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of the action plus all the surroundings. This strategy can be extended to the movie technique, because
movies, after all, are a series of still images blending in sequence into one another. Some people have
the ability to make up a story connecting various events and spin it into a movie sequence in their
minds.

Visual imagery is much richer than verbal strategies where only the words are remembered and
linked in some way. Unfortunately, only a minority of people have the aptitude, perhaps genetically
inherited, to optimally use these visual imagery techniques.

How to Improve Your Memory for Names of People

How about remembering the names of people? This is what you need to do:

1. Pay attention.
2. Practice the name (repeat it silently).
3. Focus only on people you need or want to know.
4. Select one dominant feature of the person or event and link it with something or someone
familiar in your mind.
5. Use other association links or images, if you wish.

How to Keep Track of Titles of Movies, Books, Authors

When reading a book or seeing a movie, we all start by registering the title or name in our minds, but
then we get engrossed in the content of what we read or see, and the title begins to evaporate.

There are several methods you can use to improve your memory for titles or names:

When you finish the book or the movie is over, make it a habit to spend an extra minute
memorizing the title or name.
You won't forget the main actor in a movie or the main character in a book, so another approach
is to link the main character with the title by making up a little action-story in your mind.
Using a link with something familiar works well. For example, I will never forget the movie The
Ice Storm because it immediately