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.
