How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere — Mr Sikkant

How do you talk to anyone, even a total stranger, without it feeling weird? I sat down with comedian and street interviewer Jasky Singh, known as Mr Sikkant, who went from shy engineer to chatting with more than 5,000 strangers on camera.

Jasky breaks down his rule of winning someone over in 10 seconds, why he lowers his status and even hunches to put people at ease, and the gap between mirror hype and what he calls informed confidence. We get into silence as a tool, why he leans on acknowledgement over mirroring, the crowd work trick he calls the triangle, and what happened when a crowd at a Melbourne protest turned on him.

He finishes with a challenge for this week: pick one thing, do the reps, and don't move on until you've nailed it.