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Many people try to remember information by sound—repeating it over and over again, hoping it will somehow stick. But sound is very limited because it doesn’t attach easily to other memories. A sound is also sequential; to remember information by sound, you have to start at the beginning and work your way through it. When you see information as an

After many years of working with students, I am convinced that the attempt of these study guides to squeeze a nonlinear process like writing into a linear order is the main reason for the very problems and frustrations they promise to solve.

National Academy of Sciences has gone on the record, saying that “the Federal government should not rely on polygraph examinations for screening prospective or current employees to identify spies or other national security risks because the test results are too inaccurate.” With as little as fifteen minutes of training, people have been able to

Also, use their name in conversation. The more you talk about the name the less you will rely on working memory and the more you will begin to store it. Ask yourself, “What is that person’s name again?” Get the answer and then ask yourself, “Does that feel right?” Try to strengthen the association during the course of the day or evening.

with any reasonably broad definition of conduct, it is clear that communication either affects conduct or is without any discernible and probable effect at all.

Comparison Connection With this method, you connect the person to a name that you already know. Let’s say we meet a person by the name of George. To make the name stick, we think of someone that we already know with the same name. Do you know another George?

I heard the same Andy Warhol quote several times: “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

He goes on to conclude that “defining risk is thus an exercise in power.”

You will also likely have to remind the group that the goal is not practicality. We’re living in a counterfactual world and nothing should be taken as unachievable at this point; we’ll have plenty of time to be choosy during intervention selection, and we can always scale back a strong intervention to fit resource constraints. There may also be a