Srini's Theory of Rapport Building

In my recent set of observations of people who hang around places in Bangalore, I was able to observe a pattern of what people talk about and that gave rise to this idea of formulating the rapport building process.
My theory can be represented using a simple formula,

r = mc³

                                                 (I still wonder how Einstein came up with a similar formula as mine!!!)

            

The bottom line is so simple. You have to be equipped to talk on three things in general to start a conversation with any typical Indian citizen.

Cricket:

Dhoni’s bald style after winning the world cup was a great sensation and youngsters queued in salons to get their heads shaved(As discussed in my last post). We are such a cricket crazy nation and everyone can make a clean and flawless comparative analysis about teams and players of the game. So, to start a conversation with someone, the best weapon could be the “national game” of people who ruled us and forgot to take back.

Cinema:

Genelia ties knot with Ritesh. How did this happen? Will she continue acting? All these doubts arise in the minds of any typical Indian citizen. People are least bothered about their family and children, but cannot sleep without watching Zoom channel and clarifying their doubts with respect to the latest gossips. The number of movie woods is no scarce in the sub-continent. From bolly to kolly to tolly to molly to sandal to whatever you name, there has always been some or the other news day in and out. People don’t know what is the defence budget allocated, but are totally aware of the budget of Ra-One and Robot. Join the “club of critics” and of course every citizen of the nation is one.

Current affairs:

This is a way of tackling the so called “Boring” people who have no other work, but read news papers, watch news channels and discuss politics as if things would change on their advice. Of course, they read gossips but don’t discuss for the reason that they are serious people. The only way to handle them is to start throwing news about Mitt Romney’s run or Pakistan’s political fun. I know this is a little tough thing to do, but watching news for just half an hour will sure serve this purpose.

Am sure you wonder what is that "m" doing on the equation. It is of course our mouth. We have to use it to the best level(other than for just eating). Dont care what people call you. May it be chatter box, non sense or whatever. The objective is simple, to get people to talk with us. And in my theory, "m" is never a constant(unlike Uncle Einstein's).

But this theory would help in just starting a conversation. It is quite obvious that Chikni Chameli is hot not more than five minutes on a discussion. So, it would be wise to understand the interest of the other person in a quick interval and ensure exchange of contact numbers, mail ids and most importantly social media connections in the first meet so that it becomes easy to build on the relationship.

Stay tuned for my next article on “Different People Different Thoughts!”. Stay curious, it may be about you.