My tv show where I show you have to survive in the wild using your memory!!!
THIS IS A REAL SHOW…
Or maybe it isn’t….
you decide
HOW TO KILL AND EAT A LION USING YOUR MEMORY
HOW TO KILL AND EAT A MONKEY USING YOUR MEMORY
HOW TO START A FIRE USING YOUR MEMORY
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 Category: News No Comments
So you want to read faster?
Why? Well there are several good reason to speed read:
1. If you have to read anyway why not get it done faster!
2. The more you read the more your know. Knowledge is power
3. The quicker you know a subject the quicker you can move on to other stuff
How do you speed read? Well there are several tips and techniques ranging from using your hand to guide your eye, not vocalizing words, seeing groups of words as one or in chunks. I cover more of the well known and popular tips for reading faster in this video:
So that is how you speed read. How fast can you get? I don’t know but my guess is if you apply the techniques and strategies in the video above you should at a MINIMUM double your reading speed. Some people can read as many as 1,000 words per minute and my good friend Howard Berg who is known as the world’s fastest reader says that the one thing that slows him down the most is turning the pages! Wow!
Personally, my reading speed was near the average of 250 words per minute and with speed reading I doubled that. I think you will find that a typical result.
Have fun and read faster!!
Sunday, April 28th, 2013 Category: News No Comments
CLICK THE FILES BELOW TO DOWNLOAD PICTURES FOR HUNDREDS OF NAMES 
The videos above explain how to memorize names. Practice these methods.
1. What is their name? (ask this question silently to yourself to focus your mind)
2. Select an outstanding feature on their face (this is their file)
3. Turn their name into a picture
4. With action and emotion see the picture on their face
5. REVIEW REVIEW (Review as you walk away, drive in your car and days later) The best thing you can do in this event is have predetermined pictures for names.
For example:
Steve = stove
Karen = carrot
Lisa = Mona Lisa
Brian = brain
Lynn = lint
Ron = run
Michelle = missle
Wendi = wind
Gary = garage
Kathy = cat
Tom = tomcat
Harold = hair that is old
Eric = ear ache
Tim = tin (can)
George = gorge
David = divot (golfing)
Kevin = cave in
Dave = cave
Al = owl
Albert = burnt owl
Lee = leaves
Sue = sew
Lance = sir Lancelot
Charles = charcoal
Matt = mat
Paul = ball
CLICK THE FILES BELOW TO DOWNLOAD PICTURES FOR HUNDREDS OF NAMES
You get the idea. Every time you hear a name and turn it into a picture and once you select a picture for that name – NEVER change it! Then place the name on the face with ACTION! It is going to take time to turn names into pictures but if for the next month you turn every person’s name into a pictures that you meet you will have 200-300 at the end of the month and be AMAZED at how well you perform at remembering names and faces!
Practice, practice, practice!!
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013 Category: News No Comments
I am often asked to conduct in house 1 day trainings for organizations that are longer than my standard 60-90 minute key note presentation. For years I have been simply replying to these email with what I can teach typing it out each time. Finally I got smart! Below I will list what my one day program looks like and just send folks to this link. Plus you may stumble across it on there internet. Wow…look at that…you just did
In my one day 6 hour memory training class your group will learn:
- How to build relationships by remembering names and faces
- How to build confidence by giving speeches without notes
- Save money and time because you don’t have to retrain your staff (they remember it the first time)
- Increase your knowledge of any subject in 1/3 the time
- Become a subject matter expert on any topic
- Memorize poems, quotes or verses
- Increase confidence by trusting your memory more
- Discover how to learn a foreign language more rapidly than you ever expected
- Earn more business because you build relationships by retaining information about your customers
- Routinely recall 50 digit numbers. Memorize product numbers, phone numbers, etc
- Become more efficient by having info at your mental finger tips
- Build your brain and build your business
- Be a better leader in your organization when you recall names
This 6 hour class is very fun and interactive. I will start the class off by memorizing everyone’s name as I describe here http://www.whybookron.com
I honestly believe it is the most comprehensive memory training seminar on the market today. I am not only a memory training, a USA Memory Champion but I am a business owner and entrepreneur. I understand what it takes to keep a business successful and my seminar isn’t about teaching you how to memorize your grocery list. I teach you how to use your memory to maximize profits and production in a business!!
This talk is perfect for your group.
Let’s make it happen!
Monday, April 8th, 2013 Category: News No Comments
CLICK THE FILES BELOW TO DOWNLOAD PICTURES FOR HUNDREDS OF NAMES
The videos above explain how to memorize names. Practice these methods.
1. What is their name? (ask this question silently to yourself to focus your mind)
2. Select an outstanding feature on their face (this is their file)
3. Turn their name into a picture
4. With action and emotion see the picture on their face
5. REVIEW REVIEW (Review as you walk away, drive in your car and days later) The best thing you can do in this event is have predetermined pictures for names.
For example:
Steve = stove
Karen = carrot
Lisa = Mona Lisa
Brian = brain
Lynn = lint
Ron = run
Michelle = missle
Wendi = wind
Gary = garage
Kathy = cat
Tom = tomcat
Harold = hair that is old
Eric = ear ache
Tim = tin (can)
George = gorge
David = divot (golfing)
Kevin = cave in
Dave = cave
Al = owl
Albert = burnt owl
Lee = leaves
Sue = sew
Lance = sir Lancelot
Charles = charcoal
Matt = mat
Paul = ball
CLICK THE FILES BELOW TO DOWNLOAD PICTURES FOR HUNDREDS OF NAMES
You get the idea. Every time you hear a name and turn it into a picture and once you select a picture for that name – NEVER change it! Then place the name on the face with ACTION! It is going to take time to turn names into pictures but if for the next month you turn every person’s name into a pictures that you meet you will have 200-300 at the end of the month and be AMAZED at how well you perform at remembering names and faces!
Practice, practice, practice!!
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 Category: News No Comments
I ask ‘Why?’ a LOT!
Even when I think I know the answer. Especially when I think I know the answer. I ask, ‘Why?’ and then shut up.
My cousin is a painter and spent 20 year refinishing furniture and putting laminate (Formica) on furniture. I recently had a 50 foot long black wall built that I use to write out all the names of every member of the US Military who died in Afghanistan. The writing surface of the wall is a laminate and a few weeks ago I asked my cousin his thoughts if I was to replace this surface. He gave me his ideas and I shared it in the memory bank of my mind. Then the next week I had the wall at the manufacturer and I asked then their thoughts on replacing the laminate. My cousin was there and before they could answer he gave his opinion again. I never heard their reply and to be candid, I was angry with my cousin. I KNEW his answer. I wanted their uninfluenced opinion!
Even when I am an expert on a subject I often ask ‘Why?’ and never let on I am pretty good at it myself. Recently at the USA Memory Championship I was asking someone to explain to me their system on memorizing a deck of cards and then I was asking, ‘Why?’ For those of you who don’t know. I used to hold the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards but I never let that enter the conversation and I walked away with good insight that I think could cut 10 seconds of my time. Conversations for me are not a place to show my knowledge but learn from others.
I enjoy conversations about the origins and meaning of life. Talking with an atheist and evolutionist recently, I never played my hand as to my opinion instead I asked, ‘If there is no God can there really be a right or wrong? Is it wrong to kill another person? Why? If we are just advanced apes is it really wrong? If the world is just a product of atoms and evolution and nothing intangible such as love or good then is it possible to love or are we just feeling chemical reactions?’
Not long ago talking to a very intelligent Christian I asked the questions, ‘You are suggesting to me that essentially every person who has ever lived in China, every native American, the Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, every Hindu since the start of time is right now in a lake of fire being tortured and will be for eternity? They are being tortured because 6 thousand years ago a snake talked a woman into eating an apple and now their skin is on fire and will be forever? If there universe is only 6 thousand years old then how is it possible we see light from stars that are tens of thousand light years away? South America and Africa used to touch, you are suggesting the drift occurred in a matter of only 500-1,000 years?’
The evolutionist no doubt assumed I was a Christian and the Christian assumed I was an evolutionist. What was of interest to me was digging deep and asking them to really thoroughly explain their point of view.
No matter my level of expertise on a subject I ask ‘Why?’ and listen as if I have no expertise on the subject and that has made a world of difference for me in life.
Do you disagree with me on this? Why?
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 Category: News No Comments
Excerpt from my book, ‘Brain Athlete’ due out Dec 2013:
It was summertime in Afghanistan, although where I was, in the high elevation of Kabul still very comfortable. Comfortable that is if you are comfortable with people blowing themselves up outside the gate to your house, carrying a weapon everywhere you go and that means to bed or dinner and not seeing those you love for what seems like forever.
Driving around Afghanistan in the convoys your mind is thinking a lot of things. You are first and foremost on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary asking yourself, “Is that parked car suspicious? Could there be an IED in it? That pot hole in the road…is it a natural pot hole or an IED trap? Those men in robes..are there AK47′s under their garments? This is where the convoy got hit last week. An American lost his life. Be extra vigilant here.”
My first convoy was from Bagram Airfield to Kabul where I would spend my deployment. As we sped by a parked motorcycle on the side of the road being repaired by an Afghani. He was on my side of the vehicle as we passed and I remember leaning to my left away from him as we passed. Petty Officer Nicholas who had been with me through my training at Fort Jackson and then Kuwait was sitting next to me and started to laugh. He said, ‘Look at White! He’s leaning like that will protect him from an IED. Haha’ I laughed back too. Nichols was a good guy and good friend and although he wouldn’t admit it just as nervous as me. We had only been in country, BOG (Boots on Ground), for about six hours at this point. Over the next couple of months we could become very relaxed on convoys. As for me, I became so relaxed on two separate occasions it could have cost the life of myself and the men in my vehicle but I am getting ahead of myself…
Once I arrived in Afghanistan I met MA2 Bebout and to describe him would take an entire book. To say he was a character would be an understatement and he became such a great friend. He was from Ohio and liked to talk Cleveland Indians baseball and I would talk baseball with anyone, especially on deployment. What a great escape. Bebout became my standard driver for convoys and I became ‘The Shooter’ when we road together. To be candid, ‘Shooter’ is a slang term and we eventually had to change that expression when the Colonel got wind of it. We called the guy in the passenger seat ‘The Shooter’ because, well…if the shit hit the fan…you are the shooter. It seemed like a name that fit to me but the Colonel insisted we change the name for that role. I don’t think it was politically correct in his mind so it was changed to something like ‘Security Detail’ or heck, to be honest I don’t remember because frankly it was still ‘The Shooter’ to the rest of us.
Bebout and myself atop a mountain in Kabul we had just climbed up, August 2007
As Bebout and I road the streets of Kabul looking at the primitive buildings, homes built of sheets of wood leaning against another for the walls, trash and streets of mud and dirt, I couldn’t help thinking and verbalizing, ‘Bebout, this city has a 3500 year head start on us and this is the best they could come up with?’ Imagine the poorest third world country you could think of combined with bullet holes in every building.
In true Bebout form he replied without hesitation or even a glance my way, ‘These people say Allah loves them. Fuck that! Come to Ohio on a spring day and I’ll take you fishin’ and I’ll show you who Allah loves!’ Leave it to Bebout to break the routine with humor.
I had been in Afghanistan a few weeks now and my tooth was killing me. The problem was we didn’t have a dentist on our base and that meant a convoy just to go to the dentist. The question I asked myself was, ‘Do I really want to request a convoy just so can get my tooth fixed. By requesting a convoy to a base that there were no scheduled convoys to this would mean at least 3 other men would be involved in my dentist visit. That means three lives at risk to fix my tooth. Because of that I put it off as long as I could and when my tooth shattered at dinner – that was as long as I could.
I walked to my ‘office’ to tell them instead of reporting at 7am for my shift I would need a convoy to go to the dentist. I made my way through the security for the building I worked in and then opened the door. It was 23:30, I asked myself, ‘Why were there so many people here? It’s almost midnight. I normally don’t see this many people here during the day.’ Then I didn’t just see, I observed. These weren’t just people. These were the big shots. The officers and they were here late at night. It was a fast moving pace. Phone calls being made, papers being handed from one to the next and others sitting at the computer typing away. Something was up, I knew that for sure and I also knew now wasn’t the time to talk about my tooth.
I grabbed a chair at the back of the room and just sat down. As an enlisted guy walked by I had to ask, ‘Dude, what is going on?’ He motioned to the tv screen and said, ‘Someones about to get schwaked….’ We had television screens all around our ‘office’. There were at least 8 of them and one would normally have a news channel and the other 7 were reserved for live video feeds from unmanned aircraft aka Predators. We referred to this affectionately as ‘Pred Porn’. The ‘Pred Porn’ on all 7 screens that night was a single house somewhere in Afghanistan. I saw a car pull up in real time and two men get out and walk into the house. Whatever reason caused them to stop by that house that day cost them their life. Then I saw two others walk out of the house. I don’t know why. Maybe they had to smoke a cigarette or just wanted fresh air. Whatever the reason it saved their life. People were coming and going from this house.
It was perhaps the most surreal experience of my life. As I watched the screen I became very conscious of my breathing because I knew in a very short time these men would not be breathing.
’3 minutes out’ was shooted by an officer holding a phone. He was giving us the real time update until the missiles hit this house
I was thinking, ‘These men are in the last 3 minutes of their life and they have absolutely no idea. In 3 minutes they will be dead and I will then turn in my report for the dentist, still alive’
’90 seconds out’
Now I was becoming conscious of my heart and the nervous laughter in my room. I wondered if there was laughter in that house right now…
’30 seconds out’
A guy walks in our room and was greeted, I wondered if someone was being greeted in that house right now….
Explosion.
The missile strikes began and the next few minutes are ones I will never forget if I live to be 100…
To be continued….
Monday, January 14th, 2013 Tags: brain athlete, military memory man, ron white afghanistan names
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I love fun brain facts. Check these out!! :
Human Brain Fact
How many neurons in the human brain?
Why do we yawn?
How man calories does the brain use?
human brain made up of water
Stress and the brain – stress and the memory
brain fact – the human brain can not feel pain
How fast does the brain think?
Music and your brain
brain fact – neurons in the brain
How much oxygen does the human brain use? www.ronwhitetraining.com
The Human Brain has 60% fat www.ronwhitetraining.com
Human Brain fact www.brainathlete.com
Human Brain Fact – Neurons in Brain – www.brainathlete.com
Energy in Human Brain
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 Tags: brain facts
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