Posted: 1 year ago

With the comments by some Rotarians (about the program on August 30, 2010 on Creativity) that we are moving fast in our observations of the world (and possibly it is just the way that the world turns anew), here are some additional things to consider when you are next reading the paper (or an eClub program or anything). The first is a test of what is important when you read: TEST YOUR EYES AND YOUR OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS.

COUNT EVERY “F”IN THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT.

>>>>FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE

>>>>SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI

>>>>FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH

>>>>THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…

How many did you get? Count them again and then go to the end of this to see the answer.

This next paragraph is something that was tested at Oxford  and Cambridge (and most of the Ivy League Colleges) to see how students read: Here is: Reading, Righting, and Spelling (a gestalt thinking exercise):

Cdnoult blveiee taht I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The pheonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheerch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the only iprmatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istief, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

If you can raed this psas it on!! Tehn join the euClb, we need you!!!

(on the “f” counting exercise: answer 6, “of” has an F but since the placement of “of” was near the edge you might have missed it).) In the second paragraph, our Western society conditions us to read the first and last letters of a word and we arrange the middle (even when they are out of ‘pacle’).

Pfsoroser Jpeosh Klgae (Joe)