Memorizing people's names and calling them out easily is tantamount to giving someone a subtle and effective compliment.

In 1898, a tragedy occurred in Lockland, New York, where a child died, and on this day, as the neighbors were preparing to attend the funeral, Jim Farry went to the stables to pull his horse. The ground was covered with snow and the air was cold. The horse, which had not moved for several days, rejoiced when it was pulled to the trough, and kicked its legs high. As a result, Jim Farry was kicked to death. As a result, two funerals were held in this small town in one week.

Jim Farry left behind a widow and three children, as well as a few hundred dollars in insurance money. His eldest son, Jim, was only 10 years old when he went to work in a brick factory: hauling sand, pouring sand into brick molds, and then redirecting the bricks and drying them in the sun. This child has never had the opportunity to get an education. However, he has a talent for making others like him. Later, he stepped onto the stage of political activism. As the years went by, he developed an amazing ability to remember people's names.

He didn't go to a single secondary school, but by the time he was 46 years old, four colleges had awarded him honorary degrees, and he was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the U.S. Postal Service.

The reporter went to visit Jim and asked him the secret of his success, and he said: "Work hard". So the reporter said, "No kidding," he went on to ask the reporter what he thought was the reason for his success. The reporter replied: "I heard that you can name 10,000 people." "I can name 50,000 people." He said. Don't ignore that. His ability led him to help Franklin D. Roosevelt get into the White House. During Jim's years of marketing for a plaster company and his years as a civil servant in the town, he created a way to remember people's names.

This is a very simple way to do it. Every time he met a new person, he asked about that person's full name, family size, occupation, and political views. He kept it all in his head. The second time he met the man again, even after a year, he was still able to pat him on the shoulder and ask about his wife and children, and about the plants that were planted behind his house. No wonder he has a large crowd of people who support him! In the months leading up to Roosevelt's presidential campaign, Jim wrote hundreds of letters a day to people in the western and northwestern states. He then hopped on a train and traveled to 20 states in 19 days. For those 12,000 miles, he traveled by horse-drawn carriages, trains, automobiles, and boats. Whenever he went to a town, he would have breakfast or lunch, tea or dinner with people he knew, and talk to them from the bottom of his heart. Then, he moved on to his next stop. When he returned to the east, he wrote to a certain man in every town he visited, asking for a list of all those with whom he had spoken; Then sort it out, and he has thousands of names. Each of the people on this list will receive a private letter from Jim. The letters all began with "Dear Bill", or "Dear Jack", and always ended with the signature "Jim".

Jim discovered early on that the average person was more interested in his own name than in all the names on Earth combined. Memorizing people's names and calling them out easily is tantamount to giving someone a clever and effective compliment. If you forget someone's name or make a mistake, you're at a great disadvantage.

Once, Joe was teaching a course in public speaking in Paris. He sent copies of the letters to all the Americans who lived there, and the French typists, apparently not very familiar with English, naturally kept making mistakes when typing names. As a result, the manager of a large American bank in Paris wrote an unceremonious reply to Joe because his name was misspelled.

Remembering someone else's name is the sweetest and most important sound in the language for that person.