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YOUR MEMORY'S RHYTHMS
be inadequate, and the whole process of learning, understanding
and recall will be unpleasant and arduous.
People who do review will find that with the constantly avail-
able store of increasing information, new information will slot in
more easily. This will create a positive cycle in which learning,
understanding and recall assist one another, making the continu-
ing process increasingly easy. Surprisingly, the more you learn the
easier it is for you to learn more. It is similar to the biblical phrase,
'To him that hath shall be given, but from him that hath not, even
that little which he hath shall be taken away.'
This information on recall after learning can also be applied to
our current attitudes toward the decline of mental abilities,
especially memory, with age. All our current statistics indicate that
as human beings grow older their memories become increasingly
worse after the age of twenty-four. These findings, substantial as
they seem, contain a major fault. They are based on surveys that
studied people who generally did not have any information about
how their memories worked and who consequently tended to
neglect them. In other words, the tests showing that human
memory declines with age were performed on people who consis-
tently did not use the Memory Principles and did not review what
they had learned. They therefore fell into the second category of
the biblical statement.
Recent experiments on people who have applied the Memory
Principles and who have properly managed their memory rhythms
during and after learning have shown that the opposite of the
established findings are in fact the case. If you continue to use the
numerical, linguistic, analytical, logical and sequential abilities of
the left side of your brain, and if you continue to use the rhythmi-
cal, musical, imaginative, colourful and dimensional abilities of
the right side of your brain, along with the Memory Principles and
Memory Time Rhythm - all in a continual self-educating
approach - your memory will not only not decline with age but will
actually improve enormously. The more it is fed, the more it will
be able to build up imaginative and associative networks with new
areas of knowledge, and thus the more it will be able to both
remember and create.
The more you give to your memory, then, the more your
memory will give back to you, and with compound interest.
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