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Connecting With Connectors
If you’re only six degrees separated from everyone in the
world, it’s because some people know a lot more people than others do. They are
super connectors. Here are four examples of super connectors: restaurateurs,
headhunters, politicians and journalists.
Such people should be the cornerstones of any flourishing
network because being connected to them means you are also loosely connected to
many more people, often from many different worlds than yours, which can be
valuable when you need expertise not possessed by your close friends.
Your “weak ties” are important. Most of your strong
contacts live in the same world as you. But your weak ties are hanging out with
different people, often in different worlds, with access to a whole inventory of
information that’s unavailable to you and your close friends.
Once you become friendly with a super connector, you’re
only a couple of steps away from the thousands of people whom that person knows.
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