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There’s a networking presentation I love to give. My slant and approach is a little different than most and it’s never about seeking out power contacts or manipulating people. Instead the message is simple: Focus on the individuals whose paths you cross.

There’s actually one more key ingredient. Not everyone you meet will stick. But the ones who do–the ones who become your friends, colleagues or helpers–those are the individuals who are in your network.

In this talk, the focus is on the Small World Experiment, Six Degrees of  Separation, and the Law of 250.

The Small World Experiment is the brainchild of researcher Stan Milgram. Milgram’s experiment developed out of a desire to learn more about the probability that two randomly selected people would know each other. Milgram used letters and had participants write letters to people they knew who were then asked to forward them on to someone who might know the person being sought. In these initial experiments, average path length was between five and six. These results, led researchers to conclude that people in the United States are separated by about six people on average.

In more recent times others including ABC’s Primetime set up a test. They targeted three individuals in the New York City area who had never met and didn’t know each other. One was a boxer from Brooklyn (tell this story)

I have my own Small World story. (tell Sela Ward).

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