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This week, in addition to new brainpower tips contest entries, I have a bit of encouragement for those that have been limited in their formal education. You'll be surprised at some of the names you see on the list below.

The following list of famous high school dropouts isn't meant to encourage anyone to quit school. Certainly there are advantages to a good formal education. It does, however, show that a formal education isn't an absolute necessity for a successful life - nor for increasing one's brainpower. There are many ways to succeed, and many ways to educate yourself.

Richard Branson... Billionaire British businessman.
George Carlin... Comedian.
Jim Carrey... Comedian and actor.
Tom Cruise... Actor
George Eastman... Founder of the Kodak company.
Albert Einstein... Mathematician...

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- Madrid is the only capital city in Europe which is not situated on a river.

- An Emu cannot walk backwards.

- Dogs have only about ten vocal sounds, while cats have over 100.

Can you punctuate the following, in order to make it a proper English sentence?

I said that that that that that man wrote should have been underlined

(The answer is at the bottom of the page)

University of Chicago researchers found that good sleep helps memory. In fact, even facts forgotten the previous day can be recovered the next morning, after a good night's sleep.

In the study, participants had to remember words that were either written down or played through a speech synthesizer. Their ability to recall the words got worse as the day progressed. However, when retested after a night's sleep, they could recall words that had been forgotten the evening before.

Do you ever run out of good ideas, or go around in circles trying to come up with a solution for a persistent problem? Maybe you just need to learn some simple problem solving techniques, and then start applying them. Choose one or two of the methods below, and get in the habit of using them in your personal life and your business.

Using Your Unconscious Mind

Let your unconscious mind do your problem solving. Outline a problem in your mind before going to sleep, and tell your brain to go to work. Einstein had good luck with this technique, sometimes getting the "ah-ha" insight while shaving the next morning.

Next, instruct your mind to keep working on the problem while you do other things. There is more than we know going on inside our heads. An answer may come to you when...

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Until next time,

Riddle Answer: I said that,"that 'that' that that man wrote should have been underlined."

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