Chart Numerology

It is becoming more and more popular to look for a personalised chart. Numerology can certainly offer you just that.

In fact you can easily find numerous sites on the Web today offering free Numerology charts.

But have you stopped to consider exactly what you’re probably getting?

The technological age has made much progress, computers being in the forefront but it has also quashed many freedoms.

Charts, whether they are based on Numerology or Astrology etc are after all metaphysical subjects.

Being Metaphysical means that these subjects are based on observation and experimentation rather than theory.

Surely for all their benefits computers cannot observe or experiment. Only a human being can do this.

I hear some of you saying that you agree with me, but that a computer program can be written by a human and therefore a chart can be still be relevant even though it originates from computer software.

I’m not saying that a Numerology chart created wholly from computer software will be completely wrong. I’m sure that it will pick up core elements and work out the correct numbers.

But when the whole chart is put together how can a computer give a correct overall picture from the sum of many pre-written component parts?

Only a human can interpret the sum of all the parts correctly.

So what do you get from a Numerology Chart?

The most important number in anybody’s numerology Chart is their Destiny number.

This is worked out from your date of birth and represents the lessons that you have to learn during this lifetime.

It shows you your potential, strengths and limitations.

More can be discovered by using your name as it appears on your birth certificate and translating that into numerical form.

You can discover your Soul Urge (how you’d like to be), your Quiet Self (how you dream of being) and your Expression (your talents and abilities and how you present to the world at large!)

So we’re already working with a possible 4 different numbers in different positions in your chart. Numerologically what does this mean?

Software produced charts will correctly calculate the right numbers but can they then relate each number to each other?

Maybe some numbers are harmonious in those positions but maybe some are not and then how do you know how to act for the best, to ease that disharmony?

Only a personal Numerologist with experience of how the numbers interact can correctly portray an individualised chart.

A detailed chart will then go on to include events from your past.

I find this very important, because if the past isn’t presented at all, or is presented incorrectly, how can a client have any faith in anything written about times to come?

Aswell as Karmic lessons, any Arrows of Pythagoras, Sub-cycles and Peaks- a chart will also include a detailed look at the present year you are on.

To me, the mass produced charts are entertaining but don’t tell all and fundamentally do not help you understand yourself and your potential.

Neither can you email the software at a later date and ask questions about what is written in your chart!

Numerology is the sacred ancient art of numbers.

If you do ever require a personalised chart. Please choose Numerology, but treat yourself to a comprehensive chart written and interpreted by a real person.

‘To thine own self be true’

Let me be your personal Numerologist. All of my readings and insights are worked out by me. I don’t use software at all. I put my 14 years experience and psychic flashes into everything I do. It costs nothing to join my free newsletter which you can subscribe to at my site http://www.oceannumerology.com

Work From Home and Build Business Opportunities

Working at home has gained in popularity recently. There are many people that still have the “old school” views on working; work 40 hours a week earn your salary and after 20 years, retire. The pay is always the same no matter how hard you sell or how much time is spent working. Starting a business online is a no brainer; when one works smarter, not harder the money is practically poured into the bank account.

In order to get started, all that is needed to take advantage of the magnificent opportunities to make money online is a computer and a cable or DSL internet connection. There is no limit to the earning potential once those two items are in place. The first option to online money making is to set up a retail shop. When operating a retail shop, the highly guarded secret is to choose the most popular high valued items. However, if the need is to begin without a start-up fee, an affiliate program is a good basic start to make money without any stress.

Affiliate marketing is why you have loads of junk emails. Yes, once in a while you do look at the advertisements. Most of these affiliate programs have neither start-up costs nor investments. Just sign up for an affiliate program, select the products, and refer the products to consumers or refer them to a personal site housing many different affiliate products. Most of the programs test the referral skills, once passed a commission is earned; on a percentage basis.

If you like the affiliate program, but would like to be more of a network, there are sites that have built-in affiliate networks. This is nice also because this way one does not need to brows site to site looking for affiliate programs with a decent percentage rate. The site houses all of the programs and it is easy to find and choose. After choosing the products you wish to sell on your site, you begin to make money by referring people to your retail store. Having an online store is essential when working at home, thus giving you an identity online. By having an identity online provides a platform for the affiliate products to be marketed and sold. Leveraging a variety of referral systems provide more money making opportunities; such as article marketing, blogs, PPC campaigns, and banner adverts, just to name a few. Affiliate marketing relies on the numbers, the more referrals made, the more money is made and the better the online money making opportunity.

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How to Make Massive Movement Towards Your Dreams – Learn From Obama’s “Leap” to President

One of the remarkable things about our new President is that his past did not predict his future. Barack Obama is a classic example of a “Leap Frogger”: someone who bypasses the predictable climb up the ladder (rung by predictable rung) and instead hurdles forward to unprecedented heights.

In other words they chart their own course through what appears to the rest of us as “magical leaps.”

Some examples of Leap Froggers:

• A Minneapolis stripper writes her first screenplay and wins an Oscar (Diablo Cody, “Juno”)
• A young man drops out of Harvard to develop a computer software program, launching Microsoft and becoming one of wealthiest men on the planet. (Bill Gates)
• An American, with a Kenyan father, is raised in Hawaii by his single mother and rises to President after only 4 years on the National Political field. (Barack Obama)

Obama’s rise to President was fast! From 2004 – 2009, he went from State Senator, to U.S. Senator, to U.S. President.

So why don’t more of us make a leap forward in our own lives? For starters you were trained at a young age to climb not leap.

In school you start with grade 1, do all of the assignments, graduate, go to grade 2, get passing grades and head to straight to… grade 3. And yes, there is the occasional student who skips a grade, but a “skip” is worlds away from a LEAP.

After school, you typically end up in the work force with a new ladder to climb. Now there is NOTHING wrong with this system. It’s very efficient. You can set goals for yourself and map out long-term goals to get you from point A to point B and on to point C. I am not poo-pooing that at all. However, when an Obama comes along, it’s as if a superman has entered the scene. Or you may see leapers as “lucky,” as if they just won the lottery ticket of life.

But maybe leaping is something we are all capable of! The following is a list of Leap Frogger traits I put together. Try them on and see how they fit in your own life.

#1 – Allow Yourself to Dream Big. Before Barack married Michelle, he mentioned to his future brother-in-law, that he might run for President. (His brother told him to be quiet about that idea and just meet the family.) Obama had a dream, and it was BIG.

#2 – Allow Your Heart and Your Passions to Guide You. In 1985, Obama left a job with a NY business consultant to become a $13,000 per year community organizer in the South Side of Chicago. Obama says, “It’s a consequence of working with this community that I found my calling. There was something more than making money and getting a fancy degree. The measure of my life would be public service.”

#3 – Surround Yourself with Supportive People and AVOID the Nay-sayers. Some of Obama’s early supporters at the local political level were disgruntled when he chose to run for higher offices. Can you imagine the loss to not only this country but the world if Obama had for one moment let any of their concerns stop him? Don’t let other peoples “stuff” or smallness hold YOU back. The world needs your light, so if you know there is a spot light for you to step into, then no one can tell you otherwise.

#4 – Learn from Your Climb, but Forge Your Own Path. Leap Froggers don’t come out of nowhere. Obama’s career includes tough years as a community organizer, slogging it out at Harvard Law School, and a failed bid for Congress in 2000. In other words, Obama did a lot of climbing, but he also did not let the ladder hold him back from taking a big leap.

#5 – Connect to source. Leapers are full of human spirit. Which is why their trajectories are unparalleled. Spirit is not confined to the 3-dimensional chess board of life. Spirit is connected to source (or God, or Allah, or the Universe, or whatever you’d like to call it) where the old rules don’t apply.

Thank goodness for Leap Froggers like Obama, who don’t hold back but shine their bright spirits, forging whole new paths and worlds for the rest of us to live into.

Where do you want to “leap” in 2009? I invite you to model these Leap Frog traits and start LEAPING towards your own dreams!

Heather Gray is a Soul and Life Coach, Writer and Author of “Real Girl, Real World: A Guide to Finding Your True Self” (Seal Press 2005) and Contributing Author to “Conscious Entrepreneurs: A Radical New Approach to Purpose, Passion and Profit” Go to: http://www.spreadyourwingsandinspire.com to dowload her FREE Success Kit revealing EASY, clear ways to grow and prosper by following your true path.

Mobile Email Versus SMS

Are mobile emails gaining precedence over text messages?

Mobile Emails are quickly becoming an entrenched part of the modern lifestyle. Earlier emailing was limited to the P.C only .For accessing your emails you had to depend on a computer system. Thus, for immediate messaging SMS (Short messaging service) gained popularity. SMS is used to send short messages. And the best part of SMS is its incredible speed and is built into every mobile device without exception.

The research done in this field in the past 2 years reveals that there has been a steady decline in the use of SMS. The GSM operators have witnessed close to 9% drop in outgoing SMS since the past quarter. This decline in usage could perhaps be linked to revision in SMS tariffs by several GSM service providers and the easy availability of free mobile emails on the basic mobile hand set allowing users to read, reply, compose, forward, sent and delete emails from their mobile phone, the question that tosses our mind is “Are text messages slowly losing their flavor with growing cellular base?”

The allure of email has transcended both the fixed and wireless worlds. SMS is simply wireless, and more limited than email.I think the big difference between SMS and email is the amount and the size of the text message one can send. Where SMS is often used for personal short messages with the size of the text not exceeding 160 characters per message, email service can be utilized for sending from a short to a long descriptive email, with attachment of your pictures, sound, text/doc/pdf file.

Although viewing of attachments is not supported by many of our ordinary handsets but the rapid advancement in mobile technology has brought such email solutions to our door step which provides free email access on our ordinary mobile phones and that too with attachments.

I recently came to know about certain mobile email solution providing free access to email on an ordinary GPRS compatible mobile handset along with attachments which not only included text and document files but image files too. Moreover you can use your existing mobile phone with a WAP 1.2 & above browser, to wirelessly access your e-mail box as well as register for new email ID through your basic mobile phone .

I personally feel “Email is like placing a letter in the mail box. You can open it whenever you feel like whereas SMS is like tapping on the shoulder and forcefully giving a message in the hand.”
The biggest drawback of Text message is that it occupies a major part of your phone memory stuffing it with unwanted text messages, out of which, very few are really important.

On the other hand, the best part about mobile email is that your phone memory is absolutely free and unaffected from unnecessary storage of messages, as the emails along with the attachments do not get stored in your phone memory .You only get a mobile view of them. Your emails remain in your mail box at the server. Whenever you want to access your email on your mobile phone you simply have to point your mobile browser to the URL like wap.emailatmobile.com, enter your email-ID & password and your mails are pulled from the mail server to your mobile phone.

Above all, for accessing your emails on mobile, you are not dependent on your personal mobile phone You can easily access your emails from any mobile phone that is capable of internet browsing. But SMS binds you to your hand set. If you loose your hand set your entire information is lost but with mobile email as nothing is stored on your hand set your information is absolutely secured.

Apparently SMS seems to be cheaper and popular as all the mobile phones have this capability but with Tariffs of major service providers’ going up has actually made it an expensive affair. But for accessing emails on mobile one need to pay the basic charges applicable for browsing net on the phone and that provides you with a hoard of other facilities besides emails.

I feel over the coming years emails on mobile will become increasingly popular with million of business and individual users with access to wireless email in the world. The increasing availability of wireless email support would definitely take over SMS in the near future.

Monika is veteran in the field of teaching for the past 7 years. She is also a consummate writer and loves to share her views with her readers regarding the technological development. As a patron of mobile email she loves accessing her emails on mobile and also writes about them. For more information on email on mobile, log on to http://www.emailatmobile.com

Used Laptop Manuals

Ok you have shopped the internet and have made your purchase you saved hundreds of dollars on your used laptop, but you forgot to ask about the user manual or you’re not sure how it all works. You now have a laptop with all kind of new features but you are not sure on how to access them or get the most out of them. Don’t threat over it with today’s technology you can have answers in minutes.

Many of today’s laptop manufacturers publish their user manuals on line and are easily downloaded to your laptop in minutes. So how do you find these manuals well there are several ways you can locate them.

1. You can do a Google search just type in your make and model followed by manual.

2. You can go to the manufacturers’ home page and do a search for your models manual.

3. You could even contact the seller that you bought your laptop from and see if the will send you all the information they had on this particular laptop.

You have the user manual but you still can not find what you are looking for well relax you may not have gotten any support when you purchased the used laptop but you do have the internet Right? So get on line a do a search for forums under the make and model of your laptop and you now have access to a whole array of individuals who are normally ready and willing to help you out.

Did you know that many of the leading companies now have a full time staff and their responsible for monitoring these forums and assisting with providing answers to your questions? This is not a well known fact and the way I learned about it was from a friend of mine who is a true computer geek; and that is what he does for a living. I don’t want to mention who he is working for as the company tries to keep this quite, how else can they promote there extended support packages if they let every one know they can have the same information for free.

You might ask why they do this. Well the answer is they are trying to keep people happy with their laptops so they do not start telling every one how bad that the X-brand laptops are and taking credibility away from their product line. Keeping their laptop owners satisfied with their laptop is some of the best advertising that money will buy and they know this.

So just remember that you saved hundreds and you may have to do a little research, but with a few minutes work you can have the same information as if you were to have bought a new laptop.

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Get the Power With the Performance Chip

If you have been thinking of improving the performance of your car, you need to think no further. The solution to enhancing the performance of your car lies in the performance chip. The performance chip is the latest addition from the technological advances in the automotive field. It is a computer chip, also known as the ECU chip, which is installed in the electronic control unit of the car engine. You no longer need to squeak around with the screwdriver on the engine to get some more power out of your car engine.

The performance chip is very easy to install. It comes with a comprehensive and clear instruction guide which will help you through the entire installation process. All that you need is a simple home tool kit and you can install the ship in your car engine yourself. The installation of the performance chip should take you not more than ten minutes.

The performance chip is specifically designed for the make and model of the car. When you buy the performance chip be sure to check if it is the one specially designed and customized for your car. The special design o suit various models as well as the year of make, ensures that there is no compatibility issues upon installation.

The performance chip unleashes the full power potential of your car engine. There are various product variants available and before you buy one, you can check out the chips available. Depending on which variant you choose as well as which model of car you own, you can expect an increase in power in the rang\e of 20-50 HP. There are also many accessories to the performance chips which you can install in addition to the chip itself which complements the increase in performance.

The performance chip works on advanced technology. It constantly monitors the air-fuel ratio to the engine and ensures that the power is always maintained at the maximum. The increase in power of the engine also means that the engine transmits higher torque. With an increase in power and torque, you can definitely feel the higher performance of the vehicle.

If you own a car which is old and feel you could do with little extra power, you must install the performance chip. You can feel the difference in power transmission immediately. You need not lug at the gear anymore to get that extra power. The performance chip also ensures a higher fuel efficiency since it keeps monitoring the air-fuel ratio constantly.

Most engines have some reserve capacity of power which is completely unleashed by the performance chip. The performance chip is a cost effective option to derive the full power out of your car engine. The chip also manages the spark plugs and the oxygen sensors. The chip itself is programmable and it is so programmed that it is suitable for both long and short drives.

Next time you see the guys on the fast lane, shooting past your slow car, you need not just wonder from where they manage so much of power in their car engines. You can walk into any store that sells the performance chip and purchase one suited for you car. Every car model has a series of models available and make sure to spend some time browsing through all of them.

A performance chip will give an overall performance boost to your car engine. There is no reason why you should wait to get one for your car and deprive yourself of the pleasure of driving on the fast lane. So set your foot on the accelerator and enjoy the full power of your car engine with the performance chip.

Five Awkward Things You Have to Acknowledge Before Starting Up Your Computer Fixing Business

It is a bold step starting out on your own to become a local computer mending person. You’ll be in competition with others like you, computer stores and larger companies who provide for your market place.

Some of the most sizable challenges you’ll confront nonetheless will be when you are actually on the task. Opposite to what many may believe, supporting domestic and small business enterprise users is rather a lot harder than working in a large scale corporate environment. Here are some of the reasons why, so you can be educated and be more effective – building you a sound reputation and more word of mouth referrals.

Home and small business users can be the most trying customers you’ll ever handle. They will expect extensive value from you and will challenge their bills unless they are 150% content.

1. They will expect you to recognise what a problem is and how to fix it the same way they would a plumber who came round to unblock a waste pipe. It won’t occur all the time but once in a while expect for them to decline to pay for any time you pass ‘working out what the trouble is’.

2. They don’t experience the luxury of being able to swap out their PC with one from the storage room or to work on someone else’s while you work on theirs. Therefore when they are dead in the water, unable to work and losing money because of it – the pressure will be on you. You will decidedly want to be able to deal with this and get used to somebody standing over your shoulder hassling you to hurry up.

3. They will need you to look at all varieties of different things aside from what you’ve booked in to see them about. If you have allocated them a certain measure of time to perform a certain problem then you have to be clear at the starting of the call. See if there is sufficient time left over at the close of the call or schedule another one. The most all-important thing is to express at the beginning of your visit that you are there to do a certain task. A professional looking work order will aid a plenty here.

4. They do not have uniform desktop builds with good antivirus and policies that keep them from downloading and installing whatsoever they wish. This is what makes this type of work so fascinating, and obstructive. Just think spyware, spyware spyware, be braced for it and anticipate to find it everywhere you go.

5. They will fault you for things that have gone wrong that aren’t your error. Ever heard this phrase before?

“Well it was fine until the IT person came and today it doesn’t work (I’m not paying this invoice!)”

Expect this to happen a great deal. Again professional looking work orders and effective documentation of all work carried out will be the proof you need to present precisely what you have and haven’t done. A client once phoned up and shouted at my boss right after a visit because his printer quit working just after I left. Turns out he switched off the PC it was connected to.

Offering computer fixing services to small business enterprise and home users can be a enormously rewardful experience. And of course being your own boss is as good as it gets. I trust the above-mentioned points haven’t put you off, the intent is to educate you for some of the worst parts of the occupation.

You can protect yourself and be disciplined just by setting up an efficient system for work orders, call documentation and routines for particular situations. Do this and you’ll get recognized in your area as the go-to somebody and have too much work to manage.

Now go get ‘em!

Peter Webber is a free lance IT advisor and contractor to large and small businesses. His website focuses on numerous facets of working in the IT industry in particular how to set up your home computer fixing business

Finding Or Creating Your Own Options Trading System That Works

Stock Options are wonderful! This clever derivative of the equities market has to be one of the most ingenious inventions of modern times. For the trader who can learn how to win at trading options there are many luxuries in life that can be experienced.

Success in options trading requires a consistent approach for long-term success. This statement is not meant to be grandiose, idealistic comment made by some ‘trading theorist’, rather, it is a statement born out of the hard knocks and success experiences of the author and many other long-term, successful trader contemporaries.

This “consistent approach” to options trading can also be called a “trading system”, or an “options trading system” in this case. The term “trading system” is not necessarily confined to a series of computerized “black box” trading signals. A trading system could be something as simple as “buy an option on a stock in an uptrend that breaks the high of the previous bar after at least two days of pull back down movement that make lower lows.” A trading system is simply an organized approach that takes advantage of a repeated pattern or event that brings net profits.

Since an Option is a “Derivative” of the stock you must derive your options trading system from a stock trading system. This means your trading system must be based around actual stock price movement. That said, your trading system doesn’t need to work for all stocks it just has to work for certain types of stocks, certain volatility of stocks and certain price levels of stocks etc… So focus your trading system on certain stocks that have price behavior that is predictable to the net results you wish to abstract from a stock.

You can develop a trading system, a trading approach, and a trading methodology by identifying a price movement pattern (or lack of price movement pattern) or some event that occurs on some sort of regular basis. This means you can trade price behavior patterns on price charts such as: traditional chart patterns, trends, swings, pivot points, boxes etc… or you can trade events that motivate stock price such as earnings runs, post earnings runs, stock splits, seasonal factors etc…. Bottom line to make the maximum profit in options trading you want your stock to move in your favor fast and you want it to move far. Just a relatively small movement in the price of a stock can double your money in options!

There are so many different strategies and combinations that you can trade with options. You can buy calls and puts for directional trades. You can employ call spreads and put spreads to trade directional movements with a buffered risk, and profit. You can sell or purchase spreads to receive the credit of the premium decay by options expiration. You can trade straddles and strangles if you expect a big move but are not sure in which direction. You can also get into ratio back spreads, condors, and butterflies… And if you’re really feeling crazy you can sell ‘naked’ options (just better use a stop loss or you’ll end up like one of my old trading buddies who ran an account to $20 million then gave it all back selling naked options.) You can go to cboe.com for more information on options trading.

Directional options trading systems are the best. Keep it simple, buy calls for and upside trade or buy puts for a downside trade. But this means you need a directional stock trading system in order to trade directional options.

Here are a couple of different approaches for directional systems:

Develop an options trading systems that trades the swings in stock price movement. There are many good swing trading systems available today. We suggest you obtain one. Bottom line with swing trading is that you want to swing trade with the trend. Options brokers these days have advanced order technology that will allow you to enter swing trades based on the price movement of the stock so you don’t have to watch this stock all day. That huge advancement to swing trading options.

Swing trade the day bars. Most swing trading systems are based on daily bars on the stock price chart.

Swing trade the Intra Day Bars! Their other fantastic systems based on intraday charts that pin point swing trading entries.

Develop an options trading system that trades three to six month trends. This is where the big money is. Trading the large trends is where many are able to place larger sums of money to develop their net worth.

Develop an options trading system that trades pivot points. Pivot point trading is arguably the best way to trade options, because price action usually is explosive, and happens quickly in our direction when a trade works. This is good because you can use shorter-term options and leverage yourself a little better. And it’s also nice you can make great gains in five days to four weeks on average so time decay issues become less of a worry.

There are many different directional trading methods you could use to trade options. You need to pick one, work it, and never use more than 10% options position size per trade on small accounts 1% to 5 % max position size on larger accounts. This methodical way of money management trading options is the fastest way to potentially rapid account growth, helping you avoid needless set backs.

Chris Viscaya is a head trader at http://www.opivotrading.com Opivo Trading specializes in trading a unique pivot point strategy on stocks with options offering a subscription service as well as a home study course.

Take Career Planning Tests – Learn About The Right Career For You

A career planning test can be very purposeful. It can help a person realize his planning abilities, maturity in decision-making and basic career management. The career planning tests can aid you to find your aptitude level and your abilities. It can clarify all the queries in you. An employment counselor can chip in to help you choose the right occupation. A career planning tool is not a magic weapon but an eye-opening tool which can point out to you the best possible options for consideration.

These are done either on paper or in a computer. Standardized assessment instrument or inventory, as it’s also called, is usually provided by professionals. These professional people usually are career counselors. Students, in general, write a lot of such tests to locate themselves in the career-radar. Elementary school students are generally not advised to take these tests because of their mental maturity.

Career planning tests which deal with work values, ethics and lifestyle values are also taken up by students to explore the different types of jobs. Answers to these career planning tests never have right or wrong answers. It is a tool which measures your responses in variety of areas such as creativity, altruism, security, economic rewards, physical activity and social relationships.

They can also involve questions based on what you like or dislike. Such tests explore interest inventories. Questions could be like; would you rather fix a flat tyre or play a game on the computer? These tests can fail sometimes, especially when students who really don’t have a clue about few of the activities listed.

Another way of career planning tests involves aptitude and achievement test. It can help you in a large way as it not only helps you realize your inherent skills but also to develop new skills. Schools and other educational institutions normally use this tool for its students. However, even military, employers and licensing agencies have started to use these tests to recruit people. These kinds of tests often require some coaching and hence students resort to taking courses. It might be required to take an English Proficiency Test for entering into a post-secondary institution.

Class counselors use personality assessment tests to observe a person’s choices and help them relate to their occupations. The answers, often, are True or False types and questions could be like; ‘would you rather sleep in your bedroom or go to play in the beach?’

Career planning tests are conducted for both youth and adults. Career maturity testing might give a clue to the person about his ability to take up career management.

Abhishek is a Career Counselor and he has got some great Career Planning Secrets up his sleeves! Download his FREE 71 Pages Ebook, “Career Planning Made Easy!” from his website http://www.Career-Guru.com/769/index.htm. Only limited Free Copies available.

Coping With Changes by Expanding Your Mind

Are you feeling the stress in a world that continually changes? With the world around us in a constant state of change, how do you cope? Many routes are open to you, from buying a more powerful computer to studying economics. For most people, one place to start is to concentrate on your own mind and to develop the capacities that new circumstances will reward. In other words, develop and expand your own intelligence.

Is it actually possible to increase your own intelligence? Many people still see intelligence as a fixed resource measured by IQ tests. Interestingly, psychologists have increasingly come to reject this view. In 1995 psychologist David Perkins, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, published Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence. In this book, Perkins spoke for a growing number of psychologists who reject the notion that intelligence cannot change.

What has caused this revolution in thinking among psychologists? Perkins and other psychologists came to realize that intellectual abilities are in essence no different from other kinds of know-how. Acquiring the knowledge that IQ tests measure is essentially no different from developing any other ability, such as drawing or bike riding.

Virtually everybody can draw. Give children crayons or pencils and they will draw. Even crippled or mentally subnormal children usually enjoy drawing. Nevertheless, except for a gifted minority, most people do not draw especially well. They can learn to draw well, of course, but only by study and practice. They can improve their skill even further by reading books or taking courses that present advanced drawing techniques and art theory. Drawing is a learnable skill. The proof lies in the number of people who have learned to draw.

Bicycle riding is another learnable skill. If you are starting out learning to ride a bicycle, you need considerable practice and maybe a few falls. But eventually, you will succeed and will probably remember the skill for the rest of your life.

Here then is the critical question. Aren’t intelligence and thinking just as learnable as drawing and bicycle riding? Like drawing and bicycle riding, exercising your mind is something that you do naturally. You can learn how to develop good memory skills to improve your memory, by training your memory. In addition, you can acquire mental skills that allow you to accelerate your learning, develop quicker thinking and accelerate your learning. Nevertheless, without practice, your skill as a thinker can remain rudimentary. How can you strengthen your mind? There are tools and techniques that offer methods, tools and information that can help you improve your recall ability and to use your mind more successfully. Most people in the past have conceived of intelligence as being equivalent to what you may call mental power.

Until recently almost everyone in our society, professional psychologists and the layman alike, considered you to be very intelligent if you had a powerful mind, regardless of whether or not you were particularly adaptable. A smart person was someone who could use his or her mind to do something that seemed difficult and complicated. You could appear intelligent if you were skillful at games that seem to require mental power, such as chess, or if you could intimidate people with your talent at winning arguments. On the other hand, if you were adaptable, most people would probably never have noticed.

One of the main problems with a power-oriented view of intelligence was that power intelligence often proved rigid and inflexible. It is the dinosaur of the intelligence world. And like the dinosaur in prehistoric times, people with power intelligence did indeed reign supreme, as long s conditions in the outside world were essentially stable. But when change replaced stability as the norm, these people quickly became lost. They were no longer in their element. And their old way of looking at the world, which they had built up over many, many years, was suddenly obsolete. They became vulnerable.

A second problem was that power intelligence often did not turn out to be useful, regardless of how much it could impress. Being good at winning arguments or chess matches can certainly impress people. But it does not necessarily help in earning a living. The world is full of people who can impress us with how much they know, but all their knowledge does not necessarily do them a lot of good in the real world. Think of all the people with PhD’s who end up earning a living as cab drivers?

In times of rapid change, you will often do better to have a simpler, more schematic view of reality, one that captures the essence of things even if it misses some of the details. For starters, changing your mind becomes easier. It costs less in time and energy because you do not have to re-examine as many beliefs or re-evaluate as many commitments. In a word it makes you more adaptable.

In the future, adaptability is likely to prove more important than power. You will do better to have a simpler, sleeker, and more elegant mind that can reinterpret and revise what you already know in response to new information. You need new memory and learning skills to stay adaptable. People who immerse themselves in complexity might find themselves so weighed down by details that they feel unable to respond.

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