Assimilative Memory: or How to Attend and Never Forget - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

What is the basic principle of my system? It is, Learn by Thinking. What is Attention? It is the will directing the activity of the intellect into some particular channel and keeping it there. It is the opposite of mind-wandering. What is thinking? It consists in finding relations between the objects of thought with an immediate awareness of those relations.

What is the Sensuous memory? It is association through the eye or ear of a succession of sights or sounds without any reflection or consideration of the units of the succession, or what they stand for, or represent. It is learning by rote—mere repetition—mere brainless or thoughtless repetition—a mode of learning that is not lasting—and always causes or promotes mind-wandering.

What is Assimilative memory? It is the habit of so receiving and absorbing impressions or ideas that they or their representatives shall be ready for revival or recall whenever wanted. It is learning through relations—by thinking—from grasping the ideas or thoughts—the meaning and the comprehension of the subject matter. This mode of learning promotes attention and prevents mind-wandering.

CONTENTS:

— Fundamental Principles of Assimilative Memory.

— Brain Tonic ; or, The stimulating Power of the Method.

—Educating the Intellect to stay with the senses of Sight and Hearing; or, Cure of Mind Wandering.

—Learning any Series of Proper Names—American Presidents.

—The Unique Case of the English Sovereigns—How to learn their Succession quickly.

— Numeric Thinking ; or, Learning the longest sets of figures almost instantly.

— Decomposition or Recomposition, and Intellectual Inquisition ; or, How to learn Prose and Poetry by heart, with numerous examples, including Poe’s Bells.

— Analytic Substitutions ; or, A Quick Training in Dates, etc., Dates of the Accession of American Presidents and of the English Kings, Specific Gravities, Rivers, Mountains, Latitudes and Longitudes, etc.

— Thoughtive Unifications ; or, How to never forget Proper Names, Series of Facts, Faces, Errands, Conversations, Speeches or Lectures, Languages, Foreign Vocabularies, Music, Mathematics, etc., Speaking without notes, Anatomy, and all other Memory wants.

— Acme of Acquisition ; or, Learning unconnected facts, rules and principles in the Arts, Sciences, Histories, etc., etc., chapters in books, or books themselves, in one reading or study.

—Learning one hundred facts in the Victorian Era, with dates of year, month, and day of each in one thoughtive perusal.

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