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Most people want to improve their memory. If they persistently follow the advice here they WILL improve it

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MY TEST TEAM

to beat the "INVINCIBLES

USTRALIA'S newly

.chosen cricketers are good, but they can

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certainly be beaten by an ERONALD T. SYMOND Englage team inspired with confidence and a ruthless will to win.

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O'Reilly and Fleetwood-Smith than on the prowess of their dazzling I am in total disagreement with array of batsmen. Lord Hawke,

If these bowlers are fairly master- Much as I respect the great services ed, as they may be if they spend a to cricket of the Yorkshire president, few hours bowling at Hutton, 2 much

are almost invincible,

English cricket abounds in good

ther.

I dislike intensely his recent pro- doubt if four days will suffice to finish If the shutter stopped working you! would not see a series of clean-cutnouncement that these Australians any Test match played in fine wea- images, but only a moving blur.

This is how you must learn to use your mind if you wish to memorise well. You must concentrate on the job, so that you have a series of de- finite, sharply defined pletures, and not a vague blur shading off into all sorts of irrelevancles.

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material, requiring only self-assur- Tricky Pitches ance. This spirit must be encour- aged, not shaken by bogy stories of Australlun onnipotenco.

have

wet

ON tricky turf, alternatively, conditions mny sightly Our men have, in my opinion, an favour our own players, who equal chance of regaining the Ashes. greater experience of coping will

Badcock, Fingleton, Brown, Barnes, and Hasselt, are all young Australian vagaries of English pitches in

weather. batsmen with great records and The following England team, each doubtless man playing with a consciousness of 2. SECOND, concentrate on greater promise who will

and relu- give splendid support to Bradman and his own abilities and refusing to be the meanings tionships of the material you wish to McCabe. memorise. Never try to memorise Much of

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Pope.

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K. Farnes.

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overawed by any opposition, would in my view give the "invincibles" a -long and di cult run for their anything without trying to under- Bowling Attack

money: stand it as well as you can.

DUT excepting Bradman, meaningful.

whose unique powers up- Hulton. comparison, Edrich, OU can improve your essentially, a task of rendering more the art of remembering depends on

Return for a moment to the poli-set the scales of every efficient the performance of specifie making experiences

are not W. R. Hammond. -but memory,

the memorising jobs or types of job telan meeting a group of strangers. the Australian batsmen methods for doing The first step is to size up yourself. He concentrated. But this is not the superior to the best that England Hardstaff. You Blud that on certain types of whole story. His concentration has can turn out. D. R. Wilcox, N. W. D. Paynter.

content and point.

Yardley, Hutton, Barnett, Edrich, Ames, so often proposed either your situation, and your needs.

are weak. Just

He asks each person a few ques Washbrook, and Compton are as good R. W. V. Robins will not work at all or will memory jobs you

by. Test fubbers cannot be won

A side of such strength would not not serve you economically. how serious is this weakness? Per tions and seeris much interested in young men us any in Australia.

haps it does not matter much. Per the answers. He looks him full in

Bowling attack is an in effectiveness You cannot improve your memory haps your

cheaply dismissed. Its attack your the face and responds markedly to balting alone. avoca- everything be hus to say. It many be even more important factor. In this be to any useful degree by merely business dealings, or your

compare would be persistently hostile at all practising. by memorising a great tions, or your social relationships is that he has become so adept that he connection it is absurd to

affected, deal.

hot tremendously

Tic is not consciously trying to remem- the newly chosen Australian team times, and barbed with real danger Choice of an England tearn will, of Many years ago a

current psychologist for you the effort to improve may ber the stranger, But his whole set with that of Warwick Armstrong in on tricky wickets,

a course, depend on underlook some extensive memory not be worth while. But perhaps is towards making the person not 1921.

Armstrong had at his disposal

D. R. Wilcox, self-direction just a blur on the retina and a sound

the Leyland, Barnett, experiments. ite served as his own some

concerovement will pay in the ears. He makes him mean | double spearpoint of two of subject, and spent patient, tolisome leading to

greatest fast bowlers in the history Gimblett, Washbrook, and Compton, could double something. It months in learning by heart lists of

high dividends. digits, selections of poetry and prose, or trebte your efficiency in remem

This is what you must do every of cricket, Gregory and MacDonald, among batsmen, may torce their way and sets of nonsense syllables and bering names and faces, what would where and always, for remembering whose sustained battery was formid- into consideration. Nichols, Bowes,

effectiveness es depends on

it. Remembering de-able indeed. Bradman's team con- J.C. Clay, Smith, P., or many another

fast bowler, might demand a bowler's place. words,

this do to your Needless to say, the work was salesman or an executive? The first pends on meaning, even in those ex- tains only one really

A Leader? hard and dull: and we owe a great stage in improving is to decide what treme cases where the material with McCormick, who has great pace, but

work lacks all limited staying-power.

Otherwise deal to this man's devotion to the memory jobs you want to do better. which you have to

"Australia will depend suse of science, for he discovered Having decided to improve on a meaning of its own, much

be of

If you have to learn by heart a chiefly on the stock bowling of Job, your that is useful and helpful.

memory

O'Reilly and White, and the slow- certain

then an is to apply series of nonsense syllables But out of it all come one' conspi- business from a principles of effl- series of digits or an address in a spin trickeries of Fleetwood-Smith of W. R. Hammond might serve more

and Ward. cuous negative result, which is use to it a number

been strange clty, you should do every- of them ful too, for it stands before us as a ciency.

later, have

These resources are little, if any, curial engerness of IL. W. V. Robinsong Bank Bldg. to put meaning into better than our own, while we can These considerations come psychological thing possible warning. He did not improve his validated by umple

more formidable Meanwhile, English cricket has every They can show you how them.

contests Learn them in a certain rhythm, certainly fleid

if there are, any concealed pace attack with a choice of G. O. reason to face the coming

Farnes, Voce, Gover, with well-founded confidence. qut and accen- Allen, K.

Crushing success will almost cer- tuate them; this groups the material, Copson, and Smith.

Far from regarding the excellent tainly attend Australla's carly coun-- and to that extent renders I orderly

Australian team as invincible, I feel ty matches, but a meeting with York- and meaningful.

shire, Middlesex or Essex on a dif that it will be well matched.

Australia's chances of success may cult wicket may well reveal chinks well depend more on the form of in our visitors' armour.

memory,

type

All

research. the will to learn with. The plain fact is that memorising to well is an art. You cannot reduce reference to your particular prob- and

it to a set of mechanical rules appli tem, and how to point it up in order rhymes, pull them cable to all occasions.

your

memory

Into

efficient

most

FIRST and foremost con-

far centrate. By

the of memory cause common

a

or &

can

streamlined instrument, able to go that mattered to him. An-carry on a dozen games, blind-fold.

and fost

You cannot to get results.

It de- acquire it by mere slogging. It pends on certain principles which

This concentration on meaning is psychological investigation has made

the secret of most great feats of clear; and you must understand principles and find out how to

memory. It explains why a bridge apply

them

expert can tell you every detail of a your own particular failures is lack of concentration.

me he played ten years ago It is problems.

Here is a politician to whom the reason why a golf professional Once more we shall see that they

number of people are being intro-

will be able to remember for an in- all have to do with the intelligent duced. Watch how he

behaves credibly long time

every stroke he organisation of the will to learn. Each time a person is brought up to played in a certain match. Bring this about, and you convert shake his hand, you would think it

When a great chess player ព

was the only thing in the world

js! is, the effort of sheer memory is almost of on a minimon

He has trained himself to a point beyond comprehension. And power. and capable of rendering where, for the moment, he simply memory were mere routing it would brilliant service in the emergencles shuts out everything but this on not only be incomprehensible—it of life.

new personality: his looks his pecu- would also be Impossible. From larities, his remarks, his name, is such feats we can clearly see that to family connections. And perhaps remember well we must think while BUT before considering these month later when he meets him in

working principles, there he stress he will secure his vote by we are memorking.

❖ by name. is a question to be discussed which being able to address him

theoretical, but What do you do in the same situa-

A PRINCIPLE closely con- may seem a trifle which is yet of great practical tion? Do you give only half or a

Onected with the last we moment: this is the question of the quarter of your mind to the busi-

that you, should ness? Then don't be surprised. i have discussed is nature of memory.

Psychologists have shown that, in you have forgotten your man's name learn by wholes rather than by parts. If you are briefing material for a a very real sense, there is no such five minutes after hearing it,

thing

from onc

may be

are poor, and be developed

sort of

we

speech or for presentation at a con-

heart.

Do the same

THE

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as "memory." You do not This simple principle of concen- ference, go through it as a whole possess one single ability, the ability tration-something which can rather than hit by bil. to remember, which can be used most certainly learn to control-ex- equaily well for any sort of material plains a great deal about, our effici- thing if you are trying to master a set of instructions, or a scientific and which can be trained to serve ency in various memory jobs. you emelently on every

a foreign Consider an experienced and ex- principle, or the rules for handling occasion.

pert school teacher starting on a new point of syntax in Rather you possess a large num- position. She knows perfectly well language, or learning a poem off by For several reasons this advice is ber of different memory functions how much depends on the first few which differ

another, days. Hesitation, confusion, Iguor- not easy to follow. In the first place. excellent once of the lay-out of the building or learning anything bit by bit seems of which ломе

some of the general regulations and customs, efficient and businesslike. while others which can

without failure to recognise certain people, Another reason why we tend to

inability to identify her pupils cor- helping the rest.

was set up in rectly, may lead to a bad start from Prefer the part method, although the whole method is more efficient, is An experiment

only with that it taites less in the way of in- which the subjects were required to which she, will recover

telligent planning. To use the whole LONDON SERVICE practise memorising different kinds great dimculty.

Experience has taught her what are method you must begin in plenty of of material. They learned lists of numbers and nonsense syllables, the essential things for her to know. time. If you are trying a crom the poems word for word, prese selec-. And on these she concentrates. She night before the event you cannot tions word for word, and the sense is highly organised, with her will to use it effectively.

learn definitely pointed in certain

Of course.

if you don't much enre of other prose selections only,

about efficiency, and perfection--if LIVERPOOL Now It was found possible to im- directions.

Behind the lens of a motion ple- all you want is to be sure of know- prove memory in any one of these departments. But the Improvement ture projector there is a shutter. This ing a little something and retaining did not spread; it did not affect the shutter synchronises with the run of it temporarily then it does not much other departments.

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Now, this is very Important. A quick and sure study as an actor, and poor at remember- Ing names and faces, A set of in- structions given by word of mouth may stick to his mind like glue, and a generalised explanation may slip away from him.

These are not theoretical possibi- lities; they are typical cases which may and do occur. Taken together they constitute a warning which we must heed. Whenever we deal with we must not a memory problem thiris in terms of a general memory ability, but rather of a specific Job! at memorising.

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