=For the purposes of memory, to see a thing once is equal to having repeated it eighteen or twenty times.= Nature's Special Memory Endowment We have a secondary or additional faculty which we call the mind's eye. You can close your eyes and see many familiar scenes or you can combine parts of these into new pictures that have never existed in fact. This process of visualization produces the strongest impression upon the brain that you are able to make. The greatest step in the improvement of the memory is reached when the child realizes the value of this visual impression and is conscious of just how to use it. A Memory Picture Become familiar with the mind's eye picture and realize its value in memory, then follow the exercises given here until you are able to use it correctly for memory purposes. For practice visualize a House, use one that is familiar to you, see it as clearly as possible. Build a clear, definite picture as an artist would, first the outline, then add the detail, see the slope of the roof, the chimney, the gables, then see the shingles and the cracks between them, the bricks in the chimney and the plaster veins between. =The more distinctly you can see this object, the stronger the impression upon the brain--the longer it will last and the easier it will be to recall it.= The use of the exercises on Visualization in Book One will make it possible for you to build at once a clear picture of the House. If you have any difficulty in doing this, follow the instructions for drawing the outline and other suggestions given for the development of the faculty of visualization as they are found in the first book. The Visual Impression Strengthened To remember you must be able to make an impression upon the brain which you can recall at will. This simple impression of the House may not be recalled as easily as you wish, but there are three simple and natural operations of the mind by the use of which you can strengthen this impression to any degree necessary. By their use you can learn to make an impression that is strong enough to be recalled at will. The First Aid--Exaggeration [Illustration] A large object makes a stronger impression upon your mind than a small one, a twenty-story building attracts your attention and impresses you more than a two-story one. Things which you see exaggerated out of their normal proportions make an unusually strong picture upon your brain. The House, which you have seen standing in the yard is small; if you wish to increase the strength of the impression, exaggerate the size of the house and see it as large as a ten-story building. The only limit to the size to which you can exaggerate the object is the limitation of your imagination. You can in this way strengthen the picture until the impression is strong enough to be recalled when needed. Others Make You Remember