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An easy 5-step method to remember anyone's name

Mar 13, 2016, 17:30 IST

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tech hub/flickrWas it Jane? Or Joan?

"The sweetest sound to a person's ear is the sound of their own name." -Dale Carnegie

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How often do you find yourself thinking, "Was it Mary or Marie?" "Don or Ron?" "Jen? Laura? Sue?"

You meet someone, they introduce themselves, and two minutes later you can't recall their name. It happens all the time.

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But Ron White, a two-time national memory champion, says it's important to remember names - and luckily, it's a skill anyone can master.

"When you can remember names and faces, you make others feel special," White explains. "Zig Ziglar used to say, 'People don't care how much you know until they first know how much you care.' By remembering names you show people that you care."

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He once memorized 2,300 names of fallen US soldiers from the war in Afghanistan, in the order of their death. It took him months - but he did it.

Here's how you can remember anyone's name:

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