When people introduce themselves I subconsciously block out their names. This is quite a problem, especially now, when starting fresh and independent at BYU, am left wanting friends, and am constantly finding myself in the position of meeting countless new people. I do, however, remember conversations, moments, unique personality traits, personal thoughts, as well as connections I made with that person. When it comes to recalling names however, I go stupid. My brain doesn’t remember names or dates very well, and that is because I simply don’t care. Information isn’t remembered unless at the time it was learned it was deemed interesting, important, or memorable, and effort was taken to be attentive, memorize, or associate it to a piece of information previously learned. I could not retrieve desired information when needed because of my willing encoding failure. I am learning however, the importance of names, as well as for words in general. It is intellectually enabling, socially gratifying, and communicably essential. Is a name a verbal (or written) representation of the thing it belongs to?
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Apple. As you read the word “apple” your brain makes an association between the five calligraphic symbols strung together into a word that produces a mental image of a fruit. Precision of language is often essential in communication because another suggestion of those five letters is the multi-billion dollar computer company founded by Steve Jobs: *APPLE. Everyone has heard the cliché: “a picture is worth a thousand words.” The question is: what words? Every word represents a unique idea or conveys an explicit meaning, and by rearranging the makeup of a few letters it becomes something new. This is obvious in antonyms such as fat and thin, white and black, intelligent, and stupid, in which the inherit meanings are opposites. But even for synonyms, the imagery expressed can be manipulated or enhanced, such as describing a landscape as merely pretty, or utterly enchanting. Words matter. Words can inspire the dreamers, lead feuding nations, promote the construction of Herculean wonders, express villainous hate, innocent love, or even just say, “Hello.” Why do people hate it so much when their name is forgotten? Well, firstly, people like hearing their name. It brings a sense of individuality, personal identity, and self-worth. The fact that someone remembers your name indicates that there is some degree of familiarity. Having a name means that somebody else knows who they are and needed something to call them. For someone to take the effort to remember a name shows that they either know them to some degree, is connected with that person enough to need to refer to them in conversation, or to be used as a calling device to contact them. It avoids the confusing he-said she-said scenario and allows for clarity in communication. It demonstrations, especially in the process of getting to know someone new, that they left an impression or that you care enough to remember their name to apply time and brain power. The uniqueness that a name gives us is pivotal to why names interest us and why they are important to us as individuals and to our society as a whole. The distorting of a name not only displays ignorance or rudeness by is also a distortion of an identity of an idea, object, or person. Names have power, whether it is social, psychological, religious, legal, ethnic, personal, or magical. Naming people, things, events, and
Apple. As you read the word “apple” your brain makes an association between the five calligraphic symbols strung together into a word that produces a mental image of a fruit. Precision of language is often essential in communication because another suggestion of those five letters is the multi-billion dollar computer company founded by Steve Jobs: *APPLE. Everyone has heard the cliché: “a picture is worth a thousand words.” The question is: what words? Every word represents a unique idea or conveys an explicit meaning, and by rearranging the makeup of a few letters it becomes something new. This is obvious in antonyms such as fat and thin, white and black, intelligent, and stupid, in which the inherit meanings are opposites. But even for synonyms, the imagery expressed can be manipulated or enhanced, such as describing a landscape as merely pretty, or utterly enchanting. Words matter. Words can inspire the dreamers, lead feuding nations, promote the construction of Herculean wonders, express villainous hate, innocent love, or even just say, “Hello.” Why do people hate it so much when their name is forgotten? Well, firstly, people like hearing their name. It brings a sense of individuality, personal identity, and self-worth. The fact that someone remembers your name indicates that there is some degree of familiarity. Having a name means that somebody else knows who they are and needed something to call them. For someone to take the effort to remember a name shows that they either know them to some degree, is connected with that person enough to need to refer to them in conversation, or to be used as a calling device to contact them. It avoids the confusing he-said she-said scenario and allows for clarity in communication. It demonstrations, especially in the process of getting to know someone new, that they left an impression or that you care enough to remember their name to apply time and brain power. The uniqueness that a name gives us is pivotal to why names interest us and why they are important to us as individuals and to our society as a whole. The distorting of a name not only displays ignorance or rudeness by is also a distortion of an identity of an idea, object, or person. Names have power, whether it is social, psychological, religious, legal, ethnic, personal, or magical. Naming people, things, events, and