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USE YOUR MEMORY
bed than in that of any other goddess or mortal. He slept with her
for nine days and nights, and the result of that coupling was the
birth of the nine Muses, the goddesses who preside over love
poetry, epic poetry, hymns, dance, comedy, tragedy, music,
history and astronomy. For the Greeks, then, the infusion of
energy (Zeus) into memory (Mnemosyne) produced both creati-
vity and knowledge.
They were correct. If you apply the mnemonic principles and
techniques appropriately, not only will your memory improve in
the various areas outlined in this book but your creativity will soar,
and with the twin improvements in memory and creativity, your
overall mental functioning and assimilation of knowledge will
accelerate at the same fantastic pace. In the process you will be
developing a new and dynamic synthesis between the left and right
side of your brain.
The following chapters take you step by step through first the
very simple systems and then the more advanced systems, con-
cluding with the Major System, the Star of the Memorisers' Solar
System, which will enable you to remember as many thousands of
items as you wish. In order that you can maintain the extraordinary
results that you are going to achieve, a final chapter shows you how
to adjust and maintain your memory over a long period of future
time.

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