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In the past few days, we discussed how visualization–the practice of mentally rehearsing your goals and objectives–can help you achieve success.

Visualization can help you generate income. It can help you with your trading and investing skills. It can even help you save money.

There’s actually nothing that mental rehearsal can’t help you achieve.

Experts on visualization say there are a few things to consider to make visualization more effective.

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According to scientists, when you buy something, chemicals secrete through your brain that make you feel good.

Like how a jogger feels after a great run.

Like how a painter feels when she lays her brush down after creating a masterpiece.

And, unfortunately, like an addict feels when he’s taken his drug of choice.

So, that mental shopping trigger can be good… or it can be bad. But, did you know there’s a way visualization can help you tap this power?

Instead of whipping out the credit card and drooling down the lane of your mall or shopping center, take a virtual shopping trip.

Here’s how you do it.

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According to this recent article, researchers have started to overcome the last challenge to unlimited Artificial Intelligence. They succeded in creating a very simple robot and use an evolutionary algorithm so that the robot can learn to walk (or jump, as the case may be) just like a human child learns. But then they added a little bit of magic:

MacLeod’s team took this idea a step further, however, and developed an incremental evolutionary algorithm (IEA) capable of adding new parts to its robot brain over time.

What this means is that when the robot’s performance and learning has stopped, then another system takes over and modifies the robot’s brain. This is an incredibly powerful and promising approach, and the challenge in the past has been limited computing power. The reason is that you need an exponentially faster processor to carry out this brain modification functionality.

Fortunately for us, accelerating technology will remove this challenge. Right now computer power is doubling approximately every year. The result is that in just three or four years we can buy a computer 10 times as powerful for the same money. The really exciting part is that it will make it possible to create artificial intelligence of unlimited power.

The researchers are working on creating a simple robot that moves along the tabletop. However, they will be able to apply the systems that control brain modification to all future robots that they create. It’s only a matter of time before this technology is applied to a more complex system such as vision recognition or stock trading. This will create a system that actually works better than the human counterpart.

Many of these ideas may sound silly today, but just 20 years ago our current level of technology could be imagined by only a few people. Anyone who is aware of the power of accelerating technology can visualize Artificial Intelligence systems that are more powerful and work much better than their human counterparts.

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Today I discovered that Tony Robbins has a blog. In case you didn’t know, Tony is perhaps the most famous person in the personal development field. If you’re looking for any strategies to succeed in any area of your life, I highly recommend his materials.

One of the interesting things that Tony talks about is that everything we do is connected to everything else. You might think a certain thought or take a certain action, and discover that it led to a series of “coincidences” and results that you couldn’t have ever predicted.

This blog is one of those results. The fact that you are reading this right now is the result of the books I’ve read, conversations with Matt, and innumerable daydreaming hours. Six months ago it seemed like a good idea for our company to have a blog. And now there is one.

So, I wonder, are there certain things in your life that you value right now, that you can track back to a series of coincidences or events? Do you sometimes imagine, “What if I hadn’t met that person?” Or, “What if I wasn’t walking down the street that day, when that fateful event happened?”

Philosophers love to debate about free will and fate. I don’t know much about philosophy, but it seems to me that we are all connected by some invisible force that we cannot see. “Coincidences” can be fortunate or unfortunate. Perhaps it’s because we don’t see the connections that causes us to believe in coincidences.

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As technology increases, most futurists expect minds to be upgraded by machines. However, according to author Rick Notter, of Better Sound Advice, machines are benefiting the brain right now… through music.

Music, according to Notter, can relax, rejuvenate and re-wire your current thinking machine. In fact, according to Notter, music can help you cure your insomnia, lose weight, improve your attitude, and change your life.

This isn’t necessarily a new idea–from war drums to love songs–music was meant to create emotions and emotions can create real physiological changes. Look at your friend’s face when his or her favorite song plays. Think about how you’re transported back in time when you hear a song from “back in the day.” And watch people dance

Music is also part ofa new generation of Mind Spas, something that is very much associated with Singularity mind-machine integration. Here, one doctor explains how these mind spas are revitalizing an aging population.

Dr. David Loewenstein, a University of Miami brain disorders researcher, said there’s much interest in any therapies that could help keep aging brains quick. With 78 million baby boomers beginning to hit their 60s, “there’s a big market for these sort of things.”

There are apparently a lot of ways to get to the Singularity.

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Once again, the future is upon us. Just like on Star Trek, you can now talk to your computer. Since my hands were hurting from carpal tunnel, I decided to give voice software to try.

This software works 10 times better than I imagined. After doing research on the Internet it seems like Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the best software for voice recognition. Many people said that it doesn’t work very well, but I don’t think they tried it.

I was chatting with Matt online, and he had no idea that I had switched from typing to voice recognition software. it’s pretty interesting, actually. Because when you talk, you use a different part of your brain from when you type.

As a matter of fact, I’m using this software to dictate this post.

The really neat thing about this software is that it makes the promise of accelerating technology more and more real. It seems kind of silly to talk to a computer instead of using the keyboard, but in a few years it will seem natural.

Human beings have a certain natural resistance to change. When cars first appeared, just about 100 years ago, they didn’t even have a name for them! That’s why they called them horseless carriages. The same is true for the changes that we have today.

And so it is with voice recognition as well. Soon everyone will use it and it will be more common and easier than using a keyboard and mouse.

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