60 Minutes Break-Out of SpeedLearning101 For One-Day-University

I) Introduction:

1) What is the Deal you are offering?

2) How Much? Time-Money-Effort
3) WIIFM? Benefits
4) Why Should I Believe You? Credibility

1. The SpeedLearning Deal: our graduates permanently read-and-remember

three (3) books, articles, and reports in the time it presently takes
you and your peers, to hardly finish one. Wait! Your long-term memory
will permanently 2x your present porous recall and comprehension.

Maybe it is not for you – but for your children in college or even grand
children. The average student is a spelling loser (text-messaging does not count).
They cannot write “cursive” script (handwriting) because the schools stopped
teaching it. Fact: U.S. Department of Education: 50% of students cannot
understand complex sentences.

Standard Reading

a) Reading is too slow an Information-Resource for the Internet Age.

Average U.S. college graduate reads about 200 words per minute.
Metaphor: reading a 200 page book takes six (hours).
A full length movie is 90 minutes – that’s Four (4) suspenseful, dramatic,
comedic, entertaining movies vs one slow, plodding book.

b) Executives, graduate-students, high school (SAT), elementary school kids

are Reading drop-outs. We suffer from Information Overload: too much to
read, not enough time – because we are not SpeedLearners, but Snailers.

c) According to the U.S. Publishing Association, the average college graduate

reads One (1) book annually.

d) Please Take Notice: the high school drop-out rate in the U.S. is North of
30%, and for minority kids – 50%. Wait! How about College
graduates?

N.B. 33% of entering Freshmen/women will graduate (get a diploma) within

six (6) years at U-Mass. Less than 41% will grad from U of Montana, and
just 44% from U of Nmex. Call them what they are – Expensive Failure
Factories. Coda: 50% starting 4-year college in the U.S. graduate with a
Bachelor’s degree.

Let’s not waste time talking about the 1,200 Community Colleges teaching

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 six (6) million – 550,000 a year earn a 2-year degree, 295K stay to receive
Vocational Certificate. The President is rewarding them with a gift of $12
billion in 2,010.

2. How much? Two-hundred dollars for the At-Home, Online program, $695 tuition
for the twelve (12) hour live seminars. Remember, the average college graduate
earns $1-million more in his career than drop-outs or high school grads.

3. What’s In It For Me?

Prepping for Entrance Exams: SAT, LSAT, GRE, MCAT, & GMAT.
Bar and CPA exams. Stay to get a degree. Executives win promotions and bonuses.

Killer: a) Cognitive Reserve: lifelong reading reduces up to 60% the risk of

Alzheimer – Google: Dr. Yaacov Stern, Columbia University, College of Physicians
and Surgeons.

Killer b) Longevity: up to an additional ten (10) years through lifelong reading:

Google: David A. Snowdon, U of Kentucky, The Nuns Study.

4. Credibility: Business partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of speed reading,

graduating 2 million, including the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents.
Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon-Carter. Bush-The-Younger, was not interested.

We teach corporate executives: example: class of 31 at New York Stock Exchange

listed international company located in Decatur, Illinois.

Locally we teach SpLearning101 at CUNY (City University of New York)

Queensborough College. You might Google: H. Bernard Wechsler.

#5. Read the 448-word article called “My Aha! Experience” Please use your
standard method of reading text, don’t intentionally speed up.

a) Please raise you hand when you have finished, and write down your reading
speed.
b) Comprehension test: without look back at the text, Name the five words in
order that were used in the individual sentences.
c) What were the gist, essence, and points - of the article?

#6. Let’s go to last page titled Einstein Memory System.

a) Peg (hook) words are mostly Active Verbs 1-10. The basic of your memory
is Mental Pictures – Association (linking) – Location (naming your specific
code to find it again later)

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 b) Link System (connect the new word to be remembered) with the numbered
Peg word in an exaggerated, ridiculous, weird way to make it memorable for
our brain to enter the code into long-term memory.

#7. Hold a pen in your hand and just miss underlining the words of the sentences
you are scanning. Read the 456-word article called –
“Another Aha! Experience”.

#8. Vocabulary

a) Regressions
b) Subvocalization
c) Vooks (Video-Books)
d) Microsaccades–Drifts-Tremors
e) Vestibulo-Ocular-Reflex
f) Extra-Ocular-Muscles (4 Rectus & 2 Oblique)
g) Eyebrows-Up (upper-left-visual Quadrant) to Save the mental Image. To
retrieva the memory: Upper Right Quadrant.
h) Pacer: (Yad - < Heb. hand. Greyhounds chased the Mechanical Bunny
(rabbit) compared to our handheld laser pen: RasterMaster.
i) StressBusting: Speed-Meditation.
j) FistNoting: how-to-ace-exams (7 power Qs to ask yourself of chapters and
lectures). Lose the Yellow Highlighter: Analyze-Synthesize (connect) and
Summarize using Keywords.
k) Acupressure points for maintaining Health: Power-Tapping.

• For fun – use the Clicker for the Power Point! display.

#9. Introduction:

a) Evelyn Wood created Speed Reading in 1950 while a guidance

counselor in Salt Lake City, Utah. She perfected it while taking
her Master’s at the University of Utah.
b) She was my business partner, graduating 2 million, including
the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents – Kennedy-
Johnson-Nixon-Carter. Bush Senior said he was too busy with
the first Gulf War. Bush-The-Younger said he did not believe
in R-e-a-d-i-n-g.
c) Evelyn was a devout Mormon, who quoted Scripture by page
and lines.
d) She blamed me for J.C. not returning. If I only became a
practicing Mormon – His descent was immanent.
e) Her favorite Desciple was Doubting-Thomas – the first Scientist.
John 20: 24-29. Thomas (his nickname was Didymus) was told
by the other Apostles J.C. had been Resurrected three-days after
his demise.

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 f) He responded like a modern scientist, “Except I shall see in his
hands the print of the NAILS, and put my finger into the Point
of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will NOT believe.”
g) Eight days later J.C. returned, and Thomas did his tactile
examination of the evidence.
h) He was convinced, and was thereafter called Thomas the
Believer.
i) J.C. was insulted. “Blessed be They that have NOT SEEN,
and yet have believed!” It was an advocacy for HEARSAY
evidence.
10. I asked Evelyn how she came to create speed reading, underling the
words of the sentences with a handheld instrument.
She answered – “At-the-Temple!” I assumed she meant the MORMON
Temple. She visited the Hebrew Synagogue with a group of Mormons.
She noticed that the lay reader of the Torah (Law) held a straight stick
in his hand while reading the lines of Scripture.

She was told the handheld instrument was called a YAD, Hebrew for
Hand (the symbol at the end of the cursor). Why? Because readers lose
their place on the Scroll, slow down the service, and are embarrassed.
Use of the YAD prevents Regressions from occurring and makes reciting
easier.

I know the director of the Temple did NOT tell her THIS part of the
story.
“It was J.C. who invented the use of the YAD – while tutoring students
at the Temple in Jerusalem.” She presented NO evidence enough to
convince Doubling Thomas – named Didymus. Me neither!
That was her story and she always stuck to it.
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Send-off

“If you have discovered something worth pursuing about your Self-Growth in
these 60 minutes – and would like to know more – see me at the end of the class.

Why? a) Add up to 10 years longevity b) reduce the risk of Alz. c) Fun & Games.

See ya.”

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