How many people will you meet in your lifetime? How many will you remember? Ein paar tausende schon, ja.
About a few thousand. More than Just because I am over 50, and I lived in a couple of big cities. What about you, Susannah? Susannah Edelbaum : Hmm. I really have no idea, but I do love the question.
So, how many people have I met in my life? How many people do we meet over a lifetime on average? Christian Hesse : I was always interested in randomness and how random is random, actually. And for that, we got a professional. Christian Hesse : My name is Christian Hesse. And I teach and do research. Things like:. I lived in New York, where I went to preschool, until I was four. Christian Hesse : And what he discovered was that typically we have five intimate friends; we have 15 friends, including casual friends, medium-level friends; we have, on the average, 50 good acquaintances; acquaintances in general, and this is sort of the type of people we would invite if we would make a big party.
And then, there are 1, people we recognize on sight; 5, people we can allocate in a way. Susannah Edelbaum : , Christian Hesse : And now to you Susannah: you are 36 years old, and when I looked at the details that you gave about your biography that you shared, that tells me that you have probably an above average number of meeting people and having encounters with people.
I would say this is probably six would be a good estimate, six new encounters per day, and that would then add up to 70, encounters, 70, people that you have had some kind of interaction with over your lifetime. And by encounter, I mean not just any casual encounter, for example, if you see someone on the opposite side of the street, but encounter I would define as an interaction that you have or had with someone that is a little meaningful in the sense that there is a small, lasting impression.
