From the course: Creating Personal Connections
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Adventures in connecting
From the course: Creating Personal Connections
Adventures in connecting
- Don't think of strengthening connections as a necessary chore, but a fun trip with friends, a cruise ship, anywhere you want to go. Yes, there's effort involved, so what? The point is to enrich your life, to have an adventure. Some things might go wrong, okay! You wouldn't get to your room and put a do not disturb sign on the door and stay there to avoid all potential problems. You'd go out with your friends and probably make more friends too. Same with creating connections. I want you to enjoy applying what we cover in this course. Tastes differ, people like different environments, crowd sizes, that's fine. So, I want to offer you a couple of tools, adventures in connecting, and I think this'll be fun for just about everyone. As a bonus, they both take very little time. First, the contacts lottery. When you have some down time, say you're waiting in line, scan through your list of contacts and pick someone you haven't seen in a while. Scrolling down, ah, Thursten Howell, lottery…
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