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Habit Is Memory

I feel assured that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting;
traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.
—Thomas De Quincey

an accurate and retentive memory is the basis of all busi-
ness success. In the last analysis, all our knowledge is based
on our memories. Plato said it this way, "All knowledge is
but rememberance"; while Cicero said of memory, it is "the
treasury and guardian of all things." One strong example
should suffice for the time being—you could not be reading
this book right now, if you didn't remember the sounds of
the twenty-six letters of our alphabet!
This may seem a bit far fetched to you, but it is true,
nevertheless. Actually, if you were to lose your memory
completely, you would have to start learning everything
from scratch, just like a new born baby. You wouldn't re-
member how to dress, or shave, or apply your makeup, or
how to drive your car, or whether to use a knife or fork, etc.
You see, all the things we attribute to habit, should be
attributed to memory. Habit is memory.
Mnemonics, which is a large part of a trained memory, is
not a new or strange thing. As a matter of fact, the word,
"mnemonic" is derived from the name of the Greek God-

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