Remember names

~ MaryG

What’s your top tip to be successful in life?

Try your best to remember people’s first names when you meet them or talk to them on the phone. (Yes, the phone! Use it as a phone, young people.)

Then, when you say goodbye (or see them again) use the name.

If you didn’t understand or forgot their name when they first said it, it’s OK to ask them to repeat it – once.

If it’s a difficult name, most people have a trick for you. For example, I met a guy named Goker at my local convenience store. (He works there. I see him a lot.) First time I met him, he said “Goker – rhymes with joker.” Now it’s locked in my brain.

Doing this will make you more engaging, likable, caring, and friendly.

Our fellow humans are really all we have to help us get through this life “successfully.” Learn their names.

11 thoughts on “Remember names”

  3. Same as Laurie, but at least at my job, toward the end I usually have a chance to glance at paperwork and refresh my memory of their name to say a proper goodbye!

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  4. My son always speaks to people by name in shops, restaurants, bars in fact everywhere. He picks up their names from their name badges and failing that will always ask them.
    Watching him in action made me realise that it makes for a much more positive experience when you are out and about and so I’ve started doing it too. Sometimes the person looks at me questioningly as to if to say “how do you know my name?’

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