Do you notice when someone remembers/forgets your name?
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82 █████▉ Generally, almost always. 111 ████████ Sometimes. 87 ██████▎ Generally, never. 40 ██▉ It is complex, and in this talk I will...
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I also suffer from people trying to spell my name "Stephen," and unfortunately, as a writer, this has happened to me repeatedly in print. Nothing more depressing than opening a […]
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Perhaps a more informative question might have been, if you DO notice someone getting your name wrong, do you do anything about it? I probably face this more often than most, in […]
@futurebird I may notice, but I also know there's huge variation in how good people are at name-memory or face-recognition or whatever.
I'm deaf, I'm poor at auditory only name memory. If I […]
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Living in a retirement community, we have people here with such advanced dementia, they don’t even remember their spouse’s name.
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I never remember anyone forgetting my name. I always just assumed most other folks were really good at remembering names. But maybe I'm just oblivious when they forget. Or maybe […]
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The neuro-spicy mess that is my brain doesn't like to remember names, and usually it doesn't, and when it does, it forgets them fairly quickly. I just warn people when we're […]
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1) I often spend time around people who are comfortable saying "I'm sorry, I've forgotten your name." So I don't care, but I am aware of it. (I may not remember meeting them at […]
@futurebird I have a weird* name, I notice when people actually get it right, but wrong is par for the course
* statistically improbable for every culture I commonly encounter, including my […]
@futurebird I notice, but it's super easy to forgive at the same time. We're all overloaded.
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It is complex, and in this talk I will consider a few different scenarios.
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