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The ability to connect with so many different people is one part of my job as a librarian that I love. Sometimes, however, those connections are very powerful and extraordinary. You know when you are interacting with the other person that things are just – “clicking”. Whether it is with a total stranger, or a coworker as we work on a project, or a loved one, that sensation of connecting is almost magical. When you are clicking with another person you are able to bounce ideas back and forth without fear of judgment, you are able to communicate verbally and non-verbally, and things happen at a much higher rate than normal with higher levels of quality and success. The Brafman brothers have explored this phenomenon in the book Click. They have looked at academic literature on the subject, and also spoken with many successful people and have pinpointed several key characteristics that foster a greater sense of clicking.
Some people are known to be “schmoozers”, but this book points out that most people who foster the greatest degrees of clicking do so without the aim of gaining anything, they are just naturally curious and adaptable and therefore succeed at faster rates than others in the work force. The last three chapters of the book focus on real-world applications for becoming better tuned to the world around you in an attempt to click with a wider group of people. In other words, if it isn’t your natural state to “click” right away with others, then it gives some ideas for becoming a better “clicker.”
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