#Memory master game how to#

You can see that turning a stressed syllable into a word isn’t too hard: These are just a bunch of names I grabbed from the top of a list of common names.

If you focus on that, not only will you be able to come up with a mnemonic more quickly because your choices are narrowed, but also, because of the magic of stressed syllables, your mind will almost always fill in the rest of the name for you if you just give it that one small part of the word. Mnemonic and resultĪs I wrote in the page on vocabulary mnemonics, the key to remembering words and names to pay almost exclusive attention to the stressed syllable.Įvery name, and every word really, has one primary stressed syllable. Make sure that you choose something you’ll notice the second time you look at their face, something that really catches your attention in a unique or memorable way. This is really important, but it also makes it really easy. Now, how do we make their face a trigger? Easy: The moment you see the person’s face, what feature sticks out at you the most? TriggerĪs I just pointed out, the trigger has to be the person’s face.

#Memory master game how to#

I’m going to show you how to come up with your mnemonic quickly and how to make sure that the mnemonic you choose actually strongly connects with the person’s name. So we have to make sure that the face is the trigger. Remember, here’s the model we need to use for remembering anything:įollowing this model, the goal is that when you look at someone’s face, you’ll be able to remember their name. How do you make sure that even if you are able to create a connection between the face and the name, you are actually able to remember the name from looking at the face instead of just the other way around?.

How do you make sure you can come up with a mnemonic connection on the spot?.The model that most mnemonists use to remember names and faces is to take (1) a feature of someone’s face and (2) the person’s name, and then somehow connect them with a mnemonic. Remembering names doesn’t need to be hard.