onkko wrote:Jukka Aho wrote:attended to a lecture where the speaker first shook hands with everybody at the door, then asked their names, and later on recalled them all exactly right.
I should learn that too, i cant remember names at all. I can remember even after 15 years how to drive to my cousins house (did that, drive to tampere centre and 10km from there, just by memory) and draw most of his houses "pohjapiirrustus" but i cant remember name of street after 10secs. Seems my brain filters names out as unnecessary information.
If I recall correctly, one of the memory-enhancing techniques he used was looking at the “target” person for a moment while imagining there are “mnemonic objects” – somehow related to their name – hanging off or attached to their face, or even hovering about their body.
For example, if a mustached person’s name is
Juuso Vasaravuori [1], the lecturer might have imagined they have a hammer for a mustache and that pimple on their forehead is, obviously, a huge mountain. In order to recall the first name, he’d further imagine therẹ’s a big block of cheese bobbing about the top of that person’s head... since the words
juusto and
Juuso just kind of resemble each other.
When he meets that person again, he still can’t remember the name outright, but in his mind’s eye, he sees that hammer and mountain and block of cheese, and can recall (or deduce) it all from that...
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A made-up sample name for the purpose of illustration. Vasara = “a hammer”, vuori = “a mountain”.
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