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16 How Keen Is Your Observation?
not observe. After something is observed, either by sight or
hearing, it must, in order to be remembered, be associated
in our minds with, or to, something we already know or re-
member.
Since you will observe automatically when using my sys-
tem, it is association with which we will mostly concern
ourselves.
Association, as pertaining to memory, simply means the
connecting or tying up of two (or more) things to each
other. Anything you manage to remember, or have man-
aged to remember, is only due to the fact that you have
subconsciously associated it to something else.
"Every Good Boy Does Fine." —Does that sentence
mean anything to you? If it docs, then you must have
studied music as a youngster. Almost every child that
studies music is taught to remember the lines of the music
staff or treble clef, by remembering, "Every Good Boy Docs
Fine."
I've already stressed the importance of association, and
I want to prove to you that you have used definite con-
scious associations many times before, without even realiz-
ing it. The letters, E, G, B, D and F don't mean a thing.
They are just letters, and difficult to remember. The sen-
tence, "Every Good Boy Does Fine" does have meaning,
and is something you know and understand. The new
thing, the thing you had to commit to memory was asso-
ciated with something you already knew.
The spaces of the music staff were committed to mem-
ory with the same system; the initial system. If you re-
membered the word, "face," you remembered that the
spaces on the staff are, F, A, C, and E. Again you associated
something new and meaningless to something you already
knew and to something that had meaning to you.
It is probably many years since you learned the jinglet,