Meeting new people and remembering names

[pelafina]

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I'm interested in this too. I was introduced to someone at work yesterday and within seconds forgot their name . I can remember names if they are the same as someone else I know, but otherwise I really struggle.

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Oh gosh, no advice but I am sometimes awful with this.

There is a friend of my best friend, who I have met countless times and I don't know his name, I am too ashamed to ask her, and it would now be highly inappropriate to ask him next time I see him!

I sometimes find, if it happens in a large group, to find someone you know and casually introduce, ie 'this is my friend 'x' and hopefully they will introduce themself to them and you can make a note.

lol

it is supposed to help if you repeat their name back to them outloud e.g. "this is Ben" and you reply "hello Ben how are you?".

I am rubbish at names and faces. Yesterday i told someone that x had done something for me, she pointed out that she was x. i had her completely muddled up. I have known her at work for a year.

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No.

i think it's pointless people telling em their names.

It's not as if I can remember them 30secs later.

Prob not a good trait in a receptionist

Oh am soo glad this happens to others.. I'm awful at this can be quite embarassing at times!

funny I was talking to a friend of mine about this a while ago.. ( lucky I do remember her name lol).. she was telling me that there was a woman who's name she always got wrong.. the woman said to her.. 'what is it about my name that you find so difficult to remember'? My friend was soooo embarrassed she never forgot it again!!

I'm terrible at this (and dh is really good).

I try and associate the first letter of their name with a characteristic and that has worked really well - so at work e.g. (have changed their names but you get the idea) Steve is Spotty, Harry is High (tall), Emma is Excruciating, Laura is Loud etc.

I don't forget everyone's but I use that method for remembering the people I get mixed up.

I'm rubbish at this too

Only tip I have is to say their name back to them at least twice in your first converstation, eg "So Susan, how old's your little one?" or "can I get you a coffee or tea, Susan?"

Sounds a bit naff, but def helps!

I have a trick that works for me. Similar to fox's strategy.

I have a mental snapshop of them related to their names.

eg - a couple called Hazel and Neil: Snapshot of them in medieval clothes in copse, her with hazel crown on head, him knealing before her.

Bloke called Mike: Telling funny jokes into a outsized microphone.

It works for names that aren't easily things too because they can be as silly and as personal to you as you like. It's the visualisation that makes it work. It's how those people with amazing freaky memories do it - visualisation.