apa nama awak?

“nama apa?” persoalan yang common di awal perkenalan. Maklumlah, first time tengok muka, kan?

Kemudian, oleh sebab lama tak jumpa, nama dia pun kita lupa.

Hurm, ramai orang menyalahkan akalnya. Alasannya, ingatan aku tak kuat, sebab tu aku susah nak ingat nama orang. Walhal, kalau dia tau kepentingannya, pasti dia akan cuba dengan apa cara sekalipun untuk mengingati nama orang yang baru dikenali.

Ingat nama seseorang sangat penting, apatah lagi jika anda seorang pendakwah? Ingat nama orang sangat penting dalam memikat hati para pendakwah.

Apabila kita berjumpa seseorang, kita pasakkan semua fakta tentang dirinya, tentang keluarga, kehidupan sekarang, minatnya dan sebagainya dalam minda kita sebagai gambar! inilah kesungguhan seorang ahli politik barat untuk meraih undi, Rooselvets.

Benton Love, chairman of Texas Commerce Banc-shares, believes that the bigger a corporation gets, the colder it becomes. " One way to warm it up," he said, "is to remember people's names. The executive who tells me he can't remember names is at the same time telling me he can't remember a significant part of his business and is operating on quicksand."

Manusia sangat bangga apabila namanya disebut, bahkan mereka sanggup berusaha bersungguh-sungguh untuk mengabadikan nama mereka dengan apa cara sekalipun.

One of the first lessons a politician learns is this: "To recall a voter's name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion."

Kebolehan untuk mengingati nama orang lain sangat penting dalam perniagaan dan orang yang selalu berhubungan dengan manusia, seperti ahli politik. Bukankah pendakwah itu lebih luas daripada ahli politik?

Lihatlah kesungguhan Napoleon the Third, Emperor of France dalam menghafal nama orang,

His technique? Simple. If he didn't hear the name distinctly, he said, "So sorry. I didn't get the name clearly." Then, if it was an unusual name, he would say, "How is it spelled?" During the conversation, he took the trouble to repeat the name several times, and tried to associate it in his mind with the person's features, expression and general appearance. If the person was someone of importance, Napoleon went to even further pains. As soon as His Royal Highness was alone, he wrote the name down on a piece of paper, looked at it, concentrated on it, fixed it securely in his mind, and then tore up the paper. In this way, he gained an eye impression of the name as well as an ear impression.

Semua ini memakan masa, namun kata Emerson,"Good manners,are made up of petty sacrifices."

CONTOH CERITA

Edward Carnigie wanted to sell steel rails to the Pennsylvania Railroad. J. Edgar Thomson was the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad then. So Andrew Carnegie built a huge steel mill in Pittsburgh and called it the "Edgar Thomson Steel Works."

Here is a riddle. See if you can guess it. When the Pennsylvania Railroad needed steel rails, where do you suppose J. Edgar Thomson bought them?. . , From Sears, Roebuck? No. No. You're wrong.

KESIMPULAN

Sepatutnya, kita menyedari magic yang terkandung dalam nama, yang empunya nama itu sahaja yang menyedarinya, bukan orang lain. Nama itu menyebabkan dia merasakan dirinya adalah satu-satunya, unik daripada orang lain, sangat-sangat unik!

We should be aware of the magic contained in a name and realize that this single item is wholly and completely owned by the person with whom we are dealing and nobody else. The name sets the individual apart; it makes him or her unique among all others. The information we are imparting or the request we are making takes on a special importance when we approach the situation with the name of the individual. From the waitress to the senior executive, the name will work magic as we deal with others.

PRINSIPNYA IALAH: Ingat nama orang kerana pada orang itu, itulah perkara yang paling indah dan paling penting.

Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.