10 8월 Hello. Nice to Meet You. Benefits of Meeting New People
Rejection is a normal part of life. However, daily constant rejection, such as I was encountering in a sales position at a tech startup, takes its toll and caused me to think about making positive connections with people. In , I decided to start this project to make 10k new friends. I was looking to recapture the feeling of familiarity I had with those around me when I was at Penn State. There were three other things that inspired me to explore this – sonder, 10,000 Hours Theory and Admiral McRaven's University of Texas commencement speech.
- The idea of sonder is the understanding that everybody in the world, everyone you pass, is living his or her own incredible life story. There are all of these worlds circling around us every day to learn about, of which we are completely unaware.
- Malcom Gladwell's 10,000 Hours Theory discusses the concept that it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in any given field.
- In 2014, Admiral McRaven gave the commencement speech for the University of Texas. He referenced an Ask statistic saying that the average American will meet approximately 10k people in their lifetime and proposed how if we each were to change the lives of just 10 people (and then they changed the lives of 10 people and so on), the amazing impact we could have.