The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
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The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

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We believe that there are three basic learning skills: 1) the search for information, 2) remembering the information, and 3) applying the information.
If you can apply the Link and memorize ten items, then you can use it to remember twenty or thirty items.
We are teaching you, now, how to “construct images” with intangibles.
Substitute Word for anything forces you to think about it, to concentrate on it as you normally would not.
Observation is essential to Original Awareness—anything
All memory, whether trained or untrained, is based on association. But that’s stating it too simply. You will be taught many systems of association in this book, but it goes much deeper than that. You see, when people say, “I forgot,” they didn’t, usually—what really happened was that they didn’t remember in the first place.
Making the pictures ridiculous is what enables you to really see them; a logical picture is usually too vague.