choose a facial or other unchanging feature and create a memorable image in your mind that incorporates the person’s name.

in order to remember someone’s name, we should associate it with a specific attribute.

since your brain is more likely to remember something that’s tied to an emotion, you can trick it into doing so by linking whatever you’re trying to remember with fear or excitement or some other emotion.

Make an Association

Get Emotional

Make It Memorable Your hippocampus will be more likely to send something for long-term storage if it’s, well, memorable. Making it so may require converting the information you hope to remember into something more likely to stick out in your mind. So, what sticks out? Not names, random words, or numbers—that’s for certain. But images do, so

For optimal brain growth, I recommend fifteen to twenty minutes of memorization practice five days a week, plus one hour a week of a brain super challenge (such as memorizing a deck of cards).

In addition to engaging in cognitive activities that cross-train, I recommend something else for all my patients: regular memory workouts to grow the hippocampus and improve skills of memorization. That’s because the hippocampus, you’ll remember, is one of the first areas of the brain to deteriorate as we age. Building it up will help offset that

Finally, in addition to cross-training within the brain, I recommend cross-training your cognitive stimulation with exercise and social interaction.