Why Does Your Pride Mess-Up Learning & Memory?

“Does ‘Pride’ Mess-Up Learning & Self-Improvement?”

·       1. Are You ‘your’ Mind? Your ‘Mind’ resists whatever attempts to change your Comfort-Zone of beliefs & skills.

So what? It sees Speedreading101.org as an intruder.

·       2. Example: you may read as slow-as-molasses & paid to learn SpeedReading101.org. You Mind will sabotage any Changes to switch from ‘Snailing” (slow-school-reading) to SpeedReading101.org

·       3. Why? Scientific research indicates:

·       4. a) Physiological: we are ‘hardwired’ to make  Change difficult & painful. It comes with your evolutionary brain dedicated to Survival - ‘as-is’.

·       b) Psychological: your mind takes Pride - (call it  Ownership) in what you already have & use. It creates  ‘resistance’ to any Change from outside of the Mind.

·       d) Emotional: Mind uses Denial-Anger-Bargaining & Depression to scare you into quitting. After these four emotions, your Mind finally accepts the ‘newness’ and changes.

·       5. Question: “So what? Who Cares? ‘Wiifm’ (What’s-In-It-For-Me?)”

·       6. Answer: “Understanding how your brain fights change, even when it’s an improvement & good for you, relaxes you. You know what to expect & refuse to become Stressed”.

·       7. “Last explanation: the scientific name for this is Homeostasis – ‘the same state’. All Change disturbs your mental, physical & emotional equilibrium – balance & harmony.

·       8. “Now your Mind fights to return to your old Comfort-Zone. Mind uses sabotage-and-negative-feelings to get your Attention.” 

·       9. “Slow School-Taught learning is all your mind knows that works for survival in your environment. Your Mind creates Discomfort & Resistance to scare you into quitting.

·       10. “Your assignment, based on this knowledge of how the Mind works, is to ‘roll-with-the-punches’. Use your “Volition (willpower) & Grit, which is your power of ‘intention’ using persistence & determination.”

·       11. “How?” Learn and actively USE the NEW strategies of  SpeedReading101.org. Refuse to quit in frustration. Your Mind wants to return to your OLD Comfort-Zone of Snailing (slow-learning).

·       12. “You respond with “True-Grit, No Quit.” That what makes successful SpeedReading101 graduates. In a short time, your Comfort-Zone Expands to include your New SpeedReading strategies. Makes sense?”

·       13. P.S. “The Faster you learn, the More you Earn.”

                “Remember, you Snooze, you lose.” Refuse to be

                  a ‘scaredy-cat. You own Will-Power.”

·       See ya, at www.speedreading101.org For a special deal in SpeedReading101 at Columbia University One-day-Workshop, call Gene, 1-877-567-2500, see: www.speedreading101.org ", "You SNOOZE, you lose." Remember, "The Faster you learn, the more you EARN."

·       Copyright © 2013, Bernard Wechsler

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