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USE YOUR MEMORY

This is your superstreamlined brain, depicted as if viewed with X-ray
eyes from a vantage point to the left of the left shoulder. Thus, you are
looking at the left hemisphere, which deals with the mental functions of
logic, language, number, sequencing and linearity, and analysis. The
right side of the brain, the back tip of which you can just see, deals with
rhythm and music, imagination, daydreaming, colour and dimension.
These two ranges of abilities combine to give you a super-
powered memory.
No matter what you have been taught, somewhere latent within
each of you lies each one of these capabilities simply waiting to be
freed. Sperry and others also found that the more people use both
sides of their brains together, the more the use of each side
benefits the other. For example, it was found that the study of
music helped the study of mathematics, and the study of mathe-
matics helped the study of music; that the study of rhythm helped
the study of languages and that the study of languages helped the
learning of bodily rhythms; that the study of dimension helped the
study of mathematics and that the study of mathematics helped
the brain conceptualise dimension; and so on. It was similarly
found that if a person used more of these areas, the more gen-
erally capable was his entire memory.

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