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trieve it. Thus, you need an incentive to make it worthwhile
to concentrate, store the information, and create an associa-
tion to retrieve it. The incentive may be job security, pride,
or health, for example.
Chapter 4, “Develop a Brawny Brain,” discusses various
strategies you can use to reinforce your current learning tech-
niques. Applications and games using various strategies are
provided so that you can practice new techniques and refine
old ones to improve and maintain your mental agility.

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