Our names are important. They represent who we are. I’m told that I am good at remembering names. And I am. But I wasn’t always. Too often I meet people who have a variety of negative responses to remembering names, ‘Oh, I’m useless at remembering names!’ said with shame, embarrassment, bravado, as matter of fact, or trivialisation of any need to remember or use names at all. Underneath all of this is often a wish to be good at using people’s names. But that’s all it is; a wi