“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer (1749 – 1832)
Students Need To Read Books
Maybe this applies more broadly than to just students… …maybe, just maybe, some of us adults need to participate in counter-cultural activities too.
Change Your IQ – Change Your Life!
Henry David Thoreau (American philosopher (1817–1862)) wrote: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
If you are not leading a life of quiet desperation, congrats to you! If you are, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-qY9g8FMmU And then, if you want to change, call me.
I am guessing that those “lives of quiet desperation” are at least in part due to the person not being able to solve life’s problems.
If intelligence is the ability to solve problems, then the smarter you are, the greater your chance of solving the problems that currently beset you.
In the 1940s defeatist psychiatry taught that IQ was static, it could not be changed.
Very shortly afterwards that was proven to be untrue. It was found that IQ could be improved. Here are some ways you can do just that!
1. One way to increase your intelligence is to remove fluoride from your drinking water. That may increase your IQ by 7%.
(https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=60363)
2. Another way to increase your IQ is to ditch wheat. That might give you a 4.1% increase in your test scores. (https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=60375)
3. As well as removing known toxins, improving your nutrition can help enormously.
a) Supplementing children’s diets with fish oil is one of several effective ways to raise a young child’s IQ levels, by more than 3.5% according to a NZ report.
(https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2013/01/28/Omega-3-rich-diet-can-boost-children-s-IQ-says-meta-analysis/)
(I can’t see how this would not also help adults so I take two capsules a day of fish oil and one of Krill oil.)
b) This week I had a friend call in to pick up another tub of my NutriBlast® Memory and Intelligence Blend.
(https://www.healthelicious.com.au/Nutri-Blast-Memory-Blend.html)
She told me it makes so much difference to her fella’s memory that she can tell the difference between the days he has it and the days he doesn’t.
c) Stopping the spike protein is key. I now have 74 ingredients in my NutriBlast® Anti-Spike Blend. View them here: https://www.healthelicious.com.au/NutriBlast-Anti-Spike.html
d) Reversing neurological damage from the Covid “vaccine” is also advisable. This article https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/lions-mane-mushroom-may-help-reverse talks about just one of the 85 ingredients in my NutriBlast® DNA/Heart/Mitochondrial Support Blend
https://www.healthelicious.com.au/NutriBlast_DNA_Heart_Mitochondria.html
4. Freeing up attention units stuck in past losses has even greater potential to raise your IQ. In my experience this is the single most effective action you can take to improve memory and intelligence.
I read that due to stuck attention on losses and other emotional trauma, most people have much of their attention stuck in the past. The figure quoted was that the average person has only 30% of their attention in present time, the rest of their attention units are hung up in the past.
If this is not real to you, recall the last time you had a disagreement with someone. Then recall how you felt afterwards. Were you instantly bright and chirpy again or did you still have some of your attention on the disagreement? This is also a partial explanation of stress and why accidents occur. If you do not have all your attention on what you are doing, accidents can happen far more easily!
Well, multiply that by the number of disagreements, betrayals, departures and other losses from your whole life and all of a sudden you can see why the less fortunate of us might have so many of their attention units stuck in the past that the average is as low as 30% in present time. And it also explains the dwindling spiral in people’s outlook as they age.
Sort of helps explain why you see so many incidents on the road that make you wonder about the driver, “Where the heck are you?”
The better question to ask may well be, “When in the past are you stuck?” (Not that you would ask that question of the person.)
So, as I wrote earlier, freeing up attention units stuck in past losses has even greater potential to raise your IQ.
I have some techniques you can do yourself to recover past attention units which increases memory and intelligence. A $35 book and 15 minutes a day will open doors you did not know even existed! Drop me a line or call me if you would like to improve your IQ.
I sincerely hope you got something from the above and that you implement at least some of it and improve your IQ, solve some of your problems and increase your happiness.
Cheers,
Tom
Quote of the Day
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer (1749 – 1832)
Your Government Can’t Give You…
Quote of the Day
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Voltaire – Philosopher (1694 – 1778)
Alvaro Munero
During one tense bullfight, matador Alvaro Munero did the unthinkable. As the crowd cheered, wanting the next dramatic move, he abruptly stepped away from the bull, walked to the edge of the arena, and sat down. The roaring crowd fell into stunned silence.
In a post-interview that came from his heart, Alvaro shared this life-altering moment that led to his decision:
“In one moment I forgot the existence of the horns. All I could see was his eyes, standing there, not with rage but with something much deeper-innocence. He was not attacking me; he was just looking at me, pleading wordlessly for his life. That is when it came into my mind that this isn’t an animal I am fighting; this is a living thing that wanted to live as much as I did.”.
His eyes had that purity that only animals possess, and in them, I saw that undeniable truth. I felt an overwhelming surge of guilt; it was as if I had become the most heartless creature alive. I couldn’t continue. I dropped my sword, left the arena, and made a promise to myself: I would no longer fight bulls; I would fight against a world which makes a game out of the torture of others for amusement.
The story of Alvaro Munero is a rare, powerful look into the transformative force of compassion, even in the most unlikely of places. It is a reminder that one moment of connection can change a life, inspire a new purpose.
August Dvorak
August Dvorak watched frustrated as typing students struggled with the inefficient QWERTY keyboard in the 1930s.
As a professor of education at the University of Washington, Dvorak knew there had to be a better way than the clumsy QWERTY layout—a design created in the 1870s to prevent typewriter keys from jamming rather than for typing efficiency.
Dvorak spent years analyzing typing patterns, finger movements, and letter frequencies in English. His research revealed that with the standard QWERTY keyboard, most typing was done on the top row, while the home row—where fingers naturally rest—was underutilized.
In 1936, after more than a decade of research, Dvorak introduced the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. His revolutionary design placed the most commonly used letters on the home row, reducing finger travel by up to 95% compared to QWERTY.
Typists who mastered the Dvorak layout reported reduced fatigue, fewer errors, and faster typing speeds. In fact, many of the world’s speed typing records were set by people using Dvorak keyboards.
Despite its proven advantages, the Dvorak layout faced an uphill battle against the deeply entrenched QWERTY standard. Businesses were reluctant to retrain typists or replace existing equipment, leading to what economists call “path dependency”—when inferior standards persist due to switching costs.
The U.S. Navy conducted tests during World War II confirming the Dvorak layout’s superiority, finding that the investment in retraining typists would pay for itself in increased productivity. However, after the war, bureaucratic resistance prevented its widespread adoption.
Today, the Dvorak layout remains available as an option on most operating systems, but QWERTY’s dominance continues—a peculiar case where an intentionally inefficient design from the mechanical age persists in our digital world.
August Dvorak died in 1975, having spent his career trying to make typing more efficient. His simplified keyboard stands as a testament to good design thwarted by the powerful forces of standardization and inertia.
Sources: University of Washington Archives, U.S. Navy Studies, American Standards Association#DvorakKeyboard
Andrea Fuentes Saving Anita Álvarez
Who are you in a position to save?
She was drowning.
And nobody noticed…
Nobody, except her.
It was June 2022, at the World Championships in Budapest.
Anita Álvarez, an American artistic swimmer with Mexican roots, was performing a flawless routine.
But when her performance ended… she didn’t come up for air.
She had lost consciousness.
Her body floated for a few seconds, then began to sink.
Slowly. All the way to the bottom of the pool.
The audience didn’t notice. Neither did the judges.
Everyone was clapping.
But her coach, Andrea Fuentes, noticed.
She knew Anita—knew exactly how long it took her to surface.
She felt in her heart that something was wrong.
Without thinking twice, she dove in.
Fully dressed. Shoes and all.
She swam straight down, grabbed Anita by the waist,
and brought her back up.
She saved her life.
This story left me thinking…
Who knows you well enough to notice when you’re not okay, even if you’re still smiling?
Who would dive in for you without hesitation when you no longer have the strength to come up for air?
And more importantly…
Would you be that person for someone else?
Are you present enough in your loved ones’ lives to sense the moment they start to sink?
Or are you just another spectator, clapping, not realizing that inside, they’re fading?
In this life, we all need someone who doesn’t just see us—
but truly notices us.
Someone who knows when we’re about to give up,
and has the courage to jump in and save us.
