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The Secret of Memory, The Demonstration of a New Theory
The Secret of Memory, The Demonstration of a New Theory
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PREFACE
My dear reader, I have written this course of instructions for the men and women who are ambitious, and desirous of acquiring and retaining greater knowledge than they now possess--those who have begun to realize the great losses they sustain as a result of being unable to remember the right information at the right time.
Believing that you have been attracted toward this study because you are in need of the information it contains, I am going to tails to you Just as I would if you consulted me personally. I have an entirely new theory to explain, and I shall try to do It In the most simple language that will make my meaning clear to you.
I believe that the ability to recall information when needed is one of the most valuable assets anyone can have and that it will do more toward creating success and happiness than any other one faculty possessed by man.
Several years ago I became convinced of the need of a better understanding of the mental process called Memory, or remembering. Therefore, I commenced on a line of investigations which have yielded most gratifying results. Having tested my theories for the past three years and found them true in every case I am now ready to give you the benefit of my labors. All I ask of you Is that you give these theories an honest test. Having done that, I am satisfied to abide by your decision as to their merits.
A. VICTOR SEGNO, Los Angeles, August 1, 1906.
******
An excerpt from:
LESSON I.
"Oh, what would I not give If I
could only remember that name?"
Oh! I forgot! Is there another sentence in our language that represents as much loss, disaster, and suffering as these two words? Think of the broken engagements, the friendships sacrificed, the lives lost, because someone "forgot."
There is no single mental or physical deficiency so disastrous to progress, economy and success as an imperfect memory. It is the most expensive misfortune anyone could be burdened with. It loses for its possessor every year a thousand times as much as he, with all his other powers, can succeed in saving. It forces him to study and work hard and then only allows him to retain a very small part of what he has acquired. It robs him of his greatest power—knowledge — just when he needs it. most. It forces him to his work over and over again at a great loss of time and money because of errors and omissions.
Many men and women remain slaves to laborious work all their lives because they are unable to recall the things they see and hear each day. They remain uneducated because they forget what they read and what is told to them. They remain in unpleasant thousand times as much as he, localities and associate with undesirable people because they are unable to remember the lessons which would elevate their position and purify their surroundings.
Our power to cope with the affairs of life are represented by the amount of information we retain and not by the number of subjects we have attempted to study. What value would there be in studying twenty subjects today if we have no means of retaining the knowledge and must forget it in a day or a week or a month? What use would there be of earning a large salary if one let it all slip out of a hole in his pocket before he reached home? What would be the use of a lawyer studying the details of his client's case if he were unable to recall the facts when the case was called into court? What would be the advantage to a man if he should take up the study of medicine and disease and when called in on a case be unable to remember what disease was indicated by the symptoms shown by the patient or if he should forget what he should prescribe? The chances are he would make a mistake that would cost the patient his life.
Every few days we read of some train dispatcher who started a passenger train on its journey and then forgot to send a message to an incoming train telling it where to wait and pass the outgoing train--result, great loss of life and property and all because of an imperfect memory.
You cannot have failed to observe the vast number of apparently bright business men who have met with failure. They did not fail because they did not know how to succeed but because they allowed themselves to forget to do the necessary thing at the right time. Their memories were either naturally defective or they allowed something else to occupy their attention at the time their business needed their advice. They simply forgot the time and the necessity of certain action which would have made success for them.
Look at the failures many men and women mate of their lives! It is not because they do not know better but because they have forgotten to use it the right moment, either tact, politeness, patience, kindness, truthfulness or perseverance.
My dear reader, I have written this course of instructions for the men and women who are ambitious, and desirous of acquiring and retaining greater knowledge than they now possess--those who have begun to realize the great losses they sustain as a result of being unable to remember the right information at the right time.
Believing that you have been attracted toward this study because you are in need of the information it contains, I am going to tails to you Just as I would if you consulted me personally. I have an entirely new theory to explain, and I shall try to do It In the most simple language that will make my meaning clear to you.
I believe that the ability to recall information when needed is one of the most valuable assets anyone can have and that it will do more toward creating success and happiness than any other one faculty possessed by man.
Several years ago I became convinced of the need of a better understanding of the mental process called Memory, or remembering. Therefore, I commenced on a line of investigations which have yielded most gratifying results. Having tested my theories for the past three years and found them true in every case I am now ready to give you the benefit of my labors. All I ask of you Is that you give these theories an honest test. Having done that, I am satisfied to abide by your decision as to their merits.
A. VICTOR SEGNO, Los Angeles, August 1, 1906.
******
An excerpt from:
LESSON I.
"Oh, what would I not give If I
could only remember that name?"
Oh! I forgot! Is there another sentence in our language that represents as much loss, disaster, and suffering as these two words? Think of the broken engagements, the friendships sacrificed, the lives lost, because someone "forgot."
There is no single mental or physical deficiency so disastrous to progress, economy and success as an imperfect memory. It is the most expensive misfortune anyone could be burdened with. It loses for its possessor every year a thousand times as much as he, with all his other powers, can succeed in saving. It forces him to study and work hard and then only allows him to retain a very small part of what he has acquired. It robs him of his greatest power—knowledge — just when he needs it. most. It forces him to his work over and over again at a great loss of time and money because of errors and omissions.
Many men and women remain slaves to laborious work all their lives because they are unable to recall the things they see and hear each day. They remain uneducated because they forget what they read and what is told to them. They remain in unpleasant thousand times as much as he, localities and associate with undesirable people because they are unable to remember the lessons which would elevate their position and purify their surroundings.
Our power to cope with the affairs of life are represented by the amount of information we retain and not by the number of subjects we have attempted to study. What value would there be in studying twenty subjects today if we have no means of retaining the knowledge and must forget it in a day or a week or a month? What use would there be of earning a large salary if one let it all slip out of a hole in his pocket before he reached home? What would be the use of a lawyer studying the details of his client's case if he were unable to recall the facts when the case was called into court? What would be the advantage to a man if he should take up the study of medicine and disease and when called in on a case be unable to remember what disease was indicated by the symptoms shown by the patient or if he should forget what he should prescribe? The chances are he would make a mistake that would cost the patient his life.
Every few days we read of some train dispatcher who started a passenger train on its journey and then forgot to send a message to an incoming train telling it where to wait and pass the outgoing train--result, great loss of life and property and all because of an imperfect memory.
You cannot have failed to observe the vast number of apparently bright business men who have met with failure. They did not fail because they did not know how to succeed but because they allowed themselves to forget to do the necessary thing at the right time. Their memories were either naturally defective or they allowed something else to occupy their attention at the time their business needed their advice. They simply forgot the time and the necessity of certain action which would have made success for them.
Look at the failures many men and women mate of their lives! It is not because they do not know better but because they have forgotten to use it the right moment, either tact, politeness, patience, kindness, truthfulness or perseverance.
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