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Anyone have any advice for getting better at remembering things with songs/wordplay/etc? I can never come up with anything good at the moment and end up never remembering. eg: I meet someone named Jane Doe, and then while trying to think of a mnemonic to remember them with, something else happens and I lose the moment.

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> I meet someone named Jane Doe, and then while trying to think of a mnemonic to remember them with, something else happens and I lose the moment.

It's a good idea to spend some time pre-calculating mnemonic images for names before you are in a social situation where you need to use them.

Find lists of the most common first names and surnames and prepare against random combinations of those.

This process will also help you get better at doing it for the less common names on the fly.

Try this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsdThxYjQq8

Basically you just record couple of different versions of a song/play/whatever and then listen to it. She explains the technique on the video.

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