Kaitlynne-Rae Landry's Blog

I'm currently in Fredonia, New York with Rotary International District 7090 for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. Today was just arrivals and a few icebreaker acitivities, but I'm already learned a few key things. Well, not so much learned, more been reminded of. One of these things is just how important learning someone's name is. It's a simple concept, really, when someone recognizes you by your name it means so much more than when they use general terms such as "hey dude" and "man", yet, how many of us actually take the time to learn the names of those we meet?

There's an old quote that goes, its not what you know, but who you know. So, the impetus comes down to actually knowing who you know. Names included.