Also watched this year was the film version of French Exit by Patrick deWitt. I enjoyed watching the film version of My Salinger Year earlier this year. Instead it’s to My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff – there’s a superb scene in Rakoff’s memoir that features Rachel Cusk. Yellow is my absolute favourite colour.īut yellow is not my first link. Honestly, I picked this month’s starting book, Second Place by Rachel Cusk, because of the gorgeous yellow cover. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Yet, they would be easily accessible by asking your friends or family members to introduce them to you.It’s time for #6degrees. However, you don’t really know most of those thousands of people. Well, if each one of your 100 acquaintances is connected somehow to another 100 people, then, the number would increase to 10,000 in just the second link in the chain.

Still, you could have a quick look at the list of friends in any of your social network to realize that it isn’t only possible but quite common. Of course, the six degrees of separation theory has a formula and it establishes the average number of people that every person may know.Īccording to the theory, each person in the world knows about 100 people among friends, family, and co-workers –although in principle, it may be difficult to list a hundred people we know. This means, take action as soon as you identify a way to help someone.” “One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. Indeed, it sounds convoluted, but you’d be surprised by how easily you can make contact with the actor if you try. And they, in turn, work with a musician who sometimes collaborates with the television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. For example, imagine that you want to meet Will Smith and that, perhaps, you have a relative who works in an advertising agency.įurther, maybe your current boss, who once lived in LA, knew an artist representative that frequented their neighborhood’s coffee shop. With this theory, we can get to any person on the planet through no more than five intermediaries. Well, according to the six degrees of separation theory, it’s doable.

Or, perhaps, the members of the band that you’ve been a fan of for years. On this note, have you ever consider how easy it would be meet your favorite writer. Be it through acquaintances, friends, or members of their family. The six degrees of separation theory states that any inhabitant of the Earth could meet anyone in the world with a maximum of six or fewer mutual connections between them and another person.

What are the six degrees of separation