If you can’t remember all of your clients faces, names, occupations and other details one thing you can do is put an app on your phone to help you (whatever kind works for you, or, if you’re in a bar where you can’t have your phone on you while you work, even a pocket sized notebook will do) and file the information there to look up quickly – it helps immensely in turning them into friends.
Memory Techniques
In case anyone isn’t familiar with memory techniques other than rote (going over the same material again and again) the most famous memory enhancement technique method is known as association. That’s an ancient system used by the ancient Romans, by actors since time immemorial, and by many many students today.
Remembering Hundreds of Complex Drink Recipes Precisely
You can use the above mentioned memory association techniques in conjunction with rote. Carry a pack of index flip cards and go over them every single day so you never have to hesitate – even for a drink you haven’t made in a year by setting aside the ones you have mastered and focusing on the harder ones until they too become easy.
If you really want to excel at memorizing complicated data then I recommend that you move on to advanced Mnemonics and Mnemonotechnics utilizing Hook and Peg systems.
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