January 23, 2017
Interview with Ron Fry, author of the book Master Your Memory
Mike Carruthers:
Are you good at remembering things like where you put your keys? A lot of us aren’t.
Ron Fry:
Which is why the average American spends 16 hours a year just looking for keys.
Ron Fry, author of the book Master Your Memory, says a big part of the problem with memory is simply not paying attention.
If you met some beautiful woman at a party and she said, “Give me a call” – and gave you her phone number I guarantee I would not have forgotten that phone number. I wouldn’t have used any technique but by gosh there’s no way I would have forgotten that phone number – because I wanted to remember it. If we simply want to remember it, we concentrate, and if there’s any way to tie it to something we already know we’re going to remember almost anything.
Remembering names and faces can be tough so, Ron says, when you meet someone…
The first thing we have to do is actually concentrate on the face. You actually want to see the face and identify something that’s going to help you remember it – if they’ve got very crazy hair like an Albert Einstein that should be pretty easy. Then when they say their name take that first name, repeat it out
