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22 Habit Is Memory
is that a muscle can be overtrained or become musclebound
while the memory cannot. You can be taught to have a
trained memory just as you can be taught anything else.
As a matter of fact, it is much easier to attain a trained
memory than, say, to learn to play a musical instrument. If
you can read and write English, and have a normal amount
of common sense, and if you read and study this book, you
will have acquired a trained memory! Along with the
trained memory you will probably acquire a greater power
of concentration, a purer sense of observation, and perhaps,
a stronger imagination.
Remember please, that there is no such thing as a bad
memory! This may come as a shock to those of you who
have used your supposedly "bad" memories as an excuse for
years. But, I repeat, there is no such thing as a bad memory.
There are only trained or untrained memories. Almost all
untrained memories are one-sided. That is to say that peo-
ple who can remember names and faces, cannot remember
telephone numbers, and those who remember phone num-
bers, can't, for the life of them, remember the names of the
people they wish to call.
There are those who have a pretty good retentive mem-
ory, but a painfully slow one; just as there are some who
can remember things quickly, but cannot retain them for
any length of time. If you apply the systems and methods
taught in this book, I can assure you a quick and retentive
memory for just about anything.
As I mentioned in the previous chapter, anything you
wish to remember must in some way or other, be asso-
ciated in your mind to something you already know or re-
member. Of course, most of you will say that you have
remembered, or do remember, many things, and that you
do not associate them with anything else. Very true! If you