Make your connections as entertaining as possible. Perhaps the best way for you to remember the name “Scott Morrison” is by picturing a Scottish terrier chasing the Doors’ Jim Morrison. ( Editor’s note: This may not be so exciting for Australian readers.) Please know that this strategy works best when you follow your own personal interests. Now close your eyes and make these images as vivid as possible in your mind.Ĭongratulations, you’ve just learned, in order, the names of the three most recent Australian Prime Ministers: Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott. Nearby, Tony the Tiger is walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and he’s dressed in monk’s robes. Next, out in the harbor, Malcolm X is driving a speedboat and making his only passenger, a bull, seasick by turning the craft around in circles.
Inside, author Toni Morrison is playing the bagpipes and wearing a Scottish kilt. They do this by linking the information they want to remember to people, characters or things they’re already familiar with.
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The primary approach used by memory champions like Horsley and Kilov is to make compelling associations that stick in the mind like a TV commercial jingle. All he needed were different techniques, and today he can memorize a shuffled deck of cards in less than two minutes. Growing up, Kilov found it “dull, impersonal and ineffective.” He admits, “I didn’t have a good memory in school.” Then, Kilov contacted memory champion Tansel Ali and after a few months of practice and coaching, he placed second in the Australian Memory Championships (just behind Ali). Rote memorization - repeating things over and over until we retain them - is what many of us are taught to do in school, but it doesn’t work well for everyone. Were you in an unfamiliar space, and was there also unfamiliar music, furnishings or people? Were you in a situation where you really wanted or needed to make a good impression? And were you worried about who you would talk to or what you would talk about? With so much external stimuli and internal stress, it’s not surprising that your attention became fragmented. Think back to the last time that someone’s name went in one ear and out the other. “There’s only a good or bad memory strategy.”Īccording to Horsley, your problem is most likely plain and simple distraction.
For most people, “there’s no such thing as a good or bad memory,” says Horsley, an International Grand Master of Memory based in South Africa. Recognize that you probably don’t have a problem. It seems you’ve got three main options: 1) mask the awkwardness by responding with an over-enthusiastic “So great!” or an overly toothy grin 2) limit yourself to events where name tags are mandatory or 3) shun society and embark on life as a recluse.īut might we suggest a fourth option? Try this advice from memory champs Kevin Horsley and Daniel Kilov. How often has this happened to you? And what’s a person to do? That’s when you realize you have no idea what their name is - and they told you just minutes ago. The two of you chat for a while, but as the conversation winds down, the other person calls you by name and then says, “It was great to meet you.” You’re at a social function - it could be a work-related meeting, a friend’s birthday, a community function - and you start talking to a stranger. Raúl Soria Take the strategy employed by memory athletes to memorize decks of cards and thousands of digits of pi, and adapt it to get over stranger-name forgetfulness.
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