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Maximize Your Memory.(Brief Article)
Tactics for sparking your recall in three amnesia-inducing situations.
Forgotten-Name Fright To make a new person's moniker stick, repeat it back to them by saying "It's nice to meet you, Sheila." Then attach a distinctive aspect of her image to her eponym. Perhaps Sheila has a large nose--she secretly becomes Sheila the Schnoz. This visual cue will make it easy to conjure up her name later, says Michael Kurland, coauthor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Memory (Macmillan, 1999).
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