{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"How many people, one might almost say all people, complain of a weak memory, of a declining memory at a certain age! If we were to consider the connection between attention and memory at the right time, things would be better. We can say the following to all people: the more a person strives to develop the power of attention, that is, to repeatedly focus their interest on individual facts of life, the more they concentrate their soul on attention through inner effort, the stronger their memory and power of recollection become. Not only do we remember more easily what we have paid attention to, but the power of memory, the power of recollection, becomes stronger the more we are taught or teach ourselves to develop the activity of attention again and again. Activity and ability are related here. Not only is it very easy to observe in life that we remember more easily what we have paid attention to, but the development of the activity of attention also strengthens the power of memory. That is one thing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-08","location":null,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19140508p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Man kann allen Menschen Folgendes sagen: Je mehr sich der Mensch bemüht, die Kraft der Aufmerksamkeit zu entwickeln, das heißt, immer wieder sein Interesse zu konzentrieren auf einzelne Tatsachen des Lebens, je mehr er in innerer Anstrengung die Seele auf die Aufmerksamkeit konzentriert, desto stärker werden sein Gedächtnis und seine Erinnerungskraft. Nicht bloß, dass wir uns an das leichter erinnern, worauf wir Aufmerksamkeit verwendet haben, sondern die Kraft der Erinnerung, die Kraft des Gedächtnisses, wird umso stärker, je mehr wir erzogen werden oder uns selbst erziehen, immer wiederum die Tätigkeit des Aufmerksamseins zu entwickeln. Tätigkeit und Fähigkeit hängen hier zusammen. Nicht nur, was ja sehr leicht im Leben konstatierbar ist, dass wir uns an das leichter erinnern, worauf wir aufmerksam waren, sondern durch die Entfaltung der Aufmerksamkeitsbetätigung wird die Erinnerungskraft verstärkt. 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