Roth Memory Course; A Simple and Scientific Method of Improving the Memory and Increasing Mental Power Volume 1-7

by David M. Roth

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...or-papers, to the amusement of the audience and the discomfiture of the speaker. Many good talks are spoiled in this way. I urge every one to memorize his points if he has the time--and you will see that my method requires very little time. The effect of any talk without the use of written notes is so much more striking-that I advise all my students to practice keeping points in mind by the use of the pigeonholes, or the A B C method, explained in this lesson. Usually, we have plenty of ad' ance notice, and time in which to prepare a mental OUl'.l.lIlC. An Easy, Dependable Way I have evolved an easy, quick, and dependable way by which such outlines may be fixed in mind. This method has solved the only problem that was still vexing men who were known as orators--for their thoughts would now and then escape them in an embarrassing way. I have been asked frequently to assist students in memorizing a talk just about the.time they were to deliver it. The time was too short for them to learn the HAT, HEN, HAM series of mental pigeonholes, as taught in Lesson Two. Hence the A B C Method, which any one can learn and apply in from five to thirty minutes. This method is so simple that it is grasped easily, and requires almost no preparation. The A B C Memory Code Every one knows his A B C5. The alphabet presentsa Ready Made Outline. It is necessary merely to take advantage of this outline. I have used the alphabet and selected words that sound like the letters. These words suggest familiar objects and ideas, which are pictured easily. These words have been selected with a great deal of care. You can learn them in ten minutes because the sound of every letter of the alphabet suggests the word to represent that letter. _And every word in turn...

58 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jessaka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Paul Revere Road in 1642 in the English Civll War

This book helped me get As and Bs in college. Not really. I just said that. I have one of those memories that got me through college this way: I would read the text book, underline it, and the night before the test I would read what I underlined, and then get either an A or a B. A week or two later my memory would fade.

I read this book when I was in the 7th or 8th grade. I know exactly where he was located on the shelf at our library in Paso Robles, CA., but I don’t remember the book very well.

I do believe this was in it: In order to memorize people’s names you had to connect their face to something, like: “This man’s name is Bill,” and then you visualize a one dollar bill in his hand. Then the next time you see him you can remember his name, “Hi Dollar,” you say. I tried this a few years ago when I had joined a group here in Oklahoma. I remembered everyone’s names this way, and then after quitting the group a few months later, whenever I ran into one of them in town, I couldn’t recall their name. It only works if you remain in the group and keep making the associations.

I think this book may have been the one that talked about singing in order to remember things. I realized then how easy it was for me to remember songs, so I spent one day singing my history lesson, and ii worked. It went like this:

Paul Revere road a horse into town,
he yelled that the people to get down
The British were coming;
they were not going,
and it all happened in 1642,
a day when the sky was blue.

It was something like that. I hated dates, and I have no idea if anything happened worthwhile in 1642. Well, yes there was an English Civil War. I looked it up, and Paul Revere rode in 1775.

I don’t recall anything else about this book, but with a memory like mine you can get through almost any college course, that is, if they don’t give you a freak test two weeks later.

[Pierre-Henry Soria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant!