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All the wealth of your past experience is still yours--a concrete part of your personality All that is required to make it available for your present use is a sufficient concentration of your attention, _a concentration of attention that shall dwell persistently and exclusively upon those associations that bear upon the fact desired_
The tendency of thethe indiscriroups,” is also manifested in all of us in the transfer to unconsciousness of many _muscular activities_
[Sidenote: _How Habits Are For to every movement of the limbs the most deliberate conscious attention Yet, in time, the complicated co-operation ofbecoer even aware of the upon musical instruments, the manipulation of all sorts of mechanical devices, the thousand and one other muscular activities that become e call _habitual_
The ain dependent on the conscious will he encounters difficulties
”The centipede was happy quite, Until the toad, for fun, Said, 'Pray which leg goes after which?'
This stirred his mind to such a pitch, He lay distracted in a ditch, Considering _how_ to run”
_All these habitual activities are started as acts of painstaking care and conscious attention All ultimately become unconscious_ They may, however, be started or stopped at will They are, therefore, still related to the conscious round between conscious and subconscious activities
THE FALLACY OF MOST MEMORY SYSTEMS
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CHAPTER VI
THE FALLACY OF MOST MEMORY SYSTEMS
[Sidenote: _Practice in Me Inadequate_]
It is evident that if e have been describing as the process of recall is true, then the co_easier_ is false, and that there is no truth in the popular figure of speech that likens the er with use
So far as the memory is concerned, however, practice may result in a more or less unconscious i
_By practice we come to unconsciously discover and e of facts,to the actual scope and power of retention_
[Sidenote: _Torture of the Drill_]
Yethave wide circulation whose authors, showing no conception of the processes involved, seek to develop the general ability to re particular facts, just as one would develop ais quoted from a well-knoork of this character:
”I a a case of loss of memory in a person advanced in years, who did not know that his memory had failed orous efforts to bring it back again, and with partial success Theand one in the evening, in exercising this faculty The patient is instructed to give the closest attention to all that he learns, so that it shall be impressed on hisall the facts and experiences of the day, and again the nextEvery name heard is written down and impressed on his mind clearly and an effortpublic men are ordered to be committed to memory every week A verse of poetry is to be learned, also a verse from the Bible, daily He is asked to ree of any book where any interesting fact is recorded These and _other_Memory_]