It aint funny, but bear with me, “Our family was so poor when I was a kid, we couldn’t afford to PAY attention in school.” When you don’t pay attentionr

Is Listening The Secret to Helping Others Improve Their Productivity? How many times do we want to talk things over with a Silent Partner, compared to hearing what he/she thinks or knows? Is silence Platinum, Golden or Silver? Neuroscientific research has proof. I heard – if you give a JackAss a Harvard education, all you end up with is a SmartAss.

How New Scientific Research Adds to Your Health And Longevity If you are like me about wild medical claims, you are a skeptic and contrarian and believe almost no authority or expert without proof. Sure there are breakthroughs, but the drug companies are the last one to believe. But then again there are exceptions to even the best rules. But what about stuff that sounds like good old common sense? Al Einstein said, “Common sense is just conventional wisdom with the prejudices we learned up to age 18.” So who do you believe? The Jou al of Applied Psychology, March 1, 2011

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Science Changed Its Mind About Reflexology, November, 2012 • 1. Both the American Medical Association and the National Cancer Institute have changed their mind about Reflexology. It’s an ancient form of foot-hand-ear manipulation (massage) that isrnmoving from Fringe-care to Standard (mainstream) cancer treatment. • 2. The important difference between religious thinking and scientific analysis is that Science likes the NEWEST research (done in 2012 is better than research in 1999).

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.

True or False: “There Are Two-Strategies I Can Do At My Desk to Rejuvenate Me.” • 1. “You decide after you do a mind/body experiment.” • 2. “I like being the judge & jury.” • 3. “The first exercise is called “Friction” and changes your brainwaves (ElectroMagnetic Field), leading to a high better “vibrational frequency.” You expand the fixed boundaries of your “comfort-zone”. • 4. “Sounds too complicated. What’s your definition of my ”Comfort-Zone?”

Your Eyes Begin to “Age” After 30: Discover a New Baby-Easy Strategy To Improve Them – Permanently – Into your Nineties. • 1. NeuroScience: School teaches us to read one-word-at-a-time, while hearing the words in our mind. We reinforce it daily from age 6 to 30. • “So what?” • 2. We can never read faster than we can speak, but we do think five-times faster than we read. Result: you get bored easily. You let random (daydreaming) thoughts, distract & slow, both your learning & memory.

Like More Brain Memory Today? If you have a baby-easy strategy to deeply relax that requires 1-2 minutes maximum, you can improve your long-term memory up to 40%. That’s a lot and we know three ways. So what? Relaxation releases chronic stress and even adds to your mental health and longevity. Three Facts 1. Fact: deep relaxation helps you receive new information and improves your personal learning and memory skills. Improvement will aid your career and finances. 2. Fact: learning is based on long-term memory. Get this: learning is directly related to your attention-span.

If You Know How to Arouse Curiosity, You Win the Prize • 1. Science tests, everybody else – guesses without proof. If you want super success in school & your career, do the research. • 2. We tested ‘Subject Lines’, the email “message” we all use to decide if we Delete-or-Read. Ten-thousand decisions later we learned that “curiosity” is the moving-force. • 3. “Facts tell, while ‘curiosity’ sells.” In deciding to open or delete an email, the Subject Line causes us to lean-in and pay attention, or roll on to the next.

New Scientific Research on Benefits of Belief in a Deity? Let’s get on the same footing – whether the reader is personally a believe or not – this serious research authored by Professor Michael Inzlicht at the University of Toronto, has something important to teach us about our brain. The research appears in the jou al Psychological Science, March 2009.

“Seeing Aint Believing, & Talk Aint Cheap, Yes Really” • 1. Cliches are on auto-pilot in our brain, so there is NO left-brain analysis about what they really mean. • 2. Successful people do NOT wait until their GOALS materialize completely – before they add a Mustard-Seed of faith in beginning new behaviors. • 3. If we WAIT to see our goals in reality, before we believe in them, we are not motivated to learn new skills required to create our GOALS. Conclusion: “Believing-Is-Seeing!”

The Day I Forgot How To Breathe “Allergy season may be the worst ever. A monster allergy season is in store for Spring 2010, according to experts. Our alert allergy level is 10.7 out of arnmaxium of 12.0.” Providence (R.I.) Examiner. Fact: an allergen is a substance, often a protein that causes an allergic reaction from pollen-grasses-trees-dust-mold and some medications. Humans and some animals suffer fits of sneezing, coughing, vision problems and itchy throat during Spring and Fall from allergens. In NYC (my town) the forecast for Thursday 4.22.10 is 11.1 (out of 12.0).

“Why StressBusting Can Reduce Your Anxiety & Help Ace Your Career.” • 1. “But is this meditation stuff “practical” or just hot-air?” • 2. “Let’s keep it simple, unless you’re a “Brainiac” & have to know where the “feet-grow-from”. Go to: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, lead author, Fadel Zeidan. Read itr At Jou al, Social Cognition & Affective Neuroscience.” • 3. “Summarize it please.” • 4. “This is the first Proof that a short relaxing meditation can activate your brain to reduce stress & anxiety. How much? Up to 39%, and that has serious positive consequences.”

First-Things-First Two (2) Covert (disguised) SECRETS of All Learning 1. Your WILLINGNESS (Willpower) to take risks and sometimes fail. It’s known as Trial-And-Error, and Cause-And-Effect. Desire is NOT enough. 2. Exercising your AUTO-DIDACTED-NESS (Self-Taught). Everything of significance you know, you taught yourself. Like – walking-talking-comprehension-riding-a-bike, & driving-a-car. This includes tying-a- tie, and lacing-your-shoes, & thinking. And now, Speed Reading101.org What’s Better & Faster Than a (Five) 5-Hour Energy-Drink?

Can These Two-Minute Rituals Improve Your Health & Longevity? This baby-easy anaerobic (no oxygen required) exercise at your desk can reduce your waistline and improve your blood circulation.

Want to thrive during the hard economic times? We are some of those who are prospering during these seemingly challenging times because we are driven with new business opportunities, increased revenues, things like new book deals, and stronger and healthier relationships that have more closeness than we ever thought.

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?

Is Einstein Right About Miracles? First things first, I know nothing about Einstein’s E=mc2. So I researched this much. Matter and energy are different forms of the same thing. One can be turned into the other. Oh yeah, “C” stands for the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second. Why “C”? It Comes from Latin, the initial letter of Celeritas, meaning - speed. Picture a stalk (piece) of Celery with little Toes (Celeri + Tas) and see the ‘Celery-with-toes’ flying around the room at 2,000 miles per hour – and link it to ‘speed’, ‘C’, and ‘Celeritas’.

Parents often say 'my baby can read' but is this true? We can see videos of babies reading flash cards from a very young age. How is this possible? And is every baby capable of this? As a teacher and parent, I would say that any baby given the right level of stimulation right from birth and even before birth is capable of reading flash cards at an early age. So what does reading involve? If we break down the different aspects of what it takes to read we can see that reading r

“What is the Two-Letter Word that Your Brain Considers a Threat to Your ‘Survival’? • 1. “It took the invention (1999) of the fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) to show your Brain changes for the ‘worse’ - when it Sees, Hears or even rnreads the word: No!” • 2. “That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard you say, Pop. I use the word ‘no’, all-the-time, and hear it from everyone, including You! 24/7.” • 3. “If you remember this, you will learn (if you implement it) the secret of “Influence-Persuasion-Conviction in business, at-work, at-home, and creating financial-wealth.”

Whatever is reinforced - improves. Praise raises the probability of a behavior being repeated. Two rules govern human existence: the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain (punishment). How? One is called Operant (operating) Conditioning and the second, Behavior Modification (B-Mod). Wait. We want to influence, persuade and convince others to modify their behavior tornfavor us, and we want to improve our own behaviors for personal growth in health, success and better relationships, right?

What is Associative-Conditioning And Who Cares? Have you checked out Mental Movies.com? Hold it – not yet. They use basic psychological laws to create new habits for success, health, and personal growth. It takes six-minutes daily and is corny, but it is the Real-Deal. I know you don’t believe in New Age rituals, me neither. Don’t be stubborn, you snooze, you lose. Mental Movies is the sleeper that breaks the rules. Disclaimer: we have absolutely NO financial affiliation with MM.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why Should You Push yourself to “Speed-Up? • 1. “But Dr. Franklin, what good is your new invention of Electrics?” • 2. “Dear Lady, what good is a new-bo baby?” • 3. Get it? We just don’t know in advance the weird “apps” the little computer will run. Will it save “time”, make us creative, or just make ‘millions’. And it may just flop there like the beached-whale at Jones Beach. • 4. Forget philosophy and theory, we are practical people who need a problem to solve before we start something.r

My Favorite Two Words R – So What? One of my law professors once called me a Miscreant, and Irncould not get mad until I looked it up. It turns out I was evil, depraved, wicked, and base. Wait – immoral, degenerate, a villain, and a rascal. Latin: beyond belief. It was political. Get this: words are not just empty, random letters arbitrarily constructed. Hearing, reading, speaking emotional words (positive-negative-neutral) involuntarily trigger our brain into moods and behaviors. Hardwired or conditioned? Why should you believe me?

“Pop, can you help me with my homework? I got these five last words I can’t figure out how to use each one in a sentence. “ “Sonny, you come to the right window. Gimme your problem. It is just asnimportant to know where to find the right answer, as learning ...

The mind is an extraordinary power of which we only use a very small portion. In our book, "Speed Reading in only One Hour" we will show you how to tap some of that unused power and use it for your personal success in high school, college, and life.

Why Guilt Feelings Are Required For Learning And Success a) “It’s not my fault, he started it.” b) “Don’t get mad at me, I couldn’t help myself.” c) “My genes made me do it.” Speed Reading is a requirement for success. Temptation We expect to see kids give into temptation and be impulsive. Sort of like obese people and the sight of chocolate.

“Learn to StressBust Anxiety or Lose 20-Years of Life.” • 1. “What did you say again, about the Mind and Matter.” • 2. “Oh yeah, “It’s Mind-Over-Matter, but if you don’t have any Mind – Nothing much matters.” • 3. “Is that about left-brain, right-brain thinking?” • 4. “Not. It’s about the thing that kills about 80% of Americans. It’s called Chronic Stress which initiates Heart Disease, Stroke and Cancer, the Big Three.” • 5. “You made that up.”

“You are more than 65% Water & 18% Carbon, some Hydrogen, Calcium & Phosphorous, Huh?” • 1. “I slept through Chemistry, so this is all new to me, Pop.” • 2. “Me too. Like father, like son. Here’s what I remember from college Chem, which I failed. “Homo sapiens are Carbon-based life-forms, that require Oxygen to process Protein. And Trees take Carbon and turn it into Oxygen.” • 3. “So what? - Who-cares? What’s In It for me? – Pop?” • 4. “Right. In just released research at the University of Pennsylvania, they reversed what scientists & the rest of us always believed.

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 demonstration (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.

Could You Make One Positive Change? Do you have a seer, mentor or commentator you automatically believe based on past experience? It is called the Law of Association – meaning there is ar LINK, joining and union with their ideas or beliefs. Association (from Latin) means soci(us) – partner or comrade. So What? We Homo sapiens work 24/7 to find people and ideas that make us comfortable, enforce the status quo, and are predictable. What does that describe? Repetition. Even the word sounds boring, but it is the mother of learning, habit and memory.

Scary Experiences & Pain Are Gone in 30-Seconds • 1. “Gettoutahere!” you are Not a medical doctor, psychologist, or ophthalmologist, what the hell do you know about pain removal or trauma?” - he yelled at me. • 2. “Right-on. I suggest you go to your physician, or get a referral to a psychiatrist or an eye-specialist for your ailment. I got enough difficulty with five new contracts, and Speed Reading101 training workshops.” • 3. This conversation was important because we have a disclaimer on everything we do. We aint doctors, and what we teach is informational, not meant for treatment.r

Java is among the most widely used programming languages in software development ecosystem. Various analyses have put Java only second to JavaScript in terms of usage by developers. In 2017, Java came second to JavaScript as the language mostly used in repositories which are most active on GitHub. Java is a hot language for developers because of the high demand by employers. As of March 2017, job listings looking for developers posted on Indeed specifically demanded Java skil

Some people find that they cannot pay attention and have a tendency to daydream when they have gone through three or four pages without remembering a word. One cure for this is to stop reading and deliberately seek some distraction, then return to what you were reading with renewed attention. Get up and walk around, get a coffee, draw a picture, count your pocket change - anything. Then pick up the document again and take up from where you left off. No-one can tell you exactl

If You’re Grounded, Your Left & Right Brains Are in Alignment For Winning • 1. Get This: everything else depends on it! Human folk are living in the PAST or the Future (in-their-head) about half-their-waking-hours (46.5%) of the time. “Not-grounded” is triggered by Daydreaming, & mind-wandering. • 2. Define: “being grounded”. Living in the “here-and-now, & exclusively in the living-Present. Three-things: you’re aligned, balanced, and centered into ACTIVE consciousness.

Immediate Gratification About Your Future? Henny-Penny, the sky is falling. Washington Mutual and Wachovia have gone belly-up, and General Motors fell from $27.23 to $4.83, from 2007 to 2008. McCain admits it is all a mystery to him, and Obama looks presidential by being calm and promising a ...

What Still, Small Voice? What is Stream-of-Consciousness, and why should you care? Synonyms for stream-of-consciousness are: internal dialogue, self-talk, inner monologue, subvocalization, and the still-small-voice. Professor William James (1842-1910) physician, first U.S. psychologist, teaching at Harvard Medical School, coined the term meaning fragmented thoughts and sensory feelings flowing from our mind, without a filter. So What When you and I were little kids we often spoke our thoughts out loud without censoring them first.

Secrets of the Woman Who Lived Longest – Documented 122 yearsr And What’s In-It-For-You. • 1. You can claim you are the oldest living human, but French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, had the records to prove it. • 2. What did Ms. Calment do, that you & I can duplicate for health & longevity. She remained healthy and with all-her-marbles, until she kicked-the-bucket at 122. Nice, right? • 3. For Brainiacs & the Impatient: three (3) unique behaviors: • a) added Extra Virgin Olive Oil to “everything” she ate, but milk. She even rubbed it all over her skin - daily.

Make Extra Now When You Need It! Yup! You need more money. The world's gone nuts and you need to protect yourself and your family. Simply - what happened: The fear and the greed have now gripped the world. It was only 3-4 months ago when the sh-- hit the fan and the public began their advanced learning on the impact of greed, and the fear that has been increased by the influence of international news media in a 100% globalized planet.

How to Use Your Willpower to Implant Positive Emotions, And Blast-Out Negative Feelings. • 1. Are we consciously focused on our feelings, all-day? • 2. Answer: you and I change emotions during our waking hours more often than people change their underwear and take showers. • 3. Unless we use our willpower (dorso-lateral pre-frontal-cortex) our self-talk (internal-monollogue, “still-small-voice”, subvocalization), takes over with negative-emotions.

How can organizations meet the challenge of getting people to work together more effectively? Is Emotional Intelligence (EQ – which actually stands for Emotional Quotient) the answer? Research suggests that it is. A study by Yale University, for example, found that teams with high levels ...

How To Teach A Child To Read And Write: How To Teach A 3 Year Old To Read Many educational researchers believe that babies can read from birth. But what does this actually mean in reality? A baby cannot possibly read from birth as a baby doesn't understand written words yet and has no vocabulary until an adult teaches baby that words have meanings. What is meant by baby can read from birth is that baby can begin to learn all the fundamental but vitally important pre-reading s

Secrets of the Woman Who Lived Longest – Documented 122 yearsr And What’s In-It-For-You. • 1. You can claim you are the oldest living human, but French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, had the records to prove it. • 2. What did Ms. Calment do, that you & I can duplicate for health & longevity. She remained healthy and with all-her-marbles, until she kicked-the-bucket at 122. Nice, right? • 3. For Brainiacs & the Impatient: three (3) unique behaviors: • a) added Extra Virgin Olive Oil to “everything” she ate, but milk. She even rubbed it all over her skin - daily.

Would You Invest Six-Minutes Daily For Health & Longevity? Have you ever noticed that you and I require Immediate Gratification in order to continue doing daily rituals and practices - for our own best interest? How long can you stick to a diet before falling off the wagon? How about daily physical exercise? My number is about 7 days. Question: how can we have Immediate Gratification if it takes practice and repetition to develop Mastery-Autonomy-Purpose of new skills? Fact: the smallest new habit requires 21 consecutive days of usage to put itrnon Auto-Pilot.

Some businesses selling courses and manuals on speed reading claim that it is possible to increase the reading to beyond 10 words per second with full comprehension, provided the course is followed and that the exercises are constantly practiced. However, a good deal of these courses and manuals are conflicting as to why and how speed reading should be adopted as a method. nn Some other businesses claim that a person can double to triple his or her current speed. So a person

Have you ever declined joining a book club because you can't remember a word you read or because you can't keep up? If your reading speed is more tortoise than hare, perhaps it's time to look into a new way of reading. But wait you say. It took years to learn how to read before. I just dont have that kind of time.

How to Dissolve Information-Overload Do you experience information-overload from too many daily emails, telephone calls, books, articles and reports? If your career is in the Knowledge Economy and requires updated information to stay competitive in your industry, you are rnsuffering chronic stress from constant interruptions and disruptions to your concentration. Numbers There are 310 million folks in the U.S. in December 2010. In the world, there are just under 7 billion people. Wait – we just hit one-billion people who use the

Stress Causes Gain? What is your automatic Association and reaction when you read – “No-Pain”? Right, “No-Gain!” We are not talking about pumping-iron, yet it applies torncognitive learning. Most of us invent reasons not to do the repetitious practice,rn(home work) it takes to create personal Mastery of new skills The first step in the cure of excuse making is Awareness. Why? Homo sapiens like you and me live in a perpetual state of denial rnabout potential failure and rejection.

Why Doubling Your Long-Term Memory Leads to Longevity Did you know your brain is always using multi-senses, not just one, for comprehension? When we are listening to anyone speaking to usrn(giving a lecture, or movie dialogue), our brain is using a variety of senses, not just our ears, to make heads or tails of their ideas and contents. So what? In order to get our point across when we are communicating with one person or a group of folks – we must consciously use our face-teeth-lips and hand gestures, body-language, and even posture to emphasize our ideas.