Steveer Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is connecting names and faces. The quick and dirty tip is to use your internal motivation,

visual recognition and memory, and auditory repetition to connect faces with names.

A listener calls in.

Hi, my name is Chris, and I have a question regarding remembering names and putting them

with the faces.

While I can remember faces very well, I have difficulty putting names of faces.

Thanks, Deaver.

Thanks so much for calling in.

I feel your pain, Joe, Bill, uh, Ferdinand. Well, whatever your name is,

it's a good question. Our name confusion starts young. You see a man and woman looming over you.

He keeps saying, dada. She keeps saying, Mama. You're too young to know they're using your

first word as a symbolic power struggle that will come to characterize their marriage for the

next three decades. It will eventually fund three therapists adding entire additions to their

homes. But all you think at the time is, what great people? They're trying to teach me.

But hey, you're zero. You

don't get it yet, and it's confusing. Is he named Dada? Or is he trying to tell you that her name

is Dada? Then the phone rings. They hold it up, point to the phone and say,

Grandma, it's Grandma. Oh, isn't that helpful? That clears everything right up. Some people get it

right from an early age. I once met a church minister who remembered names. I mean, really

remembered names. She met me once for about 30 seconds. A year later, I met her again, and she said,

Steaver, great to see you again.

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