My husband will always say to me is her name Jacinta or Julie. Which is fine we all can forget someone’s name except we have known this girl for two years. So now when I hear him use her correct name I am not sure who he is talking about Jacinta or Julie.
Studies show that hearing our name activates our brain, even when it’s spoken in a noisy room. Not only that but remembering someone’s name is so important it makes people feel good to hear their name. They pay greater attention like when your mother no matter your age will say Debra Anne without fail you will stop and pay greater attention to her.
Personally I have a way with names {usually}. But then I use the association method. You associate something you learn about them with their name such as Julie likes to scuba dive so she becomes Julie Scuba; how can one forget?.
My method is associating something random with them. A friend had a new girlfriend named Dina without fail I would always forget her name until I met her. Naturally on meeting her I associated her with a Dinosaur for no other reason than my sons were going through a dinosaur phase, and it fit. Naturally she became internally to me as Dina Dinosaur and later on the girl from Canda, who went on to break my dear friends heart. Double dates were never awkward again.
So whatever the first thing is that comes into my mind about the person I am meeting and their name they are stuck with internally, of course. I would never tell my friend Colin he was first Colin Cat.
So do have any tricks?
xx Deb
