How Can I Remember People's Names?

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So jj, this is a question that comes up so often and Michelle, you are not alone. So many of us forget names, and as Dale Carnegie said, we have to remember that a name is to that person the sweetest sound in any language. It's one of the most powerful tips in our interpersonal relationships and our business relationships to remember someone's name. And it turns out that it's actually really, really easy to do if you have the right technique. Now, when it comes to memory, there is one technique above all other that's been used for thousands and thousands of years, and that is the visual mnemonic. What does that mean? Basically, you take that person's name and convert it to a picture. So you might want to come up with a picture of something that you will visualize on their shoulder. You might want to visualize that person with someone else that you know that has that same name. But what you want to do is create that visualization because pictures are much more memorable to you than just the sound of that person's name. You then want to connect that visualization to something you already know, because doing that tells your brain, hey, this is pretty important. It's connected to something that I've remembered for years and years and years. So for example, if I might meet someone named Maya, I might visualize her with Mayan or Aztec painting on her face, and I might connect that to other memories that I have, for example, seeing the Mel Gibson movie about the Mayans. And once you do this, it takes a little bit of time to practice, but once you do it, you can remember anyone's name pretty much indefinitely.

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