REMEMBER FACT ( BRAIN )

 

                 

                        TIPS TO GET REMEMBER FACT

                                   QUESTIONS

                        * WHERE DID IT COME FROM OR ORIGINATE?

                        * WHAT CAUSED IT?

                        * WHAT HISTORY OR RECORD DOES IT HAVE?

                       * WHAT ARE ITS ATTRIBUTES, QUALITIES AND                                                             CHARACTERISTICS?

                       * WHAT THINGS CAN I MOST READILY ASSOCIATE WITH IT?

                       * WHAT IS IT LIKE?

                       * WHAT IS GOOD FOR - HOW MAY IT USED - WHAT 

                           CAN I DO WITH IT?

  

                       * WHAT IS IT LIKE?

                       * WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR - HOW MAY IT BE USED - WHAT 

                           CAN I  DO WITH IT?

                       * WHAT DOES IS PROVE - WHAT CAN BE DEDUCED

                           FROM IT?

                       * WHAT ARE ITS NATURAL RESULTS - WHAT HAPPENS                                               BECAUSE OF IT ?

                       * WHAT IS ITS FUTURE AND ITS NATURAL

                           OR PROBABLE END OR FINISH?

                       * WHAT DO I THINK OF IT, ON THE WHOLE - WHAT 

                           ARE MY GENERAL IMPRESSIONS REGARDING IT?

                      * WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT IT, IN THE WAY 

                           OF GENERAL INFORMATION?

                      * WHAT HAVE I HEARD ABOUT IT, AND FROM

                          WHOM, AND WHEN?

                        IF YOU WILL TAKE THE TROUBLE TO PUT ANY "FACT " THROUGH THE ABOVE RIGID EXAMINATION, YOU WILL NOT ONLY ATTACH IT TO HUNDREDS OF CONVENIENT AND FAMILIAR OTHER FACTS, SO THAT YOU WILL REMEMBER IT READILY UPON OCCASION, BUT YOU WILL ALSO CREATE A NEW SUBJECT OF GENERAL INFORMATION IN YOUR MIND OF WHICH THIS PARTICULAR FACT WILL BE THE CENTRAL THOUGHT.

                        THE MORE OTHER FACTS THAT YOU MANAGE TO ASSOCIATE WITH ANY ONE FACT, THE MORE PEGS WILL YOU HAVE TO HANG YOUR FACTS UPON - THE MORE "LOOSE ENDS" WILL YOU HAVE WHEREBY TO PULL THAT FACT INTO THE FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS - THE MORE CROSS INDEXES WILL YOU HAVE WHEREBY YOU MAY "RUN DOWN" THE FACT WHEN YOU NEED IT. THE MORE ASSOCIATES YOIU ATTACH TO A FACT, THE MORE "MEANING" DOES THAT FACT HAVE FOR YOU, AND THE MORE INTEREST WILL BE CREATED REGARDING IT IN YOUR MIND. MOREOVER, BY SO DOING, YOU MAKE VERY PROBABLE THE "AUTOMATIC" OR INVOLUNTARY RECOLLECTION OF THAT FACT WHEN YOU ARE THINKING OF SOME OF ITS ASSOCIATED SUBJECTS, THAT IS, IT WILL COME INTO YOUR MIND NATURALLY IN CONNECTION WITH SOMETHING ELSE- IN A "THAT REMINDS ME" FASHION. AND THE OFTEN THAT YOU ARE INVOLUNTARY "REMINDER" OF IT, THE CLEARER AND DEEPER ITS IMPRESSION BECOMES ON THE RECORDS OF YOUR MEMORY. THE OFTENER YOU USE A FACT, THE EASIER DOES IT BECOME TO RECALL IT WHEN NEEDED. AND THE MORE ASSOCIATIONS THAT YOU BESTOW UPON A FACT, THE OFTENER IS IT LIKELY TO BE USED.

                               KEY POINTS 

                           THE MEMORY OF FACTS IS THE ABILITY TO STORE AWAY THE RECOLLECT ITEMS OF KNOWLEDGE BEARING UPON SOME PARTICULAR THING UNDER CONSIDERATION WHEN WE ASSOCIATE WHAT IS NEW WITH WHAT MOST NEARLY RESEMBLES IT IN THE MIND ALREARY, WE GIVE IT ITS PROPER PLACE IN OUR FABRIC OF THOUGH. BY MEANS OF ASSOCIATION BY SIMILARLY, WE TIE UP OUT IDEAS, AS IT WERE, IN SEPARATE BUNDLES, AND IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE THAT ALL THE IDEAS THAT MOST NEARLY RESEMBLE EACH OTHER BE IN OUR BUNDLE.

                             THE BEST WAY TO ACQUIRE CORRECT ASSOCIATIONS FOR A SEPARATE FACT THAT YOU WISH TO STORE AWAY SO THAT IT MAY BE RECOLLECT WHEN NEEDED OR SOME USEFUL BIT OF INFORMATION OR INTERESTING BIT OF KNOWLEDGE THAT "MAY COME IN HANDY" LATER ON - IS TO ANALYZE IT AND ITS RELATIONS. THIS MAY BE DONE BY ASKING YOURSELF QUESTIONS ABOUT IT - EACH THING THAT YOU ASSOCIATE IT WITH IN YOUR ANSWERS BEING JUST ONE ADDITIONAL "CROSS-INDEX" WHEREBY YOU MAY FIND IT READILY WHEN YOU WANT IT.

                                LEARN AS MANY FACTS ABOUT A SITUATION AS YOU CAN. THEN MORE ASSOCIATIONS THAT YOU BESTOW UPON A FACT, THE OFTENER IT IT LIKELY TO BE USED.

                             EVERY MENTAL IMAGE OR IDEA, OR RECOLLECTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH AND CONNECTED TO THE PRECEDING THOUGHT AND THE ONE FOLLOWING IT. IT IS A CHAIN THAT IS ENDLESS, UNTIL SOMETHING BREAKS INTO THE SUBJECT FROM OUTSIDE. A FACT FLASHES INTO YOUR  MIND, APPARENTLY FROM SPACE AND WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE TO ANYTHING ELSE, IN SUCH CASES YOU WILL FIND THAT IT OCCURS EITHER BECAUSE YOU HAD PREVIOUSLY SET YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS  MENTALITY AT WORK UPON SOME PROBLEM, OR BIT OF RECOLLECTION, AND THE FLASH WAS THE BELATED AND DELAYED RESULT, OR ELSE THAT THE FACT CAME INTO YOUR MIND BECAUSE OF ITS ASSOCIATION WITH SOME OTHER FACT, WHICH IN TURN CAME FROM A PRECEDENT ONE, AND SO ON.

TO GET MORE MEMORY POWER

 

                        

                             THE POWER OF YOUR BRAIN

                             HOW TO REMEMBER PLACES

                              THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE IN THE VARIOUS DEGREES OF DEVELOPMENT OF "THE SENSE OF LOCALITY" IN DIFFERENT PERSONS. BUT THESE DIFFERENCES MAY BE TRACED DIRECTLY TO THE DEGREE OF MEMORY OF THAT PARTICULAR PHASE OF FACULTY OF THE MIND, WHICH IN TURN DEPENDS UPON THE DEGREE OF ATTENTION , INTEREST AND USE THAT HAS BEEN BESTOWED UPON THE FACULTY IN QUESTION. THE FACULTY OF LOCALITY INCLUDES COGNIZANCE OF PLACE, RECOLLECTION OF THE LOOKS OF PLACES, ROADS, SCENERY, AND THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS, WHERE ON A PAGE IDEAS ARE TO BE FOUND, AND POSITION GENERALLY, THE GEOGRAPHICAL FACULTY, THE DESIRE TO SEE PLACES, AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO FIND THEM.

                           PERSONS IN WHOM THIS FACULTY IS DEVELOPED TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE SEEM TO HAVE AN ALMOST INTUITIVE IDEA OF DIRECTION, PLACE AND POSITION. THEY NEVER GET LOSE OR "MIXED UP" REGARDING DIRECTION OR PLACE.THEY REMEMBER THE PLACES THEY VISIT AND THEIR RELATION IN SPACE TO EACH OTHER . THEIR MINDS ARE LIKE MAPS UPON WHICH ARE ENGRAVED THE VARIOUS ROADS, STREETS AND OBJECTS OF SIGHT IN EVERY DIRECTION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE THINK OF CHINA, LABRADOR, TERRA DEL FUEGO, NORWAY, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, TIBET, OR ANY OTHER PLACE, THEY SEEM TO THINK OF IT IN "THIS DIRECTION OR THAT DIRECTION" RATHER THAN AS A VAGUE PLACE SITUATED IN A VAGUE DIRECTION. THEIR MINDS THINK "NORTH, SOUTH, EAST OR WEST, AS THE CASE MAY BE WHEN THEY CONSIDER A GIVEN PLACE. 

                              SHADING DOWN BY DEGREES WE FIND PEOPLE AT THE OTHER POLE OF THE FACULTY WHO SEEM TO FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REMEMBER ANY DIRECTION, OR LOCALITY OR RELATION IS SPACE, SUCH PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY LOSING THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN TOWS, AND FEAR TO TRUST THEMSELVES IN A STRANGE PLACE. THEY HAVE NO SENSE  OF DIRECTION, OR PLACE, AND FAIL TO RECOGNIZE A STREET OR SCENE THAT THEY HAVE VISITED RECENTLY, NOT TO SPEAK OF THOSE THAT THEY TRAVELED OVER IN TIME PAST. BETWEEN THESE TWO POLES OR DEGREES THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE, AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO REALIZE THAT IT IS ALL A MATTER OF USE, INTEREST AND ATTENTION. THAT IT IS BUT THIS MAY BE PROVEN BY  ANYONE WHO WILL TAKE THE TROUBLE AND PAINS TO DEVELOP THE FACULTY AND MEMORY OF LOCALITY WITHIN HIS MIND. MANY HAVE DONE THIS, AND ANYONE ELSE MAY DO LIKEWISE IF THE PROPER METHODS WERE EMPLOYED.

                         THE SECRET OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACULTY AND MEMORY OF PLACE AND LOCALITY IS AKIN TO THAT MENTIONED IN THE PRECEEDING CHAPTERS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEMORY FOR NAMES AND FACES. THE FIRST THING NECESSARY IT TO DEVELOP AN INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT. YOU SHOULD BEGIN TO "TAKE NOTICE" OF THE DIRECTION OF THE STREETS OR ROADS OVER WHICH YOU TRAVEL, THE LANDMARK THE TURNS OF THE ROAD, THE NATURAL OBJECTS ALONG THE WAY. YOU SHOULD STUDY MAPS, UNTIL YOU AWAKEN A NEW INTEREST IN THEM, JUST AS DID MR.X, WHO USED THE DIRECTORY IN ORDER TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN NAMES. YOU SHOULD PROCURE A SMALL GEOGRAPHY BOOK AND STUDY DIRECTION, DISTANCE, LOCATION, SHAPE AND FORM OF COUNTRIES, ETC. NOT AS A MERE MECHANICAL THING BUT AS A LIVE SUBJECT OF INTEREST. IF THERE WERE A LARGE SUM OF MONEY AWAITING YOUR COMING IN CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE GLOBE, YOU WOULD MANIFEST A DECIDED INTEREST  IN THE DIRECTION, LOCALITY AND POSITION OF THOSE PLACES, AND THE BEST WAY IN REACH THEM. BEFORE LONG YOU WOULD BE A VARIATABLE REFERENCE BOOK REGARDING THOSE SPECIAL PLACES. THE WHOLE THING LIES IN THE DEGREE OF "WANT TO" REGARDING THE MATTER. DESIRE AWAKENS INTERESTS, INTEREST EMPLOYS ATTENTION, AND ATTENTION BRINGS USE. YOU MUST FIRST WANT TO DEVELOP THE FACULTY OF LOCALITY - AND WANT TO "HARD ENOUGH". THE REST IS A MERE MATTER OF DETAIL.

                        KEY POINTS

                        THE FACULTY OF LOCALITY INCLUDES COGNIZANCE OF PLACE, RECOLLECTION OF THE LOOKS OF PLACES, ROADS, SCENERY, AND THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS, WHERE ON A PAGE IDEAS ARE TO BE FOUND, AND POSITION GENERALLY, THE GEOGRAPHICAL FACULTY, THE DESIRE TO SEE PLACES, AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO FIND THEM.

                         PROCURE A SMALL GEOGRAPHY BOOK AND STUDY DIRECTION, DISTANCES, LOCATION , SHAPE AND FORM OF COUNTRIES, ETC. NOT AS A MERE MECHANICAL THING BUT AS A LIVE SUBJECT OF INTEREST.

                            WHEN YOU GO OUT FOR A WALK OR A DRIVE IN YOUR CAR, GO IN A ROUND-ABOUT WAY, TAKING AS MANY TURNS AND TWISTS AS POSSIBLE. IN ORDER TO EXERCISE YOUR FACULTY OF LOCALITY AND DIRECTION - BUT ALWAYS NOTE CAREFULLY DIRECTION AND GENERAL COURSE, SO THAT YOU MAY REPRODUCE IT CORRECTLY ON YOUR MAP WHEN YOU RETURN.

                          IF ABOUT TO VISIT A STRAGE CITY, PROCURE A MAP OF IT BEFORE STARTING, AND BEGIN BY NOTHING THE CARDINAL POINTS OF THE COMPASS, STUDY TEH MAP - THE DIRECTIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL STREETS AND THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS OF INTEREST, BUILDINGS, ETC. IN THIS WAY YOU NOT ONLY DEVELOP YOUR MEMORY OF PLACES, AND RENDER YOURSELF PROOF AGAINST BEING LOST, BUT YOU ALSO PROVIDE A SOURCE OF NEW AND GREAT INTEREST IN YOUR VISIT.

THE POWER OF YOUR EAR

 

                                TRAINING YOUR EAR

                                THE SENSE OF HEARING IS ONE OF THE HIGHES OF THE SENSES OR CHANNELS WHEREBY WE RECEIVE IMPRESSIONS FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. IN FACT, IT RANKS ALMOST AS HIGH AS THE SENSE OF SIGHT. IN THE SENSE OF TASTE, TOUCH, AND SMELL THERE IS A DIRECT CONTACT BETWEEN THE SENSITIVE RECIPIENT NERVE SUBSTANCE AND THE PARTICLES OF THE OBJECT SENSED, WHILE IN THE SENSE OF SIGHT AND THE SENSE OF HEARING THE IMPRESSION IS RECEIVED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF WAVES IN THE ATMOSPHERE (IN THE CASE OF SIGHT), OR WAVES IN THE AIR (IN THE SENSE OF HEARING). MOREOVER IN TASTE, SMELL AND TOUCH THE OBJECTS SENSED ARE BROUGHT INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE TERMINAL NERVE APPARATUS, WHILE IN SEEING AND HEARING THE NERVES TERMINATE IN PECULIAR AND DELICATE SACS WHICH CONTAIN A FLUIDIC SUBSTANCE THOUGH WHICH THE IMPRESSION IS CONVEYED TO THE NERVE PROPER. LOSS OF THIS FLUIDIC SUBSTANCE DESTROYS THE FACULTY TO RECEIVE IMPRESSIONS, AND DEAFNESS OR BLINDNESS ENSUES.

                      JUST AS IT IS TRUE THAT IT IS THE MIND AND NOT THE EYE THAT REALLY SEES, SO IS IT TRUE THAT IT IS THE MIND AND NOT THE EAR THAT REALLY HEARS. MANY SOUNDS REACH THE EARS THAT ARE NOT REGISTERED BY THE MIND. WE PASS ALONG A CROWDED STREET, THE WAVES OF MANY SOUNDS REACHING THE NERVES OF THE EAR, AND YET THE MIND ACCEPTS THE SOUNDS OF BUT FEW THINGS, PARTICULARLY WHEN THE NOVELTY OF THE SOUNDS HAS PASSED AWAY. IT IS A MATTER OF INTEREST AND ATTENTION IN THIS CASE, AS WELL AS IN THE CASE OF HEARING. FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE SIT BY AN OPEN WINDOW IN THE COUNTRY ON A SUMMER DAY, WE MAY HAVE MANY STIMULI KNOCKING AT THE GATE OF ATTENTION. THE TICKING OF A CLOCK, THE SOUND OF THE WIND, THE CACKLING OF FOWL, THE QUAKLING OF DUCKS, THE BARKING OF DOGS, THE LOWING OF COWS, THE CRIES OF CHILDREN AT PLAY, TEH RUSTLING OF LEAVES, THE SONGS OF BIRDS, THE RUMBLING OF WAGONS, ETC. IF ATTENTION IS CENTERED UPON ANY ONE OF THESE, THAT FOR THE TIME BEING, ACQUIRES THE IMPORTANCE OF A KING UPON THE THRONE OF OUR MENTAL WORLD.

                         KEY POINTS

                           JUST AS IT IS TRUE THAT IT IS THE MIND AND NOT THE EYE THAT REALLY SEES, SO IS IT TRUE THAT IS THE MIND AND NOT THE EAR THAT REALLY HEARS.

                              THE MIND WILL HEAR AND FAINTEST SOUNDS FROM THINGS IN WHICH IS CENTERED INTEREST AND ATTENTION, WHILE AT THE SAME THING IGNORING THINGS IN WHICH THERE IS NO INTEREST AND TO WHICH THE ATTENTION IS NOT TURNED.

                            THE REMEDY FOR POOR HEARING, AND POOR MEMORY OF THINGS HEARD IS TO BE FOUND IN THE USE OF THE WILL IN THE DIRECTION OF VOLUNTARY ATTETION AND INTEREST.

                            THE REASON THAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT REMEMBER THINGS THAT THEY HAVE HEARD IS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT LISTENED PROPERLY.

                                   WAYS TO IMPROVE

                           YOUR LISTENING SKILLS:

                       * MEMORIZE AND REPEAT WORDS AND THOUGHTS HEARD IN COVERSATIONS, LECTURES, SERMONS, TV AND RADIO PROGRAMS. PICK OUT THE FIRST SENSTENCE FOR MEMORIZING AND MAKE UP YOUR MIND THAT YOUR MEMORY WILL BE AS WAX TO RECEIVE THE IMPRESSION AND AS STEEL TO RETAIN IT.

                       * LISTEN TO THE STRAY SCRAPS OF CONVERSATION THAT COME TO YOUR EAR WHILE WALKING ON THE STREET, AND ENDEAVOR TO MEMORIZE A SENTENCE OR TWO, AS IF YOU WERE TO REPEAT IT LATER IN THE DAY.

                       * LISTEN TO THE FOOTSTEPS OF DIFFERENT PERSONS AND ENDEAVOR TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THEM- EACH HAS ITS PECULIARITIES.

 

                       * GET SOME ONE TO READ AND LINE OR TWO OF POETRY OR PROSE TO YOU, AND THEN ENDEAVOR TO REMEMBER IT. A LITTLE PRACTICE OF THIS KIND WILL GREATLY DEVELOP THE POWER OF VOLUNTARY ATTENTION TO SOUNDS AND SPOKEN WORDS.

                        * ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, PRACTICE REPEATING THE WORDS AND SOUNDS THAT YOU HAVE MEMORIZED, SO FAR AS IS POSSIBLE - FOR BY SO DOING YOU WILL GET THE MIND INTO THE HABIT OF TAKING YOU NOT ONLY IMPORVE THE SENSE OF HEARING, BUT ALSO THE FACULTY OF REMEMBERING.