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Chapter Nine How to Remember Events

Can you still remember what your breakfast was 3 days ago? Can you recall what

 

your boss announced yesterday regarding the company’s new mission statement?

 

Don’t panic if things like these escape your memory. You’re not alone. Sometimes,

 

we become too engrossed with a lot of our daily responsibilities that we tend to forget

 

events or happenings we haven’t paid much attention to.

 

If you will give to the occurrences of each day a mental review in the evening, you

 

will find that the act of reviewing will engage the attention to register the events in such a

 

manner that they will be available anytime for future retrieval.

 

Let this work be done in the evening, when you feel at ease. Do not do it after you

 

retire. The bed is made for sleep, not for thinking. You will find that the subconscious will

 

awaken to the fact that it will be called upon later for the records of the day, and will "take

 

notice" of what happens, in a far more diligent and faithful manner.

 

Try this exercise. Sit down alone one night and spend fifteen minutes attempting

 

silently to remember exactly the important happenings of the day. You may find that you

 

could recall only little at first. You may not even recall what you had for breakfast. But after

 

a few days of practice, you will find that you could recall more. Events will come back to

 

you more precisely and more clearly than at first. If possible, relate to people close to you,

 

the events of the day instead of recalling them to yourself. If the people you’re relating the

 

events to are interested in them too, you would become more motivated to remember

 

them.

 

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