Similar to quietly reading outloud a 2FA code, or phone number, or set of navigation instructions, as we had to do back before smart phones existed…
Just repeat their name back at them in some friendly phrase/compliment after they introduce themselves.
The more parts of your brain and body you engage in part of the learning/memory/recall process, the more likely it is to actually stick in your memory.
That is part of why you probably remember silly dances with lyrics from Sunday School or Sesame Street or Barney or w/e better than you remember many giant topics you only read about in a textbook in school.
That and minimizing time between being presented information and then recalling it. Doing that right off the bat sets up that recall neural pathway right away.
YMMV, but I am autistic, and this has helped me for decades… I had this problem as a kid… and I just actually studied theories of how brains learn and recall things, and there are actually empirically studied and verified methods of teaching/learning that just are more likely to work than others.
… though these are best relegated to fundamental building blocks of knowledge sets, when you use them to summarize a very complex concept, they almost always result in oversimplification and then misunderstanding.
Do you know your mathematical order of operations, and definitions of sin, cosine and tangent?
Order of operations and basic trigonometry are … generally taught prior to algebra, maybe basic trig and pre-algebra/algebra at the same time, or back to back.
So, you actually don’t even remember the fundamental precursors to algebra, nor algebra, nor anything after it… if you don’t know the order of operations.
I can do a bit better, but I can’t remember the quadratic formula off the top of my head anymore… I blame this on there not being an acronym for it, lol.
Similar to quietly reading outloud a 2FA code, or phone number, or set of navigation instructions, as we had to do back before smart phones existed…
Just repeat their name back at them in some friendly phrase/compliment after they introduce themselves.
The more parts of your brain and body you engage in part of the learning/memory/recall process, the more likely it is to actually stick in your memory.
That is part of why you probably remember silly dances with lyrics from Sunday School or Sesame Street or Barney or w/e better than you remember many giant topics you only read about in a textbook in school.
That and minimizing time between being presented information and then recalling it. Doing that right off the bat sets up that recall neural pathway right away.
YMMV, but I am autistic, and this has helped me for decades… I had this problem as a kid… and I just actually studied theories of how brains learn and recall things, and there are actually empirically studied and verified methods of teaching/learning that just are more likely to work than others.
Sure, but I know that mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
Catch phrases and acronyms help a lot as well!
… though these are best relegated to fundamental building blocks of knowledge sets, when you use them to summarize a very complex concept, they almost always result in oversimplification and then misunderstanding.
Do you know your mathematical order of operations, and definitions of sin, cosine and tangent?
I have literally forgotten everything past algebra. And probably a lot of the higher algebra stuff too.
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Order of operations and basic trigonometry are … generally taught prior to algebra, maybe basic trig and pre-algebra/algebra at the same time, or back to back.
So, you actually don’t even remember the fundamental precursors to algebra, nor algebra, nor anything after it… if you don’t know the order of operations.
I can do a bit better, but I can’t remember the quadratic formula off the top of my head anymore… I blame this on there not being an acronym for it, lol.
Ummmm, can you be more specific with the precursors and stuff?
Sure, I can tutor you for $40 / hr.