Tanya Menon: The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet
Tanya Menon: Sekret wspaniałych okazji? Poznawanie nowych ludzi
Tanya Menon speaks, writes and consults on collaboration. Her research focuses on how people think about their relationships and the habits that allow them to build positive connections with other people. Full bio
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my students years later.
moich byłych studentów.
a funny thing happens.
in the classroom they were sitting.
siedzieli na zajęciach.
they were sitting with as well.
any special superpowers of memory.
favorite people in their favorite seats.
obok ulubionych osób.
they stay with them for the whole year.
to trzymają się z nim przez cały rok.
for my students is they're at risk
mając tylko kilkoro znajomych,
with just a few people
for an international, diverse network.
zróżnicowanej sieci kontaktów.
so that they can get great networks.
by nawiązać kontakty.
in our lives, in our school, in work,
w życiu codziennym, szkole i pracy.
brought a friend along for this talk?
na tę konferencję znajomego?
at your friend a little bit.
there's nothing wrong with this.
around people who are similar.
którzy są do nas podobni.
we're on a precipice, right?
gdy stoimy nad przepaścią.
when we need new ideas,
kiedy potrzebujemy nowych pomysłów,
when we need new resources --
for living in a clique.
że trzymamy się zamkniętej kliki.
had a famous paper
napisał słynny artykuł
is he asked people
most people don't get their jobs
nie znalazła pracy przez ludzi,
their mother, their significant other.
np. rodziców czy partnera,
people who they just met.
przez ludzi nowo poznanych.
the problem is with your strong ties,
jaki jest problem z silnymi więziami,
significant other, for example.
people you just met today --
nowo poznani ludzie
to a whole new social world.
ticket to travel our social worlds,
na podróż przez sieć kontaktów,
trzymają nas na uwięzi
human beings so close to home,
a little bit more intentional
a more imperfect social search engine.
wyszukiwarki społecznej.
and filtering your friends.
i "filtrujemy" znajomych.
przyniosła mi korzyści.
I want to get a great opportunity."
zyskać nowe możliwości".
are so fundamentally predictable."
są zbyt przewidywalne".
is that you start at home,
the same staircase or elevator,
schodów lub windy,
the same bathroom --
you're seeing exactly the same people.
widzisz tych samych ludzi.
slightly more inefficient.
skuteczność swojej sieci.
network of people.
we are actually filtering.
we are looking at them, we meet them,
patrzymy na niego
"You're relevant."
We can't even help it.
nie mamy na to wpływu.
to do instead is to fight your filters.
do odrzucenia tych filtrów.
around this room,
the least interesting person that you see,
najmniej interesująca
over the next coffee break.
na następnej przerwie.
even further than that.
the most irritating person you see as well
która was najbardziej irytuje
is you are forcing yourself
czego nie chcecie widzieć
you don't want to connect with,
do której czujecie niechęć.
but you know what I do?
in their favorite seats.
siedzieć w ulubionych miejscach.
bumps in the network
przypadkowych spotkań,
to connect with each other.
of an intervention at Harvard University.
na Uniwersytecie Harvarda.
the rooming groups,
są przydzielani do pokojów
people are not choosing those roommates.
all different ethnicities.
różnego pochodzenia.
with those roommates,
nie czują się z tym komfortowo,
that initial discomfort.
commonalities with people.
niż widać na pierwszy rzut oka.
"take someone out to coffee."
żeby "zaprosić kogoś na kawę".
o centrach życia społecznego,
is you can't choose;
jest niemożność wyboru,
you're going to meet in that place.
kogo tam spotkamy.
the paradox is, interestingly enough,
on every single floor.
było biuro pocztowe.
who would bump into each other
into each other anyway.
która miała tylko jedno biuro,
there was only one mail room,
from all over that building
in that social hub.
from your social habits?
of unpredictable diversity?
some wonderful examples.
pickup basketball games,
is when they go to a dog park.
chodzą do parku dla psów.
than online dating when they're there.
niż portale randkowe.
I want you to think about
naprawdę pomyśleli o tym,
a little more inefficient,
a more imprecise social search engine.
stanie się mniej dokładna.
to widen your travels,
a second-class ticket
po tym świecie towarzyskim
when we reach out to people.
w kontaktach z ludźmi.
a very eventful year.
bardzo intensywny rok.
overseas and accept it,
what ended up happening was,
new identity as a mother.
stresującą pracę matki.
of advice from people.
more than any other advice was,
is breaking down,
is to try and reach out
on a much larger scale.
na o wiele większą skalę.
and low socioeconomic status people,
i niskim statusie społeczno-ekonomicznym
in a baseline condition,
our lower socioeconomic status people,
o niskim statusie społeczno-ekonomicznym
were actually reaching out to more people.
kiedy towarzyszyło im poczucie komfortu.
in how they were networking.
były bardziej różnorodne
to think about maybe losing a job.
żeby wyobrazili sobie utratę pracy.
completely differed.
people reached inwards.
people thought of more people,
nawiązywały więcej kontaktów
to bounce back from that setback.
z tą trudną sytuacją.
spontaneously unfriended
your dad and your dog.
we need our networks the most.
jest nam najbardziej potrzebna.
We're doing it to ourselves.
when we are being bullied,
isolating ourselves,
don't see our resources.
nie dostrzegamy własnych zasobów,
we don't see our opportunities.
własnych możliwości.
at your list of Facebook friends
by przejrzeć listę znajomych
of people who are there
automatically come to mind.
one of the things we did was,
research on self-affirmation:
dotyczące autoafirmacji:
and I were able to do is,
którzy zaczęli od samoafirmacji
who had affirmed themselves first
be threatening to them.
uznaliby za zagrożenie.
you asked somebody for a favor.
prosiliście kogoś o przysługę.
at the language that you used.
represents a metaphor.
stanowią pewną metaforę
in a transactional way,
w kategorii transakcji
to us as human beings.
and reaching out to people
i nawiązywać kontakty
"you're welcome" in other languages.
"proszę", "dziękuję", "przepraszam"
translation of these words.
"wymóc" przysługę na kimś,
that helps us impose upon other people
Italian, French,
łaskę, miłosierdzie.
or transactional about those words.
zajmujący się perswazją,
Robert Cialdini says
otrzymywać odpłatę za przysługi
the transaction a little bit more.
do the same for me.'"
to not think in transactional ways,
nie myśleć w ten sposób
to make it a little bit more invisible.
odpowiednik "nie ma za co",
"You're welcome," means,
need to go through those formalities."
Formalności są zbędne".
is "Come back to me."
oznacza dosłownie "wróć do mnie".
eliminate the transaction
or "That's what friends are for."
lub: "po to są przyjaciele".
you think about this ticket that you have
"Life is a journey." Right?
some leave at different stops,
inni wysiadają na różnych stacjach,
it's a beautiful one.
a different metaphor.
being a passenger on that train,
przez świat kontaktów
through the social universe.
na siebie wpadniemy.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tanya Menon - Organizational psychologistTanya Menon speaks, writes and consults on collaboration. Her research focuses on how people think about their relationships and the habits that allow them to build positive connections with other people.
Why you should listen
Tanya Menon is fascinated that in a time when we can instantaneously connect with nearly the whole world, we often instead filter our relationships even more narrowly. As such, we often get stuck in dead ends, missing out on new people, ideas and opportunities. Menon and her collaborators have studied the often mundane feelings and innocuous daily habits that cause people to remain in their social comfort zone and produce this polarization. And they have also explored ways that we can be more intentional about navigating the social world.
Menon is Associate Professor at the Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. Her research has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and The Financial Times. She is Associate Editor at Management Science journal, an award-winning teacher, and she has done keynotes, consulting and training for organizations all over the world. Her book with Dr. Leigh Thompson, Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits (2016, Harvard Business Review Press) explores various social traps people face in business, and how to overcome them.
Menon earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Harvard University in 1995 and her Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her goal as a researcher, educator, consultant and parent is to create new ways for people to connect with each other so that they can live richer and more creative lives. She hopes that her work will help people intentionally create new habits to live a wider life and also share them widely.
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