Amazon Learning For Profit Category:  Education/Training Publisher: BookSurge Publishing ISBN-10:  0976891840 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 52 Copyright: May15, 2006 ISBN-13: 9780976891840 Learning For Profit teaches simple yet powerful accelerated learning techniques. All earning begins with learing. Learn more so that you can earn more! Learning For Profit will teach you the learning skills that you never learned in school. You may be amazed to discover that virtually anyone can learn anything faster than ever before. These accelerated learning skills are not taught in traditional school classrooms, but obviously are available for those persons who want more from life. Those people who have mastered these simple techniques have a tremendous advantage over the average person, who has yet to learn and benefit from these powerful skills. To move ahead, you must take a new approach. You must enhance your thinking and learn new ideas faster. Do you think that the people you read about in  magazines are 10 times, 100 times or 1000 times smarter than you are? Generally, that is not the case. Most of these people have simply learned how to position themselves in front of available opportunities in order to take financial or career advantage. How do they do it? They learn how… and they learn it faster than everybody else.They position themselves to prosper when opportunity presents itself because they have already learned what they need to know and do. They act on this information, confidently and quickly making their decisions. Now, you can learn how to do the same.      Excerpt Learn Faster, Change is Coming Challenges posed by recent economic and market shifts, though predicted for some time, have instigated chaos in the lives of many business professionals and factory workers alike, not to mention just about everyone else who is paying attention. Instead of embracing change and allowing it to fuel creativity and activity, many people allow the very thought of it to cripple them through fear, indecision and inactivity. Instant world-wide communications have allowed even the smallest changes and the biggest ideas to spread immediately across continents. A new piece of information, transmitted to the world in an instant, can forever change a market, a medical approach, relationships, jobs, products, services or the very need for a product or service. Entire factories and manufacturing processes can be rendered obsolete overnight. Many have been caught off-guard and are not prepared for this escalation and frequency of change. Many people are entering or re-entering the workforce ill-equipped and under-skilled for the constantly evolving career positions becoming available in our modern economy. Time is at a premium. How does one solve the dilemma of needing to read and study a variety of materials to enable one to be a contributing and valuable employee, while finding little free time to prepare for such a career shift? There is an urgent need to accelerate the learning of new skill-sets, but how does one accomplish this feat? What if anyone could learn new material faster than they have ever dreamed possible? What if people could digest change easier and more quickly? Could that have an impact on careers and earnings? Could learning be the solution to the fear of change? If so, then, the ability to learn faster simply makes even better sense. What does everyone want? We want stability. We want security. We want to get ahead. However, we fear change. In light of these observations, we must diligently seek to maximize every learning opportunity, for therein lies our ability to earn more income, gain career stability and to get ahead. Unfortunately, there have been very few accessible tools to enable an increase in our learning rate. The educational establishment has been teaching in the same manner for many years, even though the real world has been demanding an upgrade. In my 18 years in the formal education system, not once was any mandatory or elective training offered in goal setting, effective study habits or speed reading. Those wanting more options have been paying a premium for customized educational services through private companies. What other solutions are available? E-books, for instance, are proliferating at an astounding rate. Everything from fiction to technical manuals is available in this exciting format. Most persons are generally in a hurry, busy with a variety of family and work related tasks, with little time available for reading lengthy, conventional, “fat” books. E-books provide a practical alternative offering the tremendous benefits of value, time savings and convenience. Audio books are another great source of information allowing us to multi-task. While busy with another activity, we have the ability to listen to the latest advancements in our field, personal development or even learn a new language. There are a variety of available formats: the dinosaur cassette, CD’s and now the MP3 player. I have been listening to audio books for years as I drive, taking advantage of “drive-time university” to further my knowledge and gain information instead of feeding my brain useless material from the radio. Part of my daily workout is a lengthy, brisk walk each evening, where you will find me with my CD player “velcro’d” to my sweatshirt feeding me nutritious “brain food” from a variety of authors and speakers. You can do it too. Continuous learning is a necessity, becoming more important than ever before. The need to learn faster is rapidly becoming mandatory, as change accelerates around us. Each of us must adopt an attitude of learning for profit, whereby your accelerated learning abilities enable you to profit in each and every circumstance. Consider subscribing to the theory of life-long learning, where your education doesn’t end in high school or even after 2-4 years at college, but continues for life. After all, the entire world and our personal place in it are quite dynamic. Thanks to technology, each of us has the opportunity to affect an ever expanding segment of the population as well as to be exposed to new ideas and technical advancements from across the globe, all in the blink of an eye. You can count on the fact that this rate of change will continue to escalate and your opportunities will increase. Your ability to take appropriate advantage of these monumentous occurrences however, is a function of your ongoing self-education. Quick response to new information is critical. Learning faster is essential. Available information is now doubling every few years and is increasing daily. Our world will continue to grow smaller. Opportunities abound. If you don’t have a plan for continuous self-education and learning at an accelerated rate, you will be left behind

Dr. Ellen Weber, PhD
A review of Learning For Profit by Dr. Ellen Weber, PhD (http://www.brainbasedbusiness.com/)

"When Benjamin Franklin said … An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest…” he could have been describing Dan Sitter’s book Learning for Profit.

To learn new skills faster, easier and with more applications to real life - in a nutshell … is what Sitter calls – learning for profit. In contrast this leader in the field of ideas … uses his own background in mechanical and electrical engineering fields where he observed that people stuck in old ways … and who found it frustrating to learn new skills.

This book shows in practical step-by-step stages … how to jump into opportunities in ways that create career promotions and bring in more finances.

Aside from it's well-written and fast paced prose ... why is this book getting results? Daniel’s really drawing from interesting new brain facts in several key areas…

First, he suggests that fast and focused brings higher returns. This positions the brain to build new neuron pathways well beyond blame that holds back people who settle for ruts or boredom.

Second, he recommends that people position to prosper when opportunities open. To do that best is to draw brainpower from multiple intelligences in preparation.

Finally, Sitter suggests a person should decide promptly and with confidence. Mind maps and advanced organizers help here. Confidence and success are the handmaidens of clear targets - when it comes to the human brain.

While some leaders seem to be hardwired to fail – in reality - the brain holds amazing plasticity to rewire itself for more success when we simply do the kinds of strategies Sitter suggests. So what’s the problem? Why do so many leaders slip off the tracks along the way?

Unfortunately people tend to filter out learning tactics that do not match up with what they did from their school experiences. Sadly, too many leaders return to familiar practices ... in spite of past approaches that failed them. It’s more about how we hook new ideas to what we experience or know, than about an unwillingness to change.

Once leaders begin to see Sitter’s kind of profits … associated with effective learning and minds focused on new possibilities – the brain kicks in to enable the risks needed for that next investment of time and talent. How so? Each successful learning experience or each profit received tend to rewire the brain for more of the same and we now know how beliefs shape your outcomes.

Rarely will every skill attempted by leaders … show up as high business IQ ... yet partial victory would still have you learning for profit in ways that lead with people like Daniel Sitter. "

http://www.leadernotes.com/2007/07/daniel_sitter_leads_the_way_to.html



Deborah C. Brown
"We typically think of our learning years as those spent in traditional educational institutions and yet to be current in business and in life, we must be continually seeking out new knowledge. Learning for Profit is filled with practical thinking on why we must be continually learning and how, in our time-starved lives, we can make room for learning. The author refers to his book as a "skinny book" in which he has removed the fluff and gotten right to the point. It's a quick read, but one you'll want to refer to often. A great motivator. I've taken many of the ideas, especially how to read a non-fiction book, and put them in place. It's enabled me to read more, faster and retain more. Great read."
- Deborah C. Brown, Author "It's a Party! Planning a Succesful Retail Sales Event www.allwriteink.com