New Learning Tools For Performing Collection & Analysis

With Howard Stephen Berg The Worlds Fastest Reader (Guinness, 1990)

CONTACT INFORMATION
Howard Stephen Berg 3001 S Hardin Blvd Ste 110-144 McKinney, TX 75070 Email: MrReader@Msn.com Web: Http://www.Mrreader.com Ph: (866) Mr Reader or 677-3233

Information Overload

More is published each week

Information Overload

than in all human history through 1800!

and ALL of that

can fit on your PC today

Every two years

the worlds information doubles

Soon, this will double every 6 months

Some Accomplishments
12-15 year olds completed semester of Sophomore Psych in 1 week Many students completed HS in 2.5 years with 30-45 college credits 3 Thirteen year old graduates Students write 28 page MLA papers in under 4 hours

More Accomplishments
Graduate students completed a semester of operational management in 2 weeks with the lowest grade being a 92% High school drop out earned diploma in 6 weeks Wrote 4 papers in less than 5 hours: lowest grade a 94% 10 Students currently completing their BA by 18 22 Year old professor

Todays Topics
The secret to faster reading speeds How to improve comprehension How to increase your intelligence How to improve your emotional intelligence How to learn anything faster How to overcome writers block How to remember and retain information The secret of speed math

Why Do We Read So Slowly?

Why is reading the road easier than reading a book at 70 miles per hour

at 200 words per minute?

When We Drive

Front

we think in four directions

Right Left Back

We have to:
Watch the road

Look out for Signs

Watch the gauges Follow Directions

and we are so bored that we:

Listen to the radio

Talk on the cell phone Talk to passengers

Reading is Only ONE Direction

and talking on the cell phone is easier

WHY?

But driving a car

Need to Understand the Brain

and how it processes text

Brooklyn

Dog

DAWG

Dallas, Texas

Dog

D O G
Individual Letters

Dog

Group of Letters

Hot

Hot
Group of Letters

Hot Dog
Neither HOT Nor a Dog

Unless you use a literal translation

Hot Dog

Hot Dog
Group Group ofof Letters Words

United States of America

its too BIG!!!

United States of America

We see this as a Group of Words as ONE image

like when we are in a car

We dont read this ONE-WORD-AT-A-TIME We see and remember Groups of Words

We only have time to take a quick snapshot yet we seem to read and remember what they say

This has to do with Schema

Schema is your map

Your database Your life experiences

Your life map

Your familiarity

Your Brain has Dots on Its Map

Patterns for new info Connect familiar points

Quickly transfer knowledge

Unconscious Brain
The unconscious brain spots important information

even in a crowd

Unconscious Brain
I dont know these people or those people

even in a crowd You dont consciously analyze every face you see

Unconscious Brain

and thats my pal and shes from next door Hey, thats my boss Your unconscious brain scans for familiar objects

Read With Purpose

Purpose engages the unconscious brain and focuses the brain on what to look for Lets look at a little experiment

Take a look

at everything in the room colored blue

Close Your Eyes

Recall

Recall everything colored red

Hey!!!
..thats not fair

you said everything in BLUE!

What Happened?
Blue things got BIGGER brighter

LOUDER

What Happened?
All colors including red got smaller

dimmer lower

The Three Levels Of Textual Meaning

Literal Information Implied Inferential

The Dime Story

Tell me something about the Dime:

Silver

Boring
Ridges Some Face Round

More Stuff

Thin

Literal Information
Factual Most learning today is like this Accurate Not Very Interesting Not Very Meaningful and we wonder why its boring

What can you do with a dime Other than spend it?

Spin it Draw Circles

Flip it

What else

Screwdriver

Scratch Off

Mark Putt

Implied Information
Engages the Brain & it has to work Requires Thought

Analysis Creativity More Interesting

instead of just store data

Whos on the Dime?

Why?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Elected 4 times Served 12 years

President longer than anyone in US history

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President during two critical times of US History

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

During the Depression

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

and World War II

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The only President to serve from a wheelchair

Contracted Polio at 38. .almost killed him!

Polio

Scourge of American Youth

Polio

Iron Lung to help breathe

thats 1 in 8 children 13% of the population suffered from it

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

With Polio

his only exercise was swimming

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

1938

Funded by Birthday Balls for the President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Howevereven with the Presidents help

there wasnt enough money

Eddie Cantor

Comedian Radio Show

send your pocket change to the President

Eddie Cantor
George Burns Gracie Allen

Al Jolson

Soon, other celebrities joined Eddie Cantor to send dimes to the most famous Polio victim

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Dimes began to flood into the White House

Lots and lots of dimes

Eddie Cantor
March of Dimes to Washington
Louis Armstrong

Eddie Cantor coined the phrase.

March of Dimes
Dr. Jonas Salk

Polio Vaccine Protecting Millions

The Dime

Congress was going to change the Mercury dime

Who better to put on the dime

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Inferred Information
Invokes Emotion Visualize Beyond Facts
...why cant all learning be like this?

Brain is stimulated

Deeper Understanding

Tell me something about the dime:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Polio Eddie Cantor March of Dimes

Tell me something about the dime:

Certainly Beats: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hope Silver Polio Promise

Courage Spirit Action

Eddie Cantor

Round

MarchScrewdriver of Dimes

could write a whole essay on this

How I Discovered This

How do you know?

What is the name?

Who is the artist?

Is it valuable?

Lack of Schema
Without Schema

things are difficult to understand Heres an example Page 3

No Schema The procedure is actually quite simple. First you arrange things into different groups. Of course, one pile may be sufficient depending upon how much there is to do. If you have to go somewhere else due to a lack of facilities that is the next step, otherwise you are pretty well set. It is important not to overdo things. That is, it is better to do too few things at once than too many. In the short run this may not seem important, but complications can easily arise. A mistake can be expensive as well. At first the whole procedure will seem complicated. Soon, however, it will become just another facet of life. It is difficult to foresee any end to the necessity for this task in the immediate future, but then one can never tell. After the procedure is completed one arranges the materials into different groups again. Then they can be put into their appropriate places. Eventually, they will have to be used once more and the whole cycle will then have to be repeated. However that is part of life.
SOURCE: Bransford & Johnson, Consideration of Some Problems of Comprehension, 1973.

Inflection & Writing

When writing highly specific words, put in a comma, and then give its meaning.
Howard Berg taught Ultimate Reading The worlds fastest reader taught Ultimate Reading Howard Berg, the worlds fastest reader, taught Ultimate Reading

This is called an Appositive

Inflection & Reading

When READING highly specific words, (mentally) insert in a comma and the meaning
The female Agelaius phoeniceus, a red-winged blackbird, does not have the red wings like the male.

Inflection & Reading

This inserts a missing piece into your schema

Inflection & Meaning

English is inflective

I didn't say that she dropped the ball.

Inflection & Meaning

Someone else said it

I didn't say that she dropped the ball.

Inflection & Meaning

say
I communicated a different way I didn't say that she dropped the ball.

Inflection & Meaning

she
Someone else dropped it I didn't say that she dropped the ball.

Inflection & Meaning

She did something else with the ball

dropped
I didn't say that she dropped the ball.

Inflection & Meaning

She dropped something else

ball
I didn't say that she dropped the ball.

How To Stimulate Your Brain

When reading, you want to stimulate your senses

Vision Smelling Touching Emotion

Hearing

Tasting

Paul Revere

stood near Boston harbor

and smelled and tasted salt

Saw the light in the tower

one light by land

Mounted the horse and felt the saddle pressing against him

Started to ride

heard the hooves on the cobblestone

Rode in the woods

and heard the hooves on the soft ground

Smelled pine in the woods

Saw the minuteman house ahead

Sounded the alarm

The Regulars are coming! The Regulars are coming!

What did you

See Smell Taste Hear Feel
What emotions do you have? How much of this will you remember?

From Boring to Interesting

Malaria

Malaria
Fever Sweating

Nausea

Engaging More Brain

Just give the words and definitions

Textbooks

Isnt it easier to retain and recall when more of your brain is engaged?

Rich Schema & Learning

You can extract details from the authors schema

Schema

to put in your own map with your own schema

Good Readers
Dont jump to conclusions They look for the facts or ethos What other explanations are possible Why should I believe this? Why do others agree or disagree

Use more of their brain to understand

Two Principles

Schema

Purpose

Power of Schema
Specificity

Schema
Perspective Culture

Inflection

Senses

Increasing Understanding
Learn More Information Ask Better Questions Change the Logic

Learn More Information

Read More Use Multiple Sources Use the Reading Techniques

Ask Better Questions

The questions you ask

determine the answers you get

Ask Better Questions

If you ask yourself Why am I a loser?

You are going to get a lot of loser answers

Ask Better Questions

You need to ask yourself:

How can I be successful? Youll get successful answers

Ask Better Questions

Instead of

Why dont I get it?

Ask Better Questions

You need to ask yourself:

How can I learn this?

Ask Better Questions

Can man fly?
Balloons

150 years ago

the answer was NO.

Da Vinci

Ask Better Questions

Two bicycle guys

..got a powered kite off the ground

Ask Better Questions

66 years later

Were on the moon

Change Your Logic

Point of View Perspective Thinking Process
Looking for different answers to the same questions

Point of View

Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

Perspective

Are we winning or losing

Thinking Process

Is the Economy good or bad

Increasing Speed
Learn New & Different Things Practice Reading Take Opportunities to Read

Learn New & Different Things

Stimulates New Thinking Adds More Information Changes Neural Pathways

Developing Your Emotional Intelligence

1. March in place 2. March in place and swing arms from one side to the other 3. Raise your right hand above your head and say, I feel energized! 4. Squeeze your right hand tightly and pull it to the side saying, Yes I do!

ABCOQ
Abstract of Terms Biographies Chronologies Outline Questions

ABCOQ - Abstract

ABCOQ - Biography

ABCOQ - Chronology

ABCOQ - Outline

ABCOQ - Questions

SYNTOPICAL READING

GROUP STUDY

GROUP STUDY

WRITE
The Paper That Writes Itself

The Creative Process

Getting into and sustaining the creative flow state is mission critical

What Causes Writers Block

Speech is natural output for thinking

What Causes Writers Block

Writing uses the hands to output information

Must Overcome Inertia

Starting writing is challenging Sustaining flow once started is much easier

Writing a Report or Letter

Easy to continue once you got started

What Causes Writers Block

Left hemisphere is the editor

What Causes Writers Block

Right hemisphere is creative

Brain Freeze
Your editor fights your creative mind for control and freezes or locks up your creativity flow

Solution: Alternate Creative & Editing Functions

Alternate creative work with editing Do not perform both activities at the same time

How to Turn On Creative Flow

Draw upon others work for inspiration

Paul McCartneys Method

Listen to old song Change a few notes Change a few chords Change a few words Developed into new song

Method One

Use a books organizational format

Method Two

Copy writing style you like to continue using it in your own words

Method Three
Copy pattern written on your topic Learning to model the pattern Rewrite the report in your own words

Increasing Writing Efficiency

Use imagination to unlock creative ability

Using the Emotions

Load up the brain on information

Using the Emotions

Ask emotionally significant questions

Using the Emotions

Feel the answer

Neural Webs Grow

Using different brain areas at the same time links them together

In the Beginning The Word

In the Beginning Was The Word

1 4 6

2 3

Correspondences
Three Triplicities Four elements 7 Days 7 Organ Systems 7 Keys to Music 7 Notes to a Key 7 Colors of the Rainbow 7 Angels 3 Flavors & Four Colors in Quantum Physics 7 Seas 7 Holy Planets 12 Signs =4 X 3

KISS
Key Points Insight Significance Summation Unifying Template

RHETORIC
Rhetoric (n) - the art of speaking or writing effectively.
(Websters Definition)

Aristotles Rhetoric Ethos Pathos Logos

ETHOS
ETHOS is appeal based on the character of the speaker. An ethos-driven document relies on the reputation of the author.

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group4/

LOGOS
LOGOS is appeal based on logic or reason. Documents distributed by companies or corporations are logos-driven. Scholarly documents are also often logos-driven.

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group4/

PATHOS
PATHOS is appeal based on emotion. Advertisements tend to be pathos-driven.

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group4/

APPLICATIONS
ETHOS - FACTS: Quotable, Cited, Referenced LOGOS - FINDINGS: Logical Conclusions, Predictions, Results PATHOS FEELINGS: Evoked, Instilled, Uncovered

Memory Techniques Pegging

Invented by the Greeks Associate familiar object with new object Use an imaginary picture that triggers powerful emotions

Remembering Numbers

DR. KUNI BEASLEY

Marine Military Academy BS-TCU MBA-Oklahoma City U D.Min.-Tyndale Seminary Ph.D.-UT Arlington Retired Army Officer College Professor Founder & Dean Gateway

KUNI

CLOONEY

BEASLEY

Mrs. BEASLEY

KUNI

BEASLEY

CLOONEY

Mrs. BEASLEY

SpeedMath
103 X 107 3 7 21 103 X 107 11021 11,021 3 7

DR. KUNI BEASLEY

Marine Military Academy BS-TCU MBA-Oklahoma City U D.Min.-Tyndale Seminary Ph.D.-UT Arlington Retired Army Officer College Professor Founder & Dean Gateway

HOWARD BERG
President Mega Learning Worlds Fastest Reader 10 Year Veteran Teacher Mega Speed Reading Barrons Books Time-Warner Psychobiologist B.A. SUNY Binghamton Radio/TV Lecturer/Consultant Vice President-Gateway

CONTACT INFORMATION
Howard Stephen Berg 5100 Eldorado Parkway Ste 102-712 McKinney, TX 75070 Email: MrReader@msn.com Web: Http://www.mrreader.com Phone: (866) MrReader 677 3233

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