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I think one of the benchmarks of reading a science text is to not go
on to the next sentence until you either (1) understand the previous
one, or (2) are explicitly aware that any confusion will be cleared
up soon--i.e., within a paragraph or two at most. This means that I
will read a science text much more slowly than I can read a history
text.
Each of the associates is a hook to which [the memory] hangs, a
means to fish it up when sunk below the surface. Together they form
a network of attachments by which it is woven into the entire
tissue of our thought. The 'secret of a good memory' is thus the
secret of forming diverse and multiple associations with every fact
we care to retain. But this forming of associations with a
fact,—what is it but thinking about the fact as much as possible?
Briefly, then, of two men with the same outward experiences, the
one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into the
most systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the
best memory.