Spaced repetition for names is basically where you use someone’s name every chance you get when you first hear it, and then just drop it into conversation occasionally, and then stop worrying about it. It’s quite effective.
Or you could do spaced repetition of an exercise, like matching descriptions and names, but I’m not confident of the usefulness of exercises. The best might be to take and tag pictures of everyone whose name you want to remember. Which, now that I think about it, some people do a lot...
Spaced repetition for names is basically where you use someone’s name every chance you get when you first hear it, and then just drop it into conversation occasionally, and then stop worrying about it. It’s quite effective.
Even without saying them aloud, I’ve found that rehearsing the names of people I’ve just met in my mind every five or ten minutes kind-of works.
Rehearsing names-with-faces works better for me. It works even better if I can get a list of names (to match to faces) and also easily glance out and see all their faces (to test if I can match them to their name). The last improvement is having a non-embarassing way to refresh myself if, in rehearsing, I find out I’ve forgotten someone (assigned seats are beautiful—look at seat, see if I can name occupant. If not, check who seat is assigned to)
Spaced repetition for names is basically where you use someone’s name every chance you get when you first hear it, and then just drop it into conversation occasionally, and then stop worrying about it. It’s quite effective.
Or you could do spaced repetition of an exercise, like matching descriptions and names, but I’m not confident of the usefulness of exercises. The best might be to take and tag pictures of everyone whose name you want to remember. Which, now that I think about it, some people do a lot...
Even without saying them aloud, I’ve found that rehearsing the names of people I’ve just met in my mind every five or ten minutes kind-of works.
Rehearsing names-with-faces works better for me. It works even better if I can get a list of names (to match to faces) and also easily glance out and see all their faces (to test if I can match them to their name). The last improvement is having a non-embarassing way to refresh myself if, in rehearsing, I find out I’ve forgotten someone (assigned seats are beautiful—look at seat, see if I can name occupant. If not, check who seat is assigned to)