Finally, before you start to work on this first Session, let me say this: I want you to feel that this home-study course brings us together as friends no less than as co-workers.

We hope that you will feel we have succeeded in this aim and that you will appreciate the reason for our efforts. And so into each of the 12 Sessions we have tried to put something that will amuse as well as instruct you. I believe that memory training should be fun, and my wife, who has helped me to compile this Course, shares that belief. Now let me assure you that although this Course expects you to work, it tries to make your work as pleasant as possible.

If you do this you should in no time at all have gained a firm grip on the Number Code, and I cannot stress too highly how useful you will find it in subsequent parts of our work. Therefore, study carefully the hints which are given for associating 1 with t, 2 with n, 3 with m, and so on. On the other hand, mastering it requires no special effort on your part, because I provide you with a way of remembering even this. You cannot get far in training you memory without mastering this essential feature of our system. Secondly, I want to remind you about the extreme importance of our Number Code, to which we introduce you in this Session. Although there are logical associations, association is not necessarily logic but to a great extent imagination. People think that they cannot visualise that is the reason why the Course teaches you how you can learn to “see” things before your mind’s eye. The basis on which much of your memory work is built is your ability to create mental images and to associate those mental images with each other. That is why I am writing this letter of personal discussion to call your attention to what matters most in the first part of the Course. Eventually one runs out of rooms for the cube system, and must use the outside journey system too.Naturally want to lay that groundwork well. Use relatives’ houses, use family’s houses. SO one has to be constantly looking for new loci. If you have permanent loci and you are running out of them, you can add up to 2-3 more associations to your loci before it gets confusing. I use the journey loci that are outside for temporary things I want to recall. I like to memorize history, so I store these things, like amendments to the constitution, or other lists in the 9 series which is my 9th room I come to on the walk through my rather large house. In the dewy decimal system the 9 series is history. Then I have other loci that I use for practical things I want to remember. You could probably use these once a day and not have too much inteference. Most folks have some reusable loci to use for trivial things like recalling what your wife wants you to get at the store.

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