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One of the most provoking videos I have ever seen on the importannce of teaching and our views about teachers:
Here’s transcript of the poem:
What Teachers Make, or
Objection Overruled, or
If things don’t work out, you can always go to law schoolHe says the problem with teachers is, “What’s a kid going to learn
from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?”He reminds the other dinner guests that it’s true what they say about
teachers:That those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.
I decide to bite my tongue instead of his
and resist the urge to remind the other dinner guests
that it’s also true what they say about lawyers.Because we’re eating, after all, and this is polite conversation.
“I mean, you’re a teacher, Taylor”
“Be honest. What do you make?”And I wish he hadn’t done that
(asked me to be honest)
because, you see, I have a policy
about honesty and ass-kicking:
which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.You want to know what I make?
I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional medal of honor
and I can make an A- feel like a slap in the face.
How dare you waste my time with anything less than your very best.You wanna know what I make?
I make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall
in absolute silence.
No, you can not work in groups.
No, you can not ask a question (so put your hand down)
Why won’t I let you go to the bathroom?
Because you’re bored and you don’t really have to go, do you?You wanna know what I make?
I make parents tremble in fear when I call home at around dinner time:
“Hi, This is Mr. Mali, I hope I haven’t called at a bad time,
I just wanted to talk to you about something your son did today.
he said, “Leave the kid alone. I still cry sometimes, don’t you?”
And it was the noblest act of courage I have ever seen.I make parents see their children for who they are
and who they can be.You want to know what I make?
I make kids question.
I make them criticize.
I make them apologize and mean it.
I make them write, write, write.
And then I make them read.
I make them spell definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, definitely
beautiful
over and over again until they will never misspell
either one of those words again.
I make them show all their work in math.
And then hide it on their final drafts in English.
I make them realize that if you got this (brains)
then you follow this (heart) and if someone ever tries to judge you
by what you make, you give them this (the finger).Let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true:
I make a difference! What about you?
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Incredible Mental Feats that will leave you (mind)boggled.
How far are our minds capable of expanding into? Are our minds truly limitless?
Here’s a collection of some amazing mind power feats captured on video:
Still think a calculator can cut through your tax forms? The ancient abacus seems to STILL outdo circuitry! But what happens when you use an IMAGINARY ABACUS instead?
Is this man the smartest man in the world? Or is he a humble blue-collar ex-bouncer?
Stephen Withshire is capable of taking a photograph with his mind, and then replicate it on paper without a second look. Peer through the eyes of one of just over 100 autistic savants on the planet!
One of our favorite mentalists, Derren Brown, demonstrates how sublminal advertising works on the mind.
But is the mind capable of accomplishing far more than we can ever imagine? Even in the physical world?
Want to find out more about the unlimited expanses of your mind? Check out what Burt Goldman’s been using his beautiful mind for:
Mindblowing Video
Movie star Simon Pegg, from ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ is receiving a present from stunning psychologist Derren Brown - it can be anything he desires. He goes from wanting a leather jacket to a RED BMX in the space of 5 minutes. Pegg is convinced that he originally wanted a Red BMX Bike!!!!!!!
How does Derren pull off this remarkable display of Neurolinguistic Programming?
Check out some of the dialogue:
“how I bike gifts. . .
to handle bar none . . .
what to saddle for . . .
rather than recycle the same two tyred bottles of wine . . .
bike creating a strong feeling of desire. . .
all sort of pumped up . . .
they BeaM eXcitement . . .
can Be so eXtreme . . .
i want X . . .
Like a BM or an X Box . . .
Derren Brown: ‘So . . . What’s your dream present?’
Simon Pegg: ‘A BMX Bike’”
NOTE: look at the props around the room that Derren Brown uses to manipulate Pegg with:
Jeff Hawkins’ Palm PDA became such a widely used productivity tool during the 1990s that some fanatical users claimed it replaced their brains. He was a pioneer in the field of mobile technology and spent 16 yrs in the computer industry. However, his path through life took a weird turn of events . . . he fell in love with a brain!
He now devotes his life to studying his passion. He’s now expelling the myths that neuroscientists have been feeding us. In this staggering video the lies are revealed and he uncovers how his new kind of brain science can shape the future of computing.
“Brain Scientists say that intelligence is defined by behaviour (MYTH)
However intelligence is actually defined by Prediction” - Jeff Hawkins ( the man who fell in love with a brain)
20 Minutes of Jeff talking about his passion for brains and the future of brain science
This staggering video from the mind blowing series ‘Mind Control’ by Derren Brown shows how incredibly easily our minds can be manipulated, we can behave drunk in the space of seconds as this student hilariously demonstrates.
This feeling can then go away in an instance but be triggered like a remote control at any point in time using a ‘magic word’.
Derren Brown’s work is fascinating, his ability to get inside your mind and psychologically force you to think something with subliminal messages is stunning. He doesn’t claim to have any psychic ability, everything is through psychology.
“This next technique is a method I used at university where you can recreate any drug state without ever actually taking the drug.” - Derren Brown
Scientists from the prestigious University of Cambridge claim that there are such things as ‘male’ brains and ‘female’ brains. However the really shocking news is that just because you are male you don’t necessarily possess a ‘male brain’. In fact 17% of men are equipped with a female brain.
‘Brain Sex’
If you’re a man, you may be more in touch with your feminine side than you ever guessed, and if you’re a woman you may occasionally think more like the lads.
That’s the surprising news from scientists who think there are ‘male brains’ and ‘female brains’. Study findings show that although men tend to have male brains and women tend to have female brains, it isn’t always so.
Most scientists think there’s no real difference between men and women when it comes to total intelligence (commonly called IQ), but there is growing evidence that men and women’s brains are wired differently. This theory may explain the finding that, on average, men are at better at some things and women are better at others.
For example, studies have found that women tend to be better at empathising and men are generally better at systemising. In other words, men are often more adept at discovering the rules that govern a system. They like to get deeply involved in activities such as car repair, computing or building up an extensive music collection.
Women, on the other hand, are thought to be better at guessing other people’s emotions and responding appropriately. They would be more likely to comfort you in a time of crisis.
But men and women don’t always fit neatly into their respective groups. A University of Cambridge study found that 17% of men have a ‘female’ empathising brain and 17% of women have a ‘male’ systemising brain.
Find out more information about the ’sex of your brain’ here
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Best Optical Illusions - Can You Figure these Out?
Optical illusions have always fascinated me, it’s amazing how our perception can flip so quickly. I uncovered a video on what I consider to be the best optical illusions. See what you make of it . . .
Best Optical Illusions
A direct link between emotions and immunity to disease has been made by scientists. It confirms what many people have thought for years . . . happy people are more likely to have a higher immunity to disease and are therefore likely to have better health.
Brain study links negative emotions and lowered immunity
By Shaoni Bhattacharya
Brain activity linking negative emotions to a lower immune response against disease has been revealed for the first time, claim researchers.
Many previous studies have shown that emotions and stress can adversely affect the immune system. But this effect had not been directly correlated with activity in the brain, says study leader Richard Davidson, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the US.
The part of the brain the team studied, the prefrontal cortex (PFC), is associated with depression. People who had the greatest activity in the right PFC when asked to dwell on distressing episodes in their life had a markedly lower antibody levels after an influenza vaccination. In contrast, those showing exceptional activity in the left PFC when recalling happy times developed high antibody levels.
Davidson says emotions play an important role in regulating systems in the body that influence health. “This study establishes that people with a pattern of brain activity that has been associated with positive [emotions] are also the ones to show the best response to the flu vaccine.”
“It begins to suggest a mechanism for why subjects with a more positive emotional disposition may be healthier,” he says. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, an expert on stress and immunity at Ohio State University, told the New York Times that the study represents “some of the best evidence we’ve seen to date.”
Intense sadness
Davidson, with colleagues at Wisconsin and Princeton University, New Jersey, asked 52 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin in 1957 to recount both the best and worst events in their lives on paper.
For their best experiences, the subjects were asked to write about an event where they experienced “intense happiness or joy”. And for their worst experience they were asked to remember an event causing “the most intense sadness, fear, or anger”.
During this autobiographical task, the electrical activity of the brain was measured. The subjects were then given flu shots and their antibody levels were measured after two weeks, four weeks and six months. The researcher found a clear link between strong activity in the left PFC and a large rise in antibodies, and vice versa. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1534743100).
Did you know that even Top Advertising Executives are Susceptible to Hidden Subliminal Messages in Advertising?
Derren Brown shows that even the cream of the crop advertising executives are susceptible to hidden subliminal messages in advertising with a truly stunningly accurate mind experiment.
You’ll be left completely amazed by the end of the video and think it’s not possible, however the last 30 secs shows just how these execs, who control people’s minds every day of their lives, can have the same done to them just like puppets.
Hidden Subliminal Messages In Advertising Mind Experiment
The Incredible Power of Chi and Dim Mak (the death touch)
This is an incredible video where the soul practitioner of Dim Mak shows his phenomenal powers of controlling and channeling Chi.
What’s Chi?
Chi can be seen as ‘life energy’ that flows through the human body. In the Asian system of martial arts, chi is directed by will-power to specific points of the body, resulting in apparently paranormal feats of strength and control.
What Does the Dim Mak Master Do in this Video?
“He strikes down a person with a single blow by focusing his energy on pressure points . . . the real skill is learning how not to kill them”
Through mind control and channeling of Chi, the master summons Yang Chi from up above and Yin Chi from the ground into his own body; then he’ll focus this great energy field into throwing single blows with mindblowing power.
He Will Strike You Down!
Staggering Video on Yoga Meditation States
In this staggering video Ken Wilber can stop his brainwaves in an instance and go into a number of yoga meditation states. There are several states of Yoga meditation including nirvikalpa closed eyes, nirvikalpa open eyes, sahaj, and mantra-savikalpa that Ken brilliantly demonstrates.
In this video is the famous EEG machine recording where Ken enters various meditative states, one of which is a type of “thoughtless,” “image-less,” or “formless” state, whose correlate is that his brainwaves come to an almost complete stop, as clearly recorded on this portable electroencephalograph (EEG) machine.
The brainwave machine shows Ken going from Beta, to Alpha and Theta levels of mind.
If you’d like to know more about the Alpha, Beta and Theta levels of mine - check out the free online course on SilvaUltraMindSystem.com
The course also includes a 27 minute audio that you can download and listen to. It guides you into the Alpha level of mind. If you’re lucky - you might even reach Theta. Its free too. Sign up for the free course and you get the Audio sent to you on Day 2.
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Interrogation Methods - How Hard is it to tell a lie Backwards?
The latest research on interrogation methods has shown that criminals find it much harder to recreate the lie they have just fabricated in reverse. This can now be a very effective interrogation method that many police forces and other organizations are choosing to adopt.
These new interrogation methods may prove to be more effective than the signs we give away via body language.
Tell Tale Signs of Lying from Body language
- Hand touching the face
- Scratching your nose
- Not making eye contact
All you people that have anything to hide watch out for these new interrogation methods!
Can the suspect tell his story backwards? If not, he’s lying
A cunning new method of dragging the truth from criminals may be on the horizon, thanks to research by university psychologists.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth claim that the best way to spot a lie is to make the suspect repeat his or her version of events in reverse order.
In a £136,000 project, the researchers worked on the theory that it takes more effort to make up a story than it does to tell the truth. A subject asked to repeat a concocted series of events in reverse order would be under too much of a strain, they claimed, and would make mistakes.
Detectives use many psychological tricks to trip up liars. These betray obvious signals from shifting uncomfortably in a seat, through stumbling over words to failing to make eye contact.
Another interview strategy used, the baseline method, requires investigators to note the way a suspect reacts to small talk before an interview compared with how he reacts to penetrating questions.
Finally there is the behavioural analysis strategy (BAI), in which interviewers compare the body language of liars and those telling the truth to set a list of questions.
Researchers asked 290 police officers to examine the interviews of 255 students who were given true and false details to use in their answers.
Traditional police interview methods were used in the study, and in those that employed the reverse order tactics – described as “cognitive load interviews” – the interviewer asked the suspects to recall a series of events from the most recent backwards.
Officers were less likely to detect the liars when traditional methods were used in the interviews but were more likely to detect lies when the subjects were asked them to recall events in a reverse order.
The researchers, whose study, Interviewing to Detect Deception, was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, believe that serial criminals are so well versed in police interviews that they know how to dodge the psychological tricks. But the reverse order method imposes an additional mental stress on liars.
Professor Aldert Vrij, one of the researchers, said: “Those [police officers] paying attention to visual cues proved significantly worse at distinguishing liars from those telling the truth than those looking for speech-related cues.
“In another experiment, liars appeared less nervous and more helpful than those telling the truth contrary to the advice of the BAI strategy.
“Certain visual behaviours are associated with lying, but this doesn’t always work. Nor is comparing a suspect’s responses during small talk, and then in a formal interview, likely to be much help.
“Whether lying or telling the truth, people are likely to behave quite differently in these two situations.
“Evidence also suggests that liars are concerned about not being believed, and so are unlikely to come across as less helpful than truthful people during interview. If anything, guilty people are probably even keener to make a positive impression. All of this makes the investigator’s job very difficult.”
Trying the reverse order tactic worked much better. . .
“Unlike truth-tellers, liars tend to tell their stories in a strict chronological time order and diverting from this order may well be too difficult for them to do,” Professor Vrij said.
“Lying takes a lot of mental effort in some situations, and we wanted to test the idea that introducing an extra demand would induce additional cues in liars. Analysis showed significantly more nonverbal cues occurring in the stories told in this way and, tellingly, police officers shown the interviews were better able to discriminate between truthful and false accounts.”
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Positive Changes from Hypnosis are now being increasingly recognized by scientists. It has been proven by research that hypnosis really does have large effects on your mind. This means, for example, hypnosis can be used to reduce pain in medical treatment, such as cancer treatments.
In fact recently it has been used instead of administering anaesthetics for a number of medical procedures.
Hypnosis really changes your mind
from the New scientist
Hypnosis is more than just a party trick, it measurably changes how the brain works, says a UK researcher.
Hypnosis significantly affects the activity in a part of the brain responsible for detecting and responding to errors, says John Gruzelier, a psychologist at Imperial College in London. Using functional brain imaging, he also found that hypnosis affects an area that controls higher level executive functions.
“This explains why, under hypnosis, people can do outrageous things that ordinarily they wouldn’t dream of doing,” says Gruzelier, who presented his study at the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival in Exeter, UK.
The finding is one of the first to indicate a biological mechanism underpinning the experience of hypnosis. Gruzelier hopes it will also benefit emerging research showing, for example, that hypnosis can help cancer patients deal with painful treatments.
Highly susceptible
Gruzelier and his colleagues studied brain activity using an fMRI while subjects completed a standard cognitive exercise, called the Stroop task.
The team screened subjects before the study and chose 12 that were highly susceptible to hypnosis and 12 with low susceptibility. They all completed the task in the fMRI under normal conditions and then again under hypnosis.
Throughout the study, both groups were consistent in their task results, achieving similar scores regardless of their mental state. During their first task session, before hypnosis, there were no significant differences in brain activity between the groups.
But under hypnosis, Gruzelier found that the highly susceptible subjects showed significantly more brain activity in the anterior cingulate gyrus than the weakly susceptible subjects. This area of the brain has been shown to respond to errors and evaluate emotional outcomes.
The highly susceptible group also showed much greater brain activity on the left side of the prefrontal cortex than the weakly susceptible group. This is an area involved with higher level cognitive processing and behaviour.
Stage hypnotists
Gruzelier concludes that, under hypnosis, these brain areas are having to work much harder to achieve the same cognitive task results. “This is confirming our model of hypnosis with very direct evidence of brain function,” he says.
Peter Naish, at the UK’s Open University, says this moves the understanding of hypnosis away from the popular misconceptions created by showy stage hypnotists.
“We have a technique that has now moved towards evidence-based treatments,” he says. “Gruzelier’s work is showing for sure that the brain is doing quite different things under hypnosis than in normal everyday existence.”
Clinical trials of therapeutic hypnosis are starting to confirm its potential benefits. Christina Liossi, a psychologist at the University of Wales in Swansea, recently conducted a study of 80 cancer patients aged 6 to 16.
She found that those under hypnosis experienced far less pain during treatments than control children, who simply talked to the researchers normally.