Julia Shaw

And the idea is that

doing one thing like sudoku or whatever those sort of classics to train your brain that is only going to be useful up to a point because it's then the same thing over and over again and what you want to be doing is lots of different kinds of tasks that your brain has to remain flexible and so short and many is the answer rather than one thing hard it's almost the opposite of expertise so in doing this regularly like keeping your mind sharp that's interesting uh

Me too.

I don't know because I'm also terrible at remembering names.

Allegedly there are tricks and it's mostly to make the information more sticky by making it a bigger network in the brain.

And so usually when you hear a name, especially like you and I, it's like gone immediately.

And that's partly because I'd like to think the positive of that is because we're focusing on other things about the person.

Like, what are they like?

What's this next interaction going to be?

Maybe you're a bit nervous about what they're going to say or what you're going to say.

You're already thinking a step ahead in terms of interpreting the situation.

And it's quite an overwhelming situation when you first meet somebody because there's a lot to take in.

And so if, however, a name is important, then you need to A, interpret.

Remember to focus when they actually say their name and tune out the other stuff, which can be really difficult.

And then to give yourself a mnemonic of how do I remember this name?

So you could have visualize something.

You could have a weird name like word game or some sort of like rhyme that you create for the person.

You can say, you know.

Julia with the big ears, like whatever works for you as long as it sticks.

Now, there's a caveat that I recently discovered about myself in terms of why I might not have particularly bad memory for names.