Adventure, December 3, 1920 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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ADVENTURE At first I amused myself with my new-found ability by amazing people at parties. My “memory feat,” as my friends called it, surely made a hit. Every- one was talking about it, and I was showered with invitations for all sorts of affairs. If anyone were to ask me how quickly to develop social popularity, I would tell him to learn my memory ‘“‘feat’—but that is apart from what I want to tell you. The most gratifying thing about the improvement of my memory was the re- markable way it helped me in business. Much to my surprise I discovered that my memory training had literally put a razor edge on my brain. My brain had become clearer, quicker, keener. I felt that I was fast acquiring that mental grasp and alertness I had so often admired in men who were spoken of as “wonders” and ‘‘geniuses.”’ The next thing I noticed was a marked improve- ment in my conversational powers. Formerly my talk was halting and_ discon- nected. I never could think of things to say until the conversation was over. And then, when it was too late, I would always think of apt and striking things I “might have said.”? But now I can think like a flash. When I am talking I never have to hesitate for the right word, the right expression or the right thing to say. It seems that all I have to do is to start to talk and instantly I find myself saying the very thing I want to say to make the greatest impression on people. It wasn’t long before my new-found ability to remember things and to say the right thing at the right time, attracted the attention of our president. He got in the habit of calling me in whenever he wanted facts about the business. As he expressed himself to me, “You can always tell me instantly what I want to know, while the other fellows annoy me by dodging out of the office and saying, ‘I’ll look it up.’ ” * 6 Bg aS * * FOUND that my ability to remember helped me wonderfully in dealing with other people, par- ticularly in committee meetings. When a discussion opens up the man who can back up his statements quickly with a string of definite facts and figures usually dominates the others. Time and time again I have won people to my way of thinking simply because I could instantly recall facts and figures. While I’m proud of my triumphs in this respect, I olten feel sorry for the ill-at-ease look of other men who cannot hold up their end in the argument be- cause they cannot, recall facts instantly. It seems as though I never forget anything. Every fact I now put in my mind is as clear and as easy to recall instantly as though it were written before me in plain black and white. We all hear a lot about the importance of sound judgment. People who ought to know say that a man cannot begin to exercise sound judgment until he is forty to fifty years of age. But I have dis- proved all that. I have found that sound judgment is nothing more than the ability to weigh and judge “Our president complimented me on always being able to tell instantly facts he wanted to know.” OG facts in their relation to each other. Memory is the basis of sound judgment. I am only thirty-two, but many times I have been complimented on having the judgment of a man of forty-five. I take no per- sonal credit for this—it is all due to the way I trained my memory. HSE are only a few of the hundreds of ways I have profited by my trained memory. No longer do I suffer the humiliation of meeting men I know and not being able to recall their names. The moment I see a man his name flashes to my mind, together with a string of facts about him. [I always liked to read, but usually forgot most of it. Now I find it easy to re- call what I have read. Another surprising thing is that I can now master a subject in considerably less time than _ before. Price lists, market quo- tations, data of all kinds, I can recall in detail al- most at will. I rarely make a mistake My vocabulary, too, has increased wonder- fully. Whenever I see a striking word or expres- sion, I memorize it and use it in my dictation or -onversation. This has put a remarkable sparkle and pulling power into my conversation and business letters And the remarkable part of it all is that I can now do my day’s work quicker and with much less effort, simply because my mind works like a flash and I do not have to keep stopping to look things up. A All this is extremely satis*ying to me, of course. But the best part of it all is that since my memory powers first at- tracted the attention of our president, my salary has steadily been increased. Today it is many times great:r than it was the day Macdonald got me interested in improving my memory. ae Re EO Wart Macdonald told me that eventful evening was this: “Get the Roth Memory Course.” Idid. That is how I learned to do all the remarkable things I have told you about. The publi hers of the Roth Memory Course—the Independent Corporation—are so confident that it will also show you how to develop a remarkable memory that they will gladly send the Course to you on approval. : You need not pay a single penny until you have examined the © urse and found that it fully lives up to all the claims made for it. Send no money. Merely mail the coupon, or write a letter, and the complete Course will be sent to you instantly, all charges prepaid. If after examination you decide that you do not want to keep the Course, then return it and you will owe nothing. 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