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MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1938.

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Smith

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Superman

a

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

leased on to the screen for a fraction of a second and then cut off as slides away to make room for the

next.

MY TEST TEAM

to beat the "INVINCIBLES"

USTRALIA'S newly

chosen cricketers are good, but they can

By

certainly be beaten by an RONALD T. SYMOND

England team inspired with confidence and a ruthless will to win.

O'Reilly and Fleetwood-Smith then 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, an they may be if they spend to cricket of the Yorkshire president, few hours bowling at Hutton, I much

I dislike intensely his recent pro- doubt if four days will sumce to finish "If the shutter stopped working younouncement that these Australians any Test match played in fine wea- would not see a series of clean-cut are almost Invincible."

ther. images, but only a moving blur.

English cricket abounds in good

This is how you must learn to use material, requiring only self-assur- Tricky Pitches your mind if you wish to memorise ance. This spirit must be encour well. You must concentrate on the job, so that you have a series of deed, not shaken by bogy stories of

Australian omnipotence, faite, sharply defined pictures, and not a vague blur shading off into all sorts of irrelevancies.

ON

IN tricky turf, alternatively, conditions may slightly Our men have, in my opinion, an favour our own players, who have. equal chance of regaining the Ashes. greater experience of coping with

Badcock, Fingleton, Brown, Barnes,

Weather:

and Hassett, are all young Australian Vagaries of English pitches in wet batsmen with great records and

The following England team, each SECOND, concentrate on greater promise who will doubtless the meanings

and rela-give splendid support to Bradman and man playing with a consciousness of his own abilities and refusing to be tlonships of the material you wish to McCabe.

overawed by any opposition, would memorise. Never try to memorise

in my view give the "Invincibles" a long and difficult run money:

anything without trying to under- Bowling Attack

stand it as well as you can. Much of

DUT Bhose unique pow up- Ilution.

young men as any in Australia. haps it does not matter much. Per the answers, He looks him full in

same

for thelr

Voce. Larwood,

Pepe.

A. Y., or J. W. A. Stephenson. Verity.

K, Farnes,

excepting Bradman, -OU can improve your essentially a task of rendering more the art of remembering depends on

efficient the performance of specifie making experiences meaningful.

Return for a moment to the poll set the scales of every comparison. Edrich. but the

аге not W. R. Hammond, memory,

of job tician meeting a group of strangers. the Australian batsmen memorising Jobs or types 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.

whole story. His concentration has can turn out. D. R. Wilcox, N. W. D. Paynter. You find that on certain types of content and point.

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

are weak. Just will not work at all or will memory jobs you

He asks each person a few ques- Washbrook, and Compton are as good R. W. V. Robins (capl.). Test rubbers cannot be won by not serve you economically, how serious is this weaknes? Pertions and seems much interested in

A side of such strength would not effectiveness In your You cannot improve your memory haps your

the face and responds markedly to batting alone. Bowling attack is an to any useful degree by

merely business dealings, or your avoca- everything he has to say,

It may be even more important factor. In this be cheaply dismissed. Its attack ips is

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

hot tremendously affected.

Then is not consciously trying to remem- the newly chosen Australian tears times, and barbed with real danger Many

Choice of an England team will, of years ago psychologist for you the effort to improve may ber the stranger. But his whole set with that of Warwick Armstrong in on tricky wickets.

fortn. on current undertook some extensive

white. But perhaps is towards making the person not 1921. memory not

not be

Armstrong had at his disposal self-direction just a blur on the retina and a sound

a course, depend experiments. He served as his own som

of two of the Leyland, Barnett, D. R. Wilcox, subject, and spent patient, tolisome loading to improvement will pay in the ears. He makes him mean double spearpoint

could double something.

greatest fast bowlers in the history Gimblett, Washbrook, and Compton, months in learning by heart lists of high dividends. If you

or treble your efficiency in remem- This is what you must do every of cricket, Gregory and MacDonald, among batsmen, may force their way digita, selections of poetry and prosering names and faces, what would where and always, for remembering whose sustained battery was formid into consideration. Nichols, Bowes,

sets of nonsense syllables and

this do to your effectiveness as

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

fast bowler, might demand a bowler's place. Needless to say, the work

was salesman or an executive? The first pends on meaning even in those ex-tains only one really hard and dull; and we owe a great stage in improving is to decide what treme cases where the material with McCormick, who has grent pace, but deat to this man's devotion to the memory jobs you want to do better. which you have to work locks all limited staying-power.

Otherwise Australia will depend its cause of selence, for he discovered Having decided to improve on a

meaning of i

chiefly on the stock bowling of THE selectors may consider that is useful and helpful. certain type of memory job, your you have to learn by heart O'Reilly and White, and the slow-

that the placid confidence nonsense syllables or a But out of it all came one conspi- business from then on is to apply series of

surely in the leadership than the mer cuous negative result, which is use- to it a number of principles of eff- series of digits or an address in a spin trickeries of Fleetwood-Smith of W. R. Hammiend might serve more ful too, for it stands before us as a ciency, All of them have been

possibla to put meaning inte research. They can show you how them. The plain fact is that memorising to organise the will to learn with Learn them in a pertain rhythm, are any concealed well is an art. You cannot reduce reference to your particular prob- and if

luate them; this groups the material, and to that extent renders it orderly and meaningful,

and

words.

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own.

warning. He did not improve his validated by ample psychological City, you should do every and Ward.

memory.

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more formidable Meanwhile. English cricket has every certainly fold a pace

attack with a choice of G. O. reason to face the coming contests Allen, K. Farnes, Voce, Gover, with welf-founded confidence.

Crushing success will almost cer- Far from regarding the excellent tainly attend Australia's early coun- Australian team us invincible, I feel ty matches, but a meeting with York- shire, Middlesex or Essex on a dif- that I will be well matched.

Australia's chances of success may flcult wicket may well reveal chinks of memory memory. It explains why a bridge well depend more on the form of in our visitors' armour.

expert can tell you every detail of a

it to a set of mechanical rules appli- lemn, and how to point it up in order Thymes, pull them oyt and accen Copson, and Smith.

cable to all occasions. You cannot to get results. acquire it by mere slogging. It de pends on certain principles which psychological investigation has made clear; and you must understand these principles and flud out how. apply them to your own particular failures is lack of concentration. problems.

your

for

Into

to

This concentration on meaning is of the the secret of most great fents

1. FIRST and foremost con- centrate. By for most cominoti Cuuso

Here is #palitielun to whom a game he played ten years ago. It is

efficient

was the

only thing in the world

con

Once more we shall see that they number of people are being intro will be able to remember for an in- the reason why a golf professional all have to do with the intelligent duced. Watch how he behaves. organisation of the will to learn. Each time a person is brought up to credibly long time every stroke he Bring this about, and you convert shake his hand, you would think it played in a certain match.

When a great chess player memory

curry on a dozen games blind-fold, streamlined Instrument, able to go that mattered to him. Arid-It is the effort of sheer memory is almost and fast on minimum of He has trained himself to a point beyond comprehension. And if power, and capable of rendering where, for the moment, he simply memory were mere routine it would brilliant service in the emergencles shuts out everything but this one not only be Incomprehensible-it new personally, his looks his pecu would also be impossible. From Harities, his remarks, his name, his such feats we can clearly see that to family connections. And perhaps a remember well we must think while DUT before considering these month later when he meets him in we are memorising.

working principles, there the street he will secure his vote by

of life.

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is a question to be discussed which being able to address him by name. same situa may seem a trifle theoretical, but What do you do in the

3. A PRINCIPLE closely con- which yet of great practical tion? Do you give only half or a

nected with the last we moment, this B the question of the quarter of your mind to the busi-

that you should nature of memory.

ness? Then don't be surprised if have discussed is Psychologists have shown that, in you have forgotten your man's name leath 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..

speech or for presentation at a thing

do not "memory." You 15

This simple principle of concen- ference, go through it as a whole possess one single ability, the ability tration-something which to remember, which can be used most certainly learn to control-ex- rather than bit by bit. Do the same equally well for any sort of material plains a great deal about our effici- thing if you are trying to master a

or a scientif set of instructions, and which can be trained to serve ency in various memory jobs.

Consider an experienced and ex- principle, or the rules for handling you emetenlly on every occasion.

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

For several reasons: this advice is whleh diter

another, days. Hesitation, confusion, ignor- onc

not casy to follow. In the first place, excellent once of the lay-out of the building or learning anything bit by bit seems some of which may be while others are poor, and some of the general regulations and customs efficient and businesslike. which can be developed without fallure to recognise certain people, helping the rest.

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Another reason why we tend to Inability to identify her pupils cor- profer whole An experiment was set up, in reetly, may lead to a bad start from prefer the part method, although the method is more efficient, is only with which the subjects were required to which she will recover

that it takes less in the way of in- practise memorising different kinds great dificulty.

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Now it was found possible to im- directions.

pbout effelency and perfection- Behind the lens of a motion plc-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 shutters Thiring 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. In fact in some the film so that as each of the tiny matter. But this is not good learn-

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These are not theoretical possibl- lities; they are typleal cases which may and do occur. Taken together. constitute a warning which we they must heed. Whenever we deal with a memory problem we must not think in terms of a general memory ability, but rather of a specifie job of memorising.

AND so the task of gavern- AND Aing your memory,

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