Roth Memory Course Volume 1-7; A Simple and Scientific Method of Improving the Memory and Increasing Mental Power

by David M. Roth

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...and instructive. Unlike the other lessons, however, it will require more application to be of value to you. To those interested in remembering figures it will prove a revelation. You will see how easy it is to remember figures by the number code. To those not interested in figures, I make the suggestion that they do not devote much time to the number code part of this lesson. But remember that the drills and exercises in this lesson are a valuable stimulus to your mind. Why Numbers Are Difficult Numbers, of themselves, do not convey clearly defined pictured impressions to the average brain. There is nothing about them to stimulate the imagination. To be sure, they are duly recorded both through the eye and the ear, but ordinarily they register themselves merely as numbers, which are difficult to retain. It becomes necessary, therefore, to devise some means by which they may become photographed on our mental films in such a way that they will mean something as definitely as does a word representing an object. Pictures Will Recall Numbers We must find something that will represent numbers, and then proceed to fix these substitutes in our minds by practice. Then, when a number appears before us, we shall be enabled to recall at once the picture which that particular number represents. For centuries attempts have been made to find means to fix numbers in mind. The code method is the perfected result of many minds that have worked on this problem. It is a practical method for you--for every one--who wishes to develop a sure memory for figures. The Number Code The number code substitutes letters for numbers. These letters are then combined into words, which readily suggest mental pictures. Most numbers look alike, but there is little danger of mistaking your pict...

54 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jessaka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Paul Revere Road in 1642 in the English Civll War

This book helped me get As and Bs in college. Not really. I just said that. I have one of those memories that got me through college this way: I would read the text book, underline it, and the night before the test I would read what I underlined, and then get either an A or a B. A week or two later my memory would fade.

I read this book when I was in the 7th or 8th grade. I know exactly where he was located on the shelf at our library in Paso Robles, CA., but I don’t remember the book very well.

I do believe this was in it: In order to memorize people’s names you had to connect their face to something, like: “This man’s name is Bill,” and then you visualize a one dollar bill in his hand. Then the next time you see him you can remember his name, “Hi Dollar,” you say. I tried this a few years ago when I had joined a group here in Oklahoma. I remembered everyone’s names this way, and then after quitting the group a few months later, whenever I ran into one of them in town, I couldn’t recall their name. It only works if you remain in the group and keep making the associations.

I think this book may have been the one that talked about singing in order to remember things. I realized then how easy it was for me to remember songs, so I spent one day singing my history lesson, and ii worked. It went like this:

Paul Revere road a horse into town,
he yelled that the people to get down
The British were coming;
they were not going,
and it all happened in 1642,
a day when the sky was blue.

It was something like that. I hated dates, and I have no idea if anything happened worthwhile in 1642. Well, yes there was an English Civil War. I looked it up, and Paul Revere rode in 1775.

I don’t recall anything else about this book, but with a memory like mine you can get through almost any college course, that is, if they don’t give you a freak test two weeks later.

[Pierre-Henry Soria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant!