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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

How To Talk To Anyone - Rob Lawless Is On A Quest To Meet 10,000 Strangers

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Rob Lawless (@robs10kfriends) is the founder of Rob's 10k Friends, a project where he's seeking to spend one hour with 10,000 different people to see what comes from opening doors for no particular reason. He joins Chris Van Vliet to discuss how you can talk to anyone, why he started this project, what his goal is with it, the difference between an interview and a conversation, what's he's learned about people through doing this, his interactions with celebrities like Ryan Seacrest and Kelly Clarkson and more! This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. Get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D and 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase at: http://athleticgreens.com/insight Find out more about Rob Lawless at http://robs10kfriends.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about CVV and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are gathered.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.

0:07.7

Well, how are you, my friends?

0:10.0

Welcome back to another audio adventure here on Insight.

0:13.1

I'm CVV Chris Van Fleet, and this conversation today is going to open your mind to a different way of thinking,

0:19.8

a different way of approaching the

0:21.8

interactions that you have on a daily basis. Rob Lawless is the founder of Rob's 10K friends.

0:28.1

It's a project where he's seeking to spend one hour with 10,000 different people to see what

0:34.2

comes from just opening doors, having conversations with no particular goal in mind.

0:41.0

And as Rob explains here, there's no structure, there's no agenda to these meetings.

0:44.6

It's just two people spending an hour together, getting to know each other, which, if you really

0:50.5

think about it, that doesn't happen so much in our world at all.

0:55.6

Both meeting and getting to know strangers, I mean, it's usually that conversations

0:59.6

have a value exchange. What's in it for me? So this is such a fascinating project. I was actually

1:05.7

just part of it. So if you check out Rob's Instagram, Rob's 10K friends, that's Rob's 10K10 friends.

1:13.2

You can check out the conversation that we have.

1:15.9

And you can also find me if you're not following me already.

1:18.5

I'm on social media at Chris Vanfleet.

1:20.8

Our fan of the week is Charts 77 who says, great.

1:26.2

One of the first podcasts I ever listened to, and it's always so great.

1:31.4

Well, thank you so much for the kind words. I read one review from Apple Podcasts on every episode,

1:37.4

and Spotify now has ratings. So if you're listening on Spotify, please take a second, go in there,

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