You know how you meet someone and you exchange names and 10 seconds later you have ZERO idea what the hell that person just told you their name was? There’s a reason for that and science has the answer.
According to this video by AsapSCIENCE…
You may just not care. Honestly, you may be at a party in which you’ll never see this person again, or just generally uninterested in forming a new relationship. Simply put, the more interest you have in something, the more likely your brain is to make new connections. As a result, people who enjoy making new relationships are tuned in and focused and barely feel as if their memory is being used or tested.
See? It’s not YOUR fault you’re a mindless idiot for forgetting something that a person told you five seconds ago. You just don’t care!!
They also provide some nice tips on how to remember names better in the video as well. You know, if you’d actually like to be able to do that.
H/T HuffPo