so for those of you who are deductionists or aspiring deductionists I can't impress
upon you enough how important memory systems are with them we can memorize
more information than we would be able to otherwise which can be used for
future deductions, and we can even store the deductions that we make about
particular people in our memory systems. There are so many versatile applications
of memory systems that it's really an indispensable tool to the deductionist. Now
for those of you who aren't interested in deduction whatsoever and simply want
to have a better memory I can safely say that this is something that will benefit
anyone. In the social settings is important to note that people tend to
like you if you show interest in them this relatively intuitive observation
bears practical exploration, now if you remember their name and remembered
things about them that they told you in previous encounters and bring them up in
conversation, showing that you have a genuine interest in their set of
circumstances you will find them to quite enjoy your company and look upon
you in a favorable light which might lead to them helping you out in the
future. Of course you don't actually have to care about them in order to give that
impression and reap the possible benefits say for instance you want a
promotion at work but don't exactly like your boss but you want him to think that
you like him so that he will like you and possibly give you the promotion
psychological research has shown that when you do something for someone no
matter how small they will want to repay the favor in some way usually in a
greater way and then the initial act that you did for them this is something
that con men have long exploited for this reason even something as simple as
remembering a person's name can greatly benefit your relationship with them
going forward now of course forgetting a name is something that we've all done so
it's not as if it's an unforgivable offense and you can still bounce back
and get the person to like you well enough depending on your level of
charisma and other things that you do but something as simple as remembering
their name and calling them by it with a smile as if your old friends even if
you've only met just last week can go a long way so why not learn to do it
better so is there a simple and relatively
foolproof way to remember a person's name with ease why yes there is and
that's why you're here so we might right into that the technique we're
going to be using is a visual based one now we'll go into why we use visual
memory as opposed to auditory repetition in another video but I'm not gonna bore
you with that right this minute what you need to know is that you need
to imagine an image that you can associate with the name in question and
then tie that image to the person's face we call these images pegs now there are
a few ways you can go about creating pegs for names typically a word that
sounds like the name is ideal but it could just as easily be an image that
represents the meaning of the name itself so you could do a lot of prep
work and list off the most common names and then create a peg for each one of
those ahead of time and that way you have a list ready in your mind that you
can then apply to people's faces as you meet people with those names or you
could do the improvisation route which I find to be just as easy to do and is the
one that I personally do both approaches have their ups and downs with prep work
you don't really have to waste time in the moment thinking of how you're gonna
use but you're going to meet someone eventually with a weird name that you
just don't have a predetermined peg for making an improvisation necessary with
improvisation you can dynamically build a list of pegs as you meet new people so
once you meet a person with one name and make a peg for that the next person you
meet with that name you'll already have a peg that you can apply to their face
and this also gets you in the habit of improvising like that making it easier
for you when you do meet someone with an uncommon name let's take a practical
example my name Jordan now if you were meeting me for the first time and wanted
to remember my name upon me introducing myself think of any word that sounds
like my name upon thinking about it you can't come up with one try and break the
name down into its syllables and think of multiple words instead Jor-Dan the
first part of the name sounds like drawer Jor - drawer great okay the second
part of the name Dan well there are people named Dan and if you know it Dan then
you can imagine a Dan in the drawer but I find it best not to mix names like
that it creates too many layers of complexity and it's likely to confuse
you the second half of my name is pronounced more like it has an i or an e
in it than an A so JordIn JordEn as it were din could be short for dinner
den could be like a lion's den now don't be afraid to use some poetic
license you can force the word to rhyme just as long as you can associate it
so now that we have that look for the most distinguishing feature on my face
people tend to say that my eyes are a pretty color of blue or whatever but my
nose is also pretty big so you could take your pick
you could just as easily be my hair or my teeth or whatever stands out to you
the most so if we were to go with my nose I'd imagine like a nose shaped
drawer that when opened a lion pops its head out so I think drawer is the lion's den
drawer den Jor - dan Jordan! and that visual encoding stimulates your memory of my
name and after a few encounters of remembering my name like that you won't
even need to remember the peg you'll just remember that name naturally I find
that just even thinking about how to envision the name helps you to remember
the name itself that being said this technique has saved me on a number of
occasions where I forget a person's name naturally but then I look at their face
and I think of the encoding and then boom the name is there okay one more
example for the name Rachel I think Rach
sounds like race L could be like a shell so race - shell Rachel
so I think of a seashell with racing stripes racing it laps around the person's
face you see how the idea works now I'm gonna give you the opportunity
to practice this real quick what's gonna happen is that a bunch of stock photos
of faces are gonna pop up on the screen one at a time with the name underneath
so you'll look at the name and code it and then figure out a way to tack it
onto the face now you can pause the video for as long as you need for each
of these but try and be as fast as you can alright so the first two are gonna
be Jordan and Rachel so that way you can use the pegs that we've already made and
apply them to new faces so that way you can get an idea of what it's like to do
this technique with the prep work then the rest of the names are going to be
new so you'll have to improvise so again you can pause the video for as long as
you need now at the end of that those pictures are gonna cycle through again
this time without the name now if you want to check your work take out a
sheet of paper and write down the numbers one through eight and then for
each picture that comes out see if you can remember the name and then write
that name down and then you'll be able to see at the end because there will be
a screen that shows all the correct answers you'll be able to check your
work and see if you're correct so good luck with that and I'll see you the end
of the video
now assuming you put the effort in and try your best you get a clap and a half and a
gold star but since my approval means nothing to you probably and let's be
honest why should it hopefully now that you understand the concept you can begin
to use it in day-to-day life for your benefit if you have any questions about
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