Six Degrees of Separation, also known as the small world phenomenon, is a theory, tested by Milgram and others, that proposes that each of us is only, on average, six steps away from any other person on the planet.

In other words you know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone, who knows someone, who knows someone who actually knows Nelson Mandela.

The big question is how can we make this syndrome work for us, to make us more effective and efficient in whatever it is we are trying to achieve in the real world?

Knowing someone with connections can help businesses grow, we know that much. On the TV show Dragon’s Den, fledgling entrepreneurs will do a lot better from the connections of the Dragons, like Peter Jones, on Dragon’s Den than they ever do from the £ they receive as investment.  Why? Well, would you take the call if Peter Jones (that chap from Dragon’s Den) called you up?

Quite possibly many of us would be not only more likely to take the call, but also give a fair hearing to what he wanted to talk to us about.

People with lots of connections help to speed up the six degrees of separation, and are surprisingly easy to talk to, and often welcome approaches from others.

Why not use your network to try and find a well connected person today, and ask them who they know that could help you to achieve whatever it is you are trying to do?

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