A Powerful Tool: Your Memory

The next time you are at an event, try this exercise: how many names can you remember of the people you've met?

This serves two purposes:

1. When you get home to log in your new-found contacts, you'll be more apt to put in correct information.
2. It also allows you to start the qualifying process of "who was most memorable" among your new contacts.

There are some devices that help you remember:

• Clothing colors or something they wore: that yellow tie, the pretty dress, the guy in the shades.
• Some physical attribute: eye color, hair color, no hair, they were tall.
• Something they said: they went to a college you know, they know someone you know.
• You asked them to follow up with you.

As time goes on we lose a bit more of our ability to remember things. I joke I'm having "age issues," but it is the truth. I'm not the memory machine I was when I was younger.

Why remember people: well, this is the whole point of networking. We want to eventually recontact these people, work with them ,maybe hire them. Their first impression is important.

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