Chapter 38 how to organize facts

How, then, do we organize facts so that they form an ordered relationship with each other?The answer is: determine its meaning and analyze it.For example, with new factual material, you will put the fact into an orderly system by asking and answering the following questions: (1) Why is this fact so? (2) How did this fact come about? (3) When did this fact happen? (4) Where did this fact occur? (5) Who introduced this fact? For example, if we want to remember a stranger's name, it is a common one, so we can associate it with our friends who have the same name; You can take the opportunity to express this novel feeling to the owner, and this often leads to the owner of the name taking the initiative to introduce why his name is strange.

Example: While writing this chapter, I was introduced to Mrs. Sauter.I asked her how her name was spelled, and asked her to explain why it was so peculiar.She replied: "Yes, it's an unusual name, it's Greek and it means 'savior'." Then she told me about her husband's family from Athens who had lived in Important position.I find it so easy to get people to tell stories about their names and it always helps me remember them. When you meet a stranger, you can accurately observe his appearance.Such as the color of his eyes and hair and other facial features, the style of his clothes, the tone of conversation, etc., in order to obtain a clear and vivid general impression, and to connect it with his name, which will be used when we meet next time. Come to your mind with these impressions.

Have you ever had such an experience?When you meet someone for the second or third time, you still only remember their occupation or job but not their name.The reason is: people's occupation is definite and concrete, for you, it is no longer abstract, therefore, it is like the lime plaster in the yard, absorbing your memory, but his name, because of the abstract It has no meaning, so it falls off your memory like the icicles on the eaves.So, to make sure you remember someone's name, you should turn it into a phrase associated with their work.Moreover, the effectiveness of this approach is unquestionable.For example, there are now twenty people, each unknown to each other, who met at the Byrne Athletic Club in Philadelphia.So each introduced his or her name and occupation, and they all used phrases to connect the names and occupations of the others, so that within minutes they were calling each other by their first names.In subsequent meetings, no one forgot the other's name or occupation.