732 - How to start a conversation with Strangers? with Joe Keohane

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The past year probably are the loneliest year ever. There's a lockdown, people have to stay home, and you probably haven't seen any strangers in a year! So you might lose the muscle to start a conversation or talk to strangers! We have to bring the muscle back! In this episode, I have Joe Keohane, writer, editor, and the author of his latest book, The Power of Strangers, on to break down the techniques on how to start and have a conversation with strangers! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.8	What if you're feeling a little socially awkward and you're at a networking dinner or something
0:19.4	and you just don't know what to say.
0:20.8	Everyone's talking about the Middle East crisis and you don't know anything and then they're
0:26.2	talking about business and you're afraid to bring up stuff.
0:29.3	Well, my guest today wrote a book called The Power of Strangers about how to talk to
0:35.1	strangers and he gave me a lot of good.
0:38.2	I'm very socially awkward.
0:39.6	It's really funny.
0:40.6	Like, I can give a talk in front of thousands of people and I don't get nervous at all.
0:46.2	I can do stand-up comedy in front of a ton of people.
0:48.6	I don't get nervous.
0:49.6	But if I'm just like at a dinner, I'm really socially awkward.
0:53.7	To hear all of his advice, it's really fascinating to hear kind of the evolutionary basis of why
0:57.7	small talk is actually more important than I realized.
1:01.6	Let's listen to Joe Coyne, The Power of Strangers.
1:15.8	I told Evoliums.
1:17.4	The best business model for Medium is to set up a subscription service.
1:20.5	A lot of people to either have a free blog or whatever, Medium or a subscription newsletter.
1:25.9	And he's like, I don't know.
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