[willemlaurentz]

Thanks for pointing this out. I purposefully write about "talking" to strangers. But, in the book Jeo Keohane actually goes a long way to have more meaningful, deeper, conversations.

By offering yourself as attentive listener, random strangers that you engage with can feel comfortable enough to share a little more than just smalltalk. The book discusses several cases where folks with very different backgrounds and ideas actually come together, sometimes even forming friendships.

As I am not a psychologist I do not know the accepted definition of "connecting", but I am sure it needs more than just smalltalk. I don't know, I am just a random guy doing a little experiment. :-)