A short spoken guide teaching a five-step acronymic method (SUAVE) to remember people's names and faces. The speaker explains each letter of SUAVE—Say, Use, Ask, Visualize, End—with supporting actions (believe, practice, repetitions, spelling/origin questions, vivid imagery, and closing with the name) and gives a concrete visualization example for the name “David.”
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Have you ever met somebody, they give you their name, and then seconds later, the name just disappears out of your mind? I'm going to teach you a method on how to remember the names and faces of almost every single person that you meet. I want you to say to yourself, I am going to be suave. And what's the B? Suave. B stands for what? Believe. Believe you can. Believe you can. Either way, you're right. The E is exercise. Practice. Because practice makes what? Practice makes progress. The S in suave stands for say the name. You say the name when you hear it. The U in Suave is you use it three or four times in the conversation. The A in Suave is ask, how do you spell it? Where's it from? The V stands for visualize. We tend to remember what we see. And try seeing what you want to remember. Take a name like David for me. David. I use a slingshot. Why do I use a slingshot? For David, David and Goliath. Finally, the E stands for end. You end the conversation using their name. I can remember to forget.