这个人的任务是去见10000个陌生人

这个人的任务是去见10000个陌生人

Rob Lawless is defying every parent’s rule: Don’t talk to strangers.

罗伯·劳里斯(Rob Lawless)违反了每位家长的规定:不要和陌生人说话。

The 28-year-old Philadelphia native is on a mission to meet 10,000 strangers, spending an hour with each and hearing about their lives. He has already met more than 3,000 people, and he’s currently on a quest to spend time with New Yorkers.

这位28岁的费城人正在执行一项任务，与1万名陌生人见面，每人花一个小时，了解他们的生活。他已经认识了3000多人，他目前正在寻求与纽约人共度时光。

“Because there is no agenda, people are willing to lift their veil,” Lawless told The Post. “The thing I’ve learned is that no one knows what they are doing with their lives. They are just doing the best they can with the resources they have.”

“因为没有议程，人们愿意揭开面纱，”劳里斯告诉《华盛顿邮报》。“我学到的是，没有人知道自己在做什么。他们只是尽其所能利用现有资源做到最好。”

The Penn State grad started his project in 2015, when he was working as a finance consultant and missed his college socializing.

这位宾夕法尼亚州立大学的毕业生在2015年开始了他的项目，当时他是一名财务顾问，同时错过了大学社交活动。

“My goal was to meet 10,000 people in one year — 10 minutes at a time,” said Lawless. “But it wasn’t a good idea. It was naive.”

“我的目标是在一年内达到10000人，每次10分钟，”无法无天的说。“但这可不是个好主意。实在是太天真了。”

In his first year, he met 500 people, reaching out to people in creative fields he found interesting.

第一年，他认识了500人，接触到了他感兴趣的创意领域的人。

After he was laid off from his job in 2016, he made having coffee with strangers a full-time gig, convincing businesses to pay him in exchange for plugs on Instagram.

2016年他被解雇后，他把和陌生人喝咖啡当成了全职工作，说服企业付钱给他，他会在Instagram上为企业做宣传。

“My first partner was the company that laid me off. Then I met this guy who ran a mom-and-pop pharmacy and he sponsored me,” Lawless explained. Then came a dentist, a wedding band, a dog-walking service and WeWork.

劳里斯解释说:“我的第一个合作伙伴是解雇我的那家公司。后来我遇到了一个经营夫妻店的家伙，他赞助了我。”然后是牙医、结婚乐队、遛狗服务和WeWork。

For the past three years, he has lived rent-free, bouncing between a friend’s place in Los Angeles and his parents’ home outside Philly.

过去三年里，他一直免费住在洛杉矶的一个朋友家和他父母在费城郊外的家之间。

“I have very good friends, and that’s how I have gotten this far,” said Lawless.

“我有非常好的朋友，这就是我能走到今天至关重要的因素。”劳里斯说。