How To Remember Names of People You Have Just Met
By Syd Hs
Introductory comments by Royane Real
Author of “Your Guide to Finding Friends, Making Friends and Keeping Friends”
Most of us know that it's important to remember the names of people we meet, but sometimes, we just don't know how to remember names.
Remembering other people’s names is an important skill for anyone who wants to make friends, or who wants to succeed in business or politics.
There’s a lady on my street who has known me for five years, and she never gets my name right. Every time she sees me, she greets me by the wrong name.
I haven’t wanted to correct her, because I don’t want her to feel embarrassed that she has been calling me by the wrong name all these years. But still, every time she gets my name wrong, I feel annoyed and disappointed.
By now, it would be embarrassing to both of us if I issued a correction at this late date. I can’t imagine saying, “Wendy, I should have mentioned something earlier, but you’ve actually been calling me by the wrong name all these years.” So, I just let it go. Still, I always feel bothered that she doesn’t use my correct name. But how could she, when I have never bothered to tell her that she’s made a mistake!
I just realized that there might be some people that I’ve been calling by the wrong name, and perhaps they also don’t want to embarrass me by pointing out my mistake.
The easiest way to avoid this problem is to get people’s names right the first time you meet them. But how many of us actually bother to pay attention to the name of every person we meet? No wonder that making mistakes with other people’s names is so common.
It can be hard to really pay attention to people’s names when we first meet them, especially if we are being introduced to several different people at once.
Still, there are a few mental tricks you can employ that will help you pay attention to people’s names when you meet them the first time, and help you to remember those people’s names when you encounter them again.
Several of these tricks that can help you remember names better are to be found in the following article by Syd Hs.
( The written comments above are by Royane Real, author of “Your Guide to Finding Friends, Making Friends and Keeping Friends”
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How To Remember Names of People You Have Just Met
By Syd Hs
Have you heard the saying, "The most beautiful word an individual can ever hear is his or her own name being called by another person" ?
All of us feel kind of special if someone we had met earlier remembers our name.
Imagine how special you can make another person feel by remembering his/her name from your earlier meeting.
However some people have trouble remembering faces and names. It can be a really embarrassing and awkward thing for us if the other person realizes that you do not remember their name, isn't it?
It can spoil relationships with people. So you can realize the importance of paying attention to people's names. This is specially important for business people while meeting clients or prospective customers. You can either win the loyalty of your clients or lose them due to this.
If someone approaches you and called you by your first name, wouldn't it be embarrassing if you don't reciprocate by saying his or her name back?
Difficulty in remembering names and faces is mainly caused by the fact that names and faces are uninteresting in themselves. Hence we tend to forget them easily or do not pay attention to them in the first place.
How do you overcome this problem? Here are a few suggestions to help you remember people's names and faces easily:
1. When you meet someone for the first time and hear their name, repeatedly say it in your mind many times so that it registers firmly. And if possible, use the name as often in the conversation as possible.
You might also tell that you met so and so person to your friends and family members - for example, tell your friend now, and then later to your sister that you just met Jon Nowitzki.
2. If you met someone important who can be a prospective client for you later on, then make special effort in this case to remember his/her name.
After your meeting with them, as soon as it’s possible for you, write down their name several times. This way you are acquiring the benefit of a double sense impression (by adding an eye impression to ear impression).
3. You can also visualize the person's name as an object in your mind. See the letters of the name in your imagination, as an image or picture. Exaggerate this as much as you can.
For example - you might imagine the name "Nowitzki" as a big hairy object with 3 eyes and spikes all over.
Or you may visualize Mr. Nowitzki himself lifting this giant word "Nowitzi" over his head, much like a weightlifter.
The more funny and exaggerated your image is, the better chances that it will stick in your mind.
The above techniques all do one simple thing. They force you to pay attention to the name of the other person. When you are visualizing funny images, or writing down or orally repeating the person's name, you are forcing your mind to concentrate on the name so that it registers firmly.
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