You have to come up with whatever memory aid will best help you. Memory Development Requires a Goal You have to want to improve your memory. Names and places have to become important to you. Memory starts with a goal. I want to learn students' names and learn how to pronounce them correctly.
Memory becomes quite important in business communications.
You want to learn customers'and clients' names. Their business is important to you. I am constantly amazed at a bookstore sales associate who always calls me by name when he waits on me. He is practicing the art of memory. Something else is occurring with that bookstore employee.