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Table of Contents
Contents
3
Introduction Why NLP trainers don’t finish stories
6
Who is This Book For?
11
Amazing You
12
Your Three Brains
16
Connecting Both Hemisphere’s of Your Brain
21
Seeing Sausages…
24
The Wizard’s Hat and Tangerines
25
The Psychology of Learning
27
The State Secrets of Learning
28
Your Mental Preparation
31
Here Are Some Useful Questions to Ask Yourself
46
An Important Word Here About Ecology
49
Preview Your Reading Material
36
The Accelerated Reading Process
37
The Reading Process… Whew there At Last
39
Some Questions You May Want Answered
41
Activating What You Have Read
43
Post Viewing What You Have Read
 46
Creating a Mind Map
49
Example of a Mind Map and Bullet Summary
50
Memory strategies of an Elephant
52
ADDITIONAL BONUS MATERIAL:
The 93% Who Fail to Act and Why This Happens 57
NLP Goal Setting 63
A Learning Culture 65
Why NLP trainers don’t finish stories part 2 67
Summary and Closing Thoughts 68
Further Reading 69
My Notes
70

Dedication
This book is dedicated to James M. Noone, my
son, who complained that his teachers either
didn’t care or didn’t teach and to all of you who
wish to learn, how to learn more easily.
To learn how to learn & how to adapt more
easily is, in my humble opinion, the most
essential skill for the ever more rapidly changing
21st Century.
Those who master Speed Learning will be the thought
leaders for the coming Century because they are the
ones most able to adapt, evolve and succeed.
The days of certainty are gone. Flexibility and
agility are the keys to surviving and thriving in
the modern world.
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Acknowledgements

This book is based on the work of many of my colleagues and others who
have gone before particularly John Grinder and Richard Bandler who first
studied the behaviors that create excellent performance and who were
among the co-‐ creators of NLP or Neuro linguistic programming. Also
Colin Rose, Tony Buzan, Dr Milton Erickson and Dr Paul Scheele and
Dr Richard Bolstad all of whom contributed to this work through what
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Introduction:
Why NLP trainers don’t finish stories…
We are taught to read as children, from the perspective of how an
adult’s mind works. You may well say that this is because an adult’s
brain works better than a child’s brain.
And you’d be right in many respects .The deductive, logical part of a
child’s brain isn’t fully formed until around the age of 7 years old. Up
until that age it tends to learn things by using the Right hemisphere of
the brain, which is very much to do with intuition, images, colours and
textures.

As adults we tend to use the left hemisphere to learn, which is tuned to
 deal with logic, numbers and the meanings of language. There is a
diagram later in this document that describes all of the different
functions that are run by each side of your brain. That’s not what’s
important for now, though. What’s important is that you study, use and
practice what you are about to learn because that means you will learn how to
use your brain to it’s best ability.

I am going to show you how to do this in the easiest way possible based on
neuro-science and how your brain processes information.

Here’s the thing. As children we learned more in our first four years of
life than we will in the rest of our years combined. Our brains grew at
a phenomenal rate adding millions of connections per second as we
made sense of our world.
It is my belief that the switch from right brain learning to left brain
learning is partly conditioned by the needs of our education system. This
in turn was determined by the needs of industrialization back in the
early 1800s when universal education started to come into being.
Now that we have all of the advances in brain science we know lots more about
how we learn and how we learn more easily faster.
All of the above is part of the mystery of why NLP trainers don’t finish stories…
at least not quite yet…



How this system is different
Conventional learning is done with your conscious mind and the left
hemisphere of the brain. The left side of your brain controls the right
hand side of your body and vice versa.

This arrangement works well if you don’t want to learn too much or
learn it particularly fast.

As you will discover, the conscious mind, wonderful as it is, severely
limits how much information your brain can absorb because of an
 overload protection mechanism your brain has. Think of it as being like
a fuse in an electrical circuit. Your brain turns off the switch that
controls input.
This is, in my opinion, the root cause of ADHD and ADD. Simple
sensory overload causes ADHD sufferers to be less able to focus on
tasks.

Your conscious mind is what you use to ‘focus’ on things but that also
limits how much information you can learn at any given time.
What you are about to discover is how to bypass your conscious mind
and tap straight into the mainframe super computer that you have inside
of you.

But first…

A Really Important side note here
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important which means I want you to get the results you can get from watching
it and doing the activity.
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 Some important history for you.

Prior to the industrial revolution most people lived on the land and
worked in agriculture. Their time was measured by the seasons of nature
and the rising and setting of the sun.

When something needed to be done it was as part of a task not as part
of a system. That is to say, things were only created when they were
needed. A carpenter made a chair when someone came to him needing
one made. Life was simpler.

With the advent of industrialization came a need to have workers show
up at their machines every day at a set time so they could fulfill their
place within a production system.

Unfortunately in the early years of the industrial age many of the
workers would only show up until they had enough money for their
immediate needs and then they would leave. They’d go and buy grog or
laudanum and the factory owners would be left with their machines
sitting idle.

Education and compulsory schooling were part of the solution to counter
non-‐ attendance at work.
When coupled with hell fire and damnation sermons from the pulpits, it
was an effective way of getting the peasants back to the “Satanic mills”.


The school system taught children about punctuality and obedience and
the churches taught them about their place in society.
Both the schools and much of the religious
infrastructure were financed by wealthy industrialists because it was very
much in their interests to do so.
In an industrial society where there was not much change, any creativity
beyond improving the industrial processes was counterproductive.

Stability was what had value. A stable work force that didn’t think much
beyond being able to operate the machinery of commerce was what was
important. As somebody once said, “The poor must be kept ignorant”.
Here’s the thing. We are no longer an industrial age society. Most of the
factories are now closed or have been converted into retail therapy
palaces. The industrial production that was outsourced to overseas
destinations is rapidly becoming automated and the work done by robots
and computers.

When you add in the enormous growth of knowledge that is available to
humanity you realize we are now in a totally different culture. The
knowledge you can access is doubling approximately every ten months
and if you were to map the learning curve onto a graph, it is now
almost vertical.

Add in, access to all of that information via the internet and you have a
perfect recipe for ADHD and ADD plus all of the socialization issues
we currently face.

Part of the reason this occurs is because of how we access information.
We are taught to learn using left brain, conscious mind strategies that
are great for someone who only has to learn reading, writing and
arithmetic.

Not so good for working out the complex issues we face today in an
ever more connected world or for being bombarded by the masses of
data we all face each day.
The average person is exposed to over 10,000 advertisements each day.
However from complexity comes opportunity. The technology innovation curve
is also due to go vertical this year and there is research from the USA which
reports that by 2020 there will be a large number of jobs that will not have
people sufficiently trained to be able to do them.
This is even more reason to learn how to learn

So what is the solution?

I think it is important that we start to use the phenomenal power of all
of our brain.

That is what this book is all about.

This short book is about learning how to learn, using not only your left
and right hemispheres but also how to learn, by using your unconscious
mind too.
In the next chapter we’re going to look at who this book is for and
what makes it so useful.






Who This Book Is For?
This work is for those who want to get more out of life by managing
how you use your brain better. If you ever wondered why you found it
difficult to learn or remember things then this book is for you. There
was nothing wrong other than the fact you were taught WHAT to learn.
NOT how to learn.
This book addresses HOW to learn and leaves the teaching of WHAT to
learn to other individuals and institutions.

Accelerated learning strategies are useful if you are embarked on a
course of study at school or university. You can use the techniques you
will learn here to assist other people to learn, such as your children or
grandchildren, colleagues or people you are coaching or mentoring.

Accelerated reading strategies are also useful if you need to do research
for a presentation or a speech. The techniques you will learn here have
been used by academics and lecturers to prepare learning materials, as
well as by business leaders, politicians and students alike.

Marketers and copywriters also use these techniques to become an
authority in their field. In the world of overload and sameness, expertise
and lateral thinking capabilities may be your most important
differentiator.
The copywriting Guru, John Carlton recommends spending a weekend in
the library to research material before starting to write a sales letter. It
is important that you are an expert and an authority in your field as
you are now competing with people in villages in places like India for
work, because of globalization. By including what you are about to
learn you can become the thought leader in your field.

In short, this book is intended for those who want to contribute to the
lives of others and to set themselves apart as amazing people who lead
through being the authority in their field.

I will be adding to this work in the future through additional materials in
different formats. If you have any specific requests please contact me.


Amazing You

Before I go too much further I think it is important that you know how
absolutely powerful your brain really is. It is important that you become
aware of the phenomenal amount of deductive and learning power you
have available to you.
Your brain doesn’t just end with what you have in your skull. You
actually have three brains there and I’ll come back to them in a
moment.

Consider this:
How would you know if I was to drop a heavy object on your foot? It
can only be because there are nerve cells that transmit the signal that
says “OUCH” to your brain!
Amazing fact…

Your nerve cells from your brain are connected to every single one of
the over 100 trillion cells in your body. Your brain is constantly
monitoring each and every one of those cells ensuring that each one has
adequate oxygen and nutrients. That the cells are at the correct
temperature and that they are each fulfilling, all of their specialized
 functions properly.

Your brain does all of this without you being aware of it. In just the
same way your body temperature, liver function, heartbeat and breathing
rate are all regulated without you having to think about it.
All of this and much more is controlled by your unconscious mind. Your
unconscious mind deals with billions of bits of information per second.
There is a reason that your unconscious mind stays unconscious and it’s
simply to prevent overload.

If you had to be aware of what every cell in your body was doing 24
hours a day 7 days a week you would go completely bonkers. You
couldn’t cope.

This is why most of your sensory input is filtered through the conscious
mind. That’s the one that you’re aware of. The one you use to work out
problems and to make decisions.

The conscious part of your mind processes a much more sedate 7 bits of
information per second (+ or -‐ 2). At this speed you can consciously
process information in a state of awareness.

Your conscious mind filters out information that is not immediately
relevant to whatever task it is carrying out. It does this by deleting,
distorting and generalizing information.

I want to explain each of these filters here because they are among the
factors that slow down your ability to learn.

Deletions are simply things, which your conscious mind regards as not
being relevant to the task at hand. They are basically excess data that is
surplus to requirements and to your sanity. For instance you only see a
tiny fraction of the light spectrum. You only hear some of the sound
spectrum, even from what is available for you to hear with your limited
hearing. Your brain has evolved to only pay attention to what is
relevant right now. Being able to see infrared and ultraviolet are not part
of what you need to survive.
Distortions are where your mind decides based on previous input and
decisions about what that input is. An example of this is when I was
living in Thailand and I’d be riding my motorcycle down the road.
Occasionally I’d see a snake in the road in front of me. Now sometimes
it actually was a snake and sometimes it was a piece of rope. The point
here is that my initial reaction to what was there, was based on
previous input. It was based on previous beliefs. It would also depend
on recent conversations. If I had spoken to my neighbour Bob he would
often tell me about how he had killed a cobra in his garden. Bob kept
chickens, which in turn, attracted snakes.

The other main type of filter your brain uses are
Generalizations.

An example of this is a chair. When I was young I came across an
object with four legs and a thing to rest my back against. I found it
would take my weight when I sat on it. After a while whenever I saw
something else that resembled that first chair I knew I could sit on it.
On most occasions it took my weight. I generalized what a chair was and
what I can do with it. This saves me having to go through the initial
examination process every time I see a chair.

So your conscious mind has got ‘preset limits’ on how much information
it can handle.

Now, imagine, if you will, what it would be like to absorb information
using the unconscious mind. By the way the total number of connection
possibilities between all of your brain cells has been calculated to be 11
to the power of 11 to the power of 10. This is a number that is larger
than all of the stars in the Universe … and as you know, there are
quite a few of them.

I want to look at accelerated reading first and then we’ll look at memory
strategies later in the book.
First some back ground on how you learned when you were younger.

The unconscious mind is what we used to learn when we were children

and we were taking in those massive quantities of learning. We soaked up
information like sponges including information on language and social settings
and culture. We did not consciously think “Oh Gee, I think I’m going to add 30
words to my vocabulary today”
We just did it…and we did it without conscious awareness because that would
have slowed the process down.
Most of us have an adequate vocabulary now so we don’t have as great a need to
learn more of our language. What we do have is the need to take in new
information just to keep up. Just to stand still.

So the question is how do we bypass the conscious mind and tap

straight into the main frame, super computer we all possess, so to
speak…?
Before we do that you need to understand a bit about how your eyes
work...

You have two major types of light receptors in your eye.
The retina contains two types of photoreceptors: rods and cones. The
rods are more numerous, some 120 million, and are more sensitive than
the cones. However, they are not sensitive to color.

The 6 to 7 million cones provide the eye's color sensitivity and they are
much more concentrated in the central yellow spot known as the macula.
In the center of that region is the "fovea centralis", a 0.3 mm diameter
rod-‐ free area with very thin, densely packed cones. There are around 8
million cone cells in this area of your eye.

So why is this important? Well, foveal vision is what you use when you
read using the conscious mind. Remember you are limited to absorbing
information at a rate of 7 +/-‐ 2 bits of information per second and you
also have all of those filters in place. To read, normally you would use
the cone cells in your eyes
To access accelerated reading speeds you are going to learn to read
using with your unconscious mind and peripheral vision using the cells
in your eyes known as rods. There are approximately 120 million of
these rod type cells in each of your eyes.

Peripheral vision is what we developed to detect movements at the edge
of our vision such as grass swaying because we were being stalked, by
 a predator. It is a survival function and as such it tends to atrophy due
to a lack of lions and predators in most suburbs.
Before we start that lets look at one last piece of information you need
to know. Remember I mentioned you have three brains in your head?
Let’s look at those as well before we go too much further as these
create additional filters.
And this is the subject of the next chapter….

















Your Three Brains

Your brain wasn’t always like it is now. It has developed over a long
period of time. Millions of years in fact. It’s important to realize that all
three of your brains work in harmony. You couldn’t function at all if they
didn’t. I’m going to start with the youngest of your brains.

The newest part of your brain is the cerebral cortex. This is the
outermost part of the brain and it is where you do your “rational”
thinking.

The cerebral cortex sits over the top of the limbic system also known as
the mammalian brain, which is where you do socialization stuff like
create rapport and build and maintain relationships.

Sitting below both of these younger brains is the reptilian brain. This
reptilian brain has only a few functions, and these are to decide whether
to:
• Fight or flight
• Eat it
• Mate with it.

It is also associated with defending territory.
To get an idea of how these all fit together, make a fist with one hand
and put your other hand on top of it with your palm of the second hand
wrapping the fist. Your wrist on the fist hand is the reptilian brain. The
fist represents the mammalian brain and the second hand that is
wrapping the fist, represents the cerebral cortex.
So, let’s go back to the reptilian brain. It doesn’t want to do much other
than lie on a rock in the sun. It doesn’t want to make any decisions
beyond basic survival needs. This part of your brain operates 100% at
the unconscious level, which simply means you are not aware of what
it does.

The mammalian brain is focused on social outcomes and this will be
useful later in the process you’re going to learn when it comes to
recalling what you have read and absorbed.

Your cerebral cortex as I said earlier is involved in logic. This will also
play a role in how you process what you will learn.

You now know quite a bit about your brain and your neurology.
(Your neurology is your brain and all of the nerve cells connected up to
it.)

Your nerve cells are connected to every single cell in your body. In fact
they are so densely packed into your body that if you took away every
other cell that is NOT a nerve cell you would still be recognizable as
 you.

So now we are going to start the process of changing how you absorb
information with your eyes when you read.

First, let’s have another look at how your brain is organized.

As I said earlier you have two hemispheres in your brain. The right and left hemispheres are
 connected by a bundle of nerve cells about as thick as your thumb called the Corpus Callosum.


The two hemispheres of the brain fulfill different functions and handle different types of data. The
important thing to note is that the left hemisphere tends to deal with short term, auditory
memory and the right hemisphere tends to deal with long term, visual memory. You are going to
use the way your brain is organized by inputting into this long term visual memory as well as
the short term, left brain memory.

To use both sides of your brain more easily we need to enhance the connection between both sides
of the brain. The process you are going to learn is also used to solve problems by engaging all
of the brain. This is something I use with NLP for clients to integrate both sides of their brain
as part of coaching and problem solving; it has also been used as part of treatment for PTSD
(post traumatic stress disorder) and other challenges that people may have.

NLP or Neuro Linguistic programming is the study and application of how experts do things
really well. By modeling ( copying ) what these experts do in minute detail we can then teach
other people how to do the same thing and get similar or better results

NLP is used in
• Business
• Sports
• Education and learning ( like here in this book )
• Health
• Relationships
• Therapy and psychology

On the next page you will find some diagrams and instructions on how
to improve the connection between both hemispheres of your brain.

Please note here that both hemispheres of your brain are already
connected. It is more a matter of enhancing how they work together so
that you get the results you want.

I’ll see you on the next page…
Connecting Both Hemisphere’s of Your Brain

The important thing is to keep your head still when doing this activity.

Spend approximately 18-‐ 20 seconds moving your eyes as indicated on
 the charts below. Don’t exceed this time as this may cause tiring of the
eyes.

Start by moving your eyes from side to side, left to right and back to
left again. If you look out to the furthest point you can, it works better.
This means you look right out into the peripheral part of your vision.

And now spend about 18-‐20 seconds moving your eyes

up and down as indicated by the diagram.

On the next page there’s a further activity, the criss-‐ cross pattern, that
will help you to connect both hemispheres.
Now I want you to follow this criss-‐ cross pattern for 18-‐ 20 seconds.
Just like before. Remember, if this causes any strain to your eyes then
stop for a bit. You are using your eye muscles in a new way and they
need time and practice to get stronger.


Remember to only do this exercise for each image for around 18-‐ 20 seconds.

I recommend that you go through this entire sequence. If you wish you can get someone else who
is with you to wave their finger in the pattern described on the previous pages and you can
simply follow the movements of their finger with your eyes.

REMEMBER TO ONLY MOVE YOUR EYES, WHILE KEEPING YOUR HEAD STILL

Now that you have enhanced the connection of your brains two
hemispheres I’m going to assist you to see in the way that you can read
with your unconscious mind.

Do you remember holographic stereogram pictures?
You may recall them from the 1970s when they were popular

Here on the left is an example of a holographic
stereogram.
I want you to look until you can see a bunch of pansies in the middle
of the picture. There is a line of yellow butterflies at the top and some
white butterflies at the bottom. The way to do this is by going cross
eyed and adjusting your focal length. That is to say vary how far away
the point that you focus on is away from you. I do this by making a
fixed gaze and swaying backwards and forwards, towards and away from
 the picture.

If you find this challenging, then look at the two
mandalas to the right with crossed eyes. You will see a third Mandala
appearing between the two that are there now and it will appear to be
3-‐ dimensional. It will have depth.

The easiest way to access this way of seeing these images is to lengthen
and then shorten your focal length.
By moving back and forth between the two sets of images you will find
that they resolve as they are supposed to, more easily.

Like anything it is a matter of practicing these skills. I still practice
every day so that the “muscle” becomes stronger.

I would invite you to practice these skills as often as you can until they
become second nature and easy for you.


Seeing Sausages…

We’re almost there with the physical preparations.
Staying on the subject of vision I want you to hold your two index
fingers up and point them at each other. Make sure there is a small
gap of about ¼” – ½” or 6-‐ 12 mm between the ends of your fingers.


By going cross eyed you should see a “sausage” forming between the
ends of your fingers. If this is challenging for you then adjust your
focal point away from you and then back towards you.

The other thing you can do is to stretch your legs out and look at your
feet. By having your hands in your lap and then bringing them up
slowly you will find that this is about the correct focal length to see the
sausage.
The reason you are doing this is because this is how you will look at
the page of the book when we move to the accelerated reading stage.

You want to be able to see a ‘third page” which is basically a sausage
on the pages of the book…
Have a look at the picture below so that you get the idea.

If you find this difficult then simply focus on all four pages of the open
book at the same time. It’s useful to visualize a diagonal cross from
each corner across the book, while it is open.
The Wizard’s Hat and Oranges
The wizard’s pointed hat as depicted in cartoons is another way that you
can use to see this “third page” in the middle. Imagine wearing a pointed
wizard’s hat.

Imagine you are standing behind yourself with your eyes looking at the
book from the level of the point of the wizard’s hat, roughly 15 cm (6
inches) above your head. This is where you want to imagine your
awareness is centered.

The other thing you can do is to imagine that you have an orange on
top of your head and that this is where your awareness is centered.

These techniques may sound strange, but remember that you are learning
how to operate your brain in a new way, the smart way. The NLP way.

NB: Remember that NLP is all about modeling (studying) how really
 successful people do things and then teaching those strategies and
techniques to others so that they can do things the same way and
get similar results.

As with anything that is worthwhile you will need to practice your skills.
Nobody won an Olympic medal sitting on the sofa watching the TV.
Unless of course TV watching becomes an Olympic event.
This does take practice in much the same way that becoming an Olympic gold medalist does. The
difference is that everyone can learn
how to do this. Usually you need to practice it a few times before you really get it. Once you do,
the world of learning is your oyster!

(NB: Results may vary on how many times you need to practice this skill)

This pretty much wraps up the physical side of this training.
What we’re going to deal with next is the psychological aspects

The Psychology of Learning
One of the most important aspects of success in any endeavour is your
motivation. One of the great things about what you are going to learn
next is that it will enable you to filter out information that you
shouldn’t be reading. We all consume large quantities of what I call
white noise. It’s the sound bites and time-‐ wasting crud that is put in
front of us.

Would you run a brand new Corvette or Jaguar on old sump oil?
Hopefully, not.

Unless of course you want to really mess up how well it performs. Well,
your accelerated reading skills are the same.

In this next stage you are going to preview what you want to read.
Here’s a tip to make it easy on you.
For your first few time using accelerated reading strategies choose a
book or reading material you are interested in. So if you’re a trout
 fisherman choose a book that will increase your knowledge and skills at
trout fishing.

If your hobby is embroidery then get a book on embroidery and all of
those complex stitches you always wanted to learn.
Curiosity is important here. The more curious you are the better this
works, until your brain gets the hang of reading this way.

Remember the reptilian brain that wants to lie in the sun all day? This
is the first port of call for any new information and unless it is
interesting, your reptilian brain is going to go back to sleep.

You can still learn things if you’re reading stuff you’re not really
interested in but it’s more challenging and this system is all about
making learning easy.
This requires me to let you into a state secret…on the next page…
…..Sssssshh…!!



The State Secrets For Learning
I’m going to let you into a State secret here. It’s about the three most
important things an NLP trainer has to consider.

1. Their own personal State
2. The State of those they are teaching
and

3. Their own personal state

So why do I mention state and what is it?

Well you may know some people who get all excited about nothing and
end up in ”A right state”
Then there are others who get all excited about something and end up in
THE right state.

In NLP terms, state is a combination of your physiology or how your
body is, your emotions and what you are thinking. It is an all-‐ inclusive
way of describing every aspect of the experiences someone is having.
This is what we model or copy when we study high performers so we
can teach their strategies to others.
For now we are just going to focus on one aspect of state, which is
being relaxed and confident. This is because research shows that when
you are relaxed you remember 21% more of what you learn.

I want to clarify what I mean by confident here because lots of people
confuse it with being assertive or aggressive. Being confident is what
you are when you are relaxing with friends or family. When you are
doing something you enjoy doing such as a hobby or playing a game.

Confidence is not being Bolshie on Friday night down at the local
bar.

What I want you to do is to think of a time that it is OK to think
about, when you were relaxing with friends or with your family or those
you care about. I want you to remember how it felt in your body and
what your surroundings were like. How did you feel emotionally? Who
was there with you and what were they saying or doing? What was it
about that situation that makes you feel good when you remember it?
What were you hearing and what were you saying to yourself about
what was going on?

And now when you feel those feelings and remember all those memories
I want you to imagine you have a knob or a slide control there, that
you can use to adjust all this data you’re thinking about.
I want you to experiment a bit and play around with all of the
sensations you’re thinking about. I want you to experiment with the
brightness of what you see and changing the colours. Try altering the
quality of the sounds. Volume, tone and the distance away from you.
What happens if you make the feelings stronger? How different is it when
you make the colours brighter or move the pictures further away or
closer to you?
Just have a play with these sensations for a few minutes. Find a setting
 that works for you.

When you have them set to a comfortable level where you are relaxed
and confident I want you to squeeze together the thumb and forefinger
of your non-‐ dominant hand. That is the hand that you don’t use for
writing and doing things with.
And just hold it there for about five to ten seconds.
And now release the squeeze of the thumb and finger.
By the way, what did you have for lunch today?

Now it’s not important that you share what you had for lunch. It’s
simply to distract your attention away from the state you were creating.
In NLP this is what we call “breaking state.”

And after you’ve done that, once again I want you to squeeze together
the same thumb and forefinger and just be aware of how you’re feeling
those same feelings again.

This is what we call a confidence anchor in NLP and you can “stack”
this anchor at any time when you feel good by just feeling the good
feelings you’re feeling and pressing that same finger and thumb together.
This is called setting the anchor.

To access the same state that you have set the anchor for, simply press
the same finger and thumb together. You have got 28 knuckles you can
use for setting anchors on but that’s a topic for more advanced
trainings. Olympic canoeists have set anchors on the roof of their mouth
by using their tongue to set and then to “fire” the anchor

This is a useful skill to have when you are doing presentations, going
into meetings or sales situations or working in teams. Or even dealing
with the brother in law…

This is just one of many types of anchors that NLP trainers use and
teach to their students. There are many others that we use when
teaching or working with clients.

You can also set a relaxation anchor. This is useful if you want to set
 aside brief moments in the day when you may need to re-‐ focus or step
back or simply to re-‐ energise yourself. The idea is exactly the same
except you use situations where you are relaxing to create the anchor.
Just before you go to sleep is a good time for this one.
These anchors are also useful for getting to sleep.

And they are very useful for accelerated reading.
An anchor is simply a way of connecting yourself to a useful state or a
feeling or an emotion that you had experienced in the past.

For example when you smell cotton candy it may remind you of a time
when you were at a fair or a circus. Hearing a song on the radio may
remind you of a time long ago when you first heard it and of the
people who were there at that time.

What I want you to focus on next is your mental preparation. This is
more to do with your psychological state, and now that you know how
to sort out your emotional state means that this next bit will be really
easy.

That begins on the next page…

















Your Mental Preparation
What we are going to do now is to start working on your reason WHY.


Your reason why, is what most people refer to as motivation. Without
motivation, dishes don’t get washed, empires don’t get built and reading
doesn’t stick as well as it could.

Your reasons why are important as part of how you motivate yourself to
learn things that may not particularly inspire you.

What you’re going to do in this section is give yourself some really
compelling reasons why you should learn, whatever you’re reading.
You’re going to use social pressure from your mammalian brain as well
as some more intellectual reasons from your cerebral cortex.
Start by asking yourself:

• Why are you reading this material?
• What do you want to get out of it?
• What do you want to learn or experience after you have read it?
• How do you want your life to be different? Use logical questions for
this part of the process.
• What are the reasons it makes sense to learn this?
You are talking to your cerebral cortex at this stage.
Next you’re going to begin using your mammalian brain.

Research shows that the best way to learn is to teach. So by figuring
out who, in your team or in your family or circle of friends you will
teach this information, you’re making your learning process easier. By
pre-‐ framing your brain this way it is more receptive to learning.


NOW: Ask yourself:…

• Who would I most want to teach what I learn?
• Who in my life will get the maximum benefit from what I am learning
 today, apart from me?
• Why should they learn this?
• What is so important about this for them that I have to be sure I can
teach it?

Something you may not know about your unconscious mind is that it
can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined.
You will learn more about this later in this book.

So even just by imagining teaching what you are reading to your friends
or family or colleagues, your brain will think it is real. It will pay more
attention to what you are reading so it won’t feel foolish in front of
people whose opinions matter to it.

This strategy works even more powerfully if you do actually set a time
to teach other people what you have learned and also get them to
question you about what you’re teaching them.

Remember that you are a social creature. It is hard wired into you and is
part of humanity’s survival mechanism. In days gone by, to be outside
of the tribe basically spelled death. So let’s use this piece of
evolutionary adaptation to your advantage.

Here Are Some Useful Questions to Ask Yourself


Q: What is it in this material that I want to teach to this person if I
understood what is written fully and completely?

Q: Which parts of this information will be useful for them in improving
their life?

You can further increase your incentive to learn by deciding that you
want to interview the author about the book when you finish reading it.


Q: If I could ask the author about the best way to teach this
 information what would they say?

Write out your questions by hand for this exercise as this connects better
with the brain.

I want you to really imagine that you will interview the author. Did I
already tell you that your unconscious mind can not tell what is real
and what is imagined?
By doing this exercise you are activating the social mammalian part of
your brain that is designed to get on with other people.

Did you know that most of the world’s great copy writers learned
their skill by writing out the works of people like John Caples,
Eugene Schwarz and other great sales copy writers?

You don’t have to do this. Just write out what you would want to ask
the author in your interview with them.

What questions will you ask them? What is it that you want to get more
insight on and why?

Remember that you want to look like a winner after you’ve read all this
stuff so remember to think about what it would be like to be
interviewed by your best friend about what you just read. And then set
that interview up with your friend.

What you are doing here is increasing YOUR reasons why for reading
what you’re reading. The stronger that motivation is the more easily you
will learn.

I’m sure you can remember a time when you were doing something
because you HAD to. Did that feel good?

Now remember a time in the past when you were doing something
because you just totally loved doing it…
And when you remember that time fully and
completely then stack that on top of your confidence anchor. You do this
by squeezing that same thumb and forefinger together every time you
 feel good.
You did know didn’t you, that you can stack different anchors on
different knuckles and you can do interesting combos too?

No…?
Well you do now.
An important Word Here About Ecology…

Not the rainforests, though that’s similar. Ecology is the study of
consequences so you can understand why you should consider carefully
the consequences of how you use anchors.
Ask yourself about where using your confidence anchor might not be
appropriate.
An example is when you get pulled over by the cops…Or when you’re
talking to the chairman of the board.
Got the idea? …Good !

Bonus ideas that are useful
Time is such a rare and precious commodity in our world and
remember, it is the only one you cannot replace. So far nobody has
worked out a way to buy, beg, borrow or steal any more of it. Time
is a finite resource. Guard it. It therefore makes sense to get the
maximum use out of it, which is where the next tactic pays big
dividends. I want you to not only read faster but also read smarter. I
want you to devise ways that Accelerated reading secrets can be of
even more use to you. By writing out your questions in the last
section, you have not only set out your criteria for what you want to
get from the book but also how useful it will be. By using the
questions that you wrote down as a filter you can decide after you
complete the next exercise whether there is actually any point in going
any further with your reading material.
Publisher’s descriptions of what they are selling will sometimes err on
the side of an extra coat of gilding on the lily. This is a quick easy
way to find out if your reading material actually warrants your
attention. If it’s not useful to you…ditch it. And you can do this in the
 bookstore or the library.

And here’s another tip for you
If you are focusing in on using accelerated reading systems as part of
an authority building strategy, then you will find that many of your
questions can be “recycled.” Try using the questions over and over
again if you are reading similar material on a consistent basis.
















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Preview Your Reading Material
What you are going to do now is to preview the material you want to
read. Remember you can also use this to discard time wasting, reading.

You do this by looking at the title of the book. What does the author
mean? Why did he or she choose that particular title? You have no way
of knowing the answer to these questions yet but you can be curious.
Curiosity is a powerful thing.

Next have a look at the back cover and see if there’s a summary there.
Check out the inside covers and the table of contents and index if there
 is one.
Now flick through the book and check out the chapter headings or titles.
Are there any sub-‐ headings anywhere?

What you are doing is priming your mind for the reading process. Have
you ever wondered why NLP trainers start telling you things and don’t
complete them…There is a very important reason for that and I’ll tell
you the answer to that question very soon, when the time is right.

Now that you have previewed the book you’re going to write down any
questions that you may think of that you’re going to ask the author
about when you interview them later.
Remember that for your unconscious mind whatever you imagine is real
is real. That’s why advertising works.
Make a note of any trigger words that jump off of the page at you as
you flick through the book.

Next I want you to go back through your list of questions with a
highlighter and highlight the ones that stand out.

NB: this whole preview process should take no longer than 15
minutes or you risk reading with your conscious mind.

Remember, the preview process is useful for deciding if what you are
about to read fits your criteria for what you want to learn. You
want to make best use of your precious time.

The Accelerated Reading Process
You are now ready to begin accelerated reading. Before we do, let’s
review the steps you have taken to get this far.

You have learned about how your brain distorts, deletes and generalizes
information. You’ve also learned about the three brains you have in your
head and the billions of connections there are between all the cells in
your body.

You now know about how the two hemispheres of your brain fulfill
different functions and how the way you were taught to read at school
is the slow way. You know that this was because of industrial age
thinking and requirements.

You are now also aware that the world we live in has outgrown that
way of viewing the world.

You now know about the rods and cones in your eyes and that for our
accelerated reading purposes you’re going to be using peripheral vision
to see all four corners of your reading material at the same time. You
may or may not see a blip page. Remember that’s the extra piece that
shows up in the middle of what you’re reading. Here’s another picture
to remind you…

If you can’t see the blip page then you know that as long as you can
see all 4 corners of the open book in front of you that that is good
enough while you are still practising.

You have logical reasons written down as to why it makes sense to learn
what you’re learning.

You have decided who you want to teach what you learn and why that’s
important to them. You’ve considered the social consequences and the
abject embarrassment of not being able to answer questions from friends
 and you’ve written and prioritized the questions you will ask the author.


You are now going to enter into your confident learning state as I
described earlier. And you remember that by confident I mean being
relaxed and comfortable. Not out there or aggressive or needing to show
anyone how good you are. Just like you are when you’re enjoying being
with friends or doing an activity you enjoy.

The next step is the actual reading process
Breaking the spine on the book.
If you are using a paperback to read, it doesn’t matter quite so much.
When you are using hardback books it may be a different matter.

I leave it for you to decide.

Some schools of thought say that in order for you to be able to turn the
pages of the book more easily you need to break the spine of the book.
Personally I don’t like doing this but I’m including this as useful material
anyway.

The way you do this is by opening the book flat and pressing down on
it until the spine breaks. It does allow you to turn pages more easily
but it is entirely your decision.

Please don’t do this to books that are not yours without prior
permission from the owner.



The Reading Process…Whew There At Last

With the book flat on a table or desk in front of you enter into the
visual state for accelerated reading. This means you can either see the
blip page or all 4 corners of the open book.

Remember to fire your relaxation anchor. You want to be in the learning
state. You do this by squeezing together the thumb and forefinger that
you used before to create your anchor.

You may want to adjust the controls on your control panel so you are
really relaxed (remember the knobs and slide controls you set up
earlier).

With your left thumb flick the pages over from right to left.
For maximum effectiveness breathe in time with turning the page. Use
supportive chanting while you do this to keep your conscious mind
distracted and out of the way. So you may say to yourself something
like:
“Learning , 2, 3, 4,
remembering, 5, 6, 7…
easily, 8, 9, 10.”

and then repeating the chant

“Learning, 2, 3, 4,
remembering, 5, 6, 7…
easily, 8, 9, 10.

What you use is up to you. As long you use words that support your
beliefs about your ability to learn easily. Because, in theory at least, you
can learn easily now, can you not.

You are not trying to see the words or read sentences. You are merely
inputting information into your unconscious mind. It will feel foreign and
weird. You may feel like you are kidding yourself. Relax. This is
normal.

Carry on until the end of the book keeping up a smooth rhythm and
using the chanting I told you about earlier.
Accelerated reading requires practice. Just like becoming an Olympic
gold medalist it doesn’t happen overnight. However becoming a
champion reader doesn’t take years. Research shows that most people
need to use the system three to four times to really get the hang of it.

Remember…this is not Olde Worlde Learning.


SO…DO NOT READ….!

This is the hard part of accelerated reading. Breaking old habits about how
we’re “supposed” to read.

SO…DO NOT READ…

Some Questions That You May Want Answered at

This Point


Q: “How do I not read?”

A: Accelerated reading uses a different part of your eye and a different
part of your mind to take in the information. The main thing is to relax
and to trust that you can do things differently. Remember the pointing
exercise? If you haven’t taken part in a live training you can find details
of this in the Resources section at the back of this book. You’ll find it
on page 51.

Q: “If the information is going into my unconscious mind and I’m not
aware of it, how will I get what I’m reading, back out“?

A: I’m glad you asked and I’ll be coming to that shortly in the next
sections…
SLEEP…
Before I do that I want you to know about the next thing you need to
do.

Research has shown you get the best results after you have had a period
of…

SLEEP…
So do your Accelerated Reading just before bed time unless of course
you live in a country that practices the habit of having a midday sleep
or siesta… That’s a bonus.
The idea here is that you let what you have learned incubate. You
should allow a minimum of 20 minutes and ideally overnight. This
allows your mind to work on what you have learned.
Let what you have taken in become integrated into your neural networks.

In the next chapter we’re going to look at information retrieval.

Activating what you have read
Now that you have read your first book using the Accelerated Reading
Strategy you probably want to recall what you have taken in.

There is a method for doing this that has several parts to it.
Each of those parts is there for a reason.

Post Reading What You Have Read
Post reading is similar to the preview exercise that you did earlier on. It
is an easy way to transition into activating the material you have read.

Once again you should write a list of questions that you may have. Your
goal in doing this is to plan your activation of the materials. You should
take between 5-‐ 15 minutes on this and no longer.
Establish the questions you want to have answered by going over the
material and re-‐ establishing what it is that you want to know.

Enquire Within

Because you have switched to using your conscious mind once you stop using your accelerated
Reading
technique it means you have to connect with the information in your unconscious again.

The way to do this is to ask questions. These would include all of the questions you wrote down
earlier about what you’d teach someone else and why you’d teach them that.

There’d be the questions you are going to use to interview the author and also questions for you
about how, where and why the information you have taken in will be useful to you and to other
people in your life.
When you try to access information you have absorbed using this system your conscious mind
will find nothing in your recent memories. As a result of this you may decide that nothing has
gone in and disconnect from the vast database of information in your unconscious mind.

Your questions will maintain and strengthen the connections.

This is why I recommend teaching what you have learned to someone else and also doing an
interview with the author. This can be done via telephone or Skype or you can just record your
questions onto an MP3 recorder or similar. The trick is to actively enquire.

This is the beginning of the activation process and it is essential in

actively getting your brain to work with what it has learned.

Make it important that you discover the answers to your questions as this
heightened need increases information flow.

Remember you “have to” teach your spouse, business partner, children or
best friend what you have learned or you are going to be horribly
embarrassed.
Be confident that the answers will come to you. You can use the
anchoring exercise you learned earlier except that this time you will
anchor that expectancy for things to go your way. Do this by
remembering a time when things went your way. A time when you won
a prize or a contest or just when someone gave you an amazing present
and you felt great. If none of the things I just mentioned have ever
happened to you then imagine what it would be like.

Pretend !!

Your brain cannot tell the difference. Remember, Blue trees and the
lemon exercise.

And remember to relax.

NB: What is important about the teaching and interviewing exercises is
not that they actually happen.
It is important that you BELIEVE it is going to happen. Obviously it is
better if you can set it up so that this does actually occur. And think
about all the value you can add to the lives of colleagues, children,
parents, grandparents and friends.






So here’s another useful twist on this strategy.

If you have a business and you want to create your authority in your
field of expertise what better way than by using YouTube live or a
Webinar to teach your market, bond with them and create market
leadership.
If your time is too important for this then teach your marketing team
how to do this.

Imagine how much more effective you or your organization could be by
using these techniques in your training, with teams and with clients too.

Please turn the page to discover part 2 of the activation process.












Post Reading: 3 ways to do it

1/ Super reading
Once you have finished probing your mind and actively work your way
through the written materials you are going to use a technique called
super reading.
Super reading can best be described as what a superhero does as they
fly high above the earth. Something catches their attention with their
superpower vision. They fly down to earth to discover what is going on
and once they know what it is, they then resume their patrol, way up
high again.
Start by first looking at the text in large blocks and find the places
where the information that you want is.
At this stage you are relying on “intuition” about where the information
is that you seek. Your mind knows it’s in there, it’s just not quite sure
where yet. You are looking for clues about where the information might
be. Chapter headings or paragraph subheadings may indicate where you’ll
find what you’re looking for. Just be curious about where it might be.

2/ Dipping
Now you are going to very rapidly scan down the centre of the pages in
 the sections you have chosen.
When you notice a paragraph or sentence that stands out for you then
“dip” into that part of the page and read what is there. Once you have
got the information you need then return to the high level super reading.

To do this effectively, keep an open gaze and a soft focus. Don’t try too
hard to find specific information.
Your field of vision may seem narrow at first but with practice you will
notice that it will become wider. Simply by being aware of what is at
the sides of your field of vision, you will maintain this soft focus state.

You may be wondering how you’ll know where to dip into the pages. It
is a matter of trusting your intuition and your gut instincts. Simply
follow your hunches here. And relax about justifying your decisions
about where you’ll touch down into the book. Keep it as a fun activity
and simply play with what you are doing.
One of the reasons that children learn so much is that they do it by
playing and NOT TAKING THINGS TOO SERIOUSLY.

Remember: Research shows that you can recall up to 21% more when
you are relaxed. And you do know now, how to go into a relaxed state,
do you not?
Dipping is similar to regular reading. Think of it as reading with an
easy, light movement that is fluid by nature.
It is described by Dr J. Michael Bennett, Professor Emeritus from the
University of Minnesota as “rhythmic perusal”.

He describes the process in his “Four Powers for Greatness Personal
Learning Course.”
• Lock into your mind your purpose and the title or subtitle of what you
are reading.
• Relax your face and eyes and slightly focus in a way that allows you
to move your gaze across the upper half of each sentence.
• Traverse each line in a single, smooth movement
• Look for meaning units such as phrases
• Read for feelings thoughts and ideas not for words

In the Accelerated Reading System each time that you pass over the
 content you increase your familiarity with the content and you build up
your understanding of the author and what they have to say.

As an Accelerated Reading Systems reader you are a super hero on a
mission to improve your own life and the lives of others by rapidly
assimilating knowledge.
Next we are going to examining rapid reviewing through the text.
This is another technique developed by Dr J. Michael Bennett.
When used as an alternative to super reading and dipping it works well.

This is my preferred technique though I would advise you to try out all of these activation
techniques and discover which one works best for you.

Rapid reviewing is a fast and effective alternative to super reading and dipping and is surprisingly
accurate.

3/ Skittering

Rapid reviewing involves moving your eye rapidly across the page and is
based on the idea that only 4-‐ 11 % of the text that you read contains
meaning. Rapid reviewing over all of the text on a page lets your
brain get the meaning of the important information and pass by the rest.


In the following steps where I use the word read I mean use rhythmic
perusal:
• Enter your accelerated reading state
• Clarify your purpose in reading the material
• Read the title subtitles and any preface (if there is a preface)
• Read the first few paragraphs
• Read the first sentence of the paragraph you’re going to be rapid
reviewing
• Move your eyes over all of the words in the paragraph you’re going to
be rapid reviewing except the first and last sentence.
Follow a zig-‐ zag pattern down the page as you rapid review.
It may help if you move your finger down the page in a zig-zag
pattern and let your eyes simply follow the zig-zag your fingers
make.

• If the meaning of the paragraph remains unclear then read the last
sentence. Continue doing this process through each successive paragraph
until you are almost at the end of the material you have selected to
read
• Read the last few paragraphs completely
• Read any summary that may be there
• Review and reflect on what you have learned
• Create a mind map of what you have read to describe what you have
learned.

The final aspects of recalling what you have learned, is to make notes.
You are going to do this by making two types of notes. Each of these
types of notes will connect more easily with each side of your brain.
They are mind maps and bulleted notes.

Creating a Mind Map

Mind maps are a way of connecting ideas together in a way similar to
how your right brain organizes memory. Conventional notes are linear
and often hard to decipher. I will come to these shortly.

A mind map uses colours and imagery and grabs your attention. By
using mind maps you will enhance your levels of recall.
• Start with your core idea in the centre of the map
• Connect to the other ideas using supporting concepts that radiate from
 the centre of the map
• Only use key terms. Express each of these key concepts in three words
or less
• Include visual elements such as images or cartoons or symbols that
have meaning for you
• Add colour

The two best books on Mind Mapping are “The Mind Map Book” by
Tony Buzzan and Mind Mapping by Joyce Woodcroft.
A useful tip when mind mapping is to turn the paper sideways so you
are using it in landscape format and to use a larger sheet of paper than
normal. Use different coloured pens or crayons to make your map
interesting to your brain.
Your mind map will be unique to you because how you process and
interpret information is different to everyone else.
You are a unique human being. There has never been anyone like you
before and there never will be again. What is important is your
experience of life and how that affects you.

Conventional note taking

What is also useful is taking notes in conventional format.
• Keep them short and to the point
• Use short bullets that capture the essence of what you have learned
• They can be the same as your summary topics on your mind map
• They will be useful to your left brain analytic learning
• They can add depth in your understanding

Accelerated Learning System. On this page is an
example of a Mind Map and Bullet Summary



This is a mind map I did on my office whiteboard. Note the bulleted list
in the bottom right hand corner. The start point and flow arrows mean
that it is easy to know where to begin and what to do next.

I would invite you to create your own mind map and bullet points about
what you have learned from this training on the pages at the back of
this book. You can be as detailed as you wish here as it is your
understanding that you are making notes about. Go back through this
book and use what you have learned by using the accelerated reading
system.

NB: I think one of the most important presuppositions (assumptions) of
NLP is that there is no such thing as failure. There is only feedback.

Research from around 2010- clearly states that the more mistakes you
 make, the quicker you will learn so I strongly encourage you to dive in
and play with this stuff.

Draw your own mind map on the Notes pages towards the end of the
book, followed by your bullet points.

Nobody ever won a gold medal by sitting in the stands watching the
action, so get out there on the court and play full out.

The next thing I want to show you are some memory strategies…





















Memory strategies of an Elephant
So why did I use the idea of an elephant here?
There are several reasons, the first of which is that it is said that elephants never
forget which means that elephants are a great metaphor for remembering.
The second reason is that elephants are BIG. We tend to remember things that
loom large in our minds.
Yet another reason is that elephants are reasonably popular, as animals go. Some
people like cats. Other people prefer dogs. Most people like elephants. ( I’m
guessing here but I have yet to hear anyone say “ I can’t stand elephants.” I have
heard lots of folks say they can’t stand cats or dogs)
Your brain is wired to prefer thinking about things in a certain way.
You remember by associating various experiences that you have with different
pieces of data or information. That is why when you want to remember things it
is useful to associate them to various sensory experiences.

Perhaps you could imagine things you want to remember by linking them in
your mind to external events. For instance, when I was growing up I was told
that to remember things I simply had to tie a knot in a handkerchief.
This is an example of a kinaesthetic anchor. You can recall that I spoke about
anchors back in the chapter entitled “The Right State for learning”
Kinaesthetic means a body sensation. Tying a knot in a handkerchief is similar to
using prayer beads or a rosary, as an aide memoir.
There is a famous story from New Zealand in the days of the early settlers and
the first land courts. These courts were set up to settle disputes over who owned
land and to establish evidence to support claims.
In one instance there was a dispute over a piece of coastal land and a member of
the local Maori wanted to establish his claim to the land. He recited the
geneaology of his ancestors over a large number of generations. Right back to
the time the first canoes had landed in New Zealand hundreds of years before.
He recited whole family trees spanning long periods of time, establishing the
relationships between families and individuals and did this without pause or
hesitation for over eight hours.
The court was somewhat skeptical about these claims and told the man to return
the next day which he duly did.
The following day the court told the man that they had ‘mislaid’ the records from
the previous day and could he please submit his evidence again.
The man did so and after two and a half hours the clerk of the court told the
judge that the evidence from the second day matched the previous days
evidence, exactly, word for word. His claim to the land was upheld.
You see the Maori had no written language and kept no records. What this meant
is that they have a very strong oral tradition and great skills in remembering
things through recitation. It is a cultural bias that works very well for them. In
addition the carved staffs are also used as an aide memoir. Basically they form
an anchor to the information in a similar way to rosary beads.
So have a think about the ways that you interpret and access your information.
Because, you do have a written language that you understand. You’re reading
this book aren’t you? Consider the words that you use to process information.
Do you see what I mean ? Or would you prefer to get a feel for things? Maybe
what I’m saying rings a bell for you?
To remember things it is useful to create associations with things, places or
occasions.
Everything that you remember is stored as a multi sensory recording in the
unconscious mind.
The theory used to be that our mind is like a series of filing cabinets with the
older long term memory’s information stored at the back and newer information
in our short term memory at the front.
The reality is that your memory is more like a network of connected information
in different formats. So, some of it may be stored as sound. Some of it may be
stored as images, which may be still or moving, or both. The information can be
stored as remembered body sensations, which is what happens when you say a
rosary. By feeling where you are in the rosary bead sequence it triggers
responses inside of you. It is like an anchor.
When you remember things, your brain begins to follow the network of
connections that make up your memories. The more sensory detail you are asked
to recall and the more varied the senses that you have used to store the
information, the easier it is to remember.
When you want to remember things this is a useful thing to know. I’ll get to that
in a moment.
The thing to bear in mind is that you may need to allow time to get used to
remembering this way, consciously. Your memory is like a muscle that needs
exercise and practice to become strong and reliable. The old adage of use it or
lose it springs to mind…
Here is an exercise you can do on a daily basis to improve your memory…
Step back into a memory from your past that it’s ok to remember. It can be from
your childhood or more recent. As long as you are happy about remembering it
now.
I want you to step into that memory as if you are seeing it through your own
eyes, as if you are actually back at that time, right now. Now, notice whether the
first thing you are aware of about the memory is a sensation, a sound or an
image, a taste or a smell.
Whichever one it may be, describe it aloud while focusing on the sense in which
you have the strongest memory.
Once you have done that repeat the process using one of the other senses. Sight,
touch, taste smell and sound.
This will strengthen your networks in your brain and you will be more able to
remember things. You will also begin to create strong associations in your mind
between the various senses.
There are five ways that you can strengthen these associations even more. They
are exaggeration, movement, bizarre humour, sexual imagery and synaesthesia.
Synaesthesia is a natural function of your brain where you receive a multi
sensory experience of something. When I ask you about your preferred way of
receiving information I am taking you through a process to make the information
more memorable.
Imagine that you are at home in your lounge riding a hippopotamus. The
hippopotamus is pink and in need of a wash. It stinks so you get down off of it
and lead it into the bathroom. You start to wash each other with soap.
Outside of the bathroom you can hear Gollum from the lord of the rings talking
about his “precious.”
You ask Gollum to be quiet and notice he is seated in a beautiful garden filled
with spring blossoms, stroking a unicorn. He is stroking the unicorn with a
bunch of carrots where his fingers should be.
Now without looking…
* What was the animal you were riding ?
* What did you do after you got off ?
* Who was talking outside ?
* Where was he sitting ?
* What did he have instead of fingers ?
The odds are that you knew the answers to the question without looking.
However, if I had asked you to remember the words, hippopotamus, washing,
Gollum, garden and carrots you would have found it more challenging.

How to remember just about anything
This method is said to have been devised in Greece in the 5th century BC so it’s
nothing new. After the collapse of a building at which there had been a feast
going on, a Poet named Sionides of Ceos found he could remember every one of
the guests who had been there simply by recalling where they had been seated.
He observed that to recall who had been there he only had to remember where
they had been seated. Notice that I repeated that because repetition is a great way
to enhance your memory.
This is why I also have encouraged you throughout this book to try out what you
are learning. I am going to reveal a shocking statistic shortly that can be useful to
you if you act on this insider information…
For now though, back to ancient Greece…
From this he developed a technique which is in use today that is called building
“Memory Palaces.”
It works by remembering in vivid detail the layout of a location that you know
really well. For example where you work or where you live or maybe even a
location on a TV show that you know well, perhaps. Once you have this you can
then associate lists of names, dates or anything else to what you are already
familiar with.
To build your very own memory palace, I’d like you to pretend or imagine you
are giving a tour of your home to a very important guest. Perhaps a star you
admire.
Where is the first place you’d take them? And the next place? And next? And
next? Make sure you have a minimum of five places and the order that you are
going to show them in.
NB: Your memory palace doesn’t have to have five different rooms. It could be
five places in the same room. So if you were using your lounge room you could
use the sofa, the coffee table, the foot stool, the top of the TV and the book case.
Once you have your five locations you are going to practice . So here are five
random items.
A hair drier, a cooking pot and a smart phone, a bag of peaches and the President
of the USA. I want you to create an associational link between each item and
the first five locations in your memory palace. Remember to make these
associations exaggerated, moving, sexually bizarre, humorous and multi sensory
and place JUST ONE item in each location.
When you think you can recall them then write them down. (Try writing them
down in reverse order if it seems too easy)
Practise this strategy and it will get easier and you will become quicker. If you
need to remember longer lists simply increase the size of your memory palace.
This is the way that memory champions remember long lists of names, to do lists
and phone numbers. The only limit on this strategy is the number and size of
these memory palaces that you create.
Remember you can use any space with which you are familiar to create a
memory palace including your garden, the shopping mall or a public park.

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Research carried out by NLP trainer Gemma Bayley, in the UK, shows
that 93% of people who go on an NLP training do not use the skills
they learned, six months after the completion of that training.

NLP trainer Dr Richard Bolstad says that, in his over 20 years of
experience as an NLP trainer and a psychotherapist, the reason people do
not achieve their goals has nothing to do with intelligence or ability.
What he says causes lack of action is lack of clear compelling goals.

In my experience of working with people since 1992 I have found it
goes even deeper than that. It’s a matter of motivation… or a lack of it
to be more specific.

So, because you have invested time, energy and money in reading this
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techniques in every area of your life where you want to be motivated.
So here’s your strategy for getting the maximum bang for your buck.

Just like when you were programming your brain for the maximum
reasons to learn using the accelerated learning system, you’re now going
to program your life. You’re going to program your life to do what you
know you should be doing but either just can’t get around to or find
that it’s not actually important enough to do that right now.

There are six main things that motivate people to do things.

They are:

1. Love & connection with others
2. Significance and success
3. Contribution to the lives of others
4. Uncertainty / variety / freedom
5. Certainty and predictability
6. Personal growth and striving for improvement

By being able to identify which of these is most important to you, you
 can then use this information to motivate yourself to achieve your goals.


Let’s examine each of the items on the list above, so that you’re 100%
clear on what each of them means.
Later on I will teach you an NLP goal setting strategy.

Motivator 1/ Love and connection with others..
This motivator relates to what inspired Mother Teresa of Calcutta to work in the slums for decades,
with the poor people of that Indian city.

Motivator 2/ Significance and success
relates to what has been called raw ambition. It is a burning desire to
win at all costs. Sometimes this particular motivator may cause people
to do calculated and mercenary things in order to achieve their goals.
This was the trait that drove the character Gordon Gecko in the movie
“Wall Street”. This trait is also found in successful athletes and sports
people amongst others. This particular success motivator can be summed
up as the desire to win.

Motivator 3/ Contribution to the lives of others.
This is the motivator for teachers and coaches, therapists, and those in
the “caring professions”. This is an important trait to develop anyway as
caring for those in your life, is a valuable approach to adopt. It is
driven by a need to create a better and happier world for everyone.

Motivator 4/ Uncertainty / variety/ freedom.
The uncertainty motivator relates to having variation in your daily life. If
you thought that every day was going to be the same you’d get bored
pretty quickly. (Or perhaps not…) So this is the area of the motivation
spectrum where entrepreneurs flourish. New ideas and big horizons are the
key points here. Change is important here because it stimulates the mind
and bodies of those who have these drivers.
Motivator 5/ Certainty and predictability. Despite wanting change we all
need some things in our lives to be predictable. Survival basics like
food, water, shelter and relationships are important to most people
because without having these basic needs taken care of, our attention and
 focus is on pure survival. This level of survival does not lend itself to
growth or expansion but it is necessary nonetheless.

Motivator 6/ Personal growth and striving for improvement. This
motivator requires that Item 5 has been fulfilled first as this refers to
internal
psychological and emotional growth as well as intellectual learning.

To be able to utilize these drivers or motivators requires you to be able
to be aware of your state at any time. Because we are human and
subject to external influences we are also not always consistently
motivated. This is completely natural and if it were otherwise we would
not be human.

Spend some time now working out which of these drivers motivates you
most and then decide how you can use it for your learning.

It is important that we can access these states of motivation relatively

easily if we are to achieve our goals. This is where state management
comes in. I talk about this in the next chapter.

What is a state?

State in NLP terms, is the combination of all of your physical and your
 emotional and mental way of being, your level of energy and the whole
quality of your existence at any moment. You are always in a state !
Triggers
Your state changes based on external stimulus or triggers as we call them in
NLP, which may be either positive or negative. Certain music may remind
you of a time in the past , the taste of popcorn reminds you of times
when you were at a fair or a circus. The smell of antiseptic as you
pass the dentist reminds you of other experiences which may not be as
positive.

Learning states

Certain states will make learning easier for you.. What state is an optimal
learning state for you? How well you learn depends very much on the
state you are in at the time. For example being in a state of relaxed,
curious experimentation is generally a good way to learn more easily.

Research shows that by being happy and relaxed you will recall up to
21% more with standard learning techniques.
When you are teaching others the state you are in will influence how
easily those that you are teaching, will learn. So if you would like them
to be curious, get curious, if you want to get them enthusiastic, become
enthusiastic yourself. States are contagious!

The best state for learning depends on what you want to learn.
Remember that there are an infinite number of States you can design for
yourself and create an anchor for.

How NLP can be used to change your state

Here are some other ways you can alter your state
Well, one way is to change your physiology or body position.
For example to be in the state called depressed you need to go into the
body position for feeling depressed. You will very probably be looking
down, going into feelings and talking negatively to yourself.

To go into the state where being depressed cannot happen, stand up
straight and look up, you will experience a state change. If you curl the
corners of your mouth up towards the ceiling in what we humans call a
smile you will find it is impossible to do “depressed”

As you learned earlier certain triggers (called 'Anchors' in NLP) change
your state. e.g. put on a piece of music with particular connotations for
you, smell a flower, stroke your cat, whistle a certain tune.
Things to begin to notice or try

Begin to be more aware of your own state. Which states do you go

into most frequently and easily? Happy, sad, excited, sleepy, energised,
relaxed, tense, curious, disapproving, flowing, depressed, joyful? And
what do they feel like? What do you notice in your body for each state?


Make a conscious decision to access positive states more frequently.
Spend time remembering your good times in as much detail as you can.
Take note especially of the physiology and feeling of those good states.
For example, when you were sitting contentedly looking at the sea on a
summer day, how were you sitting? How was your breathing? How
bright was the picture? What were the sounds you heard? What
sensation did you have in your body? How did you feel?

Next time you feel anxious or tense, remember that good time, and
re-‐ enter the state of being you had at that time.

This is definitely a skill that gets easier with practice. Stay curious...
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NLP Goal setting using the Specify Model

One of the things that successful people do is the set goals. You are
about to discover the NLP goal setting method that I use to set goals.
This was developed by Dr Richard Bolstad and Margot Hamblett. It uses
an acronym which is a way of remembering things. The acronym is
SPECIFY. Specify stands for

S = Sensory specific. What will you see, feel and hear when you have
your goal. How will you know you have it and when will that happen?

P = positively stated. Just like with the blue tree your brain doesn’t
process negative words like don’t, can’t, won’t, shouldn’t or not. That’s
why when I say don’t think of a blue tree your brain has to imagine a
blue tree first so that you know what to think of.
So do think of what you want instead of what you don’t want.

E = ecological. Ecology is the study of consequences. What areas of
your life will getting this goal have an effect on. What areas don’t you
want to be affected? Which areas do you want to be changed ?
Consider all of these aspects and adjust your goals to suit.
C = Choice increasing. In NLP we believe that it is better to change behaviours through
increasing options or choices for people, rather than reducing their options. My increasing and
improving the quality of choices that people have, makes a much richer experience of life
available to them.

I = Initiated by self. This is where you actually take the actions to get the results that you
want. This part of SPECIFY says that you are responsible for the results you get and also the
results you don’t get.

F = First step identified so what is the first thing you have to do to get your goal? It
may be as simple as working out in detail what you want or simply taking advice from
someone who is expert at what you want to achieve.

Y = Your resources Identified Now your resources include time, money, people and
equipment. Your resources also include what you found in the pointing exercise. The way that
you use your brain to imagine your future and what it is to point further. This is your inner
resources and they are every bit as important as any physical or financial resource you can
imagine. Think about that
I would encourage you to go through the specify model again and work out what your goals are for this
book. Your reasons for reading it may have changed. You may want to discover more about how your mind
works and how you can use it more effectively to get better results in all sorts of areas.
Whatever your reason is, set your goals and then go back through the material and USE it.
Using what you learn, taking action and practicing are all key ingredients in becoming excellent at what you
do and what you want to do.
From here I can only suggest that you either subscribe to my newsletter which I publish once a week(ish)
and give you lots more tips and tricks to improve your brain. And here’s the final point for this book.
Your brain works perfectly. It has done since before you were born. It does exactly what you ask it to.
Maybe you can assist it to do more of the things you really want it to
Check out this last section. You may find it useful….

Create A Learning Culture

I could talk about the factors involved in accelerated learning all day. In fact I
frequently do.
This part of the book is all about culture and some useful ways to create a
learning culture for you and those that you value..
I define a culture as a set of agreed upon beliefs that result in certain accepted
and expected behaviours. Some of these beliefs and behaviours are useful for
learning and others are less than useful.
The impact of the views of parents on a child’s beliefs, affect that child for life
and into adulthood. Labels can have devastating effects on self esteem and
confidence for children. These effects carry through into adult life and it can
translate into “anti-social behaviour “ along with a lifetime of unrealized
potential and untapped resources for the community and the individual.
Cultural influences such as valuing learning and the types of learning that are
valued have an impact on your beliefs about what is appropriate for you to learn.
These cultural beliefs will affect your ability to assimilate new learnings.
To optimize your ability to learn more easily may I suggest that you hang out in
a culture where people value, education. Where people believe in you and know
that there is no such thing as failure. There is only feedback.
Where learning by experimentation is acceptable because we are all different.
Every single person on the planet is unique and has unique experiences. There
has never ever been anyone like you before and there will never be anyone like
you again. Celebrate that and discover what your preferred learning style is.
One size does not fit all.
The culture around learning is the subject of a book in itself, which I will write
one day. For now, simply realize that research shows you can learn how to do
and be anything you want if you apply what you learn from experts in that field.

Oh,… and REMEMBER that having FUN increases your ability to learn.

I have had fun writing this book and knowing about why NLP trainers never
finish stories.


Or do they…?


Go to the next chapter to find out…














Why NLP Trainers Start Stories and Don’t Finish
Them
… before I go I do want to tell you why NLP trainers don’t finish
stories.

There is a part of our behaviour that needs to have things completed.
Robert Cialdini writes about this in his book “Influence. The Psychology
of Persuasion”. He describes how waiters and waitresses can remember
details of an order until the time that the order is served to the diner.
This is known as the Zeigarnik effect.

Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik found in 1927
that waiters remembered orders only as long as the
order was in the process of being served. When we are
holding things in our short term memory, we have to
rehearse them otherwise they disappear, like a light
going out. This requires cognitive effort, and the more
things we are rehearsing the more effort. The waiter's
trick is thus to keep spinning the plates of the open
orders whilst letting those which are completed fall. A
similar effect also happens over a longer period as we
worry about those things in which we have not
achieved closure. Thus I might keep thinking about a
problem at work over a whole weekend as it keeps
coming back to haunt me.
Because of this need for completion your brain
remains curious and receptive
By starting to tell you a story early in the training, your mind was still
listening for the ending, even though you weren’t aware of it and so
unconsciously you were paying more attention.

And now you know that this book has been completed for you. This
means that now is a really good time to go through this book and use
what you just learned so that you will know this system even better and
you can strengthen your gold medal muscles.

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Summary and Closing Thoughts

You have come a long way today in terms of learning about how you
can put your new skills to use in so many areas of your life. Never
again do you need to feel unable to help your children or grandchildren
with their home work or any learning tasks.
You can easily become an authority on any topic over a weekend or an
evening if you want to apply yourself. You can absorb large quantities
of information about your business or the business of clients.

The uses of these skills are too numerous to mention here. I personally
use them to learn training materials, study markets and macro economic
trends as well as to teach to my clients and students.

There is so much more to NLP than Accelerated Reading Systems. NLP
is about taking charge of your emotional, intellectual and physical state.

There is more to accelerated learning too. There are other systems that
deal with spelling strategies that we have morphed into new ways to
learn foreign languages.
You have a unique and amazing mind. There are two things, though,
that may stop you developing its full potential.
1. Limiting beliefs about what you in particular are capable of. Remember the blue trees and the
pointing exercise
And

2. The simple fact is that both NLP and speed learning

DO NOT WORK !!
…until you work. I wish you success and much fun with your
learning. If I can be of any further assistance please contact me.
Mike Noone

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Recommended Further Reading
 Accelerated Learning By Colin Rose
* Mind Maps By Tony Buzan

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