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In this issue: -> Sponsor of the Week -> �IQ Tests� of the Week -> Brain Improvement Products and Services -> ARTICLE: The Top 10 Tips for Choosing the Right Words � written by Robert G. Jerus, MBA -> ARTICLE: 5 Ways To Help Your Kids Do Math � written by Murdo Macleod -> BOOK REVIEW: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation � By Lynne Truss -> High IQ Societies -> How to subscribe and unsubscribe to this newsletter Current Subscribers � 43,697 subscribers Removal instructions are listed at the end of the newsletter. Send all questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (732) 761-9930 ----------------------------------------------------------- ** SPONSOR of the WEEK ** ----------------------------------------------------------- The Psychology of Achievement - by Brian Tracy Soar to new heights of success and achievement! 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Visit our website at http://www.selfgrowth.com/form-ad-brain-newsletter.html ----------------------------------------------------------- ** ARTICLE: The Top 10 Tips for Choosing the Right Words � written by Robert G. Jerus, MBA ** ----------------------------------------------------------- The precise, concise, right statement at the proper time goes a long way. Vocabulary and critical thought show concern and professionalism in communicating ideas and gaining the attention needed. 1. Use words that are accurate, appropriate and familiar. Focus on what the audience will know and understand. Relate to people. Consider statements relative to receivers. They need to be correct, but also understandable. 2. Use technical terms, jargon, idioms, abbreviations and slang sparingly. Eliminate whenever possible. These tend to be unprofessional and exclude some audience members. The focus is on communicating, not impressing. These shortcuts cause confusion as well as discounting some listeners. 3. Apply active, positive, vivid language. It gets people more involved in the content of what you're saying. Active, descriptive language captures and keeps people's attention. It's interesting as well as fun. 4. Make statements strong, definite and assertive. Avoid ambiguity. This makes your ideas clearer and less subject to equivocation. Avoid weak phrases. "To be honest with you," "In my opinion," and qualifying statements are less positive and confident. They leave the audience searching rather that convinced. 5. Tighten up information. Fewer words are better. Eliminate unnecessary words that fail to contribute to the message. Be specific. Shorter and simpler are far better ways to get results. 6. Vary sentence length and structure. It makes communication more interesting and exact. It shows thought and creativity. People who control language control situations. 7. Use the right structure. Make sure the word you select is grammatically correct and appropriate. Spell and grammar checks are indispensable. 8. Create well-defined topics. When in doubt, look up words and their usages. Be precise. Have an agenda. Focus and manage. Avoid wandering off on tangents. 9. Involve the audience. Pronouns that invite participation are more engaging than abstractions and third party phrases. Names and specific questions are engaging as well. 10. Revise and edit. No matter how clear the subject matter, review what you have said and adjust it for heightened impact. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. About the Author: This piece was originally submitted by Robert G. Jerus, MBA; APC; MA; Certificate in Learning Technologies and Human Development; SPHR; Coach, counselor, consultant and professor, who can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert G. Jerus is a professor at Southeastern College and principal with Success Dynamics International. ----------------------------------------------------------- ** ARTICLE: 5 Ways To Help Your Kids Do Math � written by Murdo Macleod ** ----------------------------------------------------------- Uh oh. Your kids arrive home with their school reports and it�s poor marks from the math department. Now what do you do? You may not be a math teacher, but thankfully there are ways you can help your kids improve their grades. Studies have shown that children are much more likely to perform well in a subject that interests them. So here are 5 ways to get your kids excited about math and actually looking forward to the next math class: 1. Inspire them. Some kids don't enjoy math because they just can't see the point of it. Unlike reading or painting, all those mathematical symbols and numbers don't seem to mean anything. What you need to do is show them how important math is in the real world. Tell them stories about the great engineering feats throughout history. >From building the great pyramids of Egypt, to the Hoover dam, to the latest space missions to Mars, nothing would have been achieved without mathematics, and mathematicians. 2. Get practical. Involve your kids in some real world math away from the classroom. Find something your child is interested in and relate it to math in some way. For example, do they like baseball? Terrific. During a game, ask them how many points the losing team has to score to beat the other one. And how many games do they need to win before they have enough points to win the league? If they enjoy helping around the home then let them do the "clever stuff". Ask them to work out the sizes for that wood you're going to cut. Or get them to measure out the ingredients for the cake you're about to bake. When you're in a store, ask your kids to add up the prices and keep a running total while you shop. Then ask them how much change you should expect at the checkout. 3. Take life "step-by-step". Success in math - as in life - is largely about breaking large projects down into manageable, bite-sized pieces. Many kids feel overwhelmed when they see a list of math questions, and it's at this point they may decide that math is "boring" or "hard". Show them the magic of taking one question at a time, and breaking it into tiny steps that make it easy. 4. Encourage creativity. Kids may become mentally "stuck" on a topic because they're only looking at it in one way. Perhaps they need to step outside the box and see it from a different angle. Show them the beauty of alternative viewpoints. Help them to see situations from other people's perspective. Get them into the habit of exploring different ways of solving a problem. Even something simple like tidying up a room can have several possible "solutions" or ways of approaching it. Crosswords and lateral thinking puzzles are good for this kind of flexible thinking. 5. Be positive. Eliminate negative statements like "math is hard" (even if you thought of yourself as a math dunce at school!). Explain how everyone has a natural ability to do math and that solving math problems isn't so different from solving other kinds of problems in life. Above all, inspire confidence in your kids. Teach them persistence and how there's always a solution to every problem. ----------------- We all perform better when we enjoy what we do, and getting kids interested in math is the real key to success. They may not turn into mathematical geniuses, but they'll thank you in later life when they enter the world of work and start counting their salaries. Now who said your kids couldn't do math? About the Author: �Fun With Figures� shows anyone of any ability the easy way to do mental math. Visit the site today and find out what you didn't learn in the math class. Click here - http://FunWithFigures.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ** BOOK REVIEW: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation � By Lynne Truss ** ----------------------------------------------------------- Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Certainly not its modest if indignant author, who began her surprise hit motivated by "horror" and "despair" at the current state of British usage: ungrammatical signs ("BOB,S PETS"), headlines ("DEAD SONS PHOTOS MAY BE RELEASED") and band names ("Hear'Say") drove journalist and novelist Truss absolutely batty. But this spirited and wittily instructional little volume, which was a U.K. #1 bestseller, is not a grammar book, Truss insists; like a self-help volume, it "gives you permission to love punctuation." Her approach falls between the descriptive and prescriptive schools of grammar study, but is closer, perhaps, to the latter. (A self-professed "stickler," Truss recommends that anyone putting an apostrophe in a possessive "its"-as in "the dog chewed it's bone"-should be struck by lightning and chopped to bits.) Employing a chatty tone that ranges from pleasant rant to gentle lecture to bemused dismay, Truss dissects common errors that grammar mavens have long deplored (often, as she readily points out, in isolation) and makes elegant arguments for increased attention to punctuation correctness: "without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning." Interspersing her lessons with bits of history (the apostrophe dates from the 16th century; the first semicolon appeared in 1494) and plenty of wit, Truss serves up delightful, unabashedly strict and sometimes snobby little book, with cheery Britishisms ("Lawks-a-mussy!") dotting pages that express a more international righteous indignation. Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The list price for this book is $17.50. To purchase it for $10.50 at a 40% discount from Amazon.com, go directly to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1592400876/selfimprovemeonlA/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ** HIGH IQ SOCIETIES ** ----------------------------------------------------------- American Mensa, Ltd. 1229 Corporate Dr. West Arlington, TX 76006 1-800-66-MENSA Open to individuals who have scored in the top 2% on a standardized intelligence test. Founded in 1945 by R.Berrill and L.Ware. Name of Journal: Mensa Bulletin. Visit them on the web at http://www.mensa.org International Society for Philosophical Enquiry c/o Harry Callahan P.O. Box 34304 Omaha, NE 68134 Open to individuals who score in the 99.9th percentile on a standardized adult intelligence test. Founded in 1974 by Chris Harding. Name of Journal: Telicom. Visit them on the web at http://www.crosswinds.net/~ispe/ Intertel P.O. Box 150580 Lakewood, CO 80215 (303) 797-7210 Open to individuals who have an IQ at or above the 99th percentile on an accepted test. Founded in 1967 by Ralph Haines. Name of Journal: Integra. Visit them on the web at http://pw1.netcom.com/~snoflo/intertel1.html Mega Society c/o Rick Rosner 5139 Balboa Blvd #303 Encino, CA 91316-3430 Open to individuals with an IQ in the 99.9999th percentile. Founded in 1982 by Ronald K Hoeflin. Name of Journal: Noesis. Visit them on the web at http://www.ultrahiq.net/MegaSociety/ One-In-A-Thousand P.O. Box 539 New York, NY 10101 (Ronald K. Hoeflin, Founder) Open to persons with measured IQs in the top 10% of the population. Name of Journal: Oath. Visit them on the web at http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/oath.html Prometheus Society c/o Robert Dick 13 Speer Street Somerville, NJ 08876 Open to individuals exceeding the 99.997th percentile of general intelligence. Founded in 1982 by Ronald K Hoeflin. Name of Journal: Gift of Fire. Visit them on the web at http://www.prometheussociety.org/ Triple Nine Society P.O. Box 29 Dover, MA 02030-0029 Open to those individuals who score in the top 99.9th percentile on a standardized intelligence test. Visit them on the web at http://www.triplenine.org Sinistral SIG 200 Emmett Ave. Derby, CT 06418 (203) 735-1759 Open to left-handed people whose IQs are in the top 2% of the population and who are eligible to be members of Mensa. The International High Five Society 3546 Devon Hill Road Toledo, OH 43606-1102 (419) 474-3809 Fax: (419) 474-1009 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] High Five is open to anyone testing above the 95th percentile on a standardized test of intelligence. The International High IQ Society The International High IQ Society was founded in April 2000 to enable the bright people from around the world to come together on the Internet. 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