Study Desk

Using this image as a starting-point, let’s begin to analyze your mind’s memory habits, and see if they don’t afford a few suggestions for strengthening your ability to remember.

(Little Hint, to find the best way of using your mind for study…find the link at the end of this article)

Opening the filing cabinet – that is your mind.

Before you can get into your mental filing cabinet, you’ve got to open the drawer. Let your ‘sesame’ be the words, “I want to remember, I can remember, I shall remember!” As important as knowing the best ways to go about strengthening your retentive ability is your attitude. If you’re convinced before you start that nothing’s going to help, then you’re absolutely right, even though you’re dead wrong. The doubts that you have will always be present in your conscious thoughts, leaving no room for practical memories.

But an optimistic outlook clears the rocks from the road at the outset! If you’re confident that you can reach your goal, the route will be fun, and everyone knows that fun is more fun than work! When you come to a hill, a difficult part of making your memory better, just making believe that it’s fun will make it a lot easier!

Experiments have demonstrated that people generally retain memory of pleasant things more accurately, and for a longer time, than memory of unhappiness. So it follows, doesn’t it, that by being an optimist to begin with, your memory is automatically a great deal better?

By: Rick Aurtus