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Test Your Memory 25
to prove it with you; I also intend to prove it to you. After
you've learned the methods, I'm sure you'll agree that con-
scious associations will be more useful and valuable to you
than you ever imagined they could be. If I were to tell you
now, that after reading and studying the system in this
book, you would be able to remember as high as a fifty digit
number, and retain it for as long as you liked, after looking
at it only once—you would think me mad.
If I told you that you could memorize the order of a
shuffled deck of fifty-two playing cards after hearing them
called only once, you would think me mad! If I told you
that you would never again be troubled by forgetting names
or faces, or that you would be able to remember a shopping
list of fifty items, or memorize the contents of an entire
magazine, or remember prices and important telephone
numbers, or know the day of the week of any date—you
would surely think I had "flipped my lid." But read and
study this book, and see for yourself!
I imagine that the best way for me to prove it to you is
to let you see your own progress. In order to do that, I must
show you first how poor your untrained memory is. So take
a few moments out, right now, and mark yourselves on the
tests that follow. In this way you will be able to take the
same tests after reading certain chapters, and compare your
scores.
I feel that these tests are quite important. Since your
memory will improve with almost every chapter you read, I
want you to see that improvement. That will give you confi-
dence, which in itself is important to a trained memory.
After each test you will find a space for your present score,
and a space which is to be used for your score after reading
those particular chapters.
One important point, before you take the tests—don't
flip through the book and read only the chapters that you