Eye-Movements and Solving Problems

If you offer Specific Guidance to your eyes, instead of Random Spacing, you will solve problems better than your peers.

Eye-Movement And Brain Power

Do you believe the results of all the polls you hear quoted?
If you read about a Gallup poll concluding, students
and executives hate reading books, and avoid it like a house-on-fire.

Would you think, Makes sense to me because I avoid books too?

Finally, have you notice since the Internet, most everyone complains
of Information-Overload and chronic stress to keep up with current knowledge
in their field or industry?

Me too. What if you knew of scientific proof and documented experience
concluding: you can read and remember three-books, articles and reports,
in the time you presently take to finish one? And it applies to students from age
12 to graduate-school, and corporate executives.

Who Cares?

Would say in your mind's ear ? who cares ? or perhaps recommend these
strategies to your kids and maybe the company Human Resources department?

Evidence

Professor Alejandro Lleras, University of Illinois at Urbana headed a major study
published Aug .07 issue in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review called Moving Eyes
And Moving Thoughts.

We know you are not a scientist or deeply interested in psychological theory, so
we'll give you an abstract using the report's headlines.

If you direct your eye movements instead of letting them fall where they may,
you improve your ability to solve problems better and faster.

Wait. These folks offer clear and convincing evidence your eye movements are
not just a function of thinking, but actually affect the way you think and solve problems.

Specific Guidance vs Random Spacing

Specific Guidance is causing your eyes to follow particular patterns (chunking), and using a specialized training-tool to read for 21 days, you'll outperform 90% of your peers. And with practice, you will permanently 3x your reading speed and 2x your long-term memory.

Speed reading graduates read an average of 700 words per minutes with equal or better comprehension, and a doubling of their long-term memory. Would that help
students and executives to ace school and career?

Random Spacing (used by 99.5%) is ignoring our eye patterns, and continuing to read using our 3rd grade learning skills of hearing (subvocalization) each word in our mind's ear.

They are limited to reading only as fast as they can speak, about 200 words per minute, regress (go back) 9x per page, and suffer from Porous Concentration ? information entering your left ear and moving out the other, and none of it sticks.

Dr. Lleras says, those using patterns in which eye-movements are guided, produce correct solutions significantly beyond the control group. When our bodies interact with our immediate environment, the eye-movements act as implicit thought guides in spatial reasoning tasks.

He ends with these words, not only do eye-movements reflect what we're thinking,
they also influence how we think. Remember this: cognitive processing (how we think and understand) and eye-movements patterns are linked. Improve one, improves the other.

Consider this: the professor says, we use the same brain structures to think
about doing something, and actually physically doing the activity.

Google: Dr. Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard on guided imagery and the use of mental-
movies.

Chindogu (Japanese)

Japanese society has a growing anxiety about their safety and security; fear is doubled through the efforts of sensationalist news media. Compared to the U.S violent street-crime, Japan is swimming in a crime-free paradise. They have only one-seventh the crime as the U.S. It does not feel that way to the Japanese.

Chindogu means queer tools. The U.S. is crime-hardened and wants self-protection
and welcomes anti-crime devices the Japanese consider too self-assertive even in self-defense. American want to inflict pain and suffering on the villain who hi-jacks
their car, mugs senior citizens, and preys on young women.

The Japanese culture favors weird (queer) tools to strike back at the misguided
deviant, and would not consider pepper spray, a standard in personal protection in
the USA. Citizens in Japan consider hurting the assailant too embarrassing; they favor deception and camouflage, flight not fight.

Japanese Society
Their technology, from transistors to hybrid cars and video games, shows
a playful nature; no idea is laughed at, considered too oddball, bizarre
or eccentric. This produces inventors, who will experiment beyond the pale,
and patent solutions that are considered Chindogu (queer tools) by American standards.

Does Japanese culture play a major role in thinking about risk prevention?
Sure, and this open attitude toward accepting weird improvements, not calling it far-fetched, leads to original research.

A willingness to indulge nuttiness is a national strength, while humiliating imagination through ridiculing videos on YouTube, causes folks to avoid out-of-the-box thinking. In the U.S. no university scientist will discuss UFOs or space aliens.

SkunkGun?

An example of going against the tide in Japan is the immediate acceptance of a new form of personal protection. Imagine a self-defense device, a tiny hand-held aerosol canister loaded with a spray liquid equivalent to the stench of a live skunk.

Striking the clothing of a miscreant from up to 20 feet will cause him disorientation,
temporary loss of mobility, and even hallucinations for up to one-day. He is no longer interested in car-jacking, groping young women in the subway, or mugging
senior citizens, his mind is focused on flight and personal survival.

The Skunk stench sticks to the epidermis (skin) of the assailant for up to 24 hours,
while the police work to discover his whereabouts. No one will come close enough to
the skunked villain to decontaminate him, often leading to his capture.

In the U.S. the use of pepper spray, tasors with up 50,000 volts, stunguns and cattle prods are in the hands of non-professionals. Research indicates they have collectively produced serious injuries and even death to up to 400 perpetrators.

The Japanese sensibility requires self-defense not to produce injury or death.
Would you vote to permit senior citizens, young women, homeowners, and car owners to legal use self-protection devices to maim or potentially cause
death?

How about a SkunkGun spritz that leaves the attacker incapacitated for a day, but
otherwise unharmed? Google: mephitis, and mercaptan.

Me too. Ask me for details.

See ya, copyright 2007
H. Bernard Wechsler, [e-mail] www.speedlearning.org
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Author of Speed reading for Professionals, published by Barron's,
Business partner of Evelyn Wood, creator or speed reading, graduating
two million, including the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents.
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