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The Key to a Better Memory
Nearly everything you do is a matter of memory. That is something to remember when you think that your memory is a poor one. Don't try to count up the things that you have forgotten, to see how far you have slipped.
Try counting what you can remember, starting from the simplest things available. Soon you will be amazed at what a tremendous memory you already have.
While you are reading this book, you are demonstrating your power of memory. Not only do you know all the letters of the alphabet by sight, so that you can spot them automatically, you recognize them in the form of words.
Right here and now, you have identified a hundred different words instantly with a precision and efficiency that is very remarkable, once you come to think of it.
Shut your eyes, think of words and see how rapidly they come to mind, often with pictures. Start spelling them and you will find that you have absorbed a lot in that department, too.
Then go into numbers, additions, fractions, and you will find that you have remembered a lot in that line. Think of some hobby or sport and watch how more facts begin to fall in place.
So many things we take for granted are matters of memory. The days of the week, as an Why do we remember them automatically?
I For one thing, because we use their names regularly and think about them. If you should get up every morning, saying, "Today is Sunday—" or whatever it happened to be—and repeated that at noon and at night, in the course of the year you would have named every day of the week more than a thousand times each.
Try counting what you can remember, starting from the simplest things available. Soon you will be amazed at what a tremendous memory you already have.
While you are reading this book, you are demonstrating your power of memory. Not only do you know all the letters of the alphabet by sight, so that you can spot them automatically, you recognize them in the form of words.
Right here and now, you have identified a hundred different words instantly with a precision and efficiency that is very remarkable, once you come to think of it.
Shut your eyes, think of words and see how rapidly they come to mind, often with pictures. Start spelling them and you will find that you have absorbed a lot in that department, too.
Then go into numbers, additions, fractions, and you will find that you have remembered a lot in that line. Think of some hobby or sport and watch how more facts begin to fall in place.
So many things we take for granted are matters of memory. The days of the week, as an Why do we remember them automatically?
I For one thing, because we use their names regularly and think about them. If you should get up every morning, saying, "Today is Sunday—" or whatever it happened to be—and repeated that at noon and at night, in the course of the year you would have named every day of the week more than a thousand times each.
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Published December 4, 2012
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