How To Improve Your Ability To Remember Names Of People You've Never Met Face To Face

How can I improve my ability to remember names of people I've never met face to face?

If you're looking to improve your memory of names of people you haven't met because you have a roster of people who are going to be at the meeting, or the party, you need to look at the name and make an association just like you would be making the association when you met the person. But names mean something to you, such as reminding you of people that you've known in the past. Or if you are meeting a Mr. Goodman, you say, "oh, I see, he's a good man that I'm going to meet." If you know the name is Mr. Hernandez you can say "I remember Hernandez' hideaway." So you're making something from your past experience and then you soundtrack the name. If the name is Dempsey, you might say "there's a prize fighter that was named Dempsey." Any name that you in the past had an association or a connection to, you just make the little notes in your mind or on a piece of paper, so you can take 2, 3, or 4 names before you get to the meeting or the party and know who you're going to meet, by making the association. It only takes a few moments to do this and the idea is if you actively do it, it's going to work. Then when you get to the party or the meeting, you have a ready made association to program that name to that person, and its very simple. Then you might say, "oh yes, Mr. Goodman has the round face, he's a good man, a good humoured man with the round face."