Do you forget people’s names more often or do they forget your name more often?

Do you forget people’s names more often or do they forget your name more often?

It really depends if they make much of an impression on me.
I work as an outdoor guide, taking tourists on day trips (kayaking, paddleboarding, etc), so I meet a lot of people.
Some days it'll just be a couple and some days it will be up to 15, but either way I have to immediately learn all their names - which I can do just fine. Most of the time though, if I bump into them again just a few days later, I will have already forgotten it, and I may not even recognize their face.
On the other hand, sometimes we'll get chatting and we'll just click - and then they'll come back a year later (I get a lot of repeat business), and I'll still remember their name and everything we talked about the year before.
I can't remember names to save my life. On top of that no one forgets me so I can't get away with anything.
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People rarely forget my name and especially my last name (I have very unique last name).
However I got a bad problem with this when it come to remembering names. I really try to look the person and remember something (the more stupid, outrageous, etc. the better) unique while mentally repeating their name over and over again.
Remember the sweetest word someone can hear is their own name. People take it as a sign of respect. We can be forgiving if your forget it but still it does make a crucial impression if you remember (or forget) their name.
I’m trying to get better at this.
I suck at remembering people's names. I'm the one always at a disadvantage unless I make a conscious effort to learn names. So that's what I had to train myself to do in business. Then I carried that discipline and those skills over into my personal life. But it still doesn't come naturally for me.
I've always been horrible remembering names. It's not that I forget tyem, it just takes a long time to remember them.
My answer: I "forget" their names more iften.
Sometimes I get distracted when I first hear their name and then cannot remember it.
No im super popular everyone knows me I just dont know them
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