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USE YOUR MEMORY
As you establish your Social Etiquette and Mnemonic Memory
techniques for names and faces, it is useful to have a Basic Image
List of names you are likely to meet. In your Basic Image List
simply have a standard image for common names that you can
immediately link to the outstanding facial characteristic of anyone
who has that name. Following is a list of examples that you can
expand to fit your own social context:
Ashcroft the smouldering roof of a burned-out farm building
with masses of flaky grey ash
Blake a gigantic, limpid blue lake in the shape of the letter B
Chalk the white cliffs of Dover
Delaney a giant ripping out country lanes (de-lane-ing)
Evans vans shaped like the capital letter E, the spine of the
letter being the top of the van
Farren a tiny little bird {wren) seen at a phenomenally far
distance
Goddard God with a 'hard' expression on his face
Humphrey a delighted prisoner humming a happy song as he is
let out from behind the bars
Ivy ivy
King a Memory Principle throne
Lawrence Arabia!
Mercer someone pleading for and being given mercy
Nunn nun
Ovett imagine a veterinary surgeon swinging in a gigantic 0
Patterson imagine the pitter-patter of your own son or the son
of someone you know as his little feet scurry across the ground
Quarry a gigantic and strong-coloured open-land mining area
Richardson picture in your mind the son of a 'rich, hard' father
Scott develop a symbol, such as kilt, haggis; anything typical, for
you, of a Scottish person
Taylor make a suitable image
Underwood make sure the wood under which you place the
image of the person is memorable, such as an old giant fallen tree
Villars a magnificent gleaming white Mediterranean villa
Wade imagine a person/animal wading thigh-high through a
lake
Xanthou a standardised Memory Principle Image of 'Thank
you'
Young a springtime image
Zimmermann an image of someone 'zimming' (like
skimming/zooming) across the surface of water
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