You WERE NOT Born with a Poor Memory!
Remembering is a process that must be learned, just like walking, talking, eating, telling colors apart, distinguishing sounds, and telling time. You learned these when you were a child, and now you can perform them without effort.. You can learn the process of using your memory just as thoroughly and when you do you will have in your power a hundred times the knowledge and experience you actually put to use now. Anyone can do it. If you want to make your experiences stick...
The reason for most of the annoying instances of forgetting is that you do
not take the trouble to connect new information with some fact you already
know.
Isolated facts drop out of the mind
quickly, but if you file new knowledge in relation to something already
established in your mind, you will retain it and be able to refer to it
whenever you need it. It is simply a matter of making a special use of your
power of association, which is the beginning of all learning processes.
Association is making mental hooks from which
you may fish facts out of your mind as you require them. There
is nothing new in the idea of a memory system; men have been developing
methods of remembering since the days of Cicero….You can start using it
immediately, applying it to everyday situations.
