Page 176 - How to Develop A SUPER-POWER MEMORY

180 Don't Be Absent-minded
sentmindedness. What it is and why it happens, I don't
know; but, unfortunately it does happen; to me as well as
to you.
There isn't much I can do to help avoid mental blocks.
There isn't any system I know of that can stop them. How-
ever, I can tell you that when it does happen—try to think
of events associated with the name or event you're trying to
recall. If it's the name of a familiar person that you can't
think of, try to picture the last time you saw that person,
where it was, what you were doing and who else was present
at the time.
The mind must work in its own devious way; more
often than not, just thinking around the fact you want, will
make it pop into your mind.
If this doesn't help, the next best thing is to forget about
it. Stop thinking about it completely for awhile, and the
odds are it will come to you when you least expect it.
That's about all the help I can give you when it comes to
mental blocks. Try my suggestions the next time it happens
to you; you may be surprised at how helpful they are!