Faith Filled Family Magazine December 2016 | Page 19

what you’re saying. Use the
name throughout the conversation. When you’re saying goodbye, make sure to use the name
one last time while looking them
in the face, and make an effort to
commit it to memory.

5. Choose to care. Most psychologists and memory experts
point out that one of the main
reasons we forget someone’s
name is that we’re not really focused on learning it in the first
place. There’s too much else going on, and it’s vying for our at2. Spell it out. Memory expert tention. Care about the people
Dr. Gary Small suggests ask- you are meeting and it will be a
ing someone to spell his or her cinch to remember their names.
name, especially if it’s an un- These same principles apply to
usual one. This technique can our connection with our great
be helpful if you have a visual God through the study of His
memory, as it creates a mental names. When we continue to
picture of the person’s name. Af- call on Him using these direct,
ter meeting someone, put them comforting and personal titles,
into your contacts with a few we draw close to Him and are
pieces of information that will able to trust Him with what our
help you remember them. This future holds.
may include their appearance,
children’s names, or interests.
3. Associate. Many experts suggest that you conjure a verbal
game or image when you first
hear a name. Vivian Giang cites
this advice she learned from the
Dale Carnegie training course,
“Picture images that sound like a
person’s name — and combine
it with other things you know
about them. If you meet someone named Laura from Brazil,
imagine her with a laurel wreath
on her head swimming in the
Amazon River.”
4. Make connections. Another
way association can be helpful
is to make a connection between
the person you’re talking to, and
someone else you know with the
same name, i.e. Carrie, like my
sister. As you meet someone,
consider a famous person (or
famous to you) who shares their
first name and looks somewhat
like them, i.e. Ryan looks like
Ryan Gosling, etc.

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Lord,
Thank you very much. Thank
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to you for allowing His name to
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