Remembering Names & Storytelling

Jerry Lucus - Dr. Memory spoke at our church a couple of weeks ago.  Remember he was the evil NY Nicks who would beat up on the 76ers (my favorite team since I lived in Philly).   He memorized the Manhattan  phone book.  In his presentation he taught that visualization is the best means of helping you remember someone's name.  Key to success is the rapid ability to find a rhyming word and put it visually on a prominent facial feature of the individual you want to remember.

Garen - would be a big legal GUARANTEE document.  Wisner would be a Wizard with at Computer Nerd (Wiznerd).  And the prominent facial feature - you decide.  So this Nerd Wizard will be writing the word GUARANTEE on this document on my thick glasses.  Easy -  NOT!!!     It takes practice and lots of work.

The the point of all this to visualize.   This was re-enforced at my SVPI conference in Dallas with the key note speaker talking about storytelling.  Since we were primates we told stories.  Bible stories are locked into our minds since childhood.  We are the sum of all our story telling.  What are the top ten stories you tell about yourself?  What is your personal mythology?

I'll try mine:

(1) Losing a contact while landing a plane ( and others - Carb Heat out)
(2) Jumping out of a plane
(3) Airline Stories -  Aborted Takeoff; Emergency Landing; Wrong Airport Arrival; Wrong Airport Departure;
(4) Workaholic Reformation and Wayne Walder Death
(5) Lost in Shanghai
(6) Passport Expiration in Amsterdam
(7) Accenture Eccentric Clients - Smelly Feet;Cigarette Man;
(8) Shaking Johnny Unitas hand
(9) Warren Buffet Monopoly Board and Monopoly MU Story
(10) Poland Bumper Cars, Poland Elevator