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20. Although there is a certain class of impression which originates within the mind itself, there is another and very large class which comes from outside. These impressions reach the brain through the five senses. Sometimes impressions are conveyed to the brain by two or even more senses simultaneously. Thus, when you meet a stranger who begins at once to talk to you your brain will receive impressions of his appearance and of his speech, and these impressions arrive together. Some persons, when they are reading silently, seem to have in their minds the actual sounds of the words before them though no sound is audible. In this case there is an external visible impression and an internal audible impression. Individuals vary much in their susceptibility to impressions through the different senses, some receiving their most intense impression by sight and others by hearing. If you want a perfect memory, you must train not only your brain but also your senses. Do not trust wholly to your sight and neglect your hearing because your sight makes the most direct appeal to you, or vice versa. Even persons whose activity of sight is excellent frequently fail to observe much that they ought to notice. Take a sheet of paper and try to draw upon it the Roman figures exactly as they appear on the face of a clock, and then compare carefully the figure you have placed at “four o’clock” with the figure as represented on the dial of a watch or clock. A large percentage of persons will not succeed, and to fail in this manner is indicative of faulty observation. On which side are the buttons on a man’s coat and on a woman’s jacket? Many such details as these have come constantly before your eyes, but have you seen them?