Podcast appearances and mentions of Dave Farrow

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Do you find it hard to remember the name of someone you just met? Do you struggle to recall the details of last week's meeting? Busy agency owners are constantly juggling countless responsibilities which is overwhelming and leaving you feeling like you're losing your edge. But what if you could sharpen your mind and tackle daily challenges with confidence? Today's featured guest has transformed his remarkable journey as a record-holding memorization expert into a powerful business dedicated to helping entrepreneurs enhance their memory skills. By harnessing effective visualization techniques, he empowers individuals to project themselves into a future filled with success. In this episode, learn more about his inspiring story and insights on memorable marketing and memorization. Dave Farrow is the founder and CEO of Farrow Communications, a full-service public relations and digital marketing agency with a reputation for creating ‘memorable' marketing and publicity campaigns. Dave shares his incredible journey from being diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia to becoming a Guinness World Record holder in memorization and building his business around his passion for helping people understand the brain's workings. His most recent book ‘Brain Hacker' is another step in his mission to show that the brain can change and be trained to improve memory. In this episode, we'll discuss: Supercharging your memory with visual associations. The super learner's toolkit to remember everything. The use of visualization techniques in business. Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio Sponsors and Resources E2M Solutions: Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by E2M Solutions, a web design, and development agency that has provided white-label services for the past 10 years to agencies all over the world. Check out e2msolutions.com/smartagency and get 10% off for the first three months of service. Using ADHD to Transform a Talent into a Mission As a child, Dave was often led to believe that his ADHD would hinder his chances of achieving success. This conviction ignited a profound curiosity about the workings of the brain and the concept of neuroplasticity. Dave became passionate about the idea that the brain is capable of change, adaptability, and training, embarking on a mission to demonstrate this potential. Through dedication and hard work, he broke the Guinness World Record for memorizing the order of 59 decks of cards, an accomplishment that showcased his exceptional memory skills and brought him a lot of publicity and recognition. However, he realized memorization alone was not enough to guarantee success. He needed to find ways to leverage his memory skills to create opportunities for himself. His time as ‘the memory guy' gave him access to several media outlets, including appearances on The Today Show and features in The New York Times. Leveraging this exposure, Dave began to pivot the narrative from a personal focus to a broader mission—promoting effective learning strategies to enhance memory and combat memory loss. Through this approach, he aims to provide valuable solutions that can benefit others. Visual Associations as the Secret to Supercharging Your Memory Human beings are naturally good at remembering people's faces. However, we're not as good at connecting those faces to names. Throughout his career, Dave has used memorization to teach people to improve their memory. Specifically, one of the main techniques he uses is the Costume Party Technique, where people associate the name with a costume and imagine the person wearing it. Creating visual associations with names can be a powerful tool in improving memory retention. By creating these visual associations with something we want to remember, we engage different parts of our brain and make the information more memorable. This technique can be applied to various aspects of life, not just remembering names. The Super Learner's Toolkit: Combining Organizational Strategies and Purposeful Memorization When it comes to greater amounts of information, like remembering key points from a meeting, Dave looks at it as organizing information rather than just remembering it. Much like creating a grocery list before shopping, one can utilize the “method of location” to construct a mental map. This technique involves associating each piece of information with specific objects or items within a familiar space—like an office or a room—, making it easier to remember and access important details. Organizing information can help us avoid confusion and errors that may arise from simply memorizing without a clear structure. Moreover, understanding context is equally important to effective memorization. Learning out of context can hinder progress significantly. By combining organization and purpose-driven learning, you can become a super learner and collect skills like others collect stamps. Using Visualization Techniques in Client Pitches When pitching clients for a big opportunity like appearing on ABC, Dave and his team try to choose words that help visualize the experience. For instance, they'll try to get the producer to picture that client in their studio. This is a powerful technique that taps into the brain's ability to believe what it sees. In this sense, using visual language and asking questions can help potential clients imagine themselves in a specific scenario, increasing the chances of closing a sale. To take this experience to sales, focus on what the client is looking for rather than just presenting the problem. If you can articulate this the fastest, then you'll get the biggest response. Incorporating questions enhances the visualization process when done correctly, prompting the client to imagine themselves in a specific scenario or consider their past experiences. This approach is particularly effective on websites or marketing materials, where asking questions like "Do you want X" or "Do you think this is X" prompts visitors to visualize themselves using the product or service being offered. Using Visualization to Empower Aspiring Entrepreneurs Even someone like Dave, renowned for his exceptional memorization skills, dedicates time each morning to hone his abilities. Drawing from his past experiences with Buddhist practices, he incorporates meditation into his routine, visualizing his goals and aspirations for the day ahead. This method of visualization serves as a powerful way to concentrate on your desired outcomes and maintain motivation in your pursuits. Dave envisions himself as already successful, effectively training his brain to identify innovative strategies for achieving his objectives and overcoming challenges. For aspiring entrepreneurs, he recommends reframing their mindset. Rather than perceiving their venture as something they are merely starting, which can evoke feelings of overwhelm about the journey ahead, they should visualize themselves as having already succeeded. This shift in perspective prompts the brain to generate actionable ideas and solutions, ultimately serving as a crucial catalyst for progress. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? Looking to dig deeper into your agency's potential? Check out our Agency Blueprint. Designed for agency owners like you, our Agency Blueprint helps you uncover growth opportunities, tackle obstacles, and craft a customized blueprint for your agency's success.

Dave Farrow was this week's guest on Success Profiles Radio. He is a 2x Guinness World Record holder for greatest memory and is the CEO of Farrow Communications, a firm that helps clients with PR and marketing that uses brain-based marketing to make brands unforgettable. We talked about the intersection between brain science and PR, the Farrow Memory Method, brainhacking, and how to remember people's name more easily. We also discussed how to triple your memory quickly, how he sold $170,000 in product in a one-hour interview, and how the ability to demonstrate your expertise live on radio and TV can lead to more clients and sales. You can listen and subscribe to Success Profiles Radio on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. You can also listen at Success Profiles Radio | Live Internet Talk Radio | Best Shows Podcasts (toginet.com)

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In this episode of The CEO Podcast, hosts Scott and Vince welcome Dave Farrow, a Guinness Record holder, entrepreneur, and marketing expert. Dave shares invaluable insights into effective marketing strategies that amplify your voice and leave a lasting impact. With a focus on leveraging modern technology and data science, Dave provides actionable tips for businesses looking to enhance their marketing efforts. The significance of Marketing: Dave emphasizes the crucial role marketing plays in business success. Fusion of Entrepreneurship and Marketing: Exploring the intersection where entrepreneurship meets effective marketing strategies. Media Literacy: Dave shares insights on understanding how media channels function and utilizing them to your advantage. Crafting Your Story with Technology: Leveraging modern technology to share your narrative effectively in today's digital age. Integrating Data Science with Publicity: Dave discusses merging data analytics with publicity efforts for enhanced marketing outcomes. Harnessing Data for Marketing: Insights into utilizing data analytics to drive successful marketing campaigns. Differentiating Between Effective and Ineffective Narratives: Understanding the elements of a compelling narrative versus a lackluster one. Leveraging Technology for Advertising: Exploring innovative ways to utilize technology for advertising purposes. Memory Marketing and Neuroscience: Dave delves into the intriguing realm of memory marketing and its ties to neuroscience. Dave's Marketing Approach: Insights and tips from Dave on effective marketing strategies, backed by science and technology. As the episode draws to a close, listeners are left with a wealth of knowledge and practical advice from Dave Farrow. From understanding the intricacies of media channels to harnessing the power of data science in marketing, Dave's insights offer a roadmap for businesses seeking to elevate their marketing strategies. With a blend of science, technology, and real-world experience, Dave's approach to marketing promises to inspire and empower entrepreneurs to make a meaningful difference in their respective industries. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Dave Farrow is best known for his brain power. Listed twice in the Guinness Book of Records for Greatest Memory, he is first and foremost an entrepreneur who mastered PR to promote his own business. Most PR professionals have a background working in television BUT have no sales or entrepreneurial experience. As for Dave, he took his skill in memory and developed several educational products and used PR as his primary sales tool. His results are impressive. Dave has personally been on over 2000 media interviews, including multiple appearances on Dr. Oz, Steve Harvey, the Today Show, Fox and Friends, CBS Early Show, Live! With Regis and Kelly, BBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, The CW, QVC, Discovery Channel, Science Channel, and was the star of a CBC documentary. Most recently, Farrow won the $50,000 prize on the new hit show SuperHuman on Fox. Learn more by visiting farrowcommunications.com. ABOUT OUR HOSTS: Scott De Long, Ph.D., is an entrepreneur, author, educator, and Founder of Lead2Goals, a business leadership organization that provides coaching, facilitation, and training for growth-oriented organizations. Scott has recently released his first book, "I Thought I Was A Leader... A Journey to Building Trust, Leading Teams & Inspiring Change." Available at Amazon. Vince Moiso, MBA, is the Founder and President of VIS Aspire Inc., a business management consultant group. He is also a Principal and President of Oceanside Glass & Tile. Vince is the author of the book "How to Survive the Wilderness: The Playbook for the Entrepreneur and High Performer." Also available at Amazon. To learn more about Scott De Long, Ph.D., and Vince Moiso, MBA, please visit theceopodcast.net. If you have questions or comments, or to make topic suggestions for future episodes, please contact them at scottandvince@gmail.com. ABOUT LEAD2GOALS: Lead2Goals is based in Southern California and provides business leadership training and employee development through soft skills training, executive coaching, team-building, and strategic planning. To learn more, please contact Scott at scott@lead2goals.com or visit lead2goals.com. ABOUT VIS ASPIRE: VIS Aspire is a small business consulting firm dedicated to the flooring industry. Their mission is to transform your business and exceed expectations through mindful preparation and meaningful action. To learn more, please contact Vince at vincent@visaspireinc.com or visit visaspireinc.com.

TAKEAWAYSCheck out Dave's book, Brainhacker: Master Memory, Focus, Emotions, and More to Unleash the Genius WithinYou can memorize things backward as well as forward with your memory if you utilize Dave's techniquesIf you're struggling to focus, it's because our modern society doesn't lend very well to the base instincts of human survivalismDave's students have been able to recall up to 90 percent of what they attempt to remember in a very short period of time using his technique

Dave Farrow is a two-time Guinness World Record holder renowned for his impeccable memory. He successfully remembered the order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards using his “Farrow Memory Method.” This method was originally invented to combat his dyslexia and ADHD and it is now a unique memory system backed by a double-blind neuroscience study from McGill University. He explains the key steps to firing up your ability to memorize the impossible. He also breaks down his famous “Focus Burst,” which allows people to maximize their focus and remember things they never thought possible in a very short period of time. Interestingly, the average memory of Americans today has regressed since we started using smartphones. Time to get our memory back! TAKEAWAYS Check out Dave's book, Brainhacker: Master Memory, Focus, Emotions, and More to Unleash the Genius Within You can memorize things backward as well as forward with your memory if you utilize Dave's techniques If you're struggling to focus, it's because our modern society doesn't lend very well to the base instincts of human survivalism Dave's students have been able to recall up to 90 percent of what they attempt to remember in a very short period of time using his technique

Today, two-time Guinness World Record memory champ Dave Farrow shares practical tips you can use to “rewire” your brain and boost its power.

Dave Farrow was this week's guest on Success Profiles Radio. He is a 2-time Guinness World Record holder for greatest memory. He is also the author of the new book, "Brainhacker: Master Memory, Focus, Emotions, and More to Unleash the Genius Within", and owns the PR firm, Farrow Communications. We talked about brainhacking and how it can help us remember more, make better decisions, and become more efficient in studying for exams. In addition, we discussed how it can slow down memory loss in Alzheimer's patients, how he won his episode of FOX's "Superhuman" TV show, and how he sold $170,000 of product during ONE radio interview. We discussed so much more on the show. You can subscribe and listen to the show on iTunes/Apple Podcasts. You can also listen to the show at Success Profiles Radio | Live Internet Talk Radio | Best Shows Podcasts (toginet.com)

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to entrepreneur and parent coach Kellie Ann Peterson. Kelly talks to us about how to be an entrepreneur with a disability. Kellie Ann Peterson, MDiv. has a Marriage and Family Therapy Bachelors degree and is a Family Intervention Specialist. Her experiences include teaching, reunifying families, working with at-risk youths, families in crisis, and as a parent coach. She has worked in preschools, correctional facilities, and social work agencies. She is a co-author with Dave Farrow, a two-time Guinness World Records holder for greatest memory, and she is the creator of an online parenting curriculum. Her new book, an upcoming memoir, "Wounded Heart, Graceful Warrior" is her story of overcoming domestic violence. Kellie Ann is unique in every way, and her life story attests to that fact. As a teen mom, adoptive mom, and foster care mom, she has had many great experiences. But there is even more. Just one year after she gave birth to her daughter, she became a great-grandmother.

Radio show host, Gary Calligas will have Dave Farrow, author and two-time Guinness World Record holder for memory on his Saturday, March 18th “The Best of Times Radio Hour” at 9:05 AM on News Radio 710 KEEL to discuss his many strategies to tap the full power of your brain. You can also listen to this radio talk show streaming LIVE on the internet at www.710KEEL.com. and streaming LIVE on 101.7 FM or via the RadioPUP or KEEL app on apple and android devices. For more information, please visit these websites at www.thebestoftimesnews.com and www.hebertstandc.com. This radio show is proudly presented by AARP Louisiana and Hebert's Town and Country of Shreveport featuring – Dodge, Chrysler, Ram, and Jeep vehicles and service.

Have you ever met someone new, only to realize that you'd forgotten their name moments later? Or, have you ever “blanked out” on something while under stress? We all have episodes of forgetfulness like these from time to time – but fortunately, there are many ways to strengthen your memory, thereby helping to boost your success in business and in life. As a two-time Guinness Record holder for Most Decks of Playing Cards Memorized in a Single Sighting, Dave Farrow is a master of memory improvement techniques. To earn this prestigious world record, Dave recalled the exact order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards using his signature Farrow Memory Method. Originally created to combat his dyslexia and ADHD, this unique memory system has been backed by a double-blind neuroscience study from McGill University. Dave is also the CEO of Farrow Communications, the author of “Brainhacker: Master Memory, Focus, Emotions and More to Unleash the Genius Within,” and has been featured as a guest speaker on over 2,000 interviews in the media.  As our guest in Episode 138 of The MINDSet Game® podcast, Dave shares various “brain hacks” and the explanations behind them, including: Simple techniques for remembering names and overcoming stress-related memory blocks How breaking up tasks into smaller chunks, as well as avoiding the “reward principle,” can help anyone – kids and adults alike – study and retain information more effectively How a better memory can help you in business, and techniques for boosting sales, no matter your industry To learn more about Dave and his methods, look for his new book, “Brainhacker,” on Amazon. You can also request a free consultation for his PR services at https://farrowcommunications.com.  To subscribe to The MINDset Game, visit www.TheMINDsetGame.com.  

“What makes aerobic exercise so powerful is that it's our evolutionary method of generating that spark. It lights on fire on every level of your brain, from stoking up the neurons' metabolic furnaces to forgiving the very structures that transmit information from one synapse to the next.” John Ratey, author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain On today's Episode #277 we will cover ✔  A review of EP 177 on "Transforming the Mind Using Athletics and Neuroscience" to see what's new. ✔  A look at Dr. Wendy Suzuki's Brain-Changing Protocol to strengthen our hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. ✔  How to Create Your Own "Spark" to Take Your Results to New Heights. And in today's episode, I want us to all dive a bit deeper, beyond what I'll uncover with the research, and look at this spark in our own lives. I want us to learn how to access this spark that John Ratey talks about, how to generate energy with this spark through exercise, and then figure out what we will do with this spark, or energy, once we've learned to create it, to go take ourselves to higher levels of achievement, all by using exercise and science, to take us there. I want to welcome you back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use immediately, with our brain in mind.  I'm Andrea Samadi, an author, and educator with a passion for learning specifically on the topics of health, wellbeing and productivity, and launched this podcast almost 4 years ago, to share how important an understanding of our brain is, for our everyday life and results. For today's episode #277, we are going back to another favorite episode of mine, #122 on “Transforming the Mind Using Athletics and Neuroscience”[i] that we released April 9, 2021, after we interviewed Paul Zientarksi, the former PE teacher from Naperville Central High School, who reinvented physical education using the understanding of simple neuroscience. In this previous episode, we combined what we learned from Paul Zientarski,[ii] with our interview with Dr. John Ratey[iii], and his book Spark, that cemented the idea of the profound impact that exercise has on our cognitive and mental health. For today's episode, #277, we will go back to episode #122 on “Transforming the Mind Using Athletics and Neuroscience” and see what's new with the research that might be able to take our understanding a bit deeper.  I know that we all are clear on the fact that exercise creates that glorious protein called BDNF that we just reviewed thoroughly on EPISODE #274[iv] and even how this protein that is released when we exercise, is reduced in the brain of someone who has developed Alzheimer's Disease, showing us that exercise is an imminent solution for the prevention of cognitive decline, or at least delaying this from happening for as long as we can. Which leads me look deeper into the research on this topic, and I went straight to the work of neuroscientist and author, Dr. Wendy Suzuki, whose TED TALK on “The Brain-Changing Effects of Exercise”[v] has over 15 million views.  I remember when her TED TALK came out (in 2017) and someone in my network sent it over to me and I immediately asked Dr. Suzuki to come on the podcast. After hearing what her schedule is like over the years, and the research she is involved with as the incoming Dean of Arts and Sciences at NYU[vi], I do understand now why I never did hear back from her on this request. Her TED TALK impacted me in a way where I knew I would need to focus on what she has discovered about the powerful effects of physical activity on the brain and that “by simply moving your body, this has lasting protective, benefits to the brain.” (Dr. Suzuki). Dr. Suzuki's TED TALK, that came out years before we had looked at this topic on the benefits of exercise on the brain, that we started to unwrap with our interview with Dr. Ratey, explains how she was at the height of her work as a leading researcher on memory and the brain, when she stuck her head out of her lab she realized she was lacking in social interaction and had gained 25 LBS. She mentioned she was miserable, and launched her own exercise program, which is when she noticed things changing with her own brain. Not only did her mood improve, and she felt stronger, but she started to notice that her difficult work (grant writing which I know takes more brain power and patience than most of us have available on a day to day basis) but she noticed this daunting task was surprisingly getting easier for her, and she stopped and thought “What's going on here? Could it possibly be my new exercise routine?” I related to what she was saying (on many levels as I spent quite a few years working on grant writing) while also understanding there is no way I could ever sit at my desk and navigate through the research I need to do, without a daily exercise routine. What about you? If you are listening to this episode, and caught the fitness bug at some point in your life, I wonder WHAT it was that inspired you to make physical activity a part of your daily routine? When I thought about it, I would have to go back years to when I first noticed that exercise was something that just made me work better. I remember something clicked for me after high school, when I was at University, and spent my summers lifeguarding, to pay for that next year of school.  In order to get the best pools as a lifeguard, in the City of North York where I grew up in Toronto, Canada, that were worth spending the entire summer at, there was this annual lifeguard triathlon, and those who participated, usually were given their first choice of the pool they wanted to work at. It was one of those “you'd better participate” and then you knew you would have a better chance at being happy with your work environment that summer. And for many of us, living in Toronto, we lived for those summer months, poolside, with those we connected the most within our social circles, and many of us (or maybe it was just me) spent the entire winter dreaming of this special time of year, when the snow and ice melted, and the summer breeze filled the air. So, one year, I had set my mind of winning this summer triathlon, and started training for it in the winter. I joined the local YMCA and remember taking the bus from my house in Don-Mills to the YMCA on Sheppard and Bayview (at least a 30-min bus ride) where I would train, with the vision that I'd have a fancy pool to work at, with all of my favorite friends, while earning the money I needed to pay for University. As soon as the snow melted, I remember riding my bike, or rollerblading to the Y, but it was those days training for this one event that summer, that hooked me on being a regular daily exerciser, for the rest of my life. An update on the triathlon that summer: I almost came in first, if I hadn't have slipped and fell on the pool deck before the run, that was the final event. I was leading the whole race until my competitor, whose name I'll never forget, passed me in that last stretch towards the finish line when I had nothing left to give. Good for her, I think today, as she motivated me in future years to keep training, and while we both got the pools we wanted, I know her love of athletics stayed with her for her lifetime as well. Until revisiting this episode, I never really thought back to when I got the exercise bug, since it's now became a non-negotiable part of my daily routine. When I heard Dr. Suzuki's story, and learned about other people's motivation for starting an exercise program, I thought it might help those listening to reflect back on their own story. It is interesting to think back to what is was that “sparked” this habit change, and made it stick, and if this isn't a habit that you find interesting, at all, I'm hoping something in this episode creates that “spark” for you to perhaps begin your own program, with the health of your brain in mind. Here's where the research gets exciting! Dr. Suzuki mentions that “exercise is the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain” and listed some reasons that I think we have all heard of today. She notes that with one 45-minute exercise session: YOUR MOOD IMPROVES: Exercise has immediate effects on your brain. One single workout she says, “increases neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline that will increase your mood immediately.” I think we can all agree on this one, and it's one of the main reasons I've kept up my daily routine. I'm not much fun without these neurotransmitters flowing in my brain. YOUR FOCUS, ATTENTION AND EVEN YOUR REACTION TIME IMPROVE: and that this improved focus “can last up to 2 hours after you exercise.” Now I'm starting to think because I know in order to do difficult cognitive work, like reading through Pubmed.gov or something, I have to tire myself out early, and the harder the workout, the better I can think and focus on difficult work. I remember telling Dr. Ratey this in our interview and he said that's why they had the students exercising before school, to prime their brain for learning. BUT DID YOU KNOW THIS? THIS IS IMPORTANT… Before switching her work to the impacts of exercise and the brain, Dr. Suzuki was one of the world's leading researchers on memory. So of course, as she began to look at the impact of exercise on the brain, she would be looking at everything through the lens of a researcher whose spent years looking at the hippocampus (the brain's memory center). It's her next points about how exercise improves our brain, through her memory research lens, that caught my attention. She adds: EXERCISE PRODUCES NEW BRAIN CELLS IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS: and this increases the volume of your hippocampus, improving your long-term memory. We have covered how to improve our memory, with unique memory hacks on a few episodes on this podcast, one with EPISODE #149 with our interview with Dave Farrow, Two-Time Guinness World Record Holder on “Focus, Fatigue and Memory Hacks”[vii] or even EPISODE #217 on “Science-Based Tricks to improve Productivity and Never Forget Anything.”[viii] But never once did we talk about the hippocampus (our brain's memory center) in these episodes. Now Dr. Suzuki, a leading researcher on memory, exercise and the brain, tells us that exercise can make the part of our brain responsible for our memory, bigger? And with our brain, we all know that size matters. THE MORE YOU EXERCISE, THE BIGGER AND STRONGER THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX GETS: So now we know that in addition to our memory center, (our hippocampus) that increases with exercise, we can add that the part of our brain that's responsible for decision making, cognitive control, attention and focus, also gets bigger with exercise, and Dr. Suzuki elaborates that “these are the two areas of the brain most susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline in aging. While Dr. Suzuki says that “by increasing exercise over your lifetime, you're not going to cure Alzheimer's or Dementia, but what you will do is create the strongest and largest prefrontal cortex so that it takes longer for the disease to have an effect.” (Dr. Suzuki). The whole reason why I spend all my spare time writing these podcast episodes, recording them, and putting them out to the world, for you, the listener, (and for me as well to keep learning) is that I do believe that small changes that we can all make, have the ability to completely transform our health, wellbeing and life. Take for example, the recent episode we did on “The Damaging Impacts of Sugar on the Brain and Body”[ix] where we covered 2 people who were measuring their blood sugar. The only reason I had the data for this episode, was that someone close to me asked me for advice. One day, this person said to me, “if I was to do just a couple of things to improve my health, what would you suggest I do?” Now this person rarely ever comes to me for advice, so when it happened, I took the moment seriously. I looked them directly in the eye, and like Dr. Jacoby said to me when I asked him the same question, I answered back, without wavering, “You need to cut out sugar (and that means anything that turns into sugar after you eat it, like the obvious candy, bread, and alcohol and then measure your blood to see exactly how what you are eating affects you personally) and then you never eat those things again.” That was it. In 30 days, this person lowered their A1C levels from the danger zone of 8.5 to 7.0. Once the behavior changes, so do the results. We can potentially reverse diabetes and pre-diabetes with this advice (and I say that not from the advice of my doctor, Dr. Jacoby, who swore that chronic disease is directly linked to lifestyle).  Like Dr. Jacoby, I'm pretty militant about health, so my advice if you want to make changes with YOUR health, is to think of your own personal motivation for this change, and then find someone who won't let you get away with reverting back to your old habits and behaviors, so that you'll stick to the changes that support your brain health So, back to Dr. Suzuki's research. She mentioned that she often gets asked, “what's the minimum amount of exercise that I would need to do, to get these changes in the brain?” and here's what she suggests: DR. SUZUKI BRAIN PROTOCOL: Dr. Suzuki's research revealed that the minimum amount of exercise you would need to do, to get these brain health benefits, would be 3-4 days a week, 30-45 minute sessions of aerobic activity, at an intensity that's enough to get your heart rate up. She says you don't have to go crazy, and I agree with her on this one. Here's something interesting I learned this year. Since I measure everything, I learned that certain activities get my heart rate just as high as my runs up the mountain. Activities like walking outside, lighter workouts on the elliptical, or even vacuuming the house, all get my heart rate up into ZONE 3 (70-80% of my maximum heart rate, or what would be considered a moderate exercise level). This was shocking to me, as I realized I could change up some of my activities, and save time, as long as I was able to get my heart rate up long enough for those brain benefits to take hold (for 30-45 minutes). THINKING CREATIVELY WITH EXERCISE: Now you can start to think creatively about aerobic activity. I recently noticed something while recording these podcast episodes. My WHOOP device started to log my activity recording as “other” and each time I finish recording, I would be notified, and could see that out of a 25 minutes recording session, I spent 70-80% of my maximum heart rate at the moderate exercise level. I'm not saying that sitting and recording for 25 minutes can replace a workout, but it opened my eyes to how strenuous public speaking can be on the body. I remember hearing speaker and author Brendon Burchard talking about how speaking in public “results in the same strain on his body as running a marathon each day.”[x] My WHOOP device was telling me the same story, and I've even noticed that when recording, I'm engaging muscles in my stomach to breathe, and it honestly feels like a workout session.   If you look at a graph of a typical hiking session, where I'm running up and down a mountain, my heart rate pattern is similar to when I'm recording a podcast episode, and recording or speaking into a mic logged me at 70-80% of my HR, which is ZONE 3 or a moderate exercise level. I do spend most of my hikes in ZONE 4 at 80-90% of my maximum heart rate, or the “hard” target zone, so I'm not going to replace this activity for speaking, but it really did open my eyes to thinking creatively with how else I can get my heart rate up for 45 minute sessions, with my brain in mind. WHAT ELSE DOES DR. SUZUKI'S RESEARCH REVEAL? While looking at the benefits of exercise on our brain, I wanted to go a bit deeper into what the research reveals, and there were a few more important details that I learned from Dr. Suzuki. She was interviewed on Dr. Andrew Huberman's podcast on “Boosting Attention and Memory with Science-Based Tools”[xi] where she gave Dr. Huberman an overview of the most important points from her TED TALK, that now informed the research she was doing on exercise and the brain, through the lens of a leading researcher on memory. BDNF, OUR HIPPOCAMPUS AND WHERE MEMORIES ARE STORED Dr. Suzuki reaffirms some of what we've already covered, that “BDNF goes directly to our hippocampus and helps new brain cells to grow” which is what we knew from Dr. Ratey, who said that “BDNF is like Miracle-Go for the brain” and it's from moving our muscles that this protein is created, helping us to improve “our highest thought processes.” But Dr. Huberman wanted to dive a bit deeper into where our memories are actually stored in our brain and asked “isn't the hippocampus involved in encoding memories, but not with the storage of memories? Memory storage (he asks) was in the neocortex or other overlying areas of the brain?” and Dr. Suzuki replies that he asked a tricky question because “memories are stored in the hippocampus for a very long time.”[xii] While she elaborates that people want to know “well how long are they there for before moving to the cortex” and she jokes “4 years, people want to know? Is that how long our memories are stored in our hippocampus?” I don't need to be a neuroscientist to think that it doesn't matter how long our memories are stored in our hippocampus, but I want this part of my brain to be as healthy, as big and fluffy (as she describes it) so that I can remain as sharp as I can as I'm aging. Not a day goes by that I go to grab a name of someone, and it's not there, so this part of our brain is a muscle that needs to be worked, just as we would be moving our body with exercise. LONDON CAB DRIVERS Which led my mind back to the research that emerged with the hippocampus of London cab drivers. This part of their brain was “significantly larger in London cab drivers due to the mental workout they get while navigating the 25,000 streets of London.”[xiii] REVIEW AND CONCLUSION: To review and conclude this episode where we looked back at EPISODE #122 on “Transforming the Brain Using Athletics and Neuroscience” I think we've got a few NEW details to help build this case for the importance of adding at least, or at a minimum, 4 days a week of 45 minute moderate aerobic sessions to build a stronger, more resilient hippocampus, to help improve our thinking, decision-making, and our memory center, ensuring that neurodegenerative diseases that could possibly come our way with age, will at least be delayed, as remember with our brain, size does matter. In the beginning of this episode, we spoke about a spark that exercise can create, that can help us to generate energy that we can use in our daily life. I mentioned where my spark began, training for the annual lifeguard triathlon in Toronto, to pay for my University classes, and I wonder: IF YOU HAVE A REGULAR EXERCISE PROGRAM: If you have incorporated exercise into your daily routine, what it was that inspired you to begin? What was it that kept this habit going for you? Have you noticed specific examples of how your exercise program has transformed your brain (like Dr. Suzuki noticed with her grant writing getting easier, and I noticed with being able to sit for longer periods of time and be focused on higher cognitive work)? Have you ever thought about what exercise was doing for your brain, down to your memory center (how it makes it bigger and stronger) or your prefrontal cortex? Were you aware of how you were building the size of your brain with exercise to at least prevent the onset of cognitive decline as we age? IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN EXERCISE PROGRAM: If you aren't incorporating 3-4 days of aerobic activity lasting 30-45 minutes in your daily routine, does this research that shows how building a stronger, fluffier more resilient hippocampus and prefrontal cortex make you think about starting a routine? If the answer to this is yes, and you aren't sure where to begin, check out our EPISODE on the TOP 5 Health Staples[xiv] where we covered how to get started with an exercise program as an Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Strategy. Were you as surprised as I was about my WHOOP device picking up my heart rate while recording a podcast episode, showing us that we can get creative with how we increase our heart rate (like with vacuuming, or walking, or other activities where you don't need to go crazy)? Can you think of some NEW and CREATIVE ways to start to move your body that could help your brain and cognition, now that you have seen this research? Once you do begin this regular daily routine, I promise you that you will start to feel better. Like cutting out sugar, you will notice immediate changes in your body (mentally and physically), and you will start to notice that you have more creative energy that you can direct in many different places. I promise you that this decision will “spark” something in you, that could possibly be the turning point that you needed to change your life forever. Since I feel so strongly about health and wellness for all of us, I want to extend an offer to you. If you are listening to this episode, and you want to make an improvement with your health and wellness, and you are stuck, unsure of where to begin, send me an email to andrea@achieveit360.com and let me know where you are starting from. This is just me here offering to give you a bit of time if you feel stuck in some way, without having to worry if I'll be selling you into some sort of coaching program. Sometimes in order to get started, we just have to make the decision, and talking to someone even for a few minutes, could be all you would need to “spark” some action of your end. If this is where you are sitting right now, don't hesitate to reach out to me. I'll close out this episode with a quote from Dr. John Ratey who said that “exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory and learning.” I'm going to add that it's the best thing we can do for ourselves as we age, to supercharge our hippocampus (our memory center) and prefrontal cortex (what we need to think) and build a stronger, more resilient brain so it will take longer for these degenerative diseases that we all know about, to have an effect. And with that, I'll make a promise back to you that I'll keep thinking up new ideas to share with you here, because I know now that writing AND recording is good for my brain. I'll see you next week as we look at EPISODE #124 on “How to be a Neuroscience Researcher” and looking back at this episode, I'll have to think really hard on how to make this one a bit more creative. See you next week. FOLLOW ANDREA SAMADI:  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreaSamadi   Website https://www.achieveit360.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samadi/  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Achieveit360com   Neuroscience Meets SEL Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2975814899101697   Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreasamadi   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreasamadi/  REFERENCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #122 on Transforming the Mind Using Athletics and Neuroscience https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-transforming-the-mind-using-athletics-and-neuroscience/ [ii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #121 with Paul Zientarski on “Transforming Students Using Physical Education and Neuroscience” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/naperville-central-high-schools-paul-zeintarski-on-transforming-students-using-physical-education-and-neuroscience/ [iii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #116 with John J. Ratey, MD on “The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/best-selling-author-john-j-ratey-md-on-the-revolutionary-new-science-of-exercise-and-the-brain/ [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #274 on “What's NEW with BDNF: Building a Faster, Stronger, More Resilient Brain”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-what-s-new-with-bdnf-building-a-faster-stronger-more-resilient-brain/ [v] The Brain-Changing Effects of Exercise with Wendy Suzuki, 2017 https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_suzuki_the_brain_changing_benefits_of_exercise?language=en [vi] Wendy Suzuki https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/wendy-suzuki.html [vii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #149 on  “Focus, Fatigue and Memory Hacks for Students and the Worplace”https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/2-time-guinness-world-record-holder-dave-farrow-on-focus-fatigue-and-memory-hacks-for-students-and-the-workplace/ [viii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #217 on “Science-Based Tricks to improve Productivity and Never Forget Anything.” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-science-based-tricks-to-improve-productivity-and-never-forget-anything/ [ix]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #275 on “The Damaging Effects of Sugar on the Brain and Body” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-the-damaging-impacts-of-sugar-on-the-brain-and-body/ [x] Brendon Burchard's High Performance Habits Story by Amy Anderson https://brendon.com/blog/success/ [xi]Dr. Wendy Suzuki on The Huberman Lab Podcast #73 “Boosting Attention and Memory with Science-Based Tools”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099hgtRoUZw [xii] Dr. Wendy Suzuki on The Huberman Lab Podcast #73 “Boosting Attention and Memory with Science-Based Tools”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099hgtRoUZw 38:26 time stamp [xiii] Taxi Cab Drivers' Brains Grow to Navigate London's Streets By Ferri Jabr December 8, 2011 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memory/ [xiv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #87 on “The Top 5 Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Strategies”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/do-you-know-the-top-5-brain-health-and-alzheimers-prevention-strategies-with-andrea-samadi/  

February 23rd - Dave Farrow

“Once we learn to use our mind to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” Jose Silva (August 11, 1914-February 7, 1999) author of The Silva Mind Control Method.   Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast and PART 2 of our Review of Jose Silva's Mind Control Program. I'm Andrea Samadi an author and an educator, who like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind ANY high performance strategy proven to increase our results in our schools, sports, and modern workplaces. If there's something NEW that I come across that can help us in any way, I'll investigate it, connect it with the most current research, and then share what I learn with you here. At the start of this year, I reviewed Napoleon Hill's Best-Selling Think and Grow Rich[i] book, with a deep dive into many of the concepts that have been put to a practical test by millions of people around the world over the years. This is THE book that my mentor Bob Proctor spent his lifetime studying, and it remains on my desk as a resource to visit when I need some inspiration, or some wise words of wisdom to push me forward. Then I came across Jose Silva's work on our resent EPISODE #260, a fascinating program that I had heard about when I worked in the seminar industry, and I knew it was time to slow down the podcast, and see what Jose Silva's program covered, and if his work could help us all with whatever it is that we are working on. My goal with this review of The Silva Method[ii], is to help all of us to learn something new to refine our current meditation practice whether we are working in our schools to improve learning, in our sports environments for improved results towards a specific goal, or in the corporate workplace to generate new ideas. I wouldn't have picked this book to review if it hadn't made such an impact on the world, like Napoleon Hills' book. In PART 1[iii] of our review, on our last episode, we covered: ✔ CH 1- Using More of Our Mind in Special Ways: An Introduction to the Silva Mind Control Method ✔ What this program has done for others. ✔ Ch 2- Meet Jose ✔ Ch 3- How to Meditate: A review of the brain states (BETA, ALPHA, THETA, DELTA). ✔ How to quickly access the ALPHA STATE to improve creativity, and intuition. ✔ Using A Mental Screen in Your Mind for Heightened Visualization ✔ How to Help Yourself and Others Using a Mental Screen in Our Mind After recording this episode, there were some important parts that I forgot to add in, but since each of these episodes is cumulative, building off the last episode, I'll be sure to add in anything important along the way. As I'm writing these episodes, as I'm also learning along with you. ***If you are listening to this episode, and have not yet listened to PART 1, please do begin with PART 1 of this series, to maximize each concept we will be learning, and practicing. Each lesson builds off the next, in The Silva Method, which to me could be described as a combination between meditation, and self-hypnosis all in one. I'll be sharing Silva's Method, chapter by chapter, with clear examples of how to put it into practice, and how his method can help all of us to train our brain to do some astounding things. I wanted to cover The Silva Method on this podcast, as years ago, no one spoke about the power of hypnosis, or meditation, in our corporate workplaces, or in our schools. It's taken some time, but now these concepts are no longer weird, they are mainstream, embraced worldwide, and have helped millions of people from celebrities, and high level CEOS, to regular people in search of their own personal breakthroughs. I hope this episode series will help all of us to sharpen our saw with our own meditation practice, and help us to reach new heights in our personal and professional lives. On our last episode #261, we practiced accessing the Alpha Brain State using the countdown method, were introduced to the use of the Mental Screen for Heightened Visualization, and learned that it would be this mental screen where we would utilize the power of Silva's Mind Control Program, that is about controlling our own mind for the betterment of mankind. The idea is that we will be learning sequential exercises, created by Jose Silva, and tested by thousands of others, endorsed and practiced by many of the world's most well-known and respected scientists, and thought leaders. On today's Episode #262 we will cover:  ✔ Ch 4- Dynamic Meditation ✔ Ch 5- Improving Memory and we will build off from where we left on the last episode, where we were practicing building mental images on the screen of our mind, while in the Alpha Brain State. Chapter 3 on Dynamic Meditation involves “training your mind for organized, dynamic activities” that Jose Silva thinks is what our mind was designed for.  He says “once you have reached the meditative level, to simply stay there and wait for something to happen is not enough. It is beautiful and calming and it does contribute to your good health, but these are modest accomplishments compared with what is possible.” This is where The Silva program gets exciting as we step past passive meditation techniques, to use it dynamically to solve problems. Now we'll see why it's so important to perfect what we see on the Screen of our Mind, and why daily practice of these skills is crucial. Let's Do This! Let's use our mind for something that's useful for us—something of value. It all begins with our imagination, on this screen of our mind, but Silva says there are 4 important laws we must follow next. The Silva Program says that --Whatever it is that you want, you must: Law 1: You must desire that the event take place. Law 2: You must believe the event can take place. Law 3: You must expect the event to take place. Law 4: You cannot create a problem. When I heard these laws, that Silva wants us to consider BEFORE we begin visualizing what we want, I connected them to Napoleon Hill's best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich, probably because this book review is still fresh in my mind. Law 1: You must desire that the event take place. (Which reminds me of the Second chapter of the TAGR book. If you recall, this is the chapter where Barnes had a burning desire to work with Edison, so intense that he “burned all bridges behind him. He stood by his desire until it became the dominating obsession of his life.” (TAGR, Ch 2, Page 20). BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO USE THE SCREEN IN YOUR MIND, THINK ABOUT THIS. Do you have a burning desire for whatever it is that you want to create? If not, keep thinking for what you REALLY want, and choose this to focus on for this activity. Law 2: You must believe the event can take place. (This reminds me of Chapter 3 in TAGR, the chapter of Faith: Visualizing and Believing in the Attainments of the Desire. Napoleon Hill said that “every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat” (TAGR, Ch 2, Page 21) and you'll do this, because you won't believe in any other outcome. In PART 2 of our TAGR Study, I wrote an example I saw while researching Dr. David Sinclair, who we covered on EPISODE #189[iv] (and he's come up a few times on the podcast with his pioneering work in the field of anti-aging). While researching him, I found out that he had to self-funded his trip from Australia to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to interview to work in their lab, which he did. He didn't let his lack of funds stop him from finding his way to MIT. He had a clear vision of what he wanted, and he BELIEVED in his vision, and didn't let any obstacles get in his way. BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO USE THE SCREEN IN YOUR MIND, THINK ABOUT THIS: Do you BELIEVE the event you'll create on the screen of your mind can take place? Unwavering belief drives behavior, and it will come through, and be obvious by the way you walk (with purpose), the way you talk (with conviction) and finally, by the actions you will take, directed towards the attainment of whatever it is that you want. You will NEVER outperform your self-image. Without belief, you'll miss the boat. Law 3: You must expect the event to take place. While reading Silva's laws, I couldn't believe that these were all a part of the Napoleon Hill's best-selling book. I wondered if Silva learned them from Hill? I'll never know for sure, but expectation connects everything we are doing and when we expect something to happen, when it eventually does, we'll recognize it because it's been in our mind all along. In Silva's program, you will have spent some time with what you want on the screen of your mind, so expecting it is the next step. Law 4: You cannot create a problem. This law says a lot about who Jose Silva was as a person. He says “there is plenty of evil on this planet, and we humans perpetrate more than our share of it. This is done in Beta, not Alpha, not Theta, and probably not in Delta.” He says his research has proved this and I believe him. I don't believe in time wasting to prove what Silva has already proven, but it you want to use the Alpha Brain State to wish ill-will on someone else, you'll be wasting your time, as you will quickly snap out of Alpha in this process. You must only visualize something that's for the betterment of mankind. LET'S USE THE POWER OF OUR MIND TO SOLVE A PROBLEM ***To practice this, choose an event that's a solution to a problem you have. Something you desire, believe can come about, and can learn to expect it, with this exercise. STEP 1: PICK A PROBLEM Follow the steps that will get you into the Alpha Brain State, from our last episode (counting backwards from 100-1) and then lift your eyes upwards, and with your mind, create a mental screen where you will re-create the problem you want to solve. Relive the problem by seeing it and feeling it. For Schools: A problem could be a poor grade on a test, resulting in a low overall grade. For Sports: The problem could be a losing streak, or poor performance leading with the loss. For the Workplace: The problem could be a lack of sales in your organization, or poor performance somewhere. Pick the problem you want to solve, and visualize it on the screen of your mind. STEP 2: TAKE SOME SORT OF ACTION Next, you will gently push the problem scene off to the right which Silva explains in his book will represent the PAST. The past is now over, so push the problem aside. To the left of the problem, (that represents the FUTURE), create a NEW mental screen with the SOLUTION. Whatever you imagine will require ACTION of some sort showing you solving the problem. Most of us don't spend time thinking about the present moment or the future. We can easily get bogged down in what happened in the past. This is what I love about Silva's Method. The past is over, moved off to the side and we now focus ONLY on the present (taking action to solve the problem) and the FUTURE, which will highlight the changed outcome. For Schools: A solution could involve a student studying with more focus. For Sports: A solution could involve practicing a skill that is known for needed improvement. For the Workplace: A solution could involve presenting your product to a group of people who see its value, and decide they will purchase a large order. STEP 3: THE SOLUTION Finally, the action you have taken pays off, and you will envision the solution on the screen of your mind. Everything here is positive, and all of the feelings associated with the problem have been resolved. You celebrate the WIN here in as much detail as you can. What does this win feel like? Who's there watching you? What do you hear? What do you see? Involve all of your senses. For Schools: Picture the student celebrating when they see their efforts were rewarded with an A+ grade. This A+ will lead to many more, eventually allowing the student to receive an honor roll award at the end of the year. For Sports: You'll picture your team celebrating when the practice pays off with a WIN that eventually leads to a trophy or award at the end of the season. For the Workplace: You'll picture your team celebrating when they receive the large order that came from the hard work from the recent presentation. The team celebrates by hosting a lunch where all those involved are recognized for their efforts. These are some examples of using The Silva Method to train your brain towards your desired outcome. Does it always work? No, Silva says, but with time and practice, you'll start to see improvements that you might chalk up to be coincidences. He suggests stopping this practice altogether, and the coincidences will also stop. Start back up again, and they will reappear. You'll see…just practice this, and let me know what YOU see. With practice, the results you will see will be more and more astounding. The part that I forgot to mention was that in this Mind Control Exercise, “you will establish two routines. One for going to your level (with the countdown method) and the other for coming out of it.” Silva suggests at the end of STEP 3, after you've successfully visualized your solution, to say “I will slowly come out as I count from 1-5, feeling wide awake and better than before. One, two, prepare to open your eyes, three, open your eyes, four, five, eyes open, wide awake, feeling better than before.” This entire exercise, with practice, can be done with just 15 minute blocks of time, especially once you've reached the countdown method from counting from 5-1 to enter your level. You can also reach this state at any point in the day (morning upon wake, night, before sleep, or any time of day that you can a block of time where you can close your eyes and visualize yourself solving your problem). Chapter 5: Improving Memory We've covered memory hacks on this podcast with EPISODE #145[v] with Howard Berg, The World's Fastest Speed Reader on “Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension and Recall” or EPISODE #149[vi] with Two-Time Guinness World Record Holder Dave Farrow on “Focus, Fatigue, and Memory Hacks.”   I'll use what Howard Berg said in our interview together[vii] as he said “take a list that you know, and link it to what you want to remember” which is exactly what Jose Silva suggests with his memory strategy. Howard had me remember a list from 1-10 using words and images (1 looks like pole, 2 is shoe, 3 is a tricycle since it has three wheels), 4 is a car (four wheels), 5 is a glove (five fingers in a glove)…etc.   Next, Howard had me speed learning this list of numbers using imagery, showing me how to remember longer lists of numbers with these images. If you had ever attended a seminar with Bob Proctor, he also did this activity, linking words that we want to remember to a list of 10 words we already know by what he called ridiculous association. With the audience, he would pick a list of 20 words they wanted to recall (the audience would shout out 20 things). I wrote them down in my notes you can see (if you can read my writing). Then Bob would tie the words we want to recall to the numbers we already knew, by ridiculous association. 1-run, the audience picked a water bottle to remember and he'd say, (imagine a water bottle running around the room) 2-zoo (imaging a whole bunch of watches behind the glass with the lions as they are walking around them at the zoo 3-tree (growing a whole bunch of telephones), 4-door (with eye-glasses on the handle balancing there about to drop off when someone opens the door)…Bob's memory technique was like Howard's linking images (ridiculous images that were difficult to forget) to a list of numbers we already knew. Silva also believed in creating visual images to remember words and called these images “memory pegs” and mentioned this type of learning is a whole other area. To keep it simple, he says, to remember something He says that “all that you have to do, once you've learned to work with your mental screen, is visualize a past event that surrounds an incident you believe you have forgotten, and it will be there. I say an incident you believe you have forgotten because in reality you have not forgotten it at all. You simply do not recall it. There is a significant difference.” (Ch. 5, Silva Silva Method). He says that our brains record far more than we realize, and goes on to give some fascinating examples of what people have remembered while under general anesthesia, which is a whole other area I'll cover another time. 3 Finger Technique:  In this chapter, Silva shows us how we can use what he calls the 3 Finger Technique to help us to quickly access the Alpha Brain State and solve simple things, like memory recall. He says, “Here is how simple it is: Just bring together the thumb and first two fingers of either hand and your mind will instantly adjust to a deeper level” to accomplish what you want. Try it for yourself. STEP 1: Join together your thumb and your first two fingers. What do you notice? He says this instantly brings us into the Alpha State. STEP 2: REPEAT silently or out loud “Whenever I join my fingers together like this”—now join them—“for a serious purpose I will instantly reach this level of mind to accomplish whatever I desire.”  I heard Vishen Lakhiani, the CEO of MindValley say that he calms himself down during public speaking with this method. I agree that it's very calming, and use this technique to relax when I'm feeling stressed or anxious. I just used it yesterday while driving my girls to gymnastics in heavy traffic. Silva says that teacher from Denver used this Three Finger Technique to teach her students spelling with a list of 20 words. To test them, she asks them to write down the words they studied that week, recall the words using the Three Finger Technique, and see the words on the screen of their minds. She's able to teach all of her students to remember their spelling list with this method. This concept is not new. It's often how people place their hands during meditation, while sitting crossed-legged, but Silva has taken this technique to new heights, and those who have applied to to their line of work have noticed a significant improvement with memory/recall. REMEMBER: “When a person learns to function mentally at this deeper level, creativity is enhanced. Memory is improved and a person is better able to solve problems.” (Jose Silva).   TO REVIEW PART 2 OF THE SILVA METHOD: We covered ✔ REVIEW of EPISODE #261 PART 1 ✔ Ch 4- Dynamic Meditation ✔ The 4 Laws that must be in place BEFORE you visualize something. ✔ We Solved a Problem with 3 STEPS (Problem, Action, Solution) with ideas to use this method for schools, sports or the workplace. ✔ Ch 5- Improving Memory ✔ The 3 Finger Technique SOME FINAL THOUGHTS: As we close out this episode, I want to reinforce that solving problems using the screen of our mind is something that takes some practice. This isn't something I've mastered yet, but as I have said, the purpose of these episodes are to see how we can improve our own meditation practices.  It's only been 9 days for me now practicing the countdown method, and I'm noticing that I can access this beautiful Alpha Brain State quicker than I was from day 1 with improved focus, and clarity. My current goal is to be in better control of the images that I see on the screen of my mind. Right now, it's taking a lot of effort to override what I can see there already, and put something new on the screen that I want to create. When I need to access this state in the day, I'm using the 3 Finger Technique and finding another solution to instantly calm my brain. I'd obviously love to solve all of my problems overnight, but that's not how The Silva Program was designed. It's a journey of the mind, that I think is fascinating. “Once we learn to use our mind to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” Jose Silva I can see how many of Jose Silva's techniques have created geniuses, as Howard Berg, The World's Fastest Speed Reader used similar strategies, as well as the 2-time World Guinness Record Holder, Dave Farrow.   Thank you for listening, and coming on this journey with me. I'd love to know what you notice if you have tried out the exercises with your field of work. With that, I'll close out for now, and will see you in a few days with Episode #163 on ✔ Ch 6-Speed Learning ✔ Ch 7-Creative Sleep   REFERENCES: [i] Think and Grow Rich Book Review with Andrea Samadi    Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination”   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #194 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 5 on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking all Parts of Our Mind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #196 PART 6 in Memory of Bob Proctor on “The 15 Principles Behind Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich Book” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-15-success-principles-of-napoleon-hill-s-classic-boo-think-and-grow-rich/   [ii] The Silva Mind Control Method https://silvamethod.com/ [iii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 PART 1 “A Deep Dive into Applying the Silva Method for Improved Intuition, Creativity and Focus” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/ [iv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #189 on “Understanding Hormesis: Why Stress and Adversity Make Us Physically and Mentally Stronger” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/understanding-hormesis-why-stress-and-adversity-make-us-physically-and-mentally-stronger/ [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #145 with Howard Berg, the World's Fastest Speed Reader on “Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension and Recall”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-worlds-fastest-reader-howard-stephen-berg-on-strategies-to-improve-reading-comprehension-and-recall-for-educators-and-the-workplace/ [vi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #149 with Two-Time Guinness World Record Holder Dave Farrow on “Focus, Fatigue and Memory Hacks”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/2-time-guinness-world-record-holder-dave-farrow-on-focus-fatigue-and-memory-hacks-for-students-and-the-workplace/ [vii] Howard Berg's Memory Trick with Andrea (40:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al0B6HzxtEk

As we discussed back in Episode 41, business partnerships can be a difficult path to navigate. They are notorious for being massive accelerants to success - or a quick path to failure. Today, we are ecstatic to host Dave Farrow on the podcast. After 23 years in software development and leadership roles, Dave moved into security. Over the past ten years he has founded and run security programs at Barracuda Networks and Veza where he was responsible for GRC, product and corporate security, and incident response. Dave currently serves as VP, CISO at Red Canary. He holds a BS, EECS from UC Berkeley. Dave got started in real estate investing a few years ago through the more unconventional route - private money lending. After getting his feet wet with lending on projects to local, reputable investors, this year he decided he wanted to make the leap on taking a more active role in real estate investing. Throughout the episode, Dave and Scott talk about their most recent flip - breaking down the numbers, their partnership structure, and much more.

John & Heidi share funny stories of people doing weird things... plus John chats with a guest. We visit with Dave Farrow the man with the Greatest Memory Learn more about our radio program, podcast & blog at www.JohnAndHeidiShow.com

John & Heidi share funny stories of people doing weird things... plus John chats with a guest. We visit with Dave Farrow the man with the Greatest Memory Learn more about our radio program, podcast & blog at www.JohnAndHeidiShow.com

August 18th - Dave Farrow

Dave Farrow is the two-time Guinness World Record holder for Greatest Memory, a title he earned by recalling the exact order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards using 'The Farrow Memory Method'. Dave has been a featured guest expert on over 2000 interviews in the media including multiple appearances on Dr. Oz, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, Steve Harvey, Discovery Channel, and many others. Today, Dave uses his keen understanding of the brain in the public relations and media sector. He is the founder and CEO of Farrow Communications, a full-service PR and marketing firm known for brain-based marketing and memorable messaging. Farrow Communications makes brands unforgettable representing a diverse range of clients across industry sectors and global markets. Dave's upcoming book, Brainhacker, which will help you to  “rewire” your brain and boost its power, will be released later this year, and newly edited versions of his audiobooks, 3x Your Memory in One Hour and Superhuman Speed Reading, are currently available at Audible.com. Michael and Dave have a great episode where within an hour Dave improves Michaels horrible memory significantly with tips anyone can use. Dave helps improve memory and has a communications company aimed at helping authors gain more exposure and thus profit.https://farrowcommunications.com/https://farrowmemory.com/

Title: Farrow Brain-Hacks Guests: Dave Farrow   1:00 Introduction to Dave Farrow 1:50 “Hacking” the brain 3:30 Hacks on the phone and other electronic devices 4:10 Food Hacks 7:00 Therapy and torture 9:30 Processing pain 13:10 Visualization hack 17:00 Nutrition 20:00 Taking a screen break   The Stay Young America podcast is brought to you by Executive Medicine of Texas, a leader in preventative and proactive medicine. People fly in from around the globe for executive physicals and age management. Learn more about Executive Medicine of Texas by going to EMTexas.com. Website: StayYoungAmerica.com Twitter: @StayYoungPod Facebook: Stay Young America! Join us next time as we bring you information that you can use.

Show 95 Title: “Farrow Covid-Brain” Guest: Dave Farrow :30 Intro the Dave Farrow 1:50 Issues with the brain 4:40 Love, Life and Lucille 6:00 Brain training 7:00 Adolescents 8:00 Learning machines 10:30 Covid brain fog 13:30 Veterans 17:00 Music 20:00 Grief 22:30 ADHD Hacks 27:00 Left brain and Right brain   The Stay Young America podcast is brought to you by Executive Medicine of Texas a leader in preventative and proactive medicine. People fly in from around the globe for executive physicals and age management learn more about Executive Medicine of Texas by going to EMTexas.com. Website: StayYoungAmerica.com Twitter: @stayyoungpod Facebook: Stay Young America!   Join us next time as we bring Dave Farrow back for mind over body brain hack with Dave Farrow. http://brainhackers.com/

This week the Mavens talk with two-time Guinness World Record Holder, Dave Farrow.  Holding the record for Most Decks of Playing Cards Memorized in a Single Sighting (which he reclaimed after someone else broke it), Farrow's achievement is even more impressive when taking into account the fact that he was born with ADHD and Dyslexia, which he says admittedly gave him a sub-par memory at birth. But instead of being held back, he used this as a motivation to further understand his own brain, sending him on one of the most exciting journeys in overcoming what many would call a major setback. With the Mavens, Farrow discusses his favorite techniques in improving memorization, the importance of challenging one's brain, and how you can manipulate your own brain and mind into becoming as skilled as Farrow. To learn more about one of the world's most exciting success stories, tune in to “The Game of Memory.”

Dave Farrow is a two-time Canadian Guinness World Record holder for most decks of playing cards memorized in a single sighting. His trademarked "Farrow Method" is helping business teams perform at turbo-charged levels and was even the subject of a double-blind study at McGill University.The retail auto industry tends to get caught up in the hype of breaking news and what's happening today. From big data to Web 3.0, the true winners are those who improve themselves so that they are better equipped to leverage what's happening in the world. From providing better customer experiences to building sales relationships that increase lifetime value, that's the true crux of what we discuss with Dave in this episode.What we discuss in this episode:Dave did not have a good memory when he first started. He trained himself to have a good memory, it's a skill that can be learned.You can have a superhuman memory, you just have to learn how YOUR brain works.There is a whole realm of mental training that skips academia altogether.Your brain believes what it thinks will actually happen — this is what athletes and performers like to visualize before they perform.Think of the impact on your car sales career by visualizing and training your mind to see the best outcomes day in and day out.You have the most powerful computer sitting between your ears. The brain is the most complex thing we know of. The challenge is that it has an awful battery.How is the hustle affecting performance? Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of "hustle" but quickly forget that resting is as crucial to achieving something as is the hustle.  Like this show? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your LinkedIn or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally!Thanks, Dave Farrow!If you enjoyed this conversation with Dave Farrow, please let him know by clicking on the links below and sending him a message.Click here to thank Dave Farrow on LinkedInClick here to let Michael know about your number one takeaway from this conversation

Dave Farrow is a two-time Canadian Guinness World Record holder for most decks of playing cards memorized in a single sighting. His trademarked "Farrow Method" is helping business teams perform at turbo-charged levels and was even the subject of a double-blind study at McGill University. The retail auto industry tends to get caught up in the hype of breaking news and what's happening today. From big data to Web 3.0, the true winners are those who improve themselves so that they are better equipped to leverage what's happening in the world. From providing better customer experiences to building sales relationships that increase lifetime value, that's the true crux of what we discuss with Dave in this episode. What we discuss in this episode: Dave did not have a good memory when he first started. He trained himself to have a good memory, it's a skill that can be learned. You can have a superhuman memory, you just have to learn how YOUR brain works. There is a whole realm of mental training that skips academia altogether. Your brain believes what it thinks will actually happen — this is what athletes and performers like to visualize before they perform. Think of the impact on your car sales career by visualizing and training your mind to see the best outcomes day in and day out. You have the most powerful computer sitting between your ears. The brain is the most complex thing we know of. The challenge is that it has an awful battery. How is the hustle affecting performance? Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of "hustle" but quickly forget that resting is as crucial to achieving something as is the hustle. Like this show? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your LinkedIn or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally! Thanks, Dave Farrow! If you enjoyed this conversation with Dave Farrow, please let him know by clicking on the links below and sending him a message. Click here to thank Dave Farrow on LinkedIn Click here to let Michael know about your number one takeaway from this conversation

For the #OwnitShow this week we are talking about how "Ownership Is Knowing Who You Are And Living It On Purpose with Dave FarrowWhat kind of brain do you want? Join @Davefarrow as he walks us through the power of brain hacking for a truly remarkable life. This is a story of overcoming the limitations we have or society has set for us when it comes to harnessing the awesome power of our brains. So, tune in to the full podcast today and start taking advantage of your super brain to begin living a life of ownership daily.#GoOwnit

Hello DevNations, in this episode we learn how to improve and master our own memory with Dave Farrow. He shares with us techniques we can use today to improve our memory recall and learning. Listed twice in the Guinness Book of Records for Greatest Memory, he is first and foremost an entrepreneur who mastered PR to promote his own business, Farrow Communications. Follow Dave Farrow on https://farrowcommunications.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/farrowmemory/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/totalrecallman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-farrow-4a382921/ ———————————— Follow Me (@PerezTheDev) On ———————————— Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perezthedev/ Website: perezthedev.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFinancialDev Timestamps: Intro: 0:00-0:43 Explain your background and what made you want to improve your brain 0:43-5:28 What was the process like of transitioning into building your memory? 5:28-13:40 What are focus bursts? 13:40-20:52 What other techniques can people start implementing today? 20:52-36:24 Sales and PR: 36:24-36:37 What was the biggest lesson you learned during your sales and marketing time? 36:37-42:00 What has helped you on your communication journey? 42:00-43:47 What are you currently learning now? 43:47-45:06 What are some resources that have helped you throughout your life? 45:06-47:28 What are some books that have had a deep impact on your life? 47:28-49:34 What advice would you give your 25-year old self? 49:34-51:58 Where can people reach out to you? 51:58-53:18 Outro 53:18-end --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/minddevs/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/minddevs/support

Dave Farrow talks about Autodidacticism in The Coffee With Coaches Podcast.  Dave Farrow is a two-time Canadian Guinness World Record Holder for Most Decks of Playing Cards Memorized in a Single Sighting, entrepreneur, memory coach, speed reader, and keynote speaker. To learn more about The Coffee With Coaches podcast, please visit: https://boxer.agency/coffee-with-coaches/

We are kicking off season 2 of the “2 Girls 1 Closet” podcast with a three part mini-series of Guinness Book of World Record holders!Our first guest is Dave Farrow, a two-time Canadian Guinness World Record Holder for most decks of playing cards memorized in a single sighting, entrepreneur, memory coach, speed reader and keynote speaker. Dave was diagnosed with ADHD and Dyslexia at a young age and instead of taking medication, he developed his own behavioral modification approaches to manage his disability.Dave talks to us about the memory techniques he created, how organization can play an important part in our lives, why you sometimes need to get messy before you get organized, how to trigger your long term memory with the Farrow Method and much more. Want to improve your memory? Make sure to check out Dave's website to sign up for his programs and courses. 

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast for episode #150 with Scott Flansburg[i] who Regis Philbin called “The Human Calculator[ii]” because he can mentally count faster than a calculator. Watch this interview on YouTube here. https://youtu.be/aa8mbxvYqrc Learn more about Scott Flansburg's online programs here. https://scottflansburg.com/a/andrea See past episodes here. https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/   On this episode you will learn: ✔︎  How someone with incredible math abilities has started the National Counting Bee to share his talents with students around the country. ✔︎ 2 NEW WAYS to look at numeracy and math that will change your mindset forever. ✔︎ How Scott Flansburg got into the Guinness World Book of Records for his unique mathematical abilities and what his brain scans revealed about his brain. ✔︎ Scott's vision for the future and how he plans to change the way ALL 3rd graders approach math in the future. I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies in our schools, sports, and the workplace with ideas that we can all use, understand and implement immediately. I do want to thank the listeners who have sent me messages through social media about how you are using these podcast episodes in your personal and professional lives. We are approaching our goal of hitting 200 episodes and 100,000 downloads and couldn't do this without listeners, or high-quality guests. Back to this episode. After being introduced to Howard Berg[iii], who holds the Guinness World record for speed reading, I was introduced to Dave Farrow[iv], a two-time Guinness World Record holder for correctly memorizing and recalling the exact order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards. I began to see that extraordinary results are possible, when regular people, like you and me, do certain things in a certain way. I look forward to sharing Scott Flansburg's story, to see what strategies we can learn and implement to help us all improve our numeracy skills. Yes, he does hold the Guinness World Record for the fastest mental calculation after adding the same number to itself more times in 15 seconds, even faster than anyone could do with a calculator. I've heard of the importance of developing strong numeracy skills twice already, from past guests. On episode #138,[v] Professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Dr. Daniel Ansari, affirmed that research shows that students with weak numeracy skills are more likely to default on their mortgage payments in the future, and on episode #146[vi] Dr. Howard Rankin, an expert in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience who spoke on the topic of “How Not to Think” agreed that low numeracy skills are a noticeable problem in the US, and that many people have no idea on the concept of “compounding interest.” Let's see what we can learn from Scott Flansburg. But first, here's a bit more about him. Since about 1990 Scott Flansburg has regularly given lectures and presentations at schools. He has been a presenter at organizations such as NASA, IBM, The Smithsonian Institution, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the Mental Calculation World Cup. The latter described Flansburg as “more an auditory than a visual [mental] calculator”. One of Flansburg's “personal missions” is to use education to elevate math confidence and self-esteem in adults and children. He says “Why has it become so socially acceptable to be bad at math?,” and reminds us that “If you were illiterate, you wouldn't say that on TV, but you can say that you are bad at math. We have to change the attitude.” He believes students should become proficient with calculation methods rather than relying on table memorization. Scott is the creator of The Counting Bee™[vii], an annual STEM competition open for K-12 students at all public, private, charter, and home schools. Its inaugural competition was held on November 8, 2018, in Arizona, where I live. I wish I had known of Scott back then, for I would have been sitting in the front row, hoping to learn something. What's really interesting is that Scott discovered his mental calculation ability at the age of 9 when his math teacher asked him to add four numbers. He can mentally add, subtract, divide and multiply numbers with the accuracy of the calculator naturally. In 1990, he started using his abilities in the education and entertainment industry. To date, he has published books like Math Magic and Math Magic For Your Kids. Scott has been featured in popular shows around the world like The Ellen Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, USA Today, BBC breakfast, ESPN, History Channel, and many more. Let's meet Scott Flansburg. Welcome Scott, thank you very much for coming on the podcast today to share ways that we can improve our numeracy skills. This is such an honor for me to have this chance to speak with you. When I looked at your website, it's clear that you have caught the attention of some of the greats who have made their mark in history, like Larry King, or Regis Philbin who nicknamed you “The Human Calculator,” Tony Robbins, Oprah or comic book writer Stan Lee. Welcome! I've got to tell you Scott, when I see talent, it's impossible to look away! I was blown away with your story (watching you add a 2-digit number to itself 36 times in 15 seconds) but what really got me was seeing you on AZ Family TV with the 1st AZ Counting Bee[viii]and the National Counting Bee[ix] helping students with these skills. Intro Q: Why did you start the Counting Bee, and what is your vision for young people around the world with numeracy skills? Q1: Scott, what I love about stories like yours, is that there is such a huge need for numeracy skills (not just here in the US, but Globally) and I'm fully aware of how important mindset is for my own results/future, let alone my two girls who watch and model everything that I do, especially now that the Pandemic has taken away so much of those math skills that are cumulative. When I watched the winner of your Counting Bee, and the anchor asked his Mom “Where did he learn this from, was it you?” And she said strongly, “Definitely not!” Perhaps his Father? I recognized that I have said the exact same thing about my husband who is really good with numbers.  Why do you think people so afraid of numbers? Do you think there is a new sense of urgency around numeracy skills that is different now with the times we have faced? Q2: When did you notice that you had these numeracy skills that were helpful for your family while grocery shopping (I read that you could add up the tally of a grocery list before the cashier had rung up your orders) or at what age did you notice that your brain worked differently from the other students? Q3: How did you get into the Guinness World Book of Records? How did you even know about trying for this? Q4: What have you learned about your brain and how it might be different from other brains? I saw something about the fact that scientists associate your mathematical skills with the fact that an area in your brain is displaced upward and significantly expanded? Did you have your brain scanned? How would anyone know this? Q5: I have put a link to your website, with your programs listed, but what are the programs you offer?  I see courses for kids, students, and professionals. Can you tell me about each one? Thank you so much for your time today and for what you are doing to help the world embrace numbers in a different way. If anyone wants to reach you, they can click on the link in the show notes and also find you https://twitter.com/HumanCalculator    https://scottflansburg.com/a/andrea   https://www.linkedin.com/in/thehumancalculator/   https://www.facebook.com/IAmTheHumanCalculator   Area 44 of the Brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area_44   https://mobile.twitter.com/TheCountingBee The National Counting Bee on Twitter   Sign up for the next Counting Bee https://www.thecountingbee.org/ RESOURCES: Nelson Dellis' Mind Show with Scott Flansburg Published March 8, 2016  https://memory-sports.com/blog/videos/nelson-dellis-mind-show-with-scott-flansburg-the-human-calculator/ Re-learning Math with Scott Flansburg Part 1 Published on YouTube October 24, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hesKQ_y1P7k Human Calculator Shares Math Secrets Feb. 23, 2012 https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Human-Calculator-shares-math-secrets-3357228.php Math Magic by Scott Flansburg Published in Amazon June 15, 2015 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016UEKRA2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Math Magic for Your Kids Published Jan. 20, 1998  https://www.amazon.com/Math-Magic-Your-Kids-Calculator/dp/0060977310 Scott Flansburg Shares How He Came Up with the 0-99 Grid May 21, 2015 https://news.wttw.com/2015/05/21/human-calculator http://wellmichelleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-power-of-00.html Stan Lee's Superhumans Human Calculator| History Channel Published on YouTube  October 1, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtotrboSUqQ Extraordinary Humans with Scott Flansburg https://watch.insight.tv/extraordinary-humans/videos/scott-flansburg REFERENCES: [i] https://scottflansburg.com/a/andrea [ii] Scott Flansburg, The Human Calculator, Short History, Published on YouTube Dec. 4, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXkt-hQbm_k [iii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #145 with the World's Fastest Reader, Howard Berg on “Strategies to Improve Reading, Comprehension and Recall” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-worlds-fastest-reader-howard-stephen-berg-on-strategies-to-improve-reading-comprehension-and-recall-for-educators-and-the-workplace/ [iv]https://farrowmemory.com/a/andrea [v] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #138 with Dr. Daniel Ansari on “The Future of Educational Neuroscience” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/professor-and-canada-research-chair-in-developmental-cognitive-neuroscience-and-learning-on-the-future-of-educational-neuroscience/ [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #146 with Expert in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Howard Rankin, Ph.D. on “How Not to Think” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/expert-in-psychology-cognitive-neuroscience-and-neurotechnology-howard-rankin-phd-on-how-not-to-think/ [vii] The Counting Bee https://www.facebook.com/TheCountingBee/ [viii] AZ Channel 3 News 1st AZ Counting Bee Winner Published on YouTube Nov. 23, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjZ7cTBMEr4 [ix] The National Counting Bee April 3, 2019 https://www.kusi.com/the-human-calculator-encourages-students-to-sign-up-for-national-counting-bee/

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast for episode #149 with Dave Farrow[i], a two-time Canadian Guinness World Record Holder for Most Decks of Playing Cards Memorized in a single sighting in 1996 and again in 2007 when he correctly memorized and recalled the exact order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards—which is 3068 cards in total, exceeding his previous record of 52 decks (2704 cards). Watch the Interview on YouTube here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxuvnCpI0c Learn more about Dave Farrow and his Memory Program https://farrowmemory.com/a/andrea See past episodes here https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/ On this episode you will learn: ✔︎  How Dave Farrow overcame his diagnosis of ADHD and Dyslexia to develop talents that would set him miles apart from the rest in his future. ✔︎ The learning strategies that Dave Farrow used to overcome his areas of weakness and work 8x faster than the average person. ✔︎  The secret behind how he memorized 59 decks of shuffled playing cards that got him into the Guinness World Book of Records for memory. ✔︎ His strategy for memorizing 109 balloon colors (in 60 seconds) winning him the episode on FOX TV's SUPERHUMAN SHOW. ✔︎ How Dave Farrow now wants to give back and help others develop SUPERHUMAN MEMORY Powers, Increase Focus and Reduce Brain Fatigue, so they can rise to the top of their career and life. I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies in our schools, sports, and the workplace with ideas that we can all use, understand and implement immediately. I can't tell you how excited I am to speak with fellow Canadian, Dave Farrow[ii] who wasn't born with the gift of memory, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia as a child. To help him to do better at school, Dave created a memory system called “The Farrow Method” which is now a certifiable scientifically proven system for memory backed by a double-blind neuroscience study at McGill University In 2008 Dave was hired by Sony Corporation to live in a window on 5th Avenue in Manhattan and speed read on a Sony E-Reader for literacy in America. In 30 days, he read over 100 books and through his efforts, Sony gave 4.4 million E-Books to schools in America. Over 100 million people watched him in the window read for charity. As a memory expert, David has trained over 10,000 business professionals, students, managers and seminar attendees in memory programs offered in both Canada and the United States, with that number growing each day. Today Dave uses his media savvy and keen understanding of the brain in the public relations sector. He is the founder and CEO of FarrowPR a full-service public relations and marketing firm in Buffalo NY. With his ability to speed read and memorize large amounts of information, Dave is an expert in Nanotechnology and microfluidics and is currently developing a prototype for a robotic moving mannequin with “Start Up New York.” Dave has been a featured guest expert on over 2000 interviews in the media including, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, Steve Harvey, Discovery Channel and many others. I was introduced to Dave Farrow after episode #145 with Howard Berg[iii] who holds the Guinness World record for speed reading, and immediately started to make connections with his work, and past interviews and episodes. I'm always looking at ways to improve memory, especially after my brain scan at Amen Clinics[iv] showed that I was weak in the area of recall memory or recalling a list of random words and Dr. Creado who did my brain scan evaluation reminded me that “we can change our brain and memory with practice, but we must first of all believe it's possible.” After seeing how easy it was to remember a list of 10 items with my interview with Howard Berg, I'm dying to learn more from Dave Farrow, and share these strategies with you. Welcome Dave, thank you very much for meeting with me today. I see that you are originally from Kitchener, Ontario? Growing up in Toronto, I spent a lot of time in Kitchener in high school when a high school friend moved off the Homer Watson Blvd exit (I still remember that!). Where have I reached you today? Q1: From reading your story, I can see how you got behind with your academics with the health challenges you experienced. Your story reminded me a lot of someone I interviewed years ago, named Nik Halik[v] from EPISODE #31 who overcame severe illness as a child, by studying Encyclopedias and went on to live a phenomenal life. What do you remember about your early years that motivated you to learn, study and begin developing the talents that would set you miles apart from others in your future? Q2: Dave, a lot about your story is fascinating, but for those who work with students with dyslexia, or reading challenges, they might find it difficult to imagine results like yours. I interviewed Lois Letchford on episode #136 where her son, who was diagnosed with dyslexia in first grade, went on to get his Ph.D. and graduate from Oxford University, with a bright future. His Mom spoke about the switch she felt with his learning when he began to find an interest in learning through maps. Also, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young from episode #132[vi] who changed her brain and left her learning disability behind. Was there something that you remember that changed for you that took you from struggling with your academics, to mastery? Q3: Can we talk about what got you into the Guinness World Book of Records for memory? "There is nothing more empowering or motivational than discovering the ability for SuperHuman Memory has been inside you all along." - Dave Farrow I watched you on the FOX TV SUPERHUMAN SHOW[vii] where you were being tested by memorizing 109 balloon colors, (in 60 seconds) (and then I thought “What strategy does he use to do this as you close your eyes?” How on the earth could you memorize 59 decks of shuffled cards when I struggle to remember 10 things on a random list? Is there a secret? Q4: Looking through your work this weekend, I couldn't miss seeing Harry Lorayne[viii] somewhere, and I don't remember where it was, maybe it was a reference on your website. When I worked with Bob Proctor in the seminar industry, he was always talking about Harry Lorayne being the person he knew with a great memory (maybe because he hadn't met you yet)? Was Harry one of your early influencers? Who else inspired the work you are doing? Q5: I can also see some of the leaders of motivation and sales on your website who I've come across over the years. I saw Greg Reid, the creator of Secret Knock, who's written so many books on the power of positive thinking and developing your mind, and also the late Frank Shankwitz, the Founder of Make-A-Wish Foundation, who we interviewed on episode #40 and sadly we lost earlier this year.[ix] How are you now using your talents to help others to be more successful? Q6: What is the Farrow Method™[x] that was proven at McGill University's neuroscience study and how does it guarantee to improve someone's memory? How can The Farrow Method  help sales teams, high powered executives, or anyone else looking to improve their productivity and results? Q7: Is there something important, that you think I have missed? Thank you for your time today, Dave, and for all you are doing to help lift up those who may think they don't have a chance for mind-blowing results that you have attained. For those who want to learn more about you and your programs, I will put the link in the show notes  https://farrowmemory.com/a/andrea as well, they can find you on Twitter https://twitter.com/FarrowComms Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/davefarrowmemory/ RESOURCES: The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read by Ronald D. Davis Published Feb.4th 2010 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030CVQGW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Educational Implications of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences First Published Nov. 1st, 1989 by Howard Gardner https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X018008004 REFERENCES: [i] https://farrowmemory.com/a/andrea [ii] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Farrow [iii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #145 with the World's Fastest Reader, Howard Berg on “Strategies to Improve Reading, Comprehension and Recall” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-worlds-fastest-reader-howard-stephen-berg-on-strategies-to-improve-reading-comprehension-and-recall-for-educators-and-the-workplace/ [iv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #84 Brain Scan Results “How a SPECT Image Brain Scan Can Change Your Life” [v] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #31 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/entrepreneur-civilian-astronaut-and-extreme-adventurer-nik-halik-on-overcoming-adversity-to-create-an-epic-life/ [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #132 with Barbara Arrowsmith Young on “How She Changed Her Brain and Left Her Learning Disability Behind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-story-of-barbara-arrowsmith-young-the-woman-who-changed-her-brain-and-left-her-learning-disability-behind/ [vii] Dave Must Memorize 109 Balloon Colors Published on YouTube June 10, 2017 by FOX NEWS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmacFBSH864&t=1s [viii] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lorayne [ix]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #40 with Frank Shankowitz https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/co-founder-of-the-make-a-wish-foundation-frank-shankwitz-on-lessons-from-the-wish-man-movie/ [x] https://farrowmemory.com/

VP of Information Security at Barracuda Dave Farrow shares how a teenage surfer fell in love with software development and made his way in the cybersecurity field. Dave chose to study electrical engineering in college because he wanted to learn something that didn't make sense to him. He says he's done things in his career that he said he'd never do: for example, he went into and fell in love with software development. Taking on leadership of a bug bounty program at Barracuda blossomed into the creation of an internal security team. Dave wants to be the guy who enables the business and not the one who prevented it. He hopes all will come to recognize that there are other threats besides cybersecurity threats to business. We thank Dave for sharing his story with us.

VP of Information Security at Barracuda Dave Farrow shares how a teenage surfer fell in love with software development and made his way in the cybersecurity field. Dave chose to study electrical engineering in college because he wanted to learn something that didn't make sense to him. He says he's done things in his career that he said he'd never do: for example, he went into and fell in love with software development. Taking on leadership of a bug bounty program at Barracuda blossomed into the creation of an internal security team. Dave wants to be the guy who enables the business and not the one who prevented it. He hopes all will come to recognize that there are other threats besides cybersecurity threats to business. We thank Dave for sharing his story with us.

This weeks guest is Dave Farrow Dave Farrow is best known for his brainpower. Listed twice in the Guinness Book of Records for Greatest Memory, he is first and foremost an entrepreneur who mastered PR to promote his own business. Most PR professionals have a background working in television BUT have no sales or entrepreneurial experience. As for Dave, he took his skill in memory and developed several educational products and used PR as his primary sales tool. His results are impressive. Dave has personally been on over 2000 media interviews, including multiple appearances on  Dr. Mehmet Oz Steve Harvey The Today Show Fox & Friends CBS Early Show Live with Regis and Kelly BBC News,  NBC News CBS News ABC The CW QVC Discovery Channel Science Channel and was the star of a CBC documentary.  Most recently, Farrow won the $50,000 prize on the new hit show Superhuman on Fox News He says: "There is nothing more empowering or motivational than discovering the ability for SuperHuman Memory has been inside you all along." I enjoyed learning from Dave how to expand our mental capabilities and enhance the limitless potential of our brains and lives, and I trust you will too.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Ambassador of JOY, Barry Shore, is in WOW as he NOW brings YOU the HOW of Using Your Brain better. Meet Dave Farrow; best known for his brain power. Listed twice in the Guinness Book of Records for Greatest Memory, he is first and foremost an entrepreneur who mastered PR to promote his own business. Most PR professionals have a background working in television BUT have no sales or entrepreneurial experience. As for Dave, he took his skill in memory and developed several educational products and used PR as his primary sales tool. His results are impressive. You'll THRILL as Barry and Dave discuss his STORY. Dave has personally been on 2000+ media interviews, multiple appearances on Dr. Oz, Steve Harvey, the Today Show, Fox and Friends, CBS Early Show, Live! With Regis and Kelly, BBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, The CW, QVC, Discovery Channel, Science Channel, and was the star of a CBC documentary. Most recently, Farrow won the $50,000 prize on the new hit show SuperHuman on Fox. SHARE THIS!

Marketing expert, Dave Farrow is best known for his brainpower. He is the 2x Guinness World Record holder for greatest memory. To earn this title, Farrow recalled the exact order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards using 'The Farrow Memory Method'. This method was originally invented to combat Farrow’s dyslexia and ADHD and it is now a unique memory system backed by a double-blind neuroscience study from McGill University. Today, Farrow uses his keen understanding of the brain in the public relations and media sector. He is the CEO of Farrow Communications, a full-service PR and marketing firm known for brain-based marketing and mnemonic messaging. Representing a diverse range of clients across industry sectors and global markets, Farrow Communications makes brands unforgettable. Contact Dave Farrow: https://farrowcommunications.com/ Do you want to live an incredible life? Get started now by reading my book: "Visualizing Happiness in Every Area of Your Life" https://amzn.to/2kvAuXU What is your biggest obstacle to creating an incredible life? You can book a free 15-minute mentoring session with Dr. Kimberley Linert. Click on this booking link: https://calendly.com/drkimberley/15min Please subscribe to the podcast and take a few minutes to review on iTunes, Thank you If you have an amazing story to tell about your life and how you are sharing your gifts and talents with the world, then I would love to have you as a guest on my podcast. Contact me via email: incrediblelifepodcast@gmail.com or private message me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/incrediblelifecreator DrKimberleyLinert.com

Matt chats with Dave Farrow, Sr Director or Information Security at Barracuda Networks, regarding the new working from home normal. Dave also shares how important it is that leaders imbue a sense of purpose in others during uncertain times. Recorded: March 19, 2020.

Dave Farrow, the two-time Guinness World Record Holder for Greatest Memory, joins Talking Business Now host Kelly Scanlon to discuss how to achieve better sales and marketing results by using memory techniques. Tune in to learn: How Dave developed the "Farrow Memory Method" to deal with his own dyslexia, how he used it to set two Guinness World Records for Greatest Memory, and how he teaches his clients at Farrow Communications to use it in business to improve sales and marketing results. Memory techniques you can use in your advertising to connect with potential customers and make your ads more memorable. Memory tips you can use with your sales teams to remember customer names, product details and other important information that can make or break a sale. CONNECT WITH DAVE FARROW Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/farrowmemory/ https://www.facebook.com/farrowcomms/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/FarrowComms LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davefarrowmemory/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melanie Johnson and Jenn Foster interview memory, business, and marketing expert, Dave Farrow. Learn how to use your story and expertise to develop a memorable and profitable brand. Use Public Relations and marketing to sell your expertise.   Video URL:https://youtu.be/gEAXfv9LLrw Website: http://EliteOnlinePublishing.com See full show notes: https://eliteonlinepublishing.com/selling-your-exp…with-dave-farrow/

The SNL star tells how he gets the hottest women in Hollywood, Megan Thee Stallion responds to being linked to Khloe Kardashian's ex Tristan Thompson, take a second to improve your memory with special guest Dave Farrow and much more.

Dave Farrow joins us on The Authors Unite Show! This episode is brought to you by Authors Unite. Authors Unite provides you with all the resources you need to become a successful author. You can learn more about Authors Unite here: https://authorsunite.com/ Thank you for listening to The Authors Unite Show! Tyler --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/authorsunite/support

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Our guest today, Dave Farrow, is a successful entrepreneur, world record holder, podcast host and expert on communications and PR. But Dave’s life could have taken another direction. Diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, Dave was told by his high school teacher to accept his fate of not being able to cope or ever think he would be successful. Dave did the opposite and became a two-time Guinness World Record Holder. Twenty years later, his accomplishments have not been beaten. He made it his obsession to learn about how the brain works to overcome his condition but also to encourage and teach others to do the same thing. You will love Dave’s energy. With over 2000 media interviews, including on “Good Morning America” and “Dr. Oz,” he knows how to keep you engaged. To learn more about Dave and his work, go to www.farrowcommunications.com or www.brainhackers.com. Dave was also kind enough to offer you, the SOS audience, some specials at www.worldsgreatestmemory.com During the show, we spend some time talking about the importance of purpose and passion. To help you with this process, I would like to suggest three CRG resources that can assist you and others with this journey. My book, The Quest For Purpose, and two of our assessments, the Personal Style Indicator (now a full five-hour eCourse - https://courses.crgleader.com/) and the Values Preference Indicator, will help you with life clarity. Thank you in advance for subscribing, sharing and posting a positive review and/or comment as we expand our impact to encourage and inspire others. Until next time, Keep Living On Purpose! Dr. Ken Keis

Our guest today, Dave Farrow, is a successful entrepreneur, world record holder, podcast host and expert on communications and PR. But Dave’s life could have taken another direction. Diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, Dave was told by his high school teacher to accept his fate of not being able to cope or ever think he would be successful. Dave did the opposite and became a two-time Guinness World Record Holder. Twenty years later, his accomplishments have not been beaten. He made it his obsession to learn about how the brain works to overcome his condition but also to encourage and teach others to do the same thing. You will love Dave’s energy. With over 2000 media interviews, including on “Good Morning America” and “Dr. Oz,” he knows how to keep you engaged. To learn more about Dave and his work, go to www.farrowcommunications.com or www.brainhackers.com. Dave was also kind enough to offer you, the SOS audience, some specials at www.worldsgreatestmemory.com During the show, we spend some time talking about the importance of purpose and passion. To help you with this process, I would like to suggest three CRG resources that can assist you and others with this journey. My book, The Quest For Purpose, and two of our assessments, the Personal Style Indicator (now a full five-hour eCourse - https://courses.crgleader.com/) and the Values Preference Indicator, will help you with life clarity. Thank you in advance for subscribing, sharing and posting a positive review and/or comment as we expand our impact to encourage and inspire others. Until next time, Keep Living On Purpose! Dr. Ken Keis

Today's Flash Back Friday comes from Episode 190, originally published in November 2010. Jason Hartman talks with Guinness World Record Holder, David Farrow on this “every tenth show” where we'll explore how to improve memory and concentration. If you're like most people, you're constantly forgetting things. People's names. Where you put the keys. Even things you read just moments before. Your mind is like a cluttered attic with information tossed everywhere and little hope of finding anything quickly. You can create a mental filing system that not only categorizes and organizes information, but also lets you retrieve it instantly, whenever you need it! Who am I? I'm the world's foremost expert on memory and a two-time Guinness World Record holder. His program is designed to teach people like you to do what he can do – remember the names of people I met only once, always know where I put important objects like my keys, recite whole passages from books, word for word, and so much more. Using his techniques, hundreds of people like you are learning new languages, memorizing important scriptures and quotes, and even improving their vocabularies. With techniques that are easy and effective, you can double your reading speed and more. Never lose your car keys or other valuables again Get people's names right every time, and avoid embarrassment Quote scripture, famous people or even song lyrics perfectly Pick up new languages in mere weeks Ace exams by retaining everything you study Deliver flawless speeches and presentations from memory Impress people with your mental Rolodex of phone numbers Using my breakthrough visualization techniques, I've trained thousands of corporate executives to excel in business, helped military officers and government agents remember critical pieces of information and even taught Academy Award-winning actors how to avoid blowing their lines! Dave Farrow is the world's foremost memory expert and a two time Guinness World Record Holder. He invented the MILLIONAIRE MEMORY program to teach people like you to do what he can do: remember names and important numbers, learn new languages, memorize scriptures, quotes and speeches, and more. Dave points to himself as proof that incredible mental improvements are possible. As a child, Dave was diagnosed with two learning disabilities: ADHD and dyslexia. He struggled in school and had trouble keeping up in class. Out of frustration, he began an intense search for a way to overcome these challenges and, as a result, discovered the breakthrough techniques that helped him become the Guinness World Record holder for memorization. To earn that title, Dave memorized the order of 59 decks of cards. That's 3,068 cards! Dave admits, “Your memory might never be quite that good, but I personally guarantee you'll see dramatic memory improvements using my simple techniques.” Website: www.DaveFarrow.com

If you can memorize the order of 59 packs of playing cards in a single siting, you might, says Guinness World Records, give Dave Farrow a run for his money. Host Bart Jackson brings on this astounding memory phenomenon who has given his own expertise a run for the money by packaging his memory system and selling over 10 million copies. Employing his same method of intense study and mental agility, Dave has innovated an uncannily effective program to help you monetize your own unique skills. ‘Tis a proven and huge success for the scores of top clients in his Farrow Communications. Tune in and learn to share your temporarily hidden talent more profitably.

If you can memorize the order of 59 packs of playing cards in a single sitting, you might, says Guinness World Records, give Dave Farrow a run for his money.  Host Bart Jackson brings on this astounding memory phenomenon who has given his own expertise a run for the money by packaging his memory system and selling over 10 million copies.  Employing his same method of intense study and mental agility, Dave has innovated an uncannily effective program to help you monetize your own unique skills.  ‘Tis a proven and huge success for the scores of top clients in his Farrow Communications.  Tune in and learn to share your temporarily hidden talent more profitably.

Getting the word out about your amazing product is getting harder and harder. You’re tasked with the burden of presenting it in the best light. However, one of the biggest mistakes is trying to do a product pitch on your own. Unless you're sophisticated and have the experience, you can almost destroy your brand if […]

Getting the word out about your amazing product is getting harder and harder. You’re tasked with the burden of presenting it in the best light. However, one of the biggest mistakes is trying to do a product pitch on your own. Unless you’re sophisticated and have the experience, you can almost destroy your brand if you don’t do it right. Dave Farrow of Farrow Communications talks about the different kinds of product publicity and how to do gift guides and get product reviews. Dave has been doing this for a long time, and he’s shifted his business multiple times to keep up with how things work. He shares why product publicity is so important but yet so hard at the same time. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Product Launch Hazzards community today:ProductLaunchHazzards.comProduct Launch Hazzards FacebookProduct Launch Hazzards TwitterProduct Launch Hazzards LinkedInProduct Launch Hazzards PinterestProduct Launch Hazzards Youtube

On today’s episode, we speak with Dave Farrow, CEO of Farrow Communications, and creator of The Farrow Memory Method. Dave talks to us about how he created his life-changing memory method and discusses techniques for improving your memory. Dave Farrow is the two-time Guinness Record holder for greatest memory and the CEO of Farrow Communications. […]

On today’s episode, we speak with Dave Farrow, CEO of Farrow Communications, and creator of The Farrow Memory Method. Dave talks to us about how he created his life-changing memory method and discusses techniques for improving your memory. Dave Farrow is the two-time Guinness Record holder for greatest memory and the CEO of Farrow Communications. To earn the world record, Farrow recalled the exact order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards using ‘The Farrow Memory Method’. This method was originally invented to combat Farrow’s dyslexia and ADHD and is now a unique memory system backed by a double-blind neuroscience study at McGill University. He is first and foremost an entrepreneur who mastered PR to promote his own business. He took his skill in memory and developed several educational products and used PR as his primary sales tool. His results are impressive. He has been a featured guest expert on over 2000 interviews in the media including, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, Steve Harvey, Discovery Channel and many others. http://www.davefarrow.com/

Most people think being an entrepreneur means you’ll be the boss, taking control and choosing when and how much you want to work. In reality, being an entrepreneur can be one of the most difficult tasks in the beginning. It’s far easier to just work a traditional J.O.B. As you start your own business, it feels like you’re doing everything. Then as you figure it out, you can start to pass your duties on to other people. It takes time. The success of a company takes a lot of time, but unlike a traditional J.O.B. being an entrepreneur has no limit to your success or your salary. If you have the dedication to stick through all of the setbacks you’ll hit a point where you can’t ever imagine working for someone else again. On that note, the biggest mistake I’ve seen people do is give up. Generally, when you feel like you’re about to give up that’s right when success is around the corner. You need to keep pushing past that point, and trust that it will happen. To discuss this more I brought on a very special guest today, Dave Farrow. Dave Farrow is the Guinness World Record Holder for Greatest Memory - he memorized the exact order of 59 packs of shuffled playing cards and recalled them with only one card error - that's 3068 cards! Dave began his career as a failing ADHD and Dyslexic student in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.  Ready to drop out, Dave went to the library to learn everything he could about memory, to improve his grades and graduate.  While still in high school, Dave began teaching memory improvement techniques to other students and teachers and they all loved it. In 1996, Dave Farrow earned the Guinness Record for Greatest Memory by memorizing and recalling the order of 52 decks of shuffled playing cards (2704 cards).   In 2007, he broke his own record by memorizing and recalling the order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards (3068 cards). Today, Dave Farrow is a successful speaker, author and entrepreneur. His Farrow Method for Memory Improvement and Brain Based Learning is the top learning program of it's kind in the world.  Dave and the Farrow Method have been featured on over 2000 interviews on TV, Radio and in print publications. Download this episode today and learn what it takes to find your own world record.

Most people think being an entrepreneur means you'll be the boss, taking control and choosing when and how much you want to work. In reality, being an entrepreneur can be one of the most difficult tasks in the beginning. It's far easier to just work a traditional J.O.B. As you start your own business, it feels like you're doing everything. Then as you figure it out, you can start to pass your duties on to other people. It takes time. The success of a company takes a lot of time, but unlike a traditional J.O.B. being an entrepreneur has no limit to your success or your salary. If you have the dedication to stick through all of the setbacks you'll hit a point where you can't ever imagine working for someone else again. On that note, the biggest mistake I've seen people do is give up. Generally, when you feel like you're about to give up that's right when success is around the corner. You need to keep pushing past that point, and trust that it will happen. To discuss this more I brought on a very special guest today, Dave Farrow. Dave Farrow is the Guinness World Record Holder for Greatest Memory - he memorized the exact order of 59 packs of shuffled playing cards and recalled them with only one card error - that's 3068 cards! Dave began his career as a failing ADHD and Dyslexic student in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Ready to drop out, Dave went to the library to learn everything he could about memory, to improve his grades and graduate. While still in high school, Dave began teaching memory improvement techniques to other students and teachers and they all loved it. In 1996, Dave Farrow earned the Guinness Record for Greatest Memory by memorizing and recalling the order of 52 decks of shuffled playing cards (2704 cards). In 2007, he broke his own record by memorizing and recalling the order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards (3068 cards). Today, Dave Farrow is a successful speaker, author and entrepreneur. His Farrow Method for Memory Improvement and Brain Based Learning is the top learning program of it's kind in the world. Dave and the Farrow Method have been featured on over 2000 interviews on TV, Radio and in print publications. Download this episode today and learn what it takes to find your own world record.

Today's Women Worldwide episode is taking us in a few interesting directions; from memory improvement and self-directed learning, all the way to artificial intelligence and robotics. We are bringing you a packed episode! Today’s guest is not only a memory expert, but a PR expert as well, and he’s got a lot to share with you.Dave Farrow started his career promoting a program for memory improvement that actually landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. Dave is an entrepreneur and expert of self-directed learning and accelerated learning. Through these techniques, he is teaching others how to improve their chances for success in life with simple, fun, and effective tools. He is also the founder and CEO of Farrow Communications, an expanded PR firm, and a popular speaker.Stay tuned for a fun episode filled with playing cards and robots! We’ll be learning a few effective techniques for memory improvement, hearing some excellent advice, and learning more about growing a business organically, as well as expanding your field of expertise.   In This Episode Improving Your Memory Guinness World Records Re-Branding and Building a Business Organically Robotics and AI Expanding Into Other Fields   Quotes in This Episode “I was talking about what we now know is the real model of the brain, which is brain plasticity, which basically says that your brain is constantly changing based on the exercises and activities that you do.” —Dave Farrow   “Almost at any age, when you actually start doing proper brain training, you cut your risk for memory loss as you age dramatically.” —Dave Farrow   “When you make a business, the arrogance is to believe that you're at the center of the universe, and you're choosing everything, but I really think a business should be grown organically based on what the customers want” —Dave Farrow   “From the very beginning I've wanted to be really on the cutting edge of technology, that's why we changed from FarrowPR to Farrow Communications recently because we're offering social media services, we're writing articles for people, working on their books with them, or doing coaching on branding.” —Dave Farrow   “I think a lot of us can relate to we're in our field and we're really smart at what we do, but we see other fields and other realms and we think, "Wow, I'd like to play in that sandbox a little bit," and we think that that's not okay in our society. Everyone wants to be pigeonholed, and specialists get paid more and everything. For me, it actually had the opposite effect.” —Dave Farrow   Resources Dave’s Twitter Farrow Communications Website Dave’sMemory Made Easy Program

Dave Farrow is the two-time Guinness Record holder for greatest memory and the CEO of Farrow Communications. To earn the world record, Farrow recalled the exact order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards using 'The Farrow Memory Method'. This method was originally invented to combat Farrow’s dyslexia and ADHD and is now a unique memory system backed by a double-blind neuroscience study at McGill University.   This is a very interesting conversation with a real Brainiac.  Hold on to your seats as you listen.   You’ll discover:   Why you should care about your memories What you can do about forgetfulness due to stress You don’t need math to fight a bear The importance of continuous learning to succeed as an entrepreneur How to have a visual representation of a concept to boost your memory Interview Links & Other Resources   Dave on Facebook Dave on LInkedIn Dave on Twitter The Farrow Memory Method Brainhackers Mere Mortals Unite on C-Suite Radio iTunes - Subscribe, Rate and Review

Getting your business out there and getting it monetized is the main reason why PR has been around for many years. It is considered a necessity. Now that podcasts have become a powerful tool to promote and boost a business, hosts need to learn that it's not about pitching your podcast, but about pitching you and why your podcast is relevant to what is happening in the world. Podcast launch PR expert Dave Farrow pitches the story more and not just the expertise, so you can attract listeners and establish a level of familiarity. Learn more ways to get your network working for your podcast. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Feed Your Brand community today: FeedYourBrand.co Feed Your Brand Facebook Feed Your Brand Instagram Feed Your Brand LinkedIn Feed Your Brand Pinterest Feed Your Brand Youtube

Getting your business out there and getting it monetized is the main reason why PR has been around for many years. It is considered a necessity. Now that podcasts have become a powerful tool to promote and boost a business, hosts need to learn that it’s not about pitching your podcast, but about pitching you and why your podcast is relevant to what is happening in the world. Podcast launch PR expert Dave Farrow pitches the story more and not just the expertise, so you can attract listeners and establish a level of familiarity. Learn more ways to get your network working for your podcast. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Feed Your Brand community today: FeedYourBrand.co Feed Your Brand Facebook Feed Your Brand Instagram Feed Your Brand LinkedIn Feed Your Brand Pinterest Feed Your Brand Youtube

Getting your business out there and getting it monetized is the main reason why PR has been around for many years. It is considered a necessity. Now that podcasts have become a powerful tool to promote and boost a business, hosts need to learn that it’s not about pitching your podcast, but about pitching you […]

How did Geoffrey Woo get to the forefront of a massive revolution at the intersection of digital health, genomics, and things we consume by building HVMN? This is a great look at how a formally trained computer scientist grew to become one of the best-known biohackers in the span of a few years.       Disclaimer: This interview is from "The Brains Behind It" by Dave Farrow. You can find the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_rR0tCKQg&t=728s    

Dave Farrow pops on to the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast to talk about memory techniques for students and professionals and give listeners free tickets to the 2017 Memory Games in Las Vegas.

Dave Farrow pops on to the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast to talk about memory techniques for students and professionals and give listeners free tickets to the 2017 Memory Games in Las Vegas.

The Stuph File Program Featuring Daniel Morgan Jones, founder of the Church of Jediism & author of Become the Force: 9 Lessons on How to Live as a Jediist Master; memory expert Dave Farrow; & Peter Franklin, the Gabby Cabby Download Daniel Morgan Jones, CEO & Founder of The Church Of Jediism talks about his new book, Become the Force: 9 Lessons on How to Live as a Jediist Master. Memory expert Dave Farrow talks about memory tournaments and how technology might be making our memories a little soft. Peter Franklin, the Gabby Cabby, shares a slice of The Big Apple from his yellow mobile conveyance lounge. This week’s opening slate is presented by Duke Eatmon broadcaster/writer & author of Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History. Many thanks to Donnie & Grace, hosts of In Your Face With Donnie & Grace who invited me on their New York City podcast to talk about my book Great Conversations: My Interviews With Two Men On The Moon And A Galaxy Of Stars

Have you ever tried memorizing and recalling the exact order of 59 decks of cards randomly shuffled together? Our guest this week not only attempted this incredible feat of brain power but succeeded in doing it, breaking the World Guinness Record for "Greatest Memory".  Episode 41 features Dave Farrow, a master of memory and PR strategies. Due to a difficult and formidable childhood filled with health problems and near-death experiences, Dave began to fall behind on his academia and had little help from outside resources. Forced to take matters into his own hands, Dave explored behavior modification approaches, such as creating specific memory techniques that were tailored to combat his ADHD and dyslexia. His determination for self-learning and cognitive improvement expanded to becoming a two-time Guinness World Record holder for memorizing and reciting 59 decks of playing cards all randomly shuffled together. Get this, he was allowed to only see each card once with zero repetition.  Geoffrey Woo and Dave discuss various memory tips and tricks (one is a HIIT version of mental training), the importance of PR and its impact on a business' success, and the rise of mental games as a serious sport. 

On this edition of The Zoomer Week in Review:Dr. Robert Emmons, a scientist who devotes his life to researching gratitude, will help get us into the thanksgiving spirit by telling us why being grateful can help us live happier, healthier lives!But sometimes remembering all those little things to be thankful for can be a challenge. In fact, just remembering where you put your keys or glasses is tough enough. Well, not for Dave Farrow, the two-time world record holder for Greatest Memory. He'll share some tips on how to trick your brain into never forgetting the important stuff!

Time to improve your memory on this episode of FTN! We've got a super-fun guest today, Dave Farrow. Dave is a Guinness World Record Holder for memory, and what he can do (and more importantly, teach you to do,) with memory is pretty awesome. He'll give you a ton of memory tips and hacks today, all centered around the ADHD brain. Yet again, it's another person who figured out how to take his unique gift and make it work for him. Ever have trouble studying for tests in school? Have kids who do? Ever have to present a bunch of facts and figures at work? Take a listen to this episode. It's going to be super-valuable to you. Listen up, you'll like this one. As always, leave us a comment below, drop us a review on iTunes (PLEASE!) and of course, subscribe to the podcast if you haven't already!     In this episode, Peter and Dave discuss: How Dave realized he has the best memory in the world (1:50) When Dave was diagnosed with ADHD (2:32) A technique Peter developed to pass his Spanish classes in high school (04:51) Superpowers of people with ADD/HD (06:04) Top tips & hacks Dave uses to make his life better utilizing his ADHD (08:10) The emotional side of having ADHD (12:01) The concept of type-t (14:32) Thinking of the world as the show GI Joe (16:46) What to do when you blank out (18:10) How to remember a person's name 30 seconds after you meet them (20:30) Links/Mentions DaveFarrow.com Push Button Memory (Course)

From a troubled-health past including a diagnosis of ADD and Dyslexia to 2-time Guinness Record holder for greatest memory, this week's guest preaches to the choir (Dr. Marissa) about the importance of faith and belief in one's abilities no matter what t

Dave Farrow talks about developing focus, overcoming study fatigue and how advanced memory abilities can make you an expert in anything.

Dave Farrow talks about developing focus, overcoming study fatigue and how advanced memory abilities can make you an expert in anything.

Interview of memory expert Dave Farrow