Meeting new people

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re meeting up tomorrow.  Here’s some food for thought.

I just happened upon this blog post from Justin Knowacki entitled “I Don’t Want To Meet You“.  Justin talks about how we tend to gravitate in public situations to people we already know.

This post reminded me that some people are Extraordinary Extroverts and have no problem engaging in conversations with people they don’t already know.  They get energized from being in a crowd and mingling with others.  I would consider myself to be one of them.

Other folks are quite the opposite: coming to a public event takes so much out of them.  They feel worn out from being around so many people.

Over the years, I have had to learn to “tone down” my extroversion a bit and work on really relating with all kinds of people.  A big key for me is to try to let other people do most of the talking.  The best way to be interesting, Dale Carnegie said, is to be genuinely interested in other people.  So talk to them about what they like.

Justin offers 5 tips for breaking up the monotony of a live event:

• Pre-set one goal.
• Talk to the loner.
• Bring people together.
• Make a scene.
• Refuse to leave until you’re out of business cards.

Go read what he means by this, and let’s have a great meetup!

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Tags: Dale Carnegie, Justin Knowacki, meetups, networking