Want Some Genetically Engineered Meat?
By Joshua Seth | October 1, 2008
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Organic food. Farm fresh. Natural. Most of us would agree that food delivered with a minimum of human tampering is the healthiest way to go. Yet the Food and Drug Administration announced today that it is working to approve genetically engineered animals as food — and they won’t even label it as such!
Here’s a link to the full news report that just came out about 1 minute ago.
In a few months, you could walk into a grocery store and buy some chicken/rat meat. Or beef/pork. Come to think of it, how would Jewish or Muslim people who don’t eat pork even know if it’s not labeled as such?
Sure, the FDA says the food will be “safe for human consumption” but they’ve been wrong before. To quote from my own book:
“Just because the FDA approves the use of a chemical additive doesn’t mean it’s safe (Saccharine anyone? How about some Fen-phen?)”
I was writing about the dangers of Aspeatame in that passage but the same concept applies here. The government keeps tampering with our food supply and assuring us that chemically engineered and now genetically engineered food is safe and even preferable to food grown naturally in the ground or on the farm.
I don’t know about you, but if the FDA allows genetically engineered meat to enter our restaurants and grocery stores without being labeled as such then I may just become a vegetarian again. Am I overreacting? Does this concept bother you?
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Learn How To Speed Read
By Joshua Seth | October 1, 2008
One of the most useful skills you can aquire for accelerated learning is the ability to speed read. With speed reading you will actually improve your memory and retention of the subject matter, comprehend the information better, and increase the intensity of your focus.
I’ve studied a number of speed reading courses throughout my life and they all boil down to this single concept: there are different kinds of reading and different reasons to read so it follows that you should have different methods of reading as well.
Some things we read for pleasure, some to prepare for an exam, and others for general knowledge of the world around us. Step one in learning to speed read is to recognize the type of material you’ll be reading and determine the purpose for reading it.
Not every book is a novel and not every novel is good, yet people tend to read everything slowly and in depth as through they are reading for pleasure. When you learn to speed read you won’t want to read everything at the highest possible rate of retention, but you will have that option when you need it.
You may want to read the newspaper at a high rate of speed, review study materials at double speed, and read a novel for pleasure as slowly as possible.
How many times have you left a good book unfinished because there was a boring part in the middle that you just couldn’t get past? When you learn how to speed read you will be able to breeze through that boring part without losing track of what’s happening in the book and then slow down again when you get to the satisfying sections!
In future articles I will break down the process of speed reading into various exercises for you. For now though, begin to become aware of the different types of reading material you process throughout the day and ask yourself “why am I reading this?”
If there is no discernible benefit, then stop. Put it down and don’t read it. If there is a reason then define that up front. This will help to focus your attention on what is important and relevant to you as you read the rest of the material.
This is pretty basic, but it’s the foundation of the lessons to come. Define why you’re doing something before you do it and if you can’t, then develop the self discipline to move on to the next purposeful activity.
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Be Here Now
By Joshua Seth | October 1, 2008
Accelerated Learning Through Personal Development
Today’s accelerated learning tip is to focus on one thing at a time. If you want to develop your mind to learn more, retain more, and be able to apply what you know in creative and useful ways then you first need to break the habit of mutitasking. You need to train your mind to Be Here Now as Ram Dass famously wrote over 35 years ago. It’s a topic more recently explored by Eckhart Toole in his book The Power of Now.
Everything and everyone is connected but before you can become aware of those connections you first need to become aware. The concepts of past and future only exist in our minds anyway. All that is real is the now.
Part of being human is that we have the ability to spilt our focus to think and do many things at once. The problem is that when you multitask you don’t do any of those activities well.
If you’re sitting in class and thinking about what happened yesterday or what may or may not come to pass tomorrow, then you will not absorb all of the knowledge being imparted to you. Part of this is due to social conditioning. People think it proves they’re smart if they can do many things at once. And part of it is mental laziness. A lack of discipline to focus on the task at hand for a prolonged period of time.
When you focus fully you make excellence possible. You lose track of time and distractions cease to exist. When you focus on one thing at a time you also get more out of life.
Really listen to the person in front of you. It’s the greatest compliment you can pay them. It shows interest and respect. It also allows you to absorb everything that they are communicating to you because only about 7% of communication is verbal. The rest is all body language and inflection and emotion. If you allow yourself to be distracted then you will miss the nuances and connections that impart real meaning.
There is a Zen story where the Buddha looked at a flower and became connected to it in that moment. It was his most famous sermon and was delivered without a single word. All of life is like that. If any one of us could ever be fully present in any one moment then we we would achieve a kind of lucidity that eludes us in the fog of daily living.
Strive to be connected in the present moment to the person who is teaching you and you will get far more out of every interaction. And by the way, every person with whom we come in contact can teach us something. Look for it.
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Fast Weight Loss Tips
By Joshua Seth | October 1, 2008
Everyone seems to want to lose weight fast. I’d rather show you how to lose weight permanently. Not all fast weight loss methods are healthy and most of them don’t work long term. Still, a few methods do make the cut. So here is how to lose weight fast…
3 Fast Weight Loss Tips
1. Detoxify Your Diet
Most people willingly consume a variety of low grade poisons throughout the day. Chemical compounds designated as sugar substitutes (like aspartame) top the list. The fastest and easiest way to detox your system is to drink lots of water. Hydrate yourself by following my 1 day weight loss challenge. I do it every few months and always feel great afterward. This is an important step in flushing your system of impurities that may be causing you to hold onto excess weight.
2. Eat More Frequently
Yes, that’s right. You can lose weight quickly when you start eating smaller meals spaced a few hours apart. This may seem counterintuitive, but skipping meals in favor of eating just one big one actually slows down your metabolism and makes it harder to lose weight (even if you’re consuming fewer calories). Want to burn fat fast? Stop overloading your blood sugar levels and start evening out your food intake throughout the day.
3. Move Your Body More
There’s just no getting around it. You’ve got to exercise on a daily basis if you want to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable manner (yes, I know this article is supposed to be about losing weight fast, but I still want you do do it in a way that helps you long term). Twenty to thirty minutes of aerobic exercise per day is a good benchmark. You can use the program outlined in my book as an easy way to get started.
Bonus points for adding some muscle building elements into your workout. Muscle weighs more than fat so people often think that it doesn’t actually help them to lose weight. In fact, building muscle will give you more energy and speed up your metabolism which burns fat faster.
Use Your Head
The easiest way to lose weight fast is to reprogram your thoughts to support your new healthy eating habits. Just knowing what to do is not enough to insure that you will actually do them on a daily basis. For that, you need to change the way you think about food and release your emotional attachments to eating in the first place. Change your mental habits and you’ll find that your eating habits change automatically. And what could be better than that?
To discover how to lose weight and actually keep it off once and for all, get your copy of The Weight Loss Solution, available now.
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Accelerated Learning Intro
By Joshua Seth | October 1, 2008
When I was in college I took a course in speed reading. It was one of the best investments I ever made. For a few hundred bucks and a little bit of spare time, I learned how to assimilate A LOT more information and do it a lot faster than most people even realize is possible. Over time I developed techniques that allowed me to also recall that information with a minimum of preparation.
Complete Your Studies In Half The Time
This is one of the reasons I was able to do a four year program at a major university (NYU) and graduate in half the time. Yes, I completed a four year program (with a double major) in just 2 years and graduated with honors. I’ve always maintained that this had very little to do with my intellect. Rather, I spent the time to learn a few interrelated skills that helped me to take twice as many classes as my fellow students and still do fairly well in all of them.
Even if you’re not a student, these skills can help you get more done in less time and with far less effort. And if you’re in business, you’re a student for life, right? If you want to stay at the top of your game you are, that’s for certain.
What Is Accelerated Learning
So what skills do you need to master to learn more quickly and recall more easily?
Here are the primary methods I’ve used throughout my life to get ahead:
• Speed Reading
• Time Management
• Clarity of Focus
• Graduated Goal Setting
• Clever Study Skills
• Awareness of Preferred Learning Styles
• Stress Management Techniques
• Having a Healthy Diet
• A Sense of Purpose
• Self Confidence
These skills are a set that work together to help you succeed in school, work, and life. In future articles I will be expanding on each of these areas.
Innovative learning strategies and highly adaptive thinking skills are invaluable in today’s competitive economy. I’m excited to share them with you as a way to help you reach your goals, transform your life, and live your dreams.
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