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The 2-Hour Cocktail Party: How to Build Big Relationships with Small Gatherings
letting people ask each other questions, having partners introduce each other, asking each person to answer one fun question. But
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
The moral of this story is that connection doesn’t happen on its own. You have to design your gatherings for the kinds of connections you want to create. And, again, it doesn’t have to be elaborate and complicated. I once heard of a couple who found a clever way to seed connection among their wedding guests. At the entrance to the reception, they l
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the size of a gathering shapes what you will get out of people when you bring them together.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Even outside of work, you are proposing to consume people’s most precious resource: time. Making the effort to consider how you want your guests, and yourself, to be altered by the experience is what you owe people as a good steward of that resource.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
The next time you have the chance to distribute party favors, whether for a child’s birthday or something more unusual, like a work event, ask yourself: How can I use this gift to turn an impermanent moment into a permanent memory?
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
after seeing some 800~ events take place at The Commons i've learned 3 things:
1) plausible deniability: if you say we're here to make friends, friendship doesn't happen. if you say we're here to research or talk about niche topic x and y, friendships always form. same applies to dating.
2) communities are built from strong 1-1 relationships. a... See more