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See-cret: Wealth-Building Visualization Tips

May 13th, 2009

There’s a story about legendary quarterback Joe Montana.

After his first Super Bowl win, a reporter asked what it was like playing in his first Super Bowl. Montana said, it wasn’t his first Super Bowl. He had played that game as a kid hundreds of times.

What I think Montana is saying is that when he was young, he saw himself playing in the Super Bowl, all the time, probably like a lot of other kids. But, unlike most youngsters, Montana kept his faith and kept working and kept visualizing that goal, even as most of his contemporaries lost their drive.

If your goal is personal wealth, visualization can helps you achieve Super Bowl-type performances.

Here’s how:
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Savantism And Your Mind’s Singularity

January 12th, 2009

In a fascinating interview available in Scientific America on Savantism (which I found as a newsletterSavantism subscriber from KurzweilAI, we are introduced to the mind of the savant.

Daniel Tammet, an author, linguist and a savant, offers explanations on how he thinks. Tammet, for instance, set the European record for reciting the first 22,514 decimal points of Pi.

The key appears to be that savants think on a different dimension, turning numbers into shapes and colors, for instance.

Here’s what Tammet says:

In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my “friends.” I think this is why my memory is very deep, because the information is not static. I say in my book that I do not crunch numbers (like a computer). Rather, I dance with them.

The dude is not using fingers and thumbs like I do.

But, I wonder could this type of thinking be teachable? Could it be developed? Could it be enhanced?

At one time, people could not read a passage silently. To do so was a great, almost magic skill. But over time people developed it and today, kids can do it.

Let’s go another bold step: What if the skills of the savant are just the surface of the mind’s incredible potential, no more magic than the early silent reader plowing his or her way through the Book of Luke?

Compared to the potential of consciousness, could the Tammet’s power of calculation and inter-dimensional thinking be no more amazing and powerful than the person silently reading to himself or herself a few hundred years ago?

Is a singularity in consciousness possible?

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Moving Things with Your Brain

September 13th, 2008

 

Your brain moves all sorts of things: it swivels your neck; it flexes and retracts your arms, it can move your legs. These miracles are really just an electro-chemical reaction.NeuroSky

Now companies are attempting to turn brainwaves into the ultimate joystick. NeutoSky is making an brain-object interface. Your brain produces brainwaves that become the commands. These brainwaves can be sent wirelessly to the object you want to move.

This device may be released initially as a component for video games. There’s also the possibility that this can help people stay awake while driving. Falling asleep while driving is lethal.

I have no doubt that as this technology is refined it will generate other uses. It may be a sign that as technology advances the line between machine and mind will blur.

But, the brain doesn’t just move little objects on a screen; brains move markets and machines are being used to tap into this.

People thoughts, hopes, and dreams are the basis for the world economy and the various markets. Online Investing AI is hoping to tap into these mass brain commands out there by using advance technology to create investment systems that produce high returns at minimum risk.

If a brain-object interface is the next step in mental evolution, this is the next step in financial evolution.

 

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