Quotes About Connection

If we want more moments of connection, we need to be more responsive to others.

acting with responsiveness to others can create tighter bonds:

To spark moments of connection for groups, we must create shared meaning. That can be accomplished by three strategies: (1) creating a synchronized moment; (2) inviting shared struggle; and (3) connecting to meaning.

punch line: The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about.

practical strategies for creating special moments using the four key elements of memorable experiences: elevation, insight, pride, and connection.

It's rude to make people feel they're being excluded from a conversation.

making a gut-level emotional connection.

If an atomic bomb fell on Raleigh, it wouldn't be news in Benson unless some of the debris and ashes fell on Benson.

CONNECTION: Defining moments are social:

Let's face it: Most PowerPoints aren't creating a lot of emotion.

people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

Know what your listeners care about, so you can tailor your communication to them.

Our three-ring binders won't change a thing. But a little humor and humanity might. December

These moments are strengthened because we share them with others.

but this experiment made me think about how I'm impacting others.

That's what sticky ideas do – they make people feel something. Change comes from feeling, not facts. Not

Intimacy escalates with turn-taking

Transcendence: help others realize their potential • Self-actualization: realize our own potential, self-fulfillment, peak experiences • Aesthetic: symmetry, order, beauty, balance • Learning: know, understand, mentally connect • Esteem: achieve, be competent, gain approval, independence, status • Belonging: love, family, friends, affection

making messages "emotional" is to make people care.

The lesson for the rest of us is that if we want to make people care, we've got to tap into the things they care about. When everybody taps into the same thing, an arms race emerges. To avoid it, we've either got to shift onto new turf, as Thompson did, or find associations that are distinctive for our ideas.

it was like "peeling an onion" where we were going just slightly deeper on each exchange and when finished, we had moved quite a bit.

And those bonds can continue to strengthen with astonishing speed. A defining moment of connection can be both brief and extraordinary.

5. In individual relationships, we believe that relationships grow closer with time. But that's not the whole story. Sometimes long relationships reach plateaus. And with the right moment, relationships can deepen quickly.

5. In individual relationships, we believe that relationships grow closer with time. But that's not the whole story. Sometimes long relationships reach plateaus. And with the right moment, relationships can deepen quickly. • Fisherow and her team turned around the troubled Stanton Elementary School by relying, in part, on short parent-teacher home visits before the start of school. 6. According