“Sorry, I am just terrible with names.”

by matt bridgman

​“Hi! How are you doing?” is the line I typically use when I cannot remember someone’s name. I just jump right into conversation so I don’t have to use their name. I have friends who seem to memorize names after hearing them only once. I definitely do not have that skill. I study and test memory for a living, and yet I am really bad about remembering people’s names.
 
Fortunately, I have talked to quite a few people who experience a similar “name-finding” difficulty (not fortunate for them, of course, but it makes me feel less bad about myself).  However, I recently decided that I probably should not just accept my name-finding impairment, and so I decided to do something about it.

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