The copy for the course, or folder, is substantially as follows:
How to Cultivate Your Memory
Forgetfulness is not a disease—it is a habit—and a bad and costly habit.
Perfect memory is necessary in all kinds of business. Why have to make notes of everything you wish to recall? Why “have a name or fact on the tip of your tongue,” unless you can speak it?
Your mind is just like your muscles, so far as training goes. If you wanted to become physically strong, you would not overdo your exercise the first day. You would start with simple things, and then do the more difficult feats. It is the same way with your mind, follow these directions carefully.
How to Concentrate Your Mind
Memory depends entirely upon concentration. If you have riveted your mind on what you hear or see or read, the impression is deep. It is like talking into a phonograph. If you whisper, the record on the wax is shallow, and difficult to reproduce. If you speak in a clear voice, then the record of what you say is cut deep, and can always be reproduced clearly.
To learn how to concentrate, you must start with simple things. But the first lessons must be useful.
The best way to concentrate is to begin with things that denote action.
For example, go into a room once a day, with nobody around to disturb you. Take a sheet of plain paper, and with a heavy, black pencil write something on it like this: