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You can try to connect the name to the person you know (e.g: when someone introduces himself 'Hi, I'm Mark!' - you can think about the Mark from high school and
by iyn 10y ago
You can try to connect the name to the person you know (e.g: when someone introduces himself 'Hi, I'm Mark!' - you can think about the Mark from high school and "attach" his image to this new person - 5 minutes later it may be easier to recall the person's name).
- ergot 10y agoMy stock answer is always Memory by Association too. Many names can be associated with objects and other conceptual links, only few names are unique enough so as to be hard to associate with already pre-cached objects in memory. And if a name is so unique that it's hard to associate with pre-cached objects/concepts then even more of a reason to memorize it. For example, 'Mark' would be easy as I just think of the person being an actual mark[1] and I want to pull a Con Trick on him/her, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar might be trickier. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick