It’s like when I want to see what time it is so I pull out my phone, look at the screen, and put it back. Then I realize I didn’t actually look at the time so I have to do it again.

I feel like I’m so preoccupied with trying to act like a normal person my brain can’t save new data.

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I actively try to be better about this now, asking waiters or people you come across in every day life helps build the habit.

“Remember their name, remember their name…”

Person says name.

“…remember their… wait I missed it!”

I find it helps to repeat their name back to them, straight away.

His name is Kermit.

I got u

I’ve been working at new job for a month, this week is the first week I remembered all 5 of my immediate co-worker’s names. It took me three weeks before I got a grasp on my boss’ name.

“Don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget, wait, what did they say?”

Unless I talk to you for two weeks on the dot, your name will never be associated with your face. Luckily, people’s names never come up and I’ve only worked at places that have contact books with profile pics

Lets just give everyone name tags.

I’m the same way. It takes me a few tries to remember names

The trick is to ask them their name. If they reply “Smith”, then you say “Yes I know it’s Smith, but it seems I can’t recall your first name”, so he says “John”. Or if he says his complete name straight away, you say “Yes I knew it was John, it was the Smith I couldn’t remember”

Bingo, you have their complete name. Works the other way round too.

What works for me is I ask for both the first and last name, and then I end up forgetting the last name.

I just call em some made up name. No one got offended yet. If they were to get offended they are probably a douche anyways.