Man Helps Humanity By Having Hour-Long Talks With Strangers
October 2, 2019
With everyone getting overly involved with social media and technology these days, it is evident that a major gap is coming between the human connections.
However, Rob Lawless, is doing his bit to fill this gap by having dedicated endless number of hours of talks with complete strangers.
Since the past 4 years, Rob has made a point to sit down and have an hour-long face-to-face talk with at least one stranger each day.
In general, he meets up with around 4 strangers on a daily basis, and has had these conversations with more than 2800 people so far since the year 2015.
The 28 year old extrovert from Philadelphia is open to hearing anything that the other person has to say. It could be anything ranging from someone’s experiences with Las Vegas sports betting to how they’ve been struggling to make ends meet.
He’s all ears and always listens intently.
Why he does it?
Upon being asked why he has chosen to get involved in this kind of initiative, he says that it’s his belief that connecting with other humans is by far the best way to spend one’s time.
He took up a corporate job after passing out of college, where his connection with others went for a complete toss. He graduated with a finance degree in the year 2013, and got appointed at Deloitte Consulting as a Business Analyst.
A time came when he started missing the familiarity with people around him, which he once used to relish so much.
He wanted to meet others organically and not through rigid corporate associations where everyone had some kind of an agenda.
Rob began his 10kFriends project in November 2015, setting a massive goal of meeting at least 10,000 new people, and ran this project full time after he was laid off in July 2016.
A normal day for Rob Lawless starts by working out in the gym, followed by meet-ups with at least 4 strangers, lasting at least an hour each. In his opinion 4 is just the right number for him to feel accomplished, while also move along at a good pace. He meets up with these people anywhere, it could be beach, coffee shop or anywhere else. In one case, he met up with this person called Tyson McDowell, and spent time inside a self-made aeroplane that flew over the San Diego coast.
Rob Lawless strongly believes that spending even one hour with a person enables him to have a satisfying in deep conversation with them. There are times when these talks are superficial, like simply having a conversation about Philadelphia Eagles, but sometimes they can be very intense too. He is more interested in connecting with others and opening new doors to relationships. He doesn’t have any desire of diving deep into other people’s lives, but is always all ears if they’re willing to take him there. The majority of his conversations are like two old friends meeting up after a long time.
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