A room at the twenty-minute mark is not the same room you walked into. People arrive, drinks run out, small groups form and break. Larry’s habit is to physically reset every twenty minutes: stop, look up, and re-scan before picking the next conversation. This is not paranoia, it is maintenance. The same SuperModel discipline, no phone, eyes up, pen in hand, only works if you keep applying it.
The most common mistake is getting stuck in one good conversation long enough to miss someone better walking in behind you. A twenty-minute check does not mean ending a conversation abruptly. It means glancing up at a natural pause and reading who else is now in the room. Larry’s karma point fits here too: use the reset to notice who you still owe a thank-you or a follow-up to before the night ends.
New arrivals change the room’s center of gravity. The host, or whoever is holding court, often moves once the room fills past a certain point. If nothing has changed after twenty minutes, that is useful information too. It tells you the room has settled and you can commit longer to where you are.
Watch for people heading toward the door early. A brief, well-timed word to someone leaving can be worth more than an hour with someone staying all night. The same prep instinct behind PQRST does not switch off once you are inside. It just moves from paper to the room itself.
Twenty minutes is not a rigid clock. It is a reminder not to let one good conversation convince you the whole room has stopped moving. People who do this well look relaxed, not restless, because the scan takes seconds and nobody notices you doing it.
Details: Watch Larry work a room
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