Memletics.com Newsletter - September 2003

From Sean Whiteley and http://www.memletics.com

Hi everyone! Here's the September 2003 Newsletter from Memletics.com. In this newsletter I:

Let you know what’s been happening at Memletics.com over the past few weeks
Request your help to make Memletics available to more people
Announce two new sites based on Memletics materials
Provide some general news headlines for the brain, memory and learning
Summarize a new testimonial added to the site
Provide some motivation tips from the Memletics Manual
Advise of site updates and coming features at Memletics.com

Recently at Memletics.com...

We're running late with this September newsletter. We've been busy adding some new material to the web in general (see the new sites below), plus getting some "behind the scenes" functions working better. These will eventually support moving the 24 hour PDF delivery time to less than an hour.

Overall, total site visits were slightly down in August, however we grew our reader base by another 50% and added readers from several new countries including Italy, Germany and even Vatican City!

Request for links and comments - help us achieve the Memletics vision

If you believe Memletics is valuable, please consider how you can help more people learn about it. It's our vision to provide accelerated learning information to as many people as possible, and to use revenue from the Manual to fund further research (see our research projects at http://www.memletics.com/about/research.asp).

A few ways you can help out include:

Tell others about Memletics. If you haven't yet purchased the Memletics Manual, we'll give you a discount of up to 50% if you tell your friends and colleagues about the manual.
Link to us. If you have your own website, consider adding a link to us. All links help improve our search engine ranking, which means more people will find out about Memletics.
Join our affiliate program. We'll pay you a commission for each person you refer who ends up buying a book. See http://www.memletics.com/gd/affiliateprogram.asp
Provide comments and/or reviews. If you don't believe Memletics is as valuable as it could be, then please let us know about it. We welcome any and all feedback, positive or negative. It helps us update the system to be more useful for everyone.

Announcing two new sites based on Memletics

Part of our strategy for making Memletics available to more people involves creating topic-specific websites based on Memletics. Over the past few weeks we've launched two of these. Take a moment and visit:

http://www.accelerated-learning-online.com/ - a portal describing accelerated learning based on the Memletics system. Also includes a news section, and will also include research items at a later stage.
http://www.learning-styles-online.com/ - describes learning styles in depth (based on the Memletic Styles). This site also provides the Memletics Styles questionnaire in Excel format. In future, we plan to provide an online learning styles tool.

Accelerated learning news items

Taken straight from the first release of http://www.accelerated-learning-online.com/, here are few recent news items relating to the brain, memory and learning:

Study shows brain activity influences immune function
False memories, failing recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging, research suggests
Boost Your Brain Power with Creatine
Sandia team develops cognitive machines
New principle guides memory dynamics
Toxic protein could explain Alzheimer's and lead to breakthroughs

You can read these stories at http://www.accelerated-learning-online.com/news, as well as several more from the past year.

New testimonial for Memletics

Tim Clark, Grade 1 Flight Instructor and Memletics user.

Here's some extracts from a reader's review posted to the site in the last week. Tim is a Grade 1 Flight Instructor using Memletics while flying and training students.

Certainly after using the techniques in my own training and flying, I found them to be extremely useful. I've used nearly all the techniques - in particular the association, visualization, simulation, and repetition techniques you describe, as well as the overall system.

I highly recommend the Memletics Manual to everyone. It's an invaluable resource for anybody who's learning any material. Memletics has helped me in many areas, inside and outside of aviation, and it can be used in so many different ways.

You can read the full text of Tim's review, and other reviews, by going to http://www.memletics.com/manual/testimonials.asp

Motivation tips - goals and objectives

Here's a few tips on motivation from the Memletics Manual:

Many issues with motivation come back to your overall goals and objectives. You can overcome almost any challenge if you want to, and it's easier if you believe your goal is worthwhile, achievable and relevant to you. Here are some points to check:

Use internal motivators. Internal motivators, such as a belief in a goal, often motivate better than external motivators, such as rewards and punishments. Are external rewards driving you? Are you trying to avoid a negative outcome or punishment? If so, try to find some internal motivators. Find some personal reasons for doing what you are doing. Look at some of the potential self-development objectives outlined in the planning step of the Memletic Approach.
Check if the objective appears too difficult. Motivation difficulties often come because an objective you have set yourself turns out to be more difficult than you expect. Review your reasons behind your overall goal and whether any of them have changed. Can you split your objective into smaller objectives that may be easier to achieve?
Check if the objective is too easy. Sometimes it's difficult to motivate yourself when an objective is too easy. This can be even more of a challenge if the objective still takes a long time to complete. Again consider your goal. If you need to complete this objective to achieve your overall goal, it's still important to finish it. Try to find other reasons to achieve this objective, for example add some self-development objectives to increase the challenge. What else can you learn from the experience?
Review your goals and objectives. Review some of the points you wrote during the targeting and planning steps. Has anything changed? Often a source of low motivation is you no longer believe your goal takes you in the direction you want to go, or it just seems just too far away. Take some time to review your goals and make sure you are happy with the direction you are going. Read (or create) your goal scripts again. Perhaps review the images you may have collected (see the Memletic State chapter).

This material is from the Challenges chapter of the Memletics Manual. To learn more about the Memletics Manual, visit http://www.memletics.com/manual/default.asp

Site Updates

In the past few weeks, we've added summary material to the site for the following topics:

Memory Improvement Techniques
Mnemonics
Affirmations
Concentration
Study Skills
Adult education & employment
Learning Styles

Go to http://www.memletics.com/manual and then click the topics on the right to view these.

Coming features

Over the next few weeks we'll be updating some Member's materials, as well as making changes to the store (including changing the password for PDF files to an easier password). If you have any comments or suggestions for new features (we're always looking for new ideas to help you learn better), please reply via the contact details at http://www.memletics.com/about/contact.asp

Next Newsletter

The next newsletter will be published in the second week of October. Until then, take care and learn well!

Kind Regards,

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Sean Whiteley

Author of the Memletics Manual

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