Einstein and mental snapshots
The name A. Einstein is a universal metaphor for genius and intelligence. Even those of us who struggle with math and physics may be familiar with terms like E=MC2, general and special relativity, and his 1921 Nobel Prize in physics for the photoelectric effect.
His 1905 work is still considered miraculous by superstring theorists; and there are scientists who believe that his Unified Field Theory is correct. He did not work on the atomic bomb, but he did alert President Roosevelt that the Nazis were committed to making such a bomb in order to win World War II.
Al cashed in his chips in 1955 at age 76 and bequeathed his brain to researchers at
Princeton University. After many years of research it was concluded that nothing
in Einstein’s brain explained his scientific genius.
Lost objects
For the next twenty years, Einstein’s brain was lost in space. Steven Levy cared;
a reporter for the New Jersey Monthly circa 1975, set out to hunt him down.
It turned out to be in the possession of Dr. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who
He did the autopsy in Princeton. He had taken the brain with him to his laboratory in Wichita, Kansas. Tissue samples were sent to interested scientists and the rest were
moved back to Princeton, NJ because of Levy.
One of Einstein’s brain tissue samples was sent to McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, for Dr. Sandra F. Witelson and her team. In 1999, she submitted the results of her examination to the Lancet (British medical journal) for publication.
Einstein’s brain revealed 15% more width compared to other normal cerebral cortices. Specifically, Brodmann Area 39, is the site of mathematical thinking, and the ability to analyze in terms of space and movement; it was significantly larger in Einstein’s brain.
Not words, but clear images of a visual kind: it was a specialty of Einstein’s brain,
according to Dr. Witelson. This Area 39 is located in the Parietal lobe and is part of the Cortex Association of our brain; activate Mental Visualizations and potential creativity.
glial cells
Gray matter consists of our brain cells, 100 billion neurons, and in particular their axons and dendrites. The white matter is complementary glial (glue) cells, which
number ten to fifty times more than neurons. However, our glial cells do not receive respect.
Until about ten years ago, glials were considered housekeepers, who simply cleaned
broken and dead neurons.
Today, astrocytes (star-shaped), a type of glial cell, are credited with providing
insulation for neurons (myelin) located in our Central and Peripheral Nervous System, and for having projections to anchor our neurons to their blood supply.
Glia provide nutrition and support in synaptic signal transmissions (link).
These activities are of primary consideration for life. Glia are also involved in neurotransmitter release and synaptic plasticity (change) and synaptogenesis (growth) of neurons. Our glial cells are deadly serious life-enhancing things.
Profound statement: it seems our memories are stored in the synapses of
our neurons. See: Hebb research. Synapse is the connectivity (union) of neurons, from the Greek, which means to unite. You might want to remember that Synaptic
Plasticity is the most important of our neurochemical bases of learning and
memory.
final words 1
Al Einstein said – Imagination is more important than knowledge. One fades into obscurity in five years, the other connects with the cosmos. He also said: Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted,
account Knew more than E=MC2.
mental snapshots
Interested in Einstein’s secrets of mental visualization?
Whether it applies to common mortals without a brain 15% wider for glial cells is up to you.
Look-Link-Snap
1. Close your eyes. Access Alpha brain wave cycles from 8-13 Hz
and creates alert relaxation.
2. Look: Place a mental image on the movie screen of your mind: Example: Look, visualize and create a man with a cup of coffee balanced on his head, with grass green hair, standing on a slab of ice. When you decide to take the step of Looking, you are focusing your Attention through Intention.
3. Link: it is connecting what you see with the new thing you want
remember. Our goal is to remember the name of this
man we met at a business conference.
He introduced himself as Joe Greenberg. The truckers order a cup of coffee: a cup of Joe, and seeing it mentally on top of his head is so bizarre that he’ll never forget that his first name is Joe.
His hair looks like a strip of grass, deep green. You
You can hardly forget that hair color; represents the first half of your
Last name, Green. He is standing on a slab of ice remembering
us from an Iceberg, and establishes a link to the last half of its
name, Green-Berg.
4. Snap: is to create a long-term mental memory in our
hippocampus that we can recover, and a physiological anchor
in our body we can anchor this strange memory.
All it takes to create the snapshot is intentionally blinking
your eyes like a camera lens three times
quickly. The secret is in three blinks with the lens of your eyes.
You capture the unique image of Joe Greenberg,
with the cup of coffee on her head, green hair, and standing
in a barrel of ice one-two-three-times. You break it once, and
open your eyes for a second; close and break a second time;
open your eyes for the third time and take this strange image
again for just a second. Now you have it in less than a minute.
final words 2
This Look-Link-Snap system works to remember names and faces.
Find a way that helps you access their face, height, or posture.
Turn a book into a memorable mental visualization, based on its key
ideas Attend a lecture and remember the main ideas using
your eyes to create a mental snapshot of the ideas discussed.
Do you know that the average college graduate forgets 92% of what they have
read, seen or heard within fifteen minutes, when memory is left to chance?
You now have a tool that is easy to use, always works, and develops your
learning and memory skills. Keep in mind that there are scientists who offer
evidence indicating that training your imagination creates a firewall to prevent
Alzheimer disease. Yes really. What’s the secret again? Look-Link-Snap.
See you,
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H. Bernard Wechsler
http://www.speedlearning.org
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