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Connect People Correctly
I share my lessons learned from being a connector
When I was younger I began the habit of connecting people together.
If I knew two people who had a common interest, I’d introduce them. However, back then oftentimes the only thing they had in common was ME.
So, I made a critical mistake there.
A couple mistakes, actually.
The first mistake wasn’t that I introduced people with nothing in common, because sometimes amazing relationships can start that way.
It was that I made myself the center of everyone’s universe, in that everything revolved around me. I created a Mike-centric universe. That was the wrong thing to do because my universe was tiny at the time. I mean, until I was 30 I lived like a mile from the hospital in which I was born. That tiny.
The other mistake is that I kept trying to force pieces together that didn’t fit. I did this because I didn’t have a lot of pieces, and I was determined to make whatever I had fit. I felt like they should fit, but I didn’t look at the reality of the situation. I was imposing my will rather than seeing it as it was.
So… mistakes were made.
But, I learned two very important lessons.
