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Topic: Are you good with names?
DestinysDream Joined Wed 02/20/08 Posts: 4805	Wed 07/02/08 11:23 AM
I'm not. I keep forgetting. If you have any tricks like the guy on TV who memorizes the entire audience' name, please tell me.

FaithfulOne78 Joined Mon 11/19/07 Posts: 15313	Wed 07/02/08 11:24 AM
I write it down!

brooke007 Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 5469	Wed 07/02/08 11:25 AM
I am better with faces...not so good with names.. sorry no help...

SKPCG Joined Mon 03/03/08 Posts: 14708	Wed 07/02/08 11:25 AM
I'm getting worse as I get older. But, I do still try to do word association if it's someone I know I will need to meet again.

kojack Joined Mon 12/25/06 Posts: 16382	Wed 07/02/08 11:25 AM
look at person at think of object that describes them or their likes or dislikes.....

ledi180 Joined Sun 04/15/07 Posts: 5910	Wed 07/02/08 11:25 AM
I am horrible. When I'm introduced to someone, I automatically here 'Karen, this is blah blah'......I literally do not hear their name. That's bad, I know.

ReddBeans Joined Sat 10/27/07 Posts: 6930	Wed 07/02/08 11:28 AM
What's my name again???? DARN!!! that sometimers sure is a *itch!!

franshade Joined Tue 07/24/07 Posts: 24704	Wed 07/02/08 12:15 PM
call them all baby/sunshine cant go wrong

franshade Joined Tue 07/24/07 Posts: 24704	Wed 07/02/08 12:19 PM
ask them all to wear name tag?

baroosie Joined Fri 01/18/08 Posts: 859	Wed 07/02/08 02:47 PM
I have no problem with it whatsoever, DelicateDream

Random_Stranger Joined Wed 05/02/07 Posts: 2409	Wed 07/02/08 02:48 PM
I have to ask names twice. Once after I am introduced and after talking to them for a bit, if they seem worthy of remembering without doing anything out of the norm, then I ask their name once more and I do not forget it..... Unless it is has been a year + after that first encounter, then I will forget.

DestinysDream Joined Wed 02/20/08 Posts: 4805	Wed 07/02/08 02:51 PM
I have no problem with it whatsoever, DelicateDream

DestinysDream Joined Wed 02/20/08 Posts: 4805	Wed 07/02/08 02:51 PM
I have to ask names twice. Once after I am introduced and after talking to them for a bit, if they seem worthy of remembering without doing anything out of the norm, then I ask their name once more and I do not forget it..... Unless it is has been a year + after that first encounter, then I will forget. Good suggestion!! I may try that. Thanks.

No1sLove Joined Wed 04/16/08 Posts: 10342	Wed 07/02/08 02:57 PM
I just give them a username that I can remember. Seriously though, if I use their names in the first 5 minutes after I've heard them, I'm usually golden. At a meeting or luncheon, this means I will go for a cup of coffee I don't even want just so I can say, "Jerry...aren't these the best cinnabuns ever?" I also try celebrity association too...pick a celebrity with their name. So, Jerry is now Jerry Seinfeld.

LookinRound Joined Sun 12/02/07 Posts: 7894	Wed 07/02/08 03:04 PM
repeat their name when introduced...use it in your conversation a few times, not too much to be annoying, relate it to something about them... i.e. No1sLove...I think is Lovely...hence I don't forget her name! or if introduced to Bill and he has a ballcap on...the bill of the cap... old tricks from school! Good Luck George!!

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