Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

An infallible method of remembering proper names is (1) Get the name when introduced. If not quite sure, ask for it. (2) Pronounce the name aloud whilst looking at the‌ person. Do this several times, if possible. The object is to produce a concurrence or connection between the sight-image of the Person and a sound-image of his Name. (3) To help the

This is the Second Stage of the Memory—the revival of the previous experience—the recall to consciousness of the First Impression.

And in all your first attempts in reading a technical work, make out an Abstract of each chapter in writing, and then deal only with this Abstract.

There are three conditions of memory—(1) Impression. (2) Its Preservation. (3) Its Revival. We are mainly concerned

The process of this New Method of Decomposition and Recomposition is as follows:—Find the shortest sentence or phrase that makes sense in the sentence to be memorised. Add to this short sentence or phrase, modifiers found in the original sentence, always italicising each new addition—one at a time—until the original sentence is finally restored.

my System has two important aspects—(1) It is a Device or Method of memorising or learning any facts whatever—prose, poetry, dates, data, formulæ and facts and principles of the sciences, &c., &c., &c., or anything whatsoever to be remembered. (2) There is another equally, if not more important aspect of it, namely, as a Trainer or Stre

Being nearly alike in meaning, we call them a case of Synonymous Inclusion,

Take the memories of members of the learned professions—they are usually only reference memories. They know where to find the coveted knowledge, but they do not possess it or retain it in their minds. On the other hand, the student who masters a book by my method really knows the contents of it, and he is thus enabled to devote to other purposes an

Where two ideas pertain to one and the same idea, but occupy opposite relations in regard to it, it is a case of Exclusion.

The true way to learn such lists as those of the Popes of Rome, the Kings of England and of the American Presidents is to learn them in their places in History, as parts of the Historical order of events to which they belong, as facts in the chain of causes and effects.