Since we are different at different moments, Self-Remembering is different at different times. The "Sly Man" knows this. We do not always practice the same method. To do so is to make it mechanical. What is mechanical is useless for the Work. We move, as it were, forward and then backward and then forward, and so on. In any case we experiment.

We notice what was and is no longer useful and invent some other way. Everyone should above all things think of and study and try to self-remember each day. There are many ways of Self-Remembering. But they all depend on the feeling that there is something else, that this life on this extremely bad planet is not explicable in terms of itself. There is something else.

Maurice Nicoll, “Note on the Study of Loss of Force" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 374-5)