In one of my previous jobs, I was required by my employer to attend a Dale Carnegie public speaking course. (See www.dalecarnegie.com for more information). The class had about 40 to 50 attendees, and the instructor began the course by teaching us how to remember each other’s name. After each person got up, they would tell us his or her name, where they worked, and what things they like to do. As each person spoke, we were supposed to remember each person, by associating their names by what they told us. The first assignment of the class was to get up and say each person’s name from memory. We had to remember from memory EVERYONE’S NAME! As each attendee was called upon to stand up and say everyone’s name, it served as a review for everyone else in the class. Amazingly, every attendee was about to quote everyone else’s name from memory including me. To this day when I see someone from the cla...