The Science of Memory and Why We Forget with Lisa Genova
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How to Remember People's Names
When you say a name out loud, it's giving your brain another experience with it. Proper nouns are super hard for our brains to remember. You can think of them as living in a house in a neurological cul-de-sac. The best strategy when that happens actually is either Google it and it's okay to you. It does not make you dumbard. It's not making your memory worse. This is a normal glitch in memory retrieval. There's not all timers. Really leaving it alone is great because if you don't leave it alone, you've probably landed on a loosely related word. We call it the ugly sister of the target. Once you've put once you
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