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This exercise is based on logic and visual problem solving techniques.
A modern artist has 10 identical statues that are to be exhibited in one room of the gallery. The artist insists that there are 3 statues against each of the 4 walls. How would you arrange the figures?
See how much time it takes you to solve it.
If you see the answer instantly - excellent!
2 minutes - great!
10 minutes - good!
Not at all - practice solving more logic puzzles!
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Answer will be posted in comments.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
Emerson M. Pugh
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
George Dorsey
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Albert Einstein
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
Anonymous
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The US Government tried to ban them on TV and radio back in 1974. They were once arguably used to boost sales of popcorn in movie theaters by almost 60%. And today, they’re the subject of numerous Derren Brown-style “mind” shows airing throughout the globe.
I’m talking, of course, about subliminal messages.
However despite all the media hype, subliminal messages aren’t just used by advertising moguls trying to get us to buy another can of coke. They can also be employed to make serious and lasting change in our own lives.
In this short article, I’m going to share a method you can use to get subliminal messages working for you—starting tonight!
But before we begin, let’s ask ourselves: what exactly are subliminal messages?
Subliminal is defined as “below the threshold of consciousness”. Subliminal messaging refers to the act of sending messages direct to the powerful subconscious mind, the part of your brain that controls everything from memory to body temperature to providing your conscious mind with its core traits.
Subliminals really hit the headlines back in the 70’s, when advertisers began inserting messages into commercials. The messages were simply 100-millisecond flashes, and nobody officially “saw” them. Yet sales mysteriously rocketed.
Even Hollywood got in on the act. Alfred Hitchcock planted his own subliminals inside the movie “Psycho”!
These suggestions were having so much impact, that the US Government almost banned subliminals back in the mid-70’s – and UK, Australian and Canadian governments actually did ban the technology.
Yet by this time, the news was out – and individuals were beginning to realize the potential of subliminals as a revolutionary self-help tool. The idea of sending self-improvement affirmations direct to the subconscious mind was suddenly open to everyone.
But how? There are two primary ways you can actually “send” subliminal messages. Visually, such as using the latest Subliminal Power software program (www.subliminal-power.com) to flash messages around your computer screen as you work. Or, less effectively, using sound, such as with the subliminal CDs you can order online at sites such as Subliminal CDs (www.subliminal-cds.com).
Yet if your budget is low, there’s an even cheaper way to get the power of subliminal messaging working for you!
Here’s how. Begin by identifying a couple of core goals you’d like to concentrate on in your life right now. For example, you may wish to learn faster or quit smoking. Then, write that goal down as a simple, short, positive affirmation.
For example, “I am a quick learner” or “I am ready to quit smoking”. Other examples include “I invest wisely”, “My reading speed increases every day”, or “I am now more confident”.
Be careful: do not use negative terms, such as “Not” or “Don’t” in your message. The subconscious does not understand such words in context and would read “I don’t gain weight” as “I gain weight”. You have been warned.
Now write your affirmation, clearly and in thick black marker pen, onto a sheet of white cardboard. Create three-or-so cards, each with affirmations focusing on your core theme, and store them next to your bed with a flashlight.
Next comes the unsociable part!
We’re going to catch your mind in a highly receptive state, by waking it up in the middle of the night, when the door to your subconscious is wide open.
Set your alarm clock for 3am, then go to sleep as normal. As soon as you hear the ring, turn off the alarm and—almost instinctively—pick up the affirmation cards and your flashlight. The room should be pitch black.
Next, flick the flashlight on and off very quickly a dozen times over each affirmation card. While doing this, stare at the cards. Do not consciously try to make out the words. These subliminal messages are for the subconscious.
When you’re done, simply turn off the flashlight, put down the cards and return to sleep. It will take just two minutes of your time and I guarantee you’ll fall straight back into deep and restful slumber.
That’s it: you’ve just “sent” a bundle of subliminal messages straight to your subconscious. What follows is exciting!
After the first few nights of using this technique, most individuals report problem-solving dreams that assist in their goals or influence their decisions. Just a week later and practically all participants note a serious movement toward their core goal. Their leaning speed improves dramatically. Their nicotine addiction is cut in half.
As the change comes from within, it isn’t always obvious. Yet a few weeks down the line, most individuals sit back and realize just how far they’ve progressed without consciously realizing it. Soon, your goals have been achieved... the messages worked. When ready, you can move onto your next set of goals by simply writing out a new set of affirmation cards.
It’s a very simple system, yet remains highly powerful and terribly underused.
Most people reading this article won’t try this straightforward experiment. Maybe they just don’t believe it will work, or maybe they view it as being altogether too much hassle.
It’s inconvenient, certainly—perhaps not as user-friendly as a piece of modern subliminal software. But you think it doesn’t work? Then try it for a week, and see for yourself. Anthony Robbins, Tiger Woods, Derren Brown, New Scientist magazine, even the U.S. Government all know the power behind subliminal messaging.
And if you don’t, maybe it’s about time you caught up.
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Bradley Thompson is a well-known mind guru and commissioner of the critically-acclaimed Subliminal Power software at http://www.subliminal-power.com/ as used by Olympic athlete winners. Bradley is also the creator of self-empowerment tools such as Subliminal-Studio, Subliminal-CDs.com, Instant Hypnosis Downloads, and Binaural Beats. You can find his homepage online at http://www.selfhelpstreet.com/
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This exercise will enhance both your lateral and logic thinking. Take a piece of paper and draw 9 points as shown below:
O O O
O O O
O O O
Task: Without lifting the pen or pencil from the paper, connect all 9 points together using 4 straight lines. Try to do it within 5 minutes.
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12 do-it-yourself books that go beyond ordinary: treat yourself (or your loved ones) to DIY brain surgery, kinky toy or a coffin.
Do-It-Yourself Coffins: For Pets and People 
Dale Power,Jeffrey B.
Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends and Scare Your Neighbors
Tom Nardone
The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Survival Shelter Construction Manual
Michael A. Pugliese
Bankruptcy Do It Yourself
Janice Kosel
Do-it-yourself brain surgery & other home skills
Stewart Cowley
Do-It-Yourself Piston Polishing
Scott O'Hara
The Do It Yourself Lobotomy
Tom Monahan
2DO Before I Die : The Do-It Yourself Guide to the Rest of Your Life
Michael Ogden
How to Touch a Leper: A Do-it-yourself Guide to Healing
Paul Olson
Dr. Block's Do-it-yourself Illustrated Human Sexuality Book for Kids
Dr. Charles Block
KinkyCrafts 99 Do-It Yourself S/M Toys for the Kinky Handyperson
Lady Green & Jaymes Easton
The Cat Repair Book: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for the Cat Owner
Ruth B. James
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Imagine that you have three boxes, one containing two black balls, one containing two white balls, and the third containing one black ball and one white ball.
The boxes were originally labelled for their contents (BB - WW - BW) but someone has inadvertently switched the labels so that now every box is incorrectly labelled.
Without looking inside, you are allowed to take one ball at a time out of any box that you wish, and by this process of sampling, you are to determine the contents of all three boxes.
What is the smallest number of drawings needed to do this?
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Work is the refuge of those who have nothing better to do.
Oscar Wilde
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.
Joseph Addison
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
Elbert Hubbard
My son has taken up meditation. At least it's better than sitting and doing nothing.
Max Kauffmann
I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.
Rita Rudner
Sexual harassment at work: is it a problem for the self-employed?
Victoria Wood
If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers...
Homer Simpson
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Source: The Funniest Thing You Never Said
There are three envelopes and exactly two statements are written on each of the envelopes. The statements on one of the envelopes are BOTH TRUE, the statements on the other envelope are BOTH FALSE and the remaining envelope has ONE TRUE and ONE FALSE statement.
Here is what is written on the three envelopes:
First Envelope:
(a)The formula is not in here.
(b)The formula is in Envelope 2.
Second Envelope:
(a)The formula is not in Envelope 1.
(b)The formula is in Envelope 3.
Third Envelope:
(a)The formula is not in here.
(b)The formula is in Envelope 1.
Which envelope contains the formula ?
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by Ron White
(excerpted from How to Develop the Mind of Einstein 6-CD/Workbook series)
Albert Einstein had a formula for success. Can you believe that? One of the greatest minds of all time developed a math formula for success! I suggest you read this carefully -- this may be the most important math equation that you will ever see.
Einstein said, "If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z.
X is work.
Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut."
Einstein no doubt had an excellent sense of humor. Let's look at the 3 variables in this equation. They are:
1. Work
2. Play
3. Keeping your mouth shut!
1. Work: Albert Einstein had a tremendous work ethic and because of that gave more to society and modern science than any person in recent times
2. Play: Einstein, however, did not work 24 hours a day and made time for fun and relaxation. His idea of fun may have been different than yours, but that doesn't mean it still wasn't play.
3. Keeping your mouth shut: Finally, my favorite part of his success formal is to keep your mouth shut. I genuinely believe that the person who talks the least says the most. A friend of mine complains that the woman he is dating talks too much. I don't know how to break the news to him; however, the problem is not that she talks too much. It simply is the fact that he is irritated that he isn't able to talk. Now, let me just say this is not a generic man and woman statement. I am speaking about a specific person that I know. His desire is to constantly talk and because he likes to talk so much, he will talk in circles. If you let him talk long enough he will repeat the same thing three times and then contradict himself. His desire is not to hear but to be heard.
Albert Einstein, on the other hand had nothing to prove. He felt no need to be the "Chatty Cathy" he could have been with his knowledge. It wasn't important to him to talk to everyone he met and talk over their heads to demonstrate his IQ. Instead, he learned the value of quietness and solitude.
Shift your mind set from being a talker to a listener. It has been said that you can make more friends in 5 minutes by becoming interested in others than you can make in 5 years of trying to get others interested in you! How do you become interested in others? You ask questions and then keep your mouth shut!
Dale Carnegie wrote a best selling book entitled 'How to Win Friends and Influence People.' One of the key premises of this book was that everyone's favorite subject is actually themselves and that the sweetest sound to their ears is the sound of their own name. Einstein knew this and realized he could influence others by choosing his spots to speak and validating others by extending them the courtesy of listening.
-- Ron White
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Ron White has spent over a decade training business professionals and students how to improve their memory, grades and income. He has appeared on FOX television, broken a Guinness Record by memorizing a 28-digit number in 75 seconds, been a guest on over 35 radio programs in the United States and Canada, and his articles have appeared in print across the country. Ron's live workshops sell out every time. For more information about Ron's program - How to Develop the Mind of Einstein, CLICK HERE
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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“Never assume the obvious is true."
William Safire
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Galilei
“What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth.”
Linda Ellinor
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein
“The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world”
Max Born
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You've been placed on a course of expensive medication in which you are to take one tablet of medicine A and one tablet of medicine B daily.
You must be careful that you take just one of each because taking more of either can have serious side effects. Taking an A without taking a B, or vice versa, can also be very serious, because they must be taken together in order to be effective. In summary, you must take exactly one of the A pills and one of the B pills at one time.
Therefore, you open up the A bottle, and you tap one A pill into your hand. You put that bottle aside and you open the B bottle. You do the same, but by mistake, two Bs fall into your hand with the A pill.
Now, here's the problem. You weren't watching your hand as the pills fell into it, so you can't tell the A pill apart from the two B pills. The pills look identical. They are the same size, same weight, same color, same everything, and they are not marked differently in any way. What are you going to do? You cannot tell which pill is which, and you cannot afford to throw them away and start over again.
How do you get your daily dose of exactly one A and exactly one B without wasting any of the pills?
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QI, one of my absolutely favourite quizzes, is back (tonight 10.00 pm on BBC2) with the 5th series of its usual humorous misconception-dispersing squabble.
As a reminder, here are few episodes from the previous series...
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What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.
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Solution: see comment no.3
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by Vic Johnson
When most young children are given a puzzle to solve or put together that is especially challenging, most will make a good effort at solving it, but if unsuccessful will soon lose interest and abandon it. Some will even become angry at their failure to solve it and may throw a tantrum.
Contrast that with the experienced puzzle player who proceeds to put the puzzle together with an air of certain confidence that they will complete it. They know that they have all of the pieces of the puzzle before them so it is only a matter of finding out which pieces work where and once that's done the puzzle will be complete. Putting a piece in the wrong place is not a cause for concern; it's simply another step toward putting all of the pieces in their proper place.
I think of all the times in my life when I acted like a young child in dealing with the current puzzle in my life. Instead of turning over and trying the next piece, I got angry and walked away from the puzzle, seeing the puzzle as a problem instead of as an opportunity.
Napoleon Hill, author of the classic Think and Grow Rich, knew Thomas Edison and Henry Ford personally. He said of both men that the ONLY thing that was different about them from everyone else was their persistence. Which gives rise to an interesting thought. Where would our civilization be today if either man had treated his puzzles like the impatient young child?
If you don't have all of the pieces of your puzzle on the table, then stop, identify them and get them on the table before proceeding. If, however, you've got them on the table, then take the approach of the experienced puzzle player. When they don't fit -- don't quit -- try another piece or move them to another place. While you're at it, learn another valuable lesson from great puzzle players. They don't just enjoy completing the puzzle; they delight in putting it together.
Napoleon Hill thought Persistence was a pretty important key to success -- he used the word 97 times in Think and Grow Rich and he devoted an entire chapter to it. Some of his wisdom includes, "The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word "persistence," but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel."
And that's worth thinking about.
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In a far away land, it was known that if you drank poison, the only way to save yourself is to drink a stronger poison, which neutralizes the weaker poison.
The king that ruled the land wanted to make sure that he possessed the strongest poison in the kingdom, in order to ensure his survival, in any situation. So the king called the kingdom's pharmacist and the kingdom's treasurer, he gave each a week to make the strongest poison. Then, each would drink the other one's poison, then his own, and the one that will survive, will be the one that had the stronger potion.
The pharmacist went straight to work, but the treasurer knew he had no chance, for the pharmacist was much more experienced in this field, so instead, he made up a plan to survive and make sure the pharmacist dies. On the last day the pharmacist suddenly realized that the treasurer would know he had no chance, so he must have a plan. After a little thought, the pharmacist realized what the treasurer's plan must be, and he concocted a counter plan, to make sure he survives and the treasurer dies.
When the time came, they king summoned both of them. They drank the potions as planned, and the treasurer died, the pharmacist survived, and the king didn't get what he wanted.
What exactly happened?
The solution will be revealed in 24 hours.
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SOLUTION: The correct answer was sent by Kian, a 5-year-old child genius (comment no.2). Not only is he a mental wizzard, but also the author of these fantastic blogs:
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Well done!
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