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In this issue: -> Sponsor of the Week -> �IQ Tests� of the Week -> Brain Improvement Products and Services -> ARTICLE: How to Entertain a Thought � written by Maya Talisman Frost -> ARTICLE: Parents: Take the SAT Challenge! � written by Jacqueline Byrne -> BOOK REVIEW: Remember Every Name Every Time: Corporate America�s Memory Master Reveals His Secrets � By Benjamin Levy -> 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 ** ----------------------------------------------------------- ** Accelerated Learning Techniques: The Express Track To Super Intelligence - by Brian Tracy and Colin Rose -- Triple your reading speed. Develop a "photographic memory." 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After looking through the jewelry section, he sees three watches that he really likes: a Soleil brand, a Glacier brand, and a Payton brand. - The Soleil brand is regularly $140, but there is a 25 percent discount. - The Glacier brand is regularly $120, but there is a 15 percent discount. - The Payton brand is $95. It is not on sale. The store also gives Craig a book of coupons. He can only use one of these three: - Coupon A: Take $15 off any purchase of $100 or more (* money is off discount price � coupon excludes Soleil brand watches) - Coupon B: Take an extra 10 percent off any purchase (* percentage is off discount price � coupon excludes Payton watches) - Coupon C: Take $5 off any regularly priced item (* only good for non-sales products � coupon excludes Glacier watches) Craig wants to find the cheapest deal overall. Which watch should he buy, and which coupon should he use? Find the solution at http://www.selfimprovementnewsletters.com/puzzle268.html ** WORD POWER TEST from PUZZ.COM ** 25 questions, 20-25 minutes This test, developed by William F. Bultas, includes analogies and odd-man-out puzzles. The analogies, which are multiple choice, take the form of W is to X as Y is to Z (written as W : X :: Y : Z). For the odd-man-out puzzles, you choose the word that does not belong with the others. When you finish the test, you can rank yourself using the scale provided. To test your word power right now, visit their website at http://www.puzz.com/wordpower.html ----------------------------------------------------------- *** BRAIN ENHANCEMENT PRODUCTS *** ----------------------------------------------------------- ** CENTERPOINTE - THE MOST POWERFUL MIND DEVELOPMENT TOOL ON EARTH- -Experience powerful FREE on-line demo of what many describe as "the most powerful personal growth/mind development tool on Earth." 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These processes will do much more than just raise your IQ. They contribute to a more important goal � elevating your overall brain power and enhancing memory, creativity, reading speed, specific talents, and general brain health. Using Dr. Wenger�s Image Streaming technique, you�ll bypass inhibitions and access the powerful capabilities of your mind, which has virtually unlimited potential. Visit http://www.selfgrowth.com/products/einstein2.html The Psychology of Achievement - by Brian Tracy Soar to new heights of success and achievement! This remarkable program reveals strategies to elevate your income, put your career on the fast track and accomplish more than you ever dreamed possible. Unlock the secret to doubling your brainpower and sharpening your intuition. Discover the key to erasing negative emotions. Master a foolproof 12-point formula that quadruples productivity. http://www.selfgrowth.com/products/achievement2.html HOW TO ADD A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR WEBSITE HERE If you want to share information about your website in our newsletter, please go to the following webpage and fill out the form. Visit our website at http://www.selfgrowth.com/form-ad-brain-newsletter.html ----------------------------------------------------------- ** ARTICLE: How to Entertain a Thought � written by Maya Talisman Frost ** ----------------------------------------------------------- After studying scores of great thinkers like Leonardo Da Vinci, I think I've stumbled upon what really set them apart from the rest of the folks living (and thinking) at the same time. It's remarkably simple. They learned how to entertain a thought. Aristotle said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Hmmm. To entertain a thought without accepting it. We need to do that. Everyone needs to learn how to be good host or hostess to new ideas. In fact, our goal should be to become the Martha Stewart of mental entertaining! What if you treated a new thought like a guest? It's easier to think about mental entertaining if we put together a to-do list, just like Martha. Here it is: #1 - Make the first move. First of all, you issue an invitation. Nothing fancy. You don't have to make any major investment or lifelong commitment. You're simply inviting this person in. It's the same with initiating the entertainment of an idea. You might see a quote on the side of a bus somewhere, and decide you'd like to explore that concept more deeply. Or, maybe you find yourself bumping into the same topic all the time, and so you make up your mind to learn more about it. Either way, you need to be ready to initiate the process. Don't hide--you won't meet new ideas if you scurry away whenever the doorbell rings. #2 - Prepare. Uh-oh. Your house is a mess. You'd better do some cleaning. You're not really trying to impress, but hey, you could certainly do some sprucing up and get the place looking neat and inviting. Prepare for a new thought in the same way. Make some space in your mind to think about something new. According to Deepak Chopra, the well-known author on health and longevity, the average human has 60,000 thoughts a day. Pretty impressive? Well, here's the kicker: 57,000 of those are the same ones you had YESTERDAY! Now that's some serious clutter! Get rid of a few of those dusty old thoughts and make room for new ones. #3 - Offer a warm greeting. When your new guest arrives, be warm and inviting. After all, you're hoping to start a friendship. Put your best foot forward. It's the same with an idea. If you face it with skepticism, fear or detachment, you won't be entertaining it for long. You'll be eyeing your watch, yawning, or looking for a way to end the discussion early. You've got to be open and full of anticipation to prepare an environment in which new ideas will be explored and integrated fully. Just as it's no fair making lame excuses or having your friend call to interrupt the visit, it's also cheating to cut out too soon when it comes to entertaining an idea. #4 - Make introductions. This is the big one. You would certainly introduce your guest to everyone at the party, with a special effort to connect them to those with whom they may have something in common. Any new idea you consider will be more likely to be welcomed if you actively and intentionally introduce it to your other ideas and interests. Look for unusual and inspired pairings. How does it fit? Where does it fit? DOES it fit? You won't know until you try. Picture Leonardo Da Vinci's mental entertaining. His new idea, Human Flight, arrives, and immediately Leo sets about introducing him to others. "Human, meet my good friend, Engineering, and his lovely wife, Fabric Design. Oh, and have you met Bird Anatomy? She lives just around the corner from you. Oh, Dr. Entomology has arrived! Listen, Dr. E is absolutely brilliant, but a bit hard of hearing. Ask her about her recent work on the wings of insects! Now, you all make yourselves comfy and I'll go get some more wine." What happened at that party? Leonardo threw these ideas together, and BAM! What emerged was the idea for a perfectly designed parachute as well as a remarkable helicopter--hundreds of years before the Wright brothers started building their flying machines! Talk about a soaring success! Don't you wish you'd been there? #5 - Offer the best seat in the house. You usually sit in that nice chair there by the fireplace, but when a special guest comes over, you graciously offer it. When you are entertaining a new thought, give it the consideration it deserves. Every time you think a new thought, your brain is actually creating a new neural pathway. It's like a jungle in there, full of nerve endings and ganglia and all kinds of connections. Help it along. Make it comfortable. Once you've considered an idea, that pathway is there. All you have to do to keep it "live" is to keep going down that path often enough to clear the trail, but not so often that it becomes a rut. #6 - Listen, inquire, and show interest. Ask questions. Dig a little deeper. Find the connections to other people, places, and activities. Learn as much as you can about your new idea. #7 - Relinquish control. Just like when you introduce guests to each other, you should not try to control the outcome. Some guests might hate each other on sight, while others click instantly. People might argue, or a married guest might sneak off to a back room with someone other than their partner. Anything can happen! That's not up to you. You're having this party to offer an opportunity for people to connect. Make introductions, insert a few comments, smile and acknowledge everyone, but for the most part, just let things happen. Don't direct the flow of ideas. #8 - Leave room for future possibilities. Even if you decide this guest of yours is insufferable, you don't want to burn any bridges. Be gracious, and be glad you were excellent enough to offer the invitation. You're not going to like every idea that comes your way. And you might not find any other interest or idea that connects with it initially. That's fine. You need to develop the ability to recognize useful concepts and distinguish valuable and valid ideas from those lacking a strong foundation. That's what critical thinking is all about. But you also need to file that idea away so that you can look it up if and when you DO meet a likely candidate for another gathering of thoughts. There is a great deal of room for different styles of mental entertaining. Maybe you're best at dealing with only two ideas at a time, or maybe you want to throw a huge bash and welcome all comers. Entertain in whatever style suits you. Tete-a-tete or bacchanal--it doesn't matter, as long as it's happening. Learn how to entertain a thought. With a little effort, you'll become a perfect host or hostess to new ideas that come your way. And guess what? You'll have no hangover, no cleaning up, and no regrets. Party on! About the Author: Maya Talisman Frost is a mind masseuse. Her 12-lesson course, "Massage Your Mind!: Defining Your Life Philosophy," has inspired thinkers in over 70 countries around the world. Visit http://www.massageyourmind.com to sign up for her free weekly ezine, the Friday Mind Massage. ----------------------------------------------------------- ** ARTICLE: Parents: Take the SAT Challenge! � written by Jacqueline Byrne ** ----------------------------------------------------------- I keep a box of tissues on the table where I tutor because, as an SAT tutor and college application consultant, I listen to high school juniors and seniors who are so overwhelmed by college pressure that they begin to cry. Not just girls. Not just Ivy League aspirants. High school students are always convinced their parents don�t understand them. This time the students are right. Parents don�t understand because the college admission process is so much more competitive than it was when most parents applied to college. These are the ten things I wish I could tell parents: 1. I am convinced that parents have to walk a mile in the student�s moccasins to gain some appreciation for the stress the students are under and to reverse the tension at home. If parents will take an SAT practice test they will feel some of the same anxiety, cringe at their results, and discover that the test is hard. Instead of piling 25 pounds of SAT study books on the desk, parents can commiserate with students over missed problems. Parents and students can become allies rather than adversaries as they face the college admission process. 2. Hire SAT prep tutors who focus on the applicable academic material rather than just the tricks. Increasing a student�s academic preparation for the test in addition to teaching the tricks increases their confidence on the test and in the classroom; teaching only the tricks makes students more insecure because they are relying on tricks rather than on actual knowledge. 3. Have the tutors keep the parents informed about each session so that the parent tracks progress with the tutor rather than pestering the student for information. 4. Have the student try the ACT. All colleges accept it and some students do better on it than on the SAT. 5. Make learning fun. For example, have the students memorize vocabulary using the book Vocabulary Cartoons by Sam Burchers, et al. Also, have the student do the crossword and other word puzzles in SAT Vocabulary Express, the fun book of word puzzles that will increase SAT scores. I wrote it with Michael Ashley, a nationally known puzzler, so that our students would learn to play with words, an important skill for the new SAT. 6. Emphasize getting good grades rather than good SAT scores. Bs in honors classes are better than As in regular classes. 7. Hire an independent college counselor who will work with the family to create a realistic college list, brainstorm for essay topics, establish deadlines for the student, and check all college applications. High school college counselors are overworked and do not have the time to walk families through the process. 8. Realize that the schools parents attended may not be within reach for their child. The number of high school students planning to attend college has increased dramatically; the student may be well qualified for a particular college and may still not get in. 9. Look for colleges where the student will thrive academically and socially. Choosing colleges based on their name recognition and prestige value is a formula that will increase stress, not decrease it. Everyone else wants to go to those schools, too, making them even harder to get into; they are not necessarily the best place for the student. Loren Pope�s book, Colleges That Change Lives, is a good place to start. 10. Support your child through a difficult process. Leave the prodding, nagging, and yelling to the tutors and college counselor. The independent college counselor will tell the student to work harder so the parent doesn�t have to. Why ruin the student�s last year at home? Parents can make decisions so that senior year is not so fraught with anxiety that family members begin to avoid each other. And, I hate it when my students cry. About the Author: Jacqueline Byrne Author, SAT Vocabulary Express (McGraw Hill, 10/04) Partner, Ivy Educational Services, Scotch Plains, New Jersey http://www.ivyeducationalservices.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ** BOOK REVIEW: Remember Every Name Every Time: Corporate America�s Memory Master Reveals His Secrets � By Benjamin Levy ** ----------------------------------------------------------- Ever been introduced to someone and then almost immediately forgotten their name? This universal quandary is not the fault of faulty recall, according to "memory trainer" Benjamin Levy, but rather a mind that is not properly schooled in name-retention techniques. Levy, known for wowing groups of 150 by reciting all of their names shortly after meeting them, describes two different procedures in �Remember Every Name Every Time� for honing skills that can be used in any personal or professional setting. With abundant photos to illustrate integral physical behaviors, as well as anecdotes and quotes drawn from Levy's impressive roster of corporate clients--like Charles Bronfman of Seagram and Laurence Tisch of Loews--he fully explains how to implement his basic technique (the verbally oriented FACE approach, which teaches you to imprint correct names in the first place and then link them to specific faces) and his advanced method (the visual NAME system, which incorporates images and even sounds with your own imagination for longer term and larger group settings). While both certainly require a good bit of practice in order to effectively pull off, the techniques in this book are as clearly stated as its title and should noticeably help anyone who seriously applies them. --Howard Rothman The list price for this book is $15.00. To purchase it for $10.20 at a 32% discount from Amazon.com, go directly to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0684873931/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. 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