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When next you take a walk abroad, either in town or country, resolve to notice as much as you can of the things that are in the slightest degree unusual. You will, of course, see much that is familiar, the same kind of people wearing the same kind of clothes, and hear them using the same kind of talk; but keep your eyes and ears open for anything that is out of the common. Deliberately search for sights and sounds with an element of newness to you. When you have returned from your walk, hastily go over in your mind the route you took (and do not cover the same ground twice over), then commence your memory exercise by beginning at the end of your journey and going backwards over the ground all the way to the beginning. This method of the return journey is a little difficult at first, but it is one of the finest mental exercises ever prescribed. You are building up the power of reproductive imagination, in other words, your visualising faculty; you are training your memory, and you are developing your powers of observation. If, during the process of reconstructing your journey from the end to the beginning, you observe weak connections, study those weaknesses very closely, because they are bound to reveal memory defects which call for attention.