What makes someone a Connector vs a Networker? I discovered I was a connector when I read Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘The Tipping Point’. “The first?and most obvious?criterion of a Connector says Gladwell, is that Connectors are the kinds of people who know everyone. It’s not the same thing as a Networker. Connectors have a genuine love of meeting people and making friends to engage and assist one another. Connectors show a willingness to venture outside their comfort zones.” Connectors love other Connectors so I couldn’t resist inviting Gordon Lore on my show today. He’s a published writer of more than 50 books, whose latest is called, “Connections: A Lifetime Journey Through the World Of Celebrity”. Lore knew both Tina Louise and Richard Nixon. For fifty years, he associated with an eclectic mix of fascinating people you would nowadays expect to find only in a time capsule, such as President Harry S. Truman, James Cagney, Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Claire Bloom, John F. and Robert F. Kennedy, then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Duke of Windsor, Anne Revere, Lesley Ann Warren, the Star Trek: The Next Generation main cast (Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner), Joe DiMaggio, and more.
We have fun today talking about the enjoyable and spiritually rewarding journey of his career, sharing stories, and talking about the importance of connectors in general.
