
Lots of us have trouble remembering the name of the person we just met. But rattling off the names, from memory, of more than 200 people he's just shaken hands with is a piece of cake for Ron White, a 36-year-old navy reservist and the winner of this year's USA Memory Championship. The trick, says White, is to focus your attention on what he calls the "outstanding feature" of each face in the crowd: a lantern jaw, a scar on a chin, a stubbly pate. Then things get a little weird.
I was going to make a comment but I forgot what it was.
Maybe you should have associated the thought with a gory mental image before attempting to author your comment.
Memory starts fading around the age of 30
I am twice this and look in the mirror now and say what the hell is that old farts name.
But, back 40 years ago when I was a bartender, I could remember about 30 drink orders in a row. Must of been the gory cocktail glasses because the waitresses were cute.
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