Remembering Names - Other Than Your Own

I am terrible at it: remembering names. Tomorrow I am supposed to make a presentation and likely to face it: meeting strangers; trying hard to remember their names; and still the names not just slipping out of memory but not even registering themselves in the first place.

Recently, while waiting for the guests for a get-together at our home, I called my wife to ask the name of the husband of one of her friends. She teased me, "Oh! You're preparing to introduce the guests with one another." That's true, I said. And it was not that I was meeting this gentleman for the first time: I was meeting him the fifth time. And still...his name was not ready to surface in my memory.


On the other hand, I have also experienced that when I meet a person who has some peculiar characteristics (e.g., speaks loudly, cracks interesting jokes, wears some crazy dress, etc.), I don't need much effort to remember the name of such a person. Probably, that's where lies the clue: We need to associate names with some peculiarity about the person. Well, there is more to it.

Here is the remedy to this potentially embarrassing but interesting problem. And as this video shows, one should not take this issue too seriously. Let it be fun!

Communication Skills:
How To Remember People's Names