HOW TO REMEMBER NAMES

1. COMMIT: Begin by making a commitment — a conscious decision — to remember people’s names.
2. CONCENTRATE: You can only remember what you observe in the first place. If you are distracted or if you aren’t paying attention, you won’t register the person’s name so you can’t possibly remember it. Concentrate, then, on 1) paying attention to the person’s name when you first hear it, and 2) forming an impression of the person.
3. REPEAT: Repetition helps engrave the name in your memory.
4. ASSOCIATE: Try to make an association between the person’s face and an image the name suggests. If you exaggerate the image make it larger, say and give it movement have it slam into some feature of the person’s face, for example  you will make the image even more memorable.