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Can you substitute eight baby-easy verbs for the numbers 1-8? I knew you could,
but can you do it automatically? Wake up your Comfort-Zone and give this
your attention – it will make you a learning fool (genius).
Verbs are easy to mentally visualize because they contain ACTION. Practice
with the stock market prices – Exxon-Mobil closed at : $73.20. Substitute words
for numbers because as Mark Twain said, the brain hates numbers.
When bears hibernate they are Sleeping (#7), but not Peeing (#3) – they are
Throwing (up) (#2) like all Heros (0). You can imagine the activities of Sleeping and
Peeing because they create ACTION. You got the $73, and the 20 cents is just
throwing by the Hero.
So What
Our graduates have one thing in common whether they are students
attending school or executives managing a division. They have more
curiosity than normal and exercise Inquiring Minds. We gotta know
where the FEET grow from.
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This is important because we live in the Knowledge Economy where information
is POWER. If you have a lousy (untrained) memory, you lose promotions and
dinero over your career.
Get this – the verb is the heart and soul of a sentence. Please pay attention: when
you are reading an article or report on-line or on paper – you are hearing each word
in your mind (larynx) – as if you were tuned in to a lecture.
Verbs have multiple meanings – based on the context of the sentence. Examples:
the verb GO – I am Going (departing) away for two-weeks. How about – We had to
Go (move to act) pick up the kids from Grandma. Try this: Thousands of jobs had
to Go (discarded/eliminated) at General Motors.
One-size does not fit all. Verbs express the ACTION in the sentence and give us
information about the person or event involved. Nouns have a clear basic meaning,
you do not have to decipher it. Folks have problems with decoding the verb, not
nouns.
Staying Awake
Nouns are learned in a part of the brain called the Fusiform Gyrus. Verbs are
formed in the left Frontal Gyrus (processing Grammar) or the left Temporal Gyrus.
(meaning and concepts).
So what?
This is important because we are learning verbs all our lives – based on the context
of the sentence. Get this: we INFER the meaning of verbs.
Remembering Better
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Which is easier on the memory to recall – I solved the math problems or I was
solving the math problems? The brain loves the Imperfect – where the action is
continuing – I was solving.
The way a statement is phrased – how the verbs are used – affects our memory of
what occurred – and influences our behavior. When we think of our past behavior
in the Imperfect (what we were doing) we imagine the behavior has not been
completed (ongoing) yet. It makes it easy to recall what went into the activity.
Better memory.
Example
See ya,
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