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One of the most effective strategies for managing written information is to perform a quick scan of the entire text before you begin reading it in detail. For example, when you pick up a newspaper, focusing on the headlines first allows you to grasp the general context of the story immediately. Consequently, when you eventually read the full article, you are simply looking for specific details to support the main idea you already understand. The material isn't unfamiliar to you if you are working from a base of information and adding to it. Actually, you wouldn't pick up a magazine from a newsstand and buy it without previewing its contents. When doing this, you look over the whole magazine and get an idea of what it is about and what it contains before spending your money on it. In this way, you ensure a more sensible purchase and use of your money.

Jumbo jets have enabled Korean computer consultants to fly to Silicon Valley as if popping next door, and Singaporean entrepreneurs now reach Seattle in a day. The borders of the world's greatest ocean have been joined as never before. But what about the people on the islands that the jumbos fly over five miles above? Has the mighty jumbo brought them greater communion with those whose shores are washed by the same water? It hasn't, of course. Air travel may have enabled travelers to buzz across the ocean, but the concurrent decline in ocean travel has only increased the isolation of many island communities. Like many other Pacific islands, Pitcairn has never felt so far from its neighbors.

Pablo Britiol, a psychology professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, performed a study about the relationship between the body and the mind. He assigned their subjects to either sit up straight and push out their chests or sit slouched forward with their faces looking at their knees. As they held these poses for a few minutes, they were asked to describe themselves with either three positive traits or three negative traits that would be likely to either help or hurt them in their future professional lives. Not only did those in the upright position find it easier to think positive, empowering thoughts about themselves, they also believed more strongly in the traits they listed. The slouchers, on the other hand, weren't convinced of their positive or negative traits; they struggled even to know who they were.