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Got Longevity2? Speed reading is your secret tool for success
When I told my partner he was wrong, that genetics is not everything, he
Googled it. We were discussing his uncle with early signs of Alzheimer.
Fact: Environment (experience) contributes an upper limit of 75% to our lives, an
our genes approximately 25%. Longevity is not set in concrete nor hardwired.
Life long learning and memory usage can increase your longevity up to ten years.
Fact: our skin is full of pain receptors, and when someone (even yourself) strokes
the skin for even five minutes, it deadens ongoing pain impulses. Didn't your Mom use that intuitive treatment when you had bloody knees after a fall off your bike?
Teaching
Are you an end results (tell me the steps) learner, or I must know the why and
wherefore (basic concepts) kind of student?
New research at Vanderbilt University appears in the Journal of Experimental
Child Psychology April '09, and applies to both kids and adult learners.
We learn and remember more when we understand the concepts - what and why
the strategy or solution works - that being given just the specific procedures (steps).
It applies to math and all cognitive solutions - given the algorithm (step-by-step)
solution to the equation is not as effective in creating understanding.
We require the concepts in order to create our own working knowledge. Once you
mentally comprehend the underlying structure, Standard in today's teaching is
jumping in with the steps to solving problems, with minimal explanation of why
the things work the way they do.
Teaching kids in school or corporate executives: Offering two or three
options to solve a problem activates your Prefrontal Cortex and Temporal Cortex
(Wernicke's Area), and creates dedicated, retrievable long-term memory.
Knowledge alone leads to debate, while insight (Aha! Experience) produces
understanding, and creates action.
Hippocampus
The learning mechanism of your brain is the hippocampus, the memory center.
Fact: your brain changes in response to a new experience. Key connections among
neurons get stronger when we learn new ideas.
Fact: LTP (Long Term Potentiation) is the neural mechanism for memory.
LTP is a specific example of plasticity (change in neurons). LTP builds up
synapses (chemical links) between neurons.
"Neurons that fire together, wire together", and become neural networks for
learning and memory. The greater the usage of your knowledge, the more you
strengthen your synapses.
LTP produces long lasting improvement in communication between 2 neurons.
Google: MIT: First Evidence For Learning Mechanism in Brain, published in
journal, Science Aug. 2006.
Learning
Human learning requires the firing of your neurons in a precise order. It is our
synapses that set up the proper order, like syntax in a sentence. Synapses get
stronger or weaker based on the number of times they are fired through usage.
Positive feedback loops are created through repeated firings and develop learning
and memory. feedback loops are created through repeated firings and develop
learning and memory. Your father was right, repetition (usage) is the mother of
learning.
Reason For Reading with a Pen Underlining
Understanding the science and you may implement tripling your reading and
learning speed. Using a pen to underline the words of each sentence as you read
activates your Peripheral Vision.
Did you pay attention? Always use a pen as a Pacer to underline the words of each
sentence you read, and you will automatically triple your reading and learning
speed. Your side (away from the center) vision permits you to see up to six-times as
much as normal, central, foveal vision.
You and everyone in the U.S. and English speaking countries were trained to read
one-word-at-a-time. This means you will always be a snailer, reading 150-200 words
per minutes. Why? It's because you cannot read (think) faster that you can speak.
Change by pacing yourself with your pen as you read, and you will read and
comprehend at a minimum of three times faster, to a maximum of six times
improved.
Evolution offers Homo sapiens Peripheral Vision as a survival mechanism. It
permits us to see what is on our left and right sides before the person or predator
attacks to injure or destroy us.
Urban mankind uses peripheral vision to see and read better and better. Imagine
reading three books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish
one. This competitive advantage results in greater knowledge, wisdom and even
school and career promotions. Now you know why we have peripheral vision.
It only matter if this new information leads you to fire your synapses and create a
neural network of accelerated learning. Behavioral change leads to survival value.
Neurotrophins
What causes the survival, development and function of neurons?
Answer: the family of proteins called neurotrophins. Sure, it is knowledge for
knowledge sake, and not practical, but such knowledge leads to cognitive growth,
which produces increased longevity up to ten years.
Neurotrophins regulate synaptic transmission (communication between neurons),
and synaptogenesis (new growth) in your CNS (Central Nervous System). Add to
this, dendritic spine growth and axon extensions. These events occur during
learning and memory growth.
Endwords:
Increased longevity through experience requires life long learning, and use-it-or-lose
it theory. If you are interested in discovering the secrets of improved longevity, ask-
us-how.
See ya,
Speed learning rules.
copyright © 2009
H. Bernard Wechsler
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