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Improve Your
Memory:
Diagnose
Your Own How To Concentrate
Memory
Motor
Memory And ( Originally Published 1930 )
Minor Sense
Impressions "Concentration is the Most Important Intellectual Habit of Man."
Test of Motor
Memory Not one person in ten thousand can really concentrate. Some
Mental realize that they do not know how—others drift along the line of
Photography least resistance and let their minds vegetate, apparently never
Concentration suspecting their weakness or realizing that they are an utter
Visualization
failure at concentration. To Cori-centre—bringing all your mental
Three Laws
Of Memory force and faculties to bear steadily on a given center with-out
How To deviation from that exact point—whipping into line all wandering
Concentrate fancies—stray ideas or thoughts that go off on a tangent—to hold
Intelligent steadily all your power on the central thing under consideration
Practice And without an instant of wavering—that is Concentration.
Drill
The Problem This ONE THING I Do
Of
Retentiveness
A difficult thing to do, and very few minds can do it. St. Paul gives
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About us the shortest definition of concentration on record when he
Memory says, " This one thing I do," short, but tremendously significant.
Another Bible definition is excellent: " Whatsoever thy hand
findeth to do, do it with thy might." Some men work that way,
intense fellows--brilliant professional men—big business
men—executives—leaders in the world of finance—science
—invention—literature—education—it matters not what kind of
work, the point is that when these men pitch hay, they pitch hay
—when they write a book, they write a book—when they manage
a sales campaign, they man-age a sales campaign. That one
thing they do at that one time, and nothing else, and every ounce
they have goes into the doing. But back of all this has been a lot
of mental discipline, a lot of habit-forming, a lot of brain-building.
Let us consider some of the steps by which they have climbed. To
the ambitious student, I offer five practical aids to concentration,
planned to meet the needs of one who wishes to build from the
ground up. We must assume as prerequisites, interest and
attention, which have already been discussed.
AIDS TO CONCENTRATION
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These aids will do more than help you to follow a memory course;
they deal with your daily work. Concentration applies to all the
activities of life. It should be established as a life habit. To all who
think, I bring this message, Think it with thy might. Make a
business of doing one thing at a time with all your soul.
Chesterfield was right when he said, " There is time enough for
everything in the course of a day if we do but one thing at a time,
but there is not time enough in a year if we try to do two things at
a time."
PERIODICAL RELAXATION
Six puppies were playing in the barn. The barn door was closed
and with the world shut out, they were giving themselves up
completely to the; spirit of play. Two of them were staging a mock
battle over a feather, while the others were rolling over and over in
the loose straw on the barn floor in utter enjoyment.
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ahead.
MENTAL FREEDOM
In order to keep it, utilize the third aid: right conditions. Now, it is
true that a trained mind can concentrate under any conditions—in
the roar and din of .crowded cities or the busy hum of traffic—in
the midst of telephone calls or a thousand and one other
interruptions. Some men can concentrate on a mental problem
while walking down a Chicago street and never hear the roar of
the elevated or see the hurrying throngs. I have seen men write
on a crowded street car perfectly oblivious to the people about
them, not even hearing their own stations when called. But these
men were already masters of concentration, and I am addressing
my remarks to those who have not yet learned how to
concentrate. Therefore, it is only a matter of common-sense to
make conditions as favorable as possible. Give your mind a fair
chance. Concentration is difficult enough, even under the best
conditions. I would suggest that you seek a quiet place free from
all distractions (and noise is a terrible distractor), a place free from
all interruptions which may break your train of thought (and a
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History will bear me out in the statement that to bear Solitude well
is a mark of greatness. Look at Lincoln—back there in the country
for the first thirty years of his life, nourishing his own soul and
disciplining his own mind.
Hillis has well said, " What a college and a crowd could not do for
thousands of young men —Solitude did for the rail-splitter's son.
Alone he sailed the seas of thought with God for his only
companion, till at last he stood forth, a mountain-minded man."
A DEFINITE SCHEDULE
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