Howard Berg - Meet The World's Fastest Reader

As a child Howard grew up on the wrong side of town. Staying safe meant spending time in libraries and museums, from here came a love of learning.

Who knew that small 6 year old would grow to be the world leading (official its in the Guinness World of Records) speed reader and learner.

In this podcast we discover the man behind the talent and he share his top tips to get you started on your own journey of learning, and most importantly retaining the information.

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Episode Transcript

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Hi there. My name is JiellTiny. I'm from Collaboration Global and this
is our podcast, Being Human HiddenDepths. I'm going to be interviewing some
of our members from Collaboration Global,and they're going to be sharing with you
their extraordinary lives. Although they wouldprobably believe they're just normal, everyday,
average humans, but they are extraordinary. But like you and me, we

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all have our story to tell.We've all been through difficult times and we've
come out at the other end havinglearned an extraordinary amount about ourselves that we
can share with others. So Ithink you'll find lots of things that will
resonate with where you've been in ourjourney as world. I look forward to
seeing you on the other side.Hi there, to the Being Human Hidden

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Depths podcast by Collaboration Global. Myname is Jill Tiny, and I am
flexing my learning skills today because Iknow that we are going to learn an
awful lot from this gentleman that wehave on the podcast today, one of
our newer members, mister Howard Berg. Howard, thank you for coming along
to the podcast. Oh, thankyou for having me. You're very welcome,

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as people can tell from the accentwe're not in the same room because
we're different sides of the pond.Howard originated from New York, as they
say, But I've just found out, as slightly jealous, that Howard is
now in Florida. That was kissingme was the name of the place I

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was trying to think of earlier,Howard kissing me old Town. That was
good fun. So in sunny Floridawith your lovely polo shirt ons you're fully
off to play a game of golflater. I'm just building the picture in
my mind. I want to takeyou on a little journey, Howard,
to when you were younger. I'dheard this story on some of the other
playnosis my eyes, I look intomy eyes? Can you that's interesting?

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Can you hypnotize somebody through zoom whenyou're not? I guess you can probably.
Can I take you back to earlydays? This is one of the
questions I've stolen from Simon sin idyou to describe is one of your memories?

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And I know growing up in NewYork wasn't the happiest of times because
of the situation of what it wasat that time, But what was one
of your happiest memories when you weresay six or seven. What do you
what comes flooding back to you whenI ask you to recall a happy memory.
Actually I do have one. Ilived across the street from the Brooklyn
Children's Museum, which was a sciencemuseum, and when I was five,

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I was a twelve guy. Unofficially, you couldn't do that today. Back
then it was like be home forsupper, you know, and you just
left. If you did that today, you go to jail. But I
go to the museum and I pickrandom people to ask if they wanted me
to tour them around the museum.Again today that would be like, what

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are you kidding me? But Idid, and I showed them all the
science and one of the rooms wasthe Leonardo da Vinci room. It was
one of my early idols of daVinci, Einstein. Those are my Everyone
else was interested in Mickey Mantle andI was looking at da Vinci and Einstein
and they didn't allow kids in thatroom, but they let me in because

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I was a tour guide and theyhad a astronomy. They had a planetarium
in one of the buildings, andI went every Saturday. Again, they
didn't let young people, but theylet me in and after about three or
four months, I knew all theshows and I was helping do the planetary

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and I was about five or six, and I remember that a lot.
And I remember once I was likefive, I discovered the phases of the
Moon. I thought it was amajor discovery. And I was like,
did you know the moon changes?It's not the same. I didn't realize
anyone else was aware of it,but I was five years old. So
they showed me a model of theMoon and the Earth and the Sun and

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showed me how the phases were,and that was really And I also got
to see Edison's original phonograph. Theyhad one with the wax cylinder. The
mary had a little lamb on it. So those were that's And they had
a library where I spent a lotof time learning to read. So that
was really my happy place. TheScience Museum. Oh gosh. That So

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were you considered a bit of agenius back in those days? Were you
like an extraordinary child that wanted tolearn? Or what were things similar considered
a child? So that that hasmy problem was I probably at the intellect

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of an adult when I was seven, and the emotions of a three year
old, so there was a balancethere. I had no social skills because
I was kid, so it wasawkward, you know, because I understood
things my parents couldn't even begin.I studied there a year relativity where I
was eight, and I had someideas about it. And when I was

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in the Alabama is at the StrategicDefense Command, the people doing Star Wars,
and they're physicists, and I said, I had some ideas when I
was little, and I never hadan opportunity to ask anyone if there's any
validity to them. So I wentthrough my ideas and they looked at me
and said, five of your ideaswere Nobel prizes, but you have to

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actually prove it get a Nobel price. You can't just have a good idea.
They actually want you to do somethingwith it to show it's right.
But you know, five years old, they didn't have much of a lab
and but it made me feel goodthat, you know, at least my
mind was in the right place,that I was thinking differently. And of

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course when I talk about with kidsmy age, they thought I was nts
which helped social life at all becausethey didn't understand what I was saying.
I was talking about the multiverse andthings like you know, black holes and
ultimate time in different frames of referenceand things like which a lot of people

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are known now, but you know, we're took in nineteen fifty seven,
ninety yay, and most weren't reallyin sync with that. So it was
awkward because I didn't have a lotof people to talk to my own age
that I could relate to because wehad I had different a different mindset then

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they did. They were like,you know, who won the World Series
and who cares? Who cares aboutsomeone hitting a ball with a piece of
wood, it says, is itbeen more interesting to talk about the nature
of reality and consciousness and why arewe here? And what's the meaning of
life? And yeah, there purposeto any of this. And I actually

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found the answers to those questions whenI was older, so I actually can't
answer them now. But it tooka long time. So nowadays, if
we had a child of that agesix or seven having those kind of conversations,
we'd be going new O diverse.There's other things going on here,

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and we would have been looking atit in a different way. But like
you say, back in the fiftiesand sixties, it was like, oh,
trouble maker, go and see youin the projects of Brooklyn. You
get beat up pretty much. Imean, I've been robbed over a hundred
times. I had nice in mythroat, and I get hit with baseball
bats. My dad was pistol whip. I put it in perspective. We

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moved when they raped an eighty eightyear old man. So it was not
a comfortable place to grow up,especially if your mind was in that space.
That wasn't where people were communicating,but it was more like the Jets
and the Sharks from West Side Story. I met Bernardo. He had a
knife and it wasn't dancing or smiling. Oh but no, I cannot imagine

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what that must have been like.I mean, I grew up in the
East End of London, so wehave some commonalities there, but I don't.
I mean, until I was aboutsixteen, I didn't come across anything
like that. I was in sortof a Pollyanna fairytale land where everything everyone
loved everybody and it was great.Right. No, in reality, that's
not the case, because the CrayTwins didn't live too far away from us

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and the rest of the gangs thatwere around in eastern of London in the
sixties, but I was oblivious tothat, thank goodness. One of my
neighbor's hobbies was killing people. Hewould drive around the neighborhood and shoot people
at random because he enjoyed it.So, I mean that gives you an
idea of where I grew up in. It was. It was like a

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war zone. Eat out the wars. So I got beat up by the
police. Oh myness. Yeah.They said I was the head of a
Puerto Rican street gang. I said, I'm not Puerto Rican and I'm not
in the gang. But they wantedme to tell them who was in the
gang, and obviously I didn't know. So the cops started punching and kicking
me because I wasn't cooperating and I'mlike, who do I call the police?

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Oh? The police are beating meup. Wow, fourteen years old
and they were just punching and kickingme for no reason. And I mean,
that's just you know, it's nota great way to grow up when
even the police are gonna assault you. It gives it gives a bit of
perspective that this police culture, damagedculture has been around for such a long

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time. You always get the illusionfrom a distance that it's only recently,
or it's only these things. It'sbeen going on for a long long time,
isn't it. Yeah. Well,fortunately what it did is it helped
me become develop a superpower. Becausethe safest place in my neighborhood was the
library. No gang kid would evergo to the library for any reason whatsoever.

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So I went a lot. AndI had college reading when I was
eleven, and I was reading threethousand words a minute before I learned to
read fast. That was my baseline, with enormous two hundred words a minute,
so I was fifteen times faster thannormal before I learned how to go

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quicker. So you had to kindof suss that, oh, not everybody
can read this fast, so howcome I can read this fast? And
then you had to go back andwork out. People would stare at me
because my top speed I'd go pageand a half a second, and people
say, you're not reading, andI was learning it. I did a
four year psych program in one yearin college I made I went to college

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when I was seventeen. I majoredin biology, and in my second half
of my junior year, I getinterested in psycho biology. You're not psychotic
biology. That's Frankenstein. Psycho Biologyis the biology of behavior. And the
dean said, well, you haven'thad any courses in psychology. You only
have one year left. You'll haveto do a four year program in one

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year and finish the bio program atthe same time. Is you have to
take six science courses, two fourhour labs. And I had three jobs.
I was working eighteen hours a weekat different jobs on campus. And
he said, you're not smart enough. Never taught me how to learn.
In school, they tell you whatto learn, why to learn, what

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will happen when you don't learn,but not how. You hear a song
on the radio once you never forgetit. You read the seven Habits of
highly affected people, and you don'tknow any habits the next day. Eavy
Way learned things that matter the wayyou learn songs. So I got up
kat pages a minute. I didthe psyche program in one year. I

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took the graduate record exam, whichis I get sat for graduate school in
biology. So I reviewed forty eightbooks in three nights, like biochemistry,
genetics, self physiology. I gotthree questions wrong. So I was in
the ninety ninth percentage. I gotan eight hundred. So it's not just
that you're reading quickly, but you'relearning at a very high level an extremely

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technical material. And then I waslike, can I teach this? They
had a school and had eleven yearolds in college getting a's and a week
consistently. I trained the US SpecialForces at Fort Bragg the Royal TWI Army
in Bangkok. I did a doubleblind study and found the average personally could

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go one hundred to four hundred percentfaster than four hours with very good comprehension.
And that's what I've been doing,is teaching these different learning skills like
writing my last book, I wrotein the five hours, and then I
made a program and how to writea book in a day, which anyone
could do. It's really that hard. It's like anything else. If you

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have a system, yeah that works, and you learn that, you just
replicate the system, it's going togive you the same outcome. So that's
basically what I've been doing. Thisis what I love is that you have
discovered this ability through necessity because ofwhere you grew up, how you discovered
learning in the first place, andthen working out how to replicate it.

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For other people. I remember goingback away when I was doing my teacher
training. One of the sessions thatwas a real mind opener for me.
Eye opener, a mind o'tener,because we've all given a power to read.
So just read it to yourself,just read the paragraph. So I'm
trying to read it through and satback and wait for everyone else to catch
up. Okay, it's fair enoughthat they're reading. Maybe they'll understanding.

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Maybe I need to understand it better. But this needs to be a bit
more complicated. I need to readthis again in case I've misread what I
thought. I no, No,I got it. It's okay. So
he then said, right now,I want you to read it, and
I want you to understand how you'rereading it. I want, he said,
what I want to find out ishow you're reading it. Are you
reading it and hearing the author speak? Are you reading it and hearing yourself

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speak? Are you reading it andseeing images? Are you reading it and
hearing cells and all these different ways. There were about fifteen people in the
room. We all read it again, and I thought everybody could hear the
author reading it to me, whichis how I retain it because if they're
saying something interesting to me, itstays put. And that's how I can
read quite quickly because I can skipthe bits when people are boring. It's

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like, come on, get tothe point, get to the point what
you're saying. Yeah, okay,got it. But every single person,
this is what was with Every singleperson had read and understood that paragraph in
a different way. There wasn't twopeople that had the same way of absorbing
that information interesting I was. Ijust I just assumed like most people do.

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But everyone does it the same asme. And so what I love
about what you're doing there, Howard, is that you are taking people to
go, hey, do it thisway because that's the way you've always done
it. But I can do itbetter for you. I can help you
to do it even faster. Andspeed isn't always the optimum thing. Because
for me to open a book andto read that page, whether it's fiction,

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non fiction, whatever, that's ajoy. If I lose a day
in that joy, I'm very happy. If I absorb it so that my
whole being is in that book,that's good. I wouldn't want to do
it in ten minutes because I've missedout on the absorption of that book,
although you'd probably tell me i'd stillget that information. But time is sure
and time precious, so to beable to do it, and I've seen

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you do it when you read abook, Please can you demonstrate. I
know it's not great for podcast basicallyto page you and a half a second,
and there's hundreds of videos on YouTubewith me doing it. It can't.
I can't hold the book up tothe camera and show it to you
because I need my hands free.But you're correct, comprehension is more important

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than speed. Nobody really wants toread faster, they want to learn faster.
So there's like three big problems thatI identified. This is in almost
everything people are doing that involves teachingor creating a program or writing a book.
And I'll go through the three things. The first one is the language
itself. Are they communicating to theaudience and using verbiage that is on their

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reading level and they're understanding their worldviewrather than the writer. So you're an
expert and they are. And ifyou're using words in terms that aren't in
their vocabulary, they're not teaching themanything. You're just showing them you know
a lot of words. They neverheard of before. Then college is a
lot like that, where they throwa lot of words at you that nobody

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has a clue what they're telling youexcept the person talking. And that's poor
teaching because you don't have any comprehensionof what they're telling you. They think,
look how smart I am. Whatthey're really saying is I don't care
whether you learn this or not.And then the second floor is, well,
they remember it when they need touse it. So we often write

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books or create programs, But whatare you doing to make it memorable so
they can be called and use itwhen they need it? So good examples
when people tell you something and whenyou get home you don't remember what they
told you and it doesn't work,And what makes you think it's any different
when you teach or tell someone something. If you don't tell them how to

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retain it and we call it later, then the information will disappear just like
it did. And the last oneis emotional intelligence. If you're in the
wrong state, even with the rightinformation, you won't perform very well.
So if I teach you to driveand you're ready for your road test and
you failed the test, to say, why did you fail? I got

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nervous it was a test. Whatif I didn't just teach driving, but
how to stay calm during the test, or for someone learning how to stay
calm during an exam or how todo public speaking without getting tense or nervous,
the performance would go up. Andso a lot of the problems people
are having with programs and teaching isthey're in the wrong frame of mind to

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properly use the information. And youneed to know what frame they need to
be in and how to create itand how to eliminate frames that like anxiety
that can interfere with performance. Andthose are some of the things they do,
and I could demonstrate some of themtoday as we go along. So
I want to say what you needto do, but kind of give you

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something more concrete to go with.Well that's lovely, isn't it, Because
there'll be people that are listening tothis that we think, well, okay,
where do I start? How doI begin? What's the first thing?
You know? And it's just understandingthat you want to take that information
on board. And I think whatyou just said, I hadn't kind of
acknowledged that in my head before Iassumed it was a doing thing. But
emotional intelligence is about a being,isn't it an understanding that you know you've

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got to be in the right stateof mind. So, for example,
I'm going to be doing a TEDtalk soon TED X, and we've been
deciding on what order to go inthe people that are doing the talks,
and most people are all, letme go first and get it over and
done with, and I'm like,no, I want to go last.
So people aren't going to forget whatI say. They're not going to have

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to think about all the others canbe forgotten. I don't mind, but
they're going to remember what I haveto say. So so I know that
I'm not going to get nervous beforethat because what I've got to say is
bigger than me, so it's tooimportant for me to mess it up.
And it's something that is like outthere for me to do and I'm just
a vehicle to do it. SoI know I'm not going to get nervous,

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so I can be lost. It'snot a problem. But there are
so many people that make the assumption, oh, I'm going to be so
nervous. But as you say,if you have the emotional intelligence, you
can choose. You can make thosechoices. So how would you say if
somebody's going to do a talk now, that would be a great tip for
us. Now somebody's going to doa talk and not be nervous. What
would be your advice. Well,there's a few things for me. When

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I'm talking. We're talking now.We talk all day. We talk to
people everywhere we go. Just imagineyou're carrying a normal conversation with another person
who's interested in what you have tosay, and there's nothing different about it
is it's a few more people listening. It's no big deal a camera.

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So why you know the conversation isthe conversation. Don't think of it as
being anything other than what you normallywould do. And if you focus on
just talking, saying what's on yourmind, then you're right. I was
just gonna say one thing about EQ. That's why the military had me,
because if they're getting shot at andthey've been up the four days with no

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sleep, if they don't remember theirtraining, then you get killed. So
keeping them in a positive state withno sleep so they can remember their training
is critical. With us. It'slike you had a bad day with them,
they go home in a body bag, so it was even more urgent
to show them how to create states. In fact, I could show you

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how to do that if you'd like. Absolutely, yes, So the state
our teachers what I taught them howto wake up? Okay, a lot
of us will take a long examand then you get tired and it's like
I just want to go home now. Lots very true. Many students taking

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their SATs or one of those tests. It's like, I don't care anymore,
I just want to go home.And another problem is maybe you work
days and you go into classes atnight for a degree, and you're tired,
and the teacher's worrying as hell,and you find yourself falling asleep because
one you don't care what they're teachingyou, and two they teach very poorly,

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and you're falling asleep. So howdo you wake up? So it's
important. So I'm going to showyou. You know, the left side
of the brain controls the right andthe right the laugh. So I want
you to do this with me.Now. Ideally you should stand, but
we have microphones, so if westand up, one people will look at
our navels, and two you won'tbe able to hear us because the microphones

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will be too far away. Butfor those watching stand up, it's better.
Yeah, your left hand and touchyour right shoulder. You could do
that city and take your right hand, touch your left shower all tonate.
So it's not just the macarina withoutmusic. It's a brain massage because you're
using one side and then the other. Now the same motion, but left

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hand to right knee and if you'restanding your nemos and right hand the left
knee, both sides of your brainer engage and raise your make a fist
with your thumb and your fists likethis, and say, just like you
mean it, I feel great,like you mean it. I feel great.

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Oh, I feel great. Ifeel great. Yes, with passion,
you know I feel great. That'show you feel great. We're gonna
do three sense of these at myspeed, starting slow ready one two three
four five six. Knees one twothree four five six. How do you

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feel? I feel great? Ray? Yes, faster ready one two three
four five six. One two threefour five six. How do you feel?
I feel great? Yes, nowas fast as you can ready.
What two three four five six Whattwo three four five six. How do

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you do? Great? Yes,Now you know what happens with three times?
Yeah? Nothing. Now you probablywould like something, so let me
show you how to make that happen. Remember with Pavlove rang the bell,
he fed the dog, he rangthe bell. Have a rotary president,
so that's the rotary bell. Herang the bell, he fed the dog.

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Eventually he rang the bell. Thedog drooled. Well, you don't
want to drool, but you dowant to feel great. The latest habits
study show takes ninety days the formerhabit. So every day for ninety days,
you do slow, medium, fast, and you know, I feel
great. Yes at the end.Now you're in an important meeting, but

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taking a boring test. You don'twant to stand up and start tapping your
shoulders. People think something's very wrong. You grab your thumb and you say
to yourself, I feel great.Yes, that's your bell. Did it?
You woke up? But you steal. You laid the left the right
both together, and now I feelgreat. Yes, you'll go into the

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state, which is why it's soimportant to feel it. I was on
a show. It was the longestrunning show in history, Joe Franklin fifty
years, one person, and Iwas on the last three weeks, and
I said, what's your secret?How did you manage to get the longest
running show in history. It's agood question. And he smiled and he
said, sincerity. And when youcan fake that, you can do anything.

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No one can fake sincerity for fiftyyears, no one. No one's
that good. So what he's reallysaying is you got to believe what you're
doing. And if you don't believe, you feel great. Then when you
trigger it, you feel the samenothing you felt when you were doing the
exercise. So this is one thing. You could do it to relax,

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you could do it to be creative. You could do it all these different
states that are positive states that canhelp us succeed in our businesses and our
lives. We can create the stateahead of time, create an acre.
That's what this is. That representsthe trigger for the state, and we

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could trigger that state. So ifyou're getting nervous speaking on stage, this
is what you were talking about,you could trigger the relaxation response. You're
getting nervous taking a test, youcould trigger the relaxation. So you're getting
nervous getting shot at, you cantrigger the relaxation. She responds. If
you get it too tired to triggerthe alert this response. These are all

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different states, and people need tostart thinking about when I'm teaching something,
what's the state we want the personto be in to accomplish this successfully,
and one am I doing to generatethat state consistently so that they're actually in
a state they need to succeeds.That's perfect because you've just given us different

(27:33):
illustrations of how that can be utilized. And it takes me back to that
Ted talk by Amy Cuddy. Idon't know if you've come across Amy,
a very intelligent child who then hadan accident and had a brain problem and
she had to learn to learn allover again where it didn't come naturally to
her as it had as a child. And so eventually she got to university,

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which was she never thought she'd beable to be there, but she
felt like she was an impostor becauseshe wasn't as good as she used to
be, and the teacher had tokind of give her a talking to.
But she realized that her physiology ofher body could trick her brain into thinking
that she was as good as sheneeded to be. So she talks about

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the power post. She said,and you just before you need it.
You go off somewhere, whether it'sa job interview or whether it's you know,
an exam or whatever, and juststrike the power pose. And it
is that sort of physiology of like, I'm bigger, I'm stronger, I'm
better, I can do these things. And again if you can add the
voice to it as well. Notalways easy if you're in the lady's toilets,
I can imagine, but it's thatkind of space where you can be

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bigger than you are, than youthink you can be, and it just
kind of gives you that, asyou say, that emotional rush to live
into what's your possibility? What's thething when you're getting charged by your be
Is that true? I thought theperson makes You're right. What you're doing

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is creating a state, and it'sphysiologically driven, and you treated the physiology
of the state. And it's very, very important to realize that it's not
enough to teach people what they needto know, but also how to remember
it and how to be in state. I could show you a little memory
if you'd buy how to recall.Well, do you know what it seems

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to be? The in thing thatso many people are giving themselves excuses to
not have a good memory. It'seasy to go, oh, it's the
menopause, or you know, orI think I've got a touch. I
didn't have that problem so many peoplethat all my parents had out some I'm
wondering if I'm getting it, youknow, And it's very easy. But
as you say, there are waysof doing it, so yes, please

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give us another time. And Iwent through menopause pretty fast. You survived
it very well. Ten things toremember. I'm not going to show you
how, and I don't think you'lldo very well. Then I'll show you
how and instantly you're knowing backwards andforwards effortlessly. You want to remember pole

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shoes, tricycle, car, glovegun, dice, skate cat and bowling
pins? Can you repeat it backwards? Boning pins? That's about it.
Now I'm going to show you howto learn it, and you'll know the
wholeness and any order you choose effortlessly. Now, one of the things we

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know is you only remember ten percentof what you read, but ninety percent
of what you say and do.You're gonna say and do this when I
ask you, because this isn't adroll this is a tool. You'll actually
use this tool. And another thingwe know about memory, which is very
very old from the Greeks. Ifyou take a list you know and you

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link it to the list you're learning, it takes less time because what you
know is hanging in your memory.And what do we do with hangers?
We hang things on it. AndI'm going to bet everyone watching today can
count to ten. I feel veryconfident that that's not a challenge. So
that's a list. We're going touse the numbers from one to ten to
learn ten new things super fast.Are you ready? Yep? The normal

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one looks like a pole, likea lamp pole or a flagpole. When
I say one, you say,Paul, one, oh, perfect.
Make sure you're saying it. Youwon't learn by watching two shoes. You
have two shoes. What's two whees? What's one? Three is a tricycle?
Three wheels on a tricycle? What'sthree? Tricycle? Two shoes?

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One home getting easier? Four isa car. There's four tires on a
car. What's four? A car? Go to two? A tricycle?
Two shoes, one three tricycle.It's you're learning the system. Five is

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the glove. Five fingers and aglove? What's five a glove? What's
three? Tricycle? What's one?Pole? It's and easier? Six gun?
They loved them in Texas like acowboy? Six gun? What's six
gun? Four? Car? Twoshoes? Lucky seven and dice? Lucky

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seven? What's seven? Five?Giving you a clue? Glove? Three
is tricycle? One? Pole?Rhymes work? Say eight skate eight?
Skate eight? Skate eight skate?What's eight? Skate? Six? What

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did they love in Texas? Agun? Four? A car? Two
shoes? How many lives does acat have? Nine? What's nine?
Cats? Lives? Cat? Cat? Nine? Is cat? Lucky?
Seven? Guys? Five? Glove? Three, tricycle? One? Looking

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for your pictures? Ten? Howmany bowling pins are in an alley?
Ten bowling pins? What's ten?Ten bowling pins? What's one? Two?
Choose three? Tricycle? Buy glovessix? Texas com lucky seven?

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Eight? Rhymes with nine? Isa cats? Lives? And ten?
What game? Ten? Bowling?Now you're just learned how to learn numbers
speed memorized numbers. Let's say you'rein a room in a hotel. It's
three, one, four, Howmany times by the time you go to

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the lobby. You forgot your room. Turn the pic the numbers to pictures
that make a movie. Three isa tricycle, One is a pole.
Four is a car. A tricyclehits a pole on a car. Picture
that a tricycle hits a pole ona car. Tricycle a number three,

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it's a pole on a car.That's your hotel. It's also pie in
geometry three point one four, Soyou can use it for math and science
and dates and in business percentages dodates phone numbers. Turn the number into

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a picture. The zero is theten bowling pins because there's ten digits in
math zero to nine, and youhave a digit. Now a picture for
every digit, and now you makea movie out of the pictures. Play
the movie back and you can recallany number you need. Wow. So
when you're reading and you see adate, for example, you're doing that

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as you go exactly and well,that's one thing I'm doing. There's many
different systems. There's no one systemfor everything. Learning a language is in
reading a novel. Reading a novelisn't learning calculus. Calculus isn't the same
as learning law. So every subjectis different and people have different aptitudes backgrounds

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and experience. A lawyer is goingto learn a law book better than me,
even if I'm very good at reading. They went to law school and
they're using it every day. Sothey have experiences I don't have that I
can't draw on. That makes itmore meaningful to them because they've seen it
in applied situations or I just havea book. There's a difference between learning

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something and understanding something. Yesty,yes, and so we all have skills
we do better at than others.So there isn't one learning method that works
for everyone. So I give thema tool chest. It's here's all the
tools. Find the tool that's bestfor you in that subject at that time.

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It may be a different tool anda different subject, but it's the
tool for you, not my tooltool. Like you said, everyone learns
differently, everyone reads differently. It'sgot to work with your brain, not
my brain. This is becoming moreand more relevant these days because we are
acknowledging that there are you know,autistic people, ADHD people, variety of

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so much difference in us, andyet we've all been conditioned into this.
This is how you learn. Yousit in the class and the teacher talks
at you and you take on theinformation you go and you regurgitate it in
this way, and that doesn't fitfor the majority. I could give you
a story on that. Yeah,I had a student in my own to
school. This girl had third gradereading in the ninth grade, and they

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put her in special Ed, whichis basically, you're going to learn how
to tie your shoes and button yourjacket, and if you go for a
career, you'll say welcome to Walmart. That was what they were preparing her
for in life. And she washysterical, crying. She came to my
school. We taught her how tolearn. What happened. She got her

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four year degree in college. Whenthe kids in her high school she was
with finished high school, she wasalready four years ahead. She had an
A average, got a full scholarShe went for a two year degree,
got an A average, full scholarshipto Baylor, A average the Masters at
twenty two. And she was someonewho couldn't read or learn. No one

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teaches learning, and so when thestudents are learning, they blame them instead
of finding out why they're not learningand how to fix it. We took
the time to analyze her learning styleand found out What was missing wasn't her
intellect. She was brilliant, buther brain was never shown the right way
to implement its natural method for learning. And once she got We had eleven

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year old sea student who became anEnglish professor at twenty two at a sixteen
year old passed the bar in California, and his sister's fifteen first year law
student would be the youngest person inhistory to pass the bar there, and
the seven year old brother is inhis second year of law school. He'll

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be the second youngest person. Anotherone finished four year college in six months
the whole degree. He went toThomas Edison where they worked with ap tests
and they let him take ninety percentof his degree on exams, and he
took one test a day every dayfor six months and one online class a

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week, and in six months hehad a bachelor's degree, became a missionary,
learned Chinese in three weeks, andsold his colony when he was forty
for thirty eight million dollars. Sopeople say, what do I need to
know this? He made thirty eightmillion dollars using what I taught him when
he was forty, So it's notno one wants to just learn. It's

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a knowledge based economy, and everythingyou do is based on what you know.
I've read over with thirty thousand books, so I don't know everything,
but I know thirty thousand books worthof data. So I could solve problems
people can't solve it. You'd likeI could solve an unsolvable problem for you,

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the meaning of life. You know, when you read about the Big
Bang, it's this little tiny speck. The whole universe is the size of
an electron, And you say toyourself, Okay, it blows up and
gets bigger, where does it gogetting bigger? It's everything? So if

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everything is everything, where does everythinggrow when it's getting bigger? Because it's
already everything. And I think Icould show you a way to explain it.
I want you to picture the tinypoint of the universe when it's before
it explodes. Picture it in yourmind and see it explode and grow out
all as big as it is now. And I want you to notice the

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infinitely tiny point and the very largeuniverse we have now fit between your ears
and your mind. If the universeis a manifestation of consciousness, really,
what the Bible says is a thinkerthat makes it happen. If it's a
manifestation of consciousness, it can getbigger and bigger and bigger, it still
be the same size. It fitbetween your ears. No matter how big

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it gets, it's always the samesize. It's all consciousness. Now that
doesn't mean I'm right, but it'sa lot better than I don't know.
I can't explain it, so Itell people it's not always about being right.
Thomas Edison tried ten thousand times tofind a filament to make a light

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bulb, and they asked them whatit felt like to fail ten thousand times.
That I never failed. I foundten thousand, nine hundred and ninety
nine things I didn't want to usetill I found the one I did.
So getting an answer is better thannot And even if it's the wrong answer,
you'll eliminate it and find another answertill you find the right answer.

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And so my goal is to empowerpeople to learn and understand and connect the
dots. And if you'd like,I could tell you how to read faster.
One last skill. That would beamazing. Yes, definitely. So
when we're done today, get abook you read, probably nonfiction. I

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wanted to be so if you readthe book now, you'd have nothing confusing.
The words make sense, the ideasmake sense. I want to make
sure the only thing that could confuseyou is how fast you're reading, Not
because it's quantum physics and no oneunderstands it, or if it's Chinese and
you can't read Chinese. We wantto say, the only reason I'm confused

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is I'm going too fast. Sonow get it. Timer. You could
use your phone, or your watchor an egg timer. Read for a
minute in the first chapter at thefirst page, see how far you get
reading normal, and take a pencilgoing to mark so you've me this is
how far I can read. Nownow the magic. Go to the second

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chapter, take your hand and goone line at a time as fast as
you can, with your eyes followingyour hand. As long as you know
what you're reading, speed it up, and speed it up, and speed
it up till you don't. That'swhere it got too fast. Slow down
just enough so the comprehensions there,and as fast as you can one line

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at a time, one line ata time, for a minute or two.
When you're done, go back tothe first chapter and time yourself for
a minute and this time, doyour hand thing as fast as you could
comprehend one line at the time,and the little mark that you had during
the first trial, you'll pass itby twenty or forty percent. Just doing

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that one changed. That's the firststep in the process to go one hundred
to four hundred percent faster with goodcomprehension. Yes, yes, that's the
whole point. It's no point doingit was you can't justerve you have read
that one? Well, what ispage fifty three? Soon? I think,
Howard, what you've just explained aboutthose young people passing the bar and

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getting through college, and had theybeen failed by their education system and hadn't
found you, what would have becomeof them? And how many people in
our state prison systems have been failedby the education that they never received.
And it's the Einstein thing, isn'tit. You know, if you told

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a fish to climb a tree,it would think it was stupid because it
couldn't do it. So so manypeople are driven to violence on the wrong
side of the law because of theirfrustration and they're upset and they feel like
they're being labeled as stupid when theyknow they have intelligence, but they don't
know how to express it, andthey don't know how to find out they're
going to make a living any otherway. You're right, Well, when

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I was younger, after college,I became a yogi. I lived in
an asher on on weekends, andI still believe in karma and they feel
what I've been given is an ability. But it's more important to me that
you read three or four trades fasterthan I read a page, and they
half for a second. Because ifthere are millions and millions of people learning
two, three, four trades faster, think of all the solutions they'll find

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the problems like global warming and theviolence we have in the world. So
I don't believe I could solve everyproblem. I'm not naive. But if
I can empower lots and lots andlots of people to learn and understand and
make better choices, it can havean impact. It's not the only,
not just me, but it's somethingI can do instead of looking at the

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news. And I don't think anyonewatches the news says there's too many smart
people making too many good choices.So I look at that and said,
I can make a difference. Ican make more smart people or people get
smarter and make better choices, andthose choices will impact everyone. And that's

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something I take a lot of gratificationfrom having these kids do this thing.
At an eighty four year old readthree books and three hours the day after
I taught her. And to me, that makes me feel good that I'm
doing something with my life. Itisn't just look at me read no exactly.

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Yeah, that brings us full circle, really, Howard, because what
Collaboration Global is about is bringing peopletogether because we have the belief that there
are no problems out there that donot already have a solution, and it
is about finding them, but findingthem together and finding them by you know,
the answer is already out there,whether it's in the written form or

(46:27):
and video or whatever. But it'sfinding that information and coming together to get
the people that understand what's going onto create the solution and come together and
make a world a better place.And I think what you're doing, you
know, the journey that you havebeen on, you have probably crammed ten
lifetimes into your one because of thespeed and the awareness that you have around

(46:49):
what you're doing and the knowledge thatyou've retained. I mean, do you
find there's a difference between just onelast question because I'm looking at the time
and I realized we could talk forhours here. But one last question is
do you find over the years thatyou have slowed down in your learning or
do you find that age is irrelevantto I mean, you've just kind of
answered it with this ny eight yearold can't see like I did when I

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was thirty. But I think I'vegotten smarter because I have a bigger database.
I'll give you one last thing totin'tantalyze you. Would you like to
see real magic, not a cardtrick or magic is actually real. People
don't understand what Hermes was, thegod of magic and Greek mythology. He
was Mercury and what it was ismagic is turning your ideas into things.

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If you look around the room,everything you see that isn't a plant or
a rock, It is a thoughtthat someone had and made it into a
reality. A close the chair you'reon, the desk, the the room
you're in. An architect how toenvision it. What magic was and still

(47:58):
is is taking the the ideas inour minds and finding the methods in the
world to manifest that idea into areality. And that's really what it's about.
Empowering people to get the information theyneed to turn your dreams into something
tangible and real, so one theymake a nice living and have a successful

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life, and two they make abetter world because everyone now benefits by this
new idea that's created an opportunity forother people. Like the cell phone,
going from a cell phone to aniPhone, it's a leap. Everyone's sore
a cell phone job sor a minicomputer. He said, I'll put a

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monitor on the front and a chipin it and it'll still do phones,
but it's more. And that's whatI'm trying to do with people is give
their minds the ability to absorb morebooks. Put it in here, and
now when you're looking at a problem, all that data is there and you're
starting to see relationships that everyone missed, like jobs, and you see another

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way to do it that no onethought of before. And now you're a
success and everyone is benefiting from thisnew concept that you develop. That's my
purpose. That's that's really why Ijoined, and I want to learn from
other people what's their success and ideas. That's how you grow. It's never

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just about you, it's about collaboration. We can't all know everything. I'm
never going to be a surgeon,but I'm glad there are people who are.
And I'm not gonna say I'm gladpeople are attorneys. They're not the
funnest people to know, but wedo need to because of other attorneys.

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But they're really fun people. Ihaven't found them to be. The fun
of My attorney, by the way, was an assassin. He was in
Vietnam and the CIA, and hisplane went down in the jungle and they
captured him, and they tied himup, and when they went to sleep,
untied himself, strangled three people,and crawled back one hundred miles through

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the jungle. That's a good personto have sitting next to you in a
courtroom if you have a problem.It's not someone you want to see sitting
on the other Oh my goodness.Some of the people that you know is
incredible happening. You're very lucky.I feel fortunate. I've met famous people.

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And Ron Howard, the producer,his daughter Bryce. I believe it's
using my program, but I methim in La at the airport. He
asked me if it worked, andI sent it to him as a gift,
so he wanted for his kids,So I'm assuming she's his kids,
so she must have gotten to it. But it makes me feel good to

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know that so many people's lives havebeen changed for the better or And my
goal is to change more lives anddo it through other people by collaborating with
them through your website and helping themachieve what they want and see what I
can do to help them, andthey can help me by reaching more people
with what I do, and everybodywins exactly. That's I mean, that's

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what I talk about all the time. It's not just a win win,
it's a win win win. It'sfor you, for me, for collaborations,
blow more, for the planet,and for everyone that we come in
contact with along the way. Andthere are some amazing collaborators within our community
that needs to have a conversation withyou about possible collaboration and putting together you.

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That's what I look for. Youcan't do it yourself. Look at
Elvis Presley. He's saying in CountryFans, until the Colonel figured out how
to make him a start. Hehad the talent, but he didn't have
the connections. And that's what collaborationis about connections. Real success in today's
world is all about who you know, not just you know, And it's

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through the collaboration with other people youachieve your full potential. Yes, and
also with the people that have theright heart set as you as well,
the same mindset and heart set,whereby they're looking at it from love and
how can I help people rather thanlet's make a quick buck together and see
how right right screw someone into theground with it. It's coming from a

(52:22):
place of love. We talk aboutall the time. Inasmuch as if we
can love our fellow human, whetherthey are the cleverest personal on earth or
whether they you know, haven't gota clue what's going on in the world,
you know, they're still worthy ofour support and our help in any
which way we can. Some ofthe metaphysics books see the two most important

(52:44):
things to learn on a wisdom oflove and a love of wisdom. The
wisdom of love creates the right motivationbecause you're compassionate, and a love of
wisdom prevents fanaticism like the inquisition.Well, I love you so much,
I'm going to torture you to deathso you don't go to hell. So

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there's a balance. So Buddha representsthe love of wisdom and Jesus represents the
wisdom of love. There are aretwo figures in Mena physics that balance the
two energies. There are others aswell, but that's the primary role is
one of teaching compassion and teaching understanding. Yeah, and that is totally what

(53:29):
we're about, the collaboration. Likewhen you just summed it up beautifully,
thank you. I love that scenario. How if somebody wanted to contact you,
or if they're interested in learning howto learn faster or read faster,
or just in your your whole schemesgoing on, what's the easiest way for
them to connect with you? Well, my emails mister Reader, m R

(53:52):
Reader, m R R E AD E R at MSN dot com,
Microsoft Network dot com. And theyalso find me on Collaboration Global, and
I'm always looking for people who wantto work with me and I can help
and they can help me. Ithink it works both ways. I have

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programs they can profit from helping othersget, and they may have something I
can help others get as well,So it works both ways. That everyone
wins, and that's how you makemoney in today's world, it's through contacts
and other people like you. Thisis a contact and you have a network.
Everyone's network is a potential new placeto go, and that's what it's

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about. It's building a network andthen sharing with others. Perfect. So
if anybody would like to possibly meetHowards, I'm sure he'll be talking at
one of our guest sessions soon.So if you want to come along to
one of those that are online,so anywhere in the world you can come
to that. We always have themon the last Tuesday of the month apart
from December because people live with busyat the end of December. You're very

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welcome and you can find that youcan book up from there. You go
to Collaboration Global dot org or goto event right and search for Collaboration Global
and you can find the booking linkin there as well. And it won't
be too long before we get Howardspeaking at that event as well. Oh,
thank you and thank you again Howardfor your time. I really appreciate

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learning more about you and just tothe tips that you've given us. Just
to start the war rolling is justlike the potential from that alone, but
to actually learn more about what youdo in the programs that you do.
I'm looking forward to hosting that collaborationglobal as well. It's going to be
a very exciting time. Well,it shows you that sometimes the things are

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the worst things in your life arethe best. It's like a jewel.
It needs to get against the grindingwheel to become a sparkling drawl. The
pain you went through as a childhelp me develop a skill which is changing
the world. So when I wasa child, I didn't like you,
but as an adult, I realizedthat that was a catalyst to something wonderful.

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And we often don't see when we'restruggling that what we're struggling with is
an opportunity that's going to change ourlives to the better while the struggle was
happening. But afterwards, when welook back, we realized that's what changed
us and made us a better person. Beautiful and what a legacy you have
to leave. It's phenomenal. I'mreally proud to be part of that journey.

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So thank you for today and we'llsee you again. Thanks for that,
Swadika, thank you. It's reallyfun. When you're there, people
are very friendly,