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NICHOLAS BOOTHMAN
Chapter 7:
Talking to Strangers
The very idea that a “greater force” can string
together unplanned encounters and situations to bring
about something magical sounds like a load of baloney
to most people. Sure, there was that day you whizzed
effortlessly through the traffic at rush hour to make
your flight on time because your meeting ran five
minutes over because the new guy spilled his coffee on
the boardroom table. Or the time you tuned into the
wrong radio station at the very moment someone said
something that spurred the very solution you’d been
searching for for weeks, but you passed them off as
strokes of luck. But what if you could conjure up or
increase the likelihood of so-called lucky breaks like
these? Business experts will tell you the secret lies in
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