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

2 Pages Per Second – Minimum

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2 Pages Per Second – Minimum

by Thornton Massie Tice

My son came to me one night while I was working on the computer and asked, “Poppa, can you find something about speed reading on the Internet for me? I’d like to learn it.” “Sure” I replied, and within a few seconds I had a page of speed reading courses that were offered. One particular one caught my eye. It read, “25,000 words per minute minimum!” I chose that one and clicked on it and up popped a presentation by a company named Brain Management®. I read through their web pages at “www.eBrain.com.au” and “www.ZOXpro.com” and discovered that they don’t actually teach speed-reading. They teach “Mental Photography®”.

Photographic Memory

I became very excited because they seem to offer a lost piece of my life experience that I thought that I would be able to have from the time that I was a child. When I was a youngster my father was a newspaper editor. At night he would sit down and literally flip through the pages of a book and sometimes hand the book to me and say, “Here Son, read me a sentence from anywhere in the book. I thought that it was some kind of trick, but he could do it even if I went around the corner into the hallway. Dad explained to me that he had a photographic memory.

My Mother recently told me, Dad would bring a stack of books to bed each night and read them all in just a few minutes. She asked, “Thornton, what are you doing?” He stopped flipping the pages, looked at her and said, “Reading.” “No one can read that fast.” she replied. “It’s impossible!” He assured her that he could. I thought Dad would always be there for me and never asked him to teach me how this was done. My father died when I was twenty years old. I have lamented my not having gotten an understanding of his photographic memory.

When I read the information on Brain Management and their course on Mental Photography I shouted, “Eureka!” This is something that I want to make sure that all of my children have.” Now they have made it easier to get over the Internet with ZOX Pro Training.

A NEW way to Learn How to Learn

Richard Welch, CEO and Founder says that everyone is born with the ability to learn by Mental Photography and in fact everyone uses it to learn everything – until we are about five years old. That is when we enter the public school system and learn the Rote-Memory System of reading. I believe that is when the brakes are put on our learning process and we move from potential genius into slow thinkers that store most educational matter into our short-term memory rather than our long-term memory. Learning by Mental Photography places matter into our long-term memory. That’s why my father could remember every word in the dictionary without “memorizing” the words. Excitedly, I e-mailed Brain Management and told them I wanted to take my whole family to America to learn this wonderful ability that my father had.

Brain Management – Powerful!

The Brain Management Seminar is truly a Whole Life Enhancement Course, and it is powerful! Mental Photography is used for much more than assimilating information. It is the life force of the course. Mental Photography is the Key for making this all work. As a Brain Management student, you experience Mental Photography, take tests, etc,… then they teach you ways in which to recall that information when you ‘need’ it.” It is a very specific method of directing information into the long-term memory.

Mental Photography bypasses Dyslexia!

During the class, adults and children with dyslexia quickly overcame that problem, and after the seminar function with excellence and confidence in education and writing, and any other challenge.

My father stacked up degrees during his lifetime. He sort of collected them. After all, all he had to do was mentally photograph the books into his long-term memory and take the exams. Now I will be able to learn what was natural to me as a child, and take that ability with me to easily further my education. Why not!? Others are doing it!

There are several languages that I want for my children and myself to know. By Mentally Photographing the cross language dictionaries of any desired language into the long-term memory, it is possible to know the whole vocabulary of a language in as much time as it takes to flip the pages of the book. Then by Mentally Photographing a study book for that language, the only thing you’re short, is knowing the sound of the language. For that you could listen to tapes or speak with someone who speaks that particular language.

Limitless Brainpower

The possibilities are limitless with this kind of brainpower. For years scientists have told us that we use less than ten percent of our brain’s capacity. Now I have found the way back into the other ninety percent and intend to see that my wife and children learn it and move through life with the confidence that will be theirs with this command of powerful intelligence that is naturally available for all of our children. This reinforces my personal long held understanding that all of mankind is born genius and then robbed of it by being taught an unnatural method of learning – “reading”. Mental Photography puts real meaning to the phrase, “Be all that you can be!”

Empower Yourself!

Successful Brain Management and Mental Photography Seminars have been taught throughout the world and offer FREE REFRESHERS FOR LIFE. They are committed to the success of their students.

Finally, this superior training is available on the Internet at http://ZOXpro.com/ ZOX Pro Training. It is deceptively over-simplified, and driven to help you succeed.

Great Things Happen Here!

Revisions: When this article was originally written, ZOX Pro Training was not available to the public. Since then, ZOX Pro Training was created from the Brain Management Seminar. ZOX Pro Training is Brain Management and Mental Photography training in collaboration with Richard Welch, the Founder. – Shannon Panzo