I’m ok if I can relate it to someone or something else. Like, ah, John, you go in the John pile. If they have a super unique name there’s a 50/50 I will forget it after it’s said and 100% chance I won’t know it in a week.
I’m the reverse, if someone has a unique name that is either interesting because it is from another language or culture I have like a 50/50 chance of remembering it depending on length but all the Johns are gonna be ‘hey you’ in about 30 seconds unless they are wearing a name tag.
Also, none of the memory tricks that are supposed to help remember names work for me and I tried for a couple decades. Associating with something else means now I have two things that I forgot, and repeating their name at them will just turn into a pile of mush in my brain. I just need to interact with them long enough for it to eventually stick, can’t force it.
Worst “trick” I have tried to use is for people who have the same name as me, or my brother, or someone other person who is very close to me: “oh great, that’s my name too! Now I won’t have to remember a new one!”. We laugh and high five.
Of course, then I don’t retain any association with their face and it fails spectacularly next time I see them.
I’m ok if I can relate it to someone or something else. Like, ah, John, you go in the John pile. If they have a super unique name there’s a 50/50 I will forget it after it’s said and 100% chance I won’t know it in a week.
I’m the reverse, if someone has a unique name that is either interesting because it is from another language or culture I have like a 50/50 chance of remembering it depending on length but all the Johns are gonna be ‘hey you’ in about 30 seconds unless they are wearing a name tag.
Also, none of the memory tricks that are supposed to help remember names work for me and I tried for a couple decades. Associating with something else means now I have two things that I forgot, and repeating their name at them will just turn into a pile of mush in my brain. I just need to interact with them long enough for it to eventually stick, can’t force it.
Worst “trick” I have tried to use is for people who have the same name as me, or my brother, or someone other person who is very close to me: “oh great, that’s my name too! Now I won’t have to remember a new one!”. We laugh and high five.
Of course, then I don’t retain any association with their face and it fails spectacularly next time I see them.