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Table of Contents The Mental Filing System has a special application immeasurably useful to every one of us in almost every aspect of our lives—its use in remembering numbers. Telephone numbers, addresses, important dates in history, birthdays, and anniversaries are only a few of the items you'll be able to fix in your mind now that you know the key words. The ability to remember numbers sometimes means the difference between making or losing a sale or passing or flunking a course in school. You've surely known crises when a number remembered correctly would have meant everything to you. We've shown that it is far easier for the mind to retain a vivid image than a completely abstract number. Substituting the key words for numbers, and composing a picture with them, is the trick. Here is a telephone number: 7189. Using the key words for the numbers, we get policeman, alarm clock, revolving door, mailbox. These form themselves into a picture |
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