I used to be embarrassed about how bad I am with names, but I learned something recently that all of a sudden makes it cool. Names is a LEFT BRAIN thing. If you forget names, you must obviously be right brain dominant, ergo, creative and cool. You can pelt me with the utter fallacy of this logic, but logic is also a LEFT BRAIN thing. Right now my right brain is behind the wheel. La la la la la!
Ah! That explains it! Cheers!
I'm also bad with names. It sometimes take 5 minutes for me to remember it.
Five minutes! then you remember it. No amount of time would be enough for me. If the name is gone it is just frickin' AWOL. The only way I can remember is to associate the sound of the name to a visual or something I know about the person. I now remember Mark because he makes MARKS on paper.
I must be a right brainer too. I am bad with names. Not long after Michelle & I got married I had a bad name moment & accidently called her by my ex-wife's name. It did not go down well.