Could Use More Personal Memory?

Speed Reading rules.

1. Ask yourself the question - "What does this word remind me of?"

Asking questions triggers your brain for Search-Mode by your
pre-frontal cortex.

I had to remember the name of a Johns Hopkins professor, and it
just did not stick in my memory. The name - Elton Y. Mears.

a) What does Elton remind me of? What popped into my mind was Elvis.
b) His middle initial Y? Easy - the word - Why?
c) His surname - Mears. I mentally ran through the alphabets of words
that sound like Mears. Without trying, my mind typed out the rhyme,
Beers-in-his Ears. The first two-letters of his name are Me!
Mears-pours-Beers-in-his-Ears. Can you mentally see that picture?
d) Now it was impossible to forget his full name without really trying.
Please picture it now: Elvis - Why? - Beers poured into his Ears.
Whose Ears - Me! Oh yeah - Mears has Beers poured into his Ears.

Is it worth all this trouble to remember someone's name? Calling someone by their
name immediately creates rapport with them because our name is our public ego
in action.

The idea is to make it a game - not drudgery. Nothing is difficult if your
mental attitude is that you are playing a game.

Names

People will subconsciously like you, and pay attention to what you suggest when
you call them by their name. You will never, ever forget his name because the
mental imagery of this professor having been poured into his ears - Elton Y. Mears - goes on Auto-Pilot - and pops into your mind.

Try the power of asking yourself - What does this word remind me of?

For Wizards: Your Temporal Lobe's (brain) Association Cortex is responsible
for Vision and Hearing. During a fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery)
your brain structures for memory and retrieval synapses are fired and wired
to strengthen your new neural network

2. If you want to instantly create a neural network for new knowledge, here's what to do. Look straight ahead and direct your eyes upward to your highest left.
If you want to remember the spelling of a word, mentally see it spelled-out in the
upper-left quadrant of your Field-of-Vision.

It activates your right-hemisphere, which is responsible for Pattern-Recognition,
how the word is spelled or the dictionary meaning. Chunk the letters by dividing
them into 2-4 syllables. Example: Pattern-Recognition. "Pat-tern- re-cog-ni-tion"
It becomes easier by Chunking the word, like divided a telephone number
you want to remember. Not 5165551212, but 516-555-1212.

When you want to retrieve the word, just move your eyes upward-high-left,
and it will activate the proper Synapses and memory Circuitry.
It take two-things you already own to release your genius - first, Pay Attention (concentration) in order to wake up your Intention to discover and recall.

Second, you must use your Volition - your will power (choice. option) - to decide
to learn and remember as against NOT going into mental idle.

Review

Don't complicate these two Laws of Learning. Ask yourself - What does this
remind me of? Be funny, ridiculous and silly because you grab the attention
of Broca's Area in your brain for paying attention.

Your warehouse for spelling and long-term memory begins by choosing to
locate the information in your Upper Left Field-of-Vision. And Chunk (divide)
the words up into small sections.

Volition

Volition is your power to learn and remember. You must make a specific decision
to attend to doing something or you just drift along. The definition of Volition
is will power. From Latin, to wish, want. Synonyms are: choosing, purpose, desire,
and will power.

First comes Attention - to concentrate you Intention, and second, you Choose to
learn and remember.

Pain

Ever watch a professional tennis match and hear the grunts when a star smashes
the ball back? OK, how about when a Karate performer strikes a blow to his
opponent, and simultaneously yells out?

The scream and grunt add up to 15% to the power of their movement. Aha!

Get this: when you are in pain and curse a nasty word, it causes the painful feelings
to dissipate - up to 15% - a noticeable amount.

Who says so? Researchers at Keele University, Newcastle, U.K. When? July 13,
2009. Professor Richard Stephens used 60 students for the study that appears
in the professional journal Neuro Report.

They stuck their hands into freezing, icy water twice. Once the participants uttered
a neutral word, and then dipped again into the ice while repeatedly cursing. All 60 agreed that the pain was appreciably less when they could curse it out.

It is estimated there is a 15-25% reduction of pain when cursing.

How Come

One scientific explanation is the cursing activates the Right-Hemisphere's Emotional brain centers (limbic system) and in particular, the Amygdala.
Cursing triggers our Sympathetic Nervous System, controlling Fight-or-Flight.

The brain chemical Epinephrine (adrenaline) causes our heart to speed up, and
masks the pain. We literally feel less pain when we focus our mind on cursing.

Endwords

Would you be more productive and indispensable in your career, and more
competitive in school, if you could read and remember three (3) books, articles,
and reports, when your peers can hardly read and remember one?

Ask us how.

Speed Reading rules.

See ya,

copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler
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