10 Crazy Facts about Christopher Columbus – Happy Columbus Day

Columbus Day – A Day of Discovery

…plus a Free Brain Management Lesson

Have you ever thought, “I wish I had all the information…” before solving a problem?

We take information for granted, and it can undermine our results when we do. Here is an example of just how facts can change the way you think about things, or change the way you go about solving problems…

Discovery…

In the 1400s, it was a very different world than what we live in today. Filth, rats, and disease were considered normal. So it is not surprising that some of the facts about Christopher Columbus may shock you…

Did you know Christopher Columbus was a pirate and slave trader, and was taken back to Spain in chains? Discover this and more. Facts build Truth.

Happy Columbus Day!

Christopher Columbus Discovers America?

10 crazy facts about Christopher Columbus…

(There are other shocking facts too, but I stopped at 10.)

Christopher Columbus DID NOT discover the main land mass of America. He only discovered the West Indies; which he named such, believing he had reached the western edge of India. He never set foot on the mainland of North America.

2. The first sight of land was on October 12, 1492. This island in the Bahamas (Caribbean) was named Rodrigo de Triana. It is now called San Salvador.

3. Before getting his commission and setting off to discover the trade route, Christopher Columbus was a PIRATE and made a living attacking other ships.

4. Christopher Columbus became a SLAVE TRADER. He pioneered the American Slave Trade. Excerpts from Columbus’ logbook note that the natives “…would make fine servants. With 50 men we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want.” He later wrote, “Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.”

5. Columbus destroyed the native population of Haiti (the Taino Indians); mainly through contagious diseases; but also forced gold taxation leading to torture, murder, suicides and the like. He then began shipping African slaves to the island, which has had consequences reaching into modern day.

6. The birth name of Christopher Columbus was Cristoforo Colombo. He was born in Italy.

7. The crew of the first voyage consisted of 24 men for the Nina, 26 for the Pinta, and 40 for the Santa Maria. There were NO WOMEN allowed.

8. The name of Columbus’ ship “Pinta”, is Spanish for “Prostitute”.

9. Half of Columbus’ voyages ended in disaster. On his first voyage (1492), his fully outfitted flagship, the Santa Maria, ran aground and sank. On his fourth trip, his ship rotted away and he spent a year with his men marooned on Jamaica.

10. Christopher Columbus has been viewed as an intrepid explorer, a monster, and a slave trader; who unleashed horrors and conquest upon unsuspecting natives. He was the first in a long line of many in the continued conquest of the Americas. However, scholars note #Columbus had both admirable qualities and negative ones: even though it appears he was brave, Columbus is also seen as a very flawed human being.

In Columbus’ day, things were looked at differently. He was probably seen as a hero, and in some ways a good business man. Even to this day, some of his achievements are still celebrated in his name. But over time, the facts about him and his achievements have been blurred and forgotten by the masses. Does it make Columbus any less of a man? That is for you to decide.

Your Brain Management Lesson:

Quality Information = Great Decisions

Don’t take information for granted. There are hidden facts underneath the truth. #Discover the facts. Good decisions are important to your quality of life. If you make your decisions based upon the masses, you get mediocre results. If you have poor information, you will make poor choices. If you approach problems with wisdom gained from the facts, your decisions will have the best results.

With all the decisions you must make daily, it is difficult to glean all the information you need, if you rely on reading and speed reading. The speed at which you absorb the information is relatively slow. You experience a bottleneck. You know you can get information much faster, but your technique is holding you back. But there is something in your brain that makes it 100 times more difficult — your short term memory.

Short Term Memory = Hippocampus

The processing to handle short term memory is done by the hippocampus. In short, the job of the #Hippocampus is to FORGET; not to remember. Your hippocampus chooses what bits are important (only 5%) and forgets the rest. This is why most people claim, “I forgot what I just read.” And only the 5% is what makes it into your long term memory.

Teachers in the educational system give you a heap of remedies to increase your long term memory of the information you gather. But, all of them consume time. Time is the one thing you cannot get back or replace. It is gone. You need a system that that outperforms the learning system you are taught in school; to STOP forgetting the information you must remember.

Plug into Your Matrix…

Until “plugging in” to get your information downloaded, like in the movie, “The Matrix” becomes commonplace, you need a system utilizing your photographic memory, that uses your brain in the same fashion; but without all of the gimmicks.

You can set your brain in motion in incredible ways to get fantastic results. This is done through a series of brain building exercises. The ordinary exercises like Sudoku, crossword puzzles, and such are not enough to overcome the stress threshold you need for neuroplasticity to occur; or the point at which your brain automatically triggers growth of more neurons and synapse. That is where Mental Photography (ZOXing) comes in. It provides the stimulus needed to move you above and beyond the growth threshold of #Neuroplasticity.

Summary:

To make your best decisions, you need A-Grade Quality Information.

To get A-Grade quality information fast, you must be using your #PhotographicMemory through your subconscious.

To gain the best results with your memory and all-round brain function, you must use brain exercises that are capable of triggering neuroplasticity to occur.

Or you can continue to lead a mediocre life using mediocre information to make your mediocre decisions. It takes no effort. Just continue to do things the old-fashioned way you were taught by your teachers at school.

The Day of Discovery

You owe it to yourself to get the best possible tools to make the best decisions in your life along the way.

The result proven tools we offer are presented in ZOX Pro Training (Internet only), Brain Management Home Study (Traditional CDs and books and study guide), Brain Management Seminar, and eBrain Executive Seminar (Australia only).

Discover yourself! (...and have a nice Columbus Day)

Shannon Panzo, PhD

Great Things Happen Here!

Columbus’ Discovery

Do You Know Too Much Knowledge can be Dangerous ?

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Do You Know Too Much?

Knowledge can be Dangerous.

Is it possible to have too much knowledge?

If you were to study at even the crazy speed read that Mental Photography / ZOXing gives you, you could spend every hour of every day absorbing information on any given topic, but you would still only be scratching the surface of all the information that can be accessed.

Consider for a moment just how disadvantaged most people are when the just read or speed read.

The speed read that ZOX Pro travels at are completely unfathomable to most people. Even though Mental Photography BEGINS at 25,000 words per minute, we are not limited to this. ZOX Pro Trainees often are Mentally Photographing material at speed read in excess of 100,000, even 200,000 or more words per minute.

The best thing is when our proficient clients are moving through information at high velocity speed read; they are not just getting the information. Since it is absorbed at a different level, they accumulate the knowledge, and even the wisdom that is needed. While most people would take much time, usually years, between gaining the information, then the knowledge philosophy, and finally the wisdom; our clients get it all at the same time.

Knowing enough to be dangerous

Knowing a little can sometimes be as dangerous as not knowing enough. Since you are likely viewing this on your PC or ipad, we can use that as a good example. Sure, you know how to negotiate your way through it, get email, do your electronic banking, view a myriad of websites, buy stuff, and so on. But, what happens if something goes wrong? What if things stop working, or giving you bad results for the same things you have always done. Maybe your PC is just getting slower and slower.

Yes, you know enough to get you to the point of trouble. But do you know enough to get yourself out of trouble? Your immediate answer should NOT be, take it to the technician.

As you are operating your PC, temp files are accruing, viruses and malware can be coming into your machine by just visiting websites. Nobody in their right mind would operate a PC on the Internet without having Anti-virus protection. There are invasive cookies that can ultimately take control of your PC, and feed all your important files to someplace else. Banking fraud and identity theft are out of control. Even those revealing pictures of you that nobody else in the world have, are subject to theft and distribution across the Internet.

Caught out…

Recently, a man constructing an Internet site went to a photographic studio on the Internet to purchase some photos about his topic of interest. To his surprise, he found several nude photos of his daughter that he had no knowledge of. His daughter thought she had them safe and sound on her PC. What she did not know was she had picked up photo “scraping” malware that sent all her photos to a distribution point in Russia, where her pictures were being sold all over the world.

Yes, having the knowledge to be on the Internet is good, but doing it safely is another matter. Proper maintenance on your PC is paramount. Most people just don’t have time to learn it (using conventional methods). Even people that do have the maintenance knowledge do not maintain their PC often enough. You are most likely to see problems first in the performance of your PC.

On the Internet, there are generally 2 types of people. (You can be both types) You have the “Users” that find things on the Internet. You also have the “Creators”; those who create the Internet, both good and bad.

The Internet is constantly changing. You have regulating bodies (toothless tigers) that claim they regulate and prohibit spam. How often do you get spam? If they were on a performance based award system, how would you rank their performance? If you have dealings with FaceBook or Google, you must know how often they change their own rules. That is only 2 of the many organizations that help re-shape the Internet, daily.

If you are in business at all on the Internet, you are continuously being barraged with new information. Many of our clients come from the Internet community. We have the tools they need to keep ahead of the ever-changing Internet.

To operate on the Internet without good information is dangerous. Anticipate and prevent problems.
Or, you can bury your head in the sand; and when you get BURNED, perhaps you will remember where you can get the tools to give you knowledge base and make you wiser.

Shannon Panzo

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Connect the Dots with The Law of Attraction

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The Secret Law of Attraction

Decision Making and Clarity

Law of Attraction

Does the proper use of The Secret Law of Attraction confuse you?

In recent years there have been a number of organizations pop up that give you complex ways to solve simple problems. That seems a bit convoluted to how you would prefer to do things. Ask yourself this, why do some people make some things very complex when they do not need to be?

Money

Creating a following

…and then more money.

There are many people that prey on others that do not have enough good information to make a proper decision.

Brain Management is different

We do our best to prepare our clients to use our trainings in the real world, and of their own accord. We keep it simple. Even in the simplest format, some people would think our training is complex. Why would we ever choose to make it complicated? Richard Welch spent over 10 years simplifying the process to make it easy to use. Here is one example:

The Law of Attraction

When you play connect-the-dots, you have to, well, connect the dots to create a picture. Some versions actually have the dots numbered, so that you know the exact sequence to follow. If you miss even one of the numbered dots, then your picture becomes a puzzle, or maybe just a jumble. Think of The Secret Law of Attraction as a universal game of connect-the-dots.

The Secret of the Secret Law of Attraction

Each of the dots in The Secret Law of Attraction is equally important. But some dots require no effort while others seem impossible to link logically with the others. Regardless of the effort required by each dot, they each have an equal role toward gaining your ultimate objective. And if one dot was just too difficult to link, or you inadvertently missed one, well, Game Over!

If you take shortcuts and fail to achieve your desired results, don’t blame The Secret Law of Attraction. Like those numbered dots, The Law of Attraction only works when you work it – by following the Rules of Engagement.

Developing Clarity

If you have too much on your mind, it is impossible to develop clarity. You must be CLEAR on the concept to achieve your desires – and to allow The Law of Attraction to work. Let’s take decisions, for example. Everyone likes to have choices. But scientific research demonstrates that humans go into overload when more than seven choices are presented. So NOW you understand why you feel so bewildered when you go to the grocery store.

The Process of Elimination can assist decisions

Of course, you wouldn’t trade bewilderment for the problems faced by shoppers in the old Soviet Bloc – no choice at all, and really, there is no need to take such drastic measures. Simply start by determining what your real priority is. Focus on that, while eliminating less important factors and you will soon develop valuable clarity on what really matters. Adding Mental Photography strengthens the brain, clears away the debris and allows your wonderful brain to function properly – FAST and CLEAN. Then you will see just how efficient The Secret Law of Attraction can be.

Law of Attraction Tip:

The words you use are less important than your INTENT.

Shannon Panzo

Great Things Happen Here!

The Photographic Memory – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words …

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Google.com search for Photographic Memory

The Photographic Memory …

ZOX Pro Training has been teaching people how to use their photographic memory since 1975. The parent organization, Educom, Inc., has been teaching the Mental Photography techniques in Brain Management training since the beginning. We released ZOX Pro Training onto the Internet in 2008. People around the world have benefited that would have never had access to our training otherwise.

The Picture …

The Google.com search pictured above is a snapshot of ZOX Pro Training’s unique place in the industry of alternative learning. Our techniques accelerate learning to all new levels that most people find incredible, starting at 25,000 words per minute. The brain exercises taught within the training strengthen your brain, gaining clarity, and the way it functions naturally by way of what is now referred to as neural-plasticity.

This picture signifies recognition by the Internet, and portrays the quality Richard Welch, the “Father of Mental Photography” had envisioned 39 years earlier.

The Eidetic Memory …

People are often confused by the difference between the eidetic memory and the photographic memory (eidetic memory vs photographic memory). You are born with the eidetic memory. This is how you learn everything when you are very young till around the age of 5. When you are born, you are a genius; an information sponge absorbing information faster than light speed, naturally, and with ALL of your senses. The best thing is you never lose your eidetic memory and the abilities it gives you. Most people are taught out of using it fluently.

The first recorded use of the words “photographic memory” is 1924. But we also know there are plenty of people from history before that time that demonstrate these abilities. Why then do many psychologists find the term so easy to discredit? First, and probably most importantly, the word “photographic” only refers to the visual sense, while “eidetic” refers to ALL of your senses. How silly! Someone was not able to remember the technical term “eidetic memory” so they simply made up a word close to the same meaning – the “photographic memory”.

Since the amount of information your brain takes in from vision is over ten times that of all of your other senses combined, it could easily be used as a relevant exchange word. But the carryover to this day has missed the original meaning, which is relevant to all of your senses. So, now when the psychologists and brain researchers are looking for the people with photographic memory, they are looking at a flawed model of what it is meant to actually represent.

So, in more concise terms, the word “photographic memory” does not exist. We use the word photographic memory for our services because that is what the rest of the world is commonly using, albeit improperly. There are many scholars that study how words within languages have changed over time. Often times, a process like this creates a new word or usage.

Thanks!

We would like to thank you, the person that enjoys getting news on the further applications and developments of our trainings. We encourage every one of you to power-up your brain, and make it your best asset for your future.

Shannon Panzo, PhD

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Is Life Fair? Look at the World Naked, Laid Bare, and Nude

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Life is fair!

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Have you always believed that life is inherently unfair, regardless of how much you wish that circumstances were otherwise? So why is life so unfair? One way to address the question is to visualize everyone in the world as “naked.” That includes you – me, EVERYONE! Reactions to this revealing turn of events would range from passion to loathing and from hysteria to phobias.

The phrase “the crowded elevator has more than one person in it.” would take on an entirely new meaning!
Sooner rather than later, the novelty would wear off and nudity would become the norm. Perversion would yield to curiosity, and finally nudity would become dull, even boring. Nudity presents a picture of who we are as human beings, without the trappings of culture and status.

Standing Naked…

At this point, some readers may hesitate to continue reading, while others are eagerly anticipating what is next. No matter where you stand, envision yourself in the Naked World. How would you feel? How would you behave? And to whom would you display fairness?

What would you present to inspire others to be fair to you?

You have just experienced a mental photography exercise!

In this exercise, you envisioned yourself in a different reality using Mental Photography techniques. This sort of visioning provides great perspective to the paradigm you carry at present. To understand yourself fully, you must frequently move out of your comfort zone. Because of your inherent mind-body connection, you may explore your boundaries with how to use Mental Photography. If you embrace the experience of being naked within, you can move beyond your mental boundaries to enjoy all that life has to offer.

Shannon Panzo

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