Louis CarterFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Best Practice Institute · Founder and CEO, Best Practice Institute - Most Loved Workplace® | Organizational Psychologist | Creator of AI Workplace Intelligence and Employer Branding Platform

How People Fall In Love------ MLW

28 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains how they adapted Sky Arthur Ahrens' intimacy‑building experiment—originally a 60‑second mutual‑staring exercise—to a corporate setting. They shortened the stare to roughly 20 seconds to reduce discomfort and replaced the original questions with workplace‑focused prompts about co‑creation, personal values, alignment, and mutual respect. The speaker argues that these brief, structured interactions deepen employees’ understanding of each other, fostering emotional connectedness that blurs the line between personal and professional life. This, they claim, underpins a "love workplace" concept where work relationships are built on deeper emotional bonds.

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Sky Arthur Ahrens, he found out how people fall in love with questions and staring, right? So I did the same companies instead of doing it for 60 seconds that Arthur did. I brought it down to about 20 seconds staring. So it didn't get as creepy as, as it was with Arthur. And then I asked different questions. The questions are different. It's about how do you co-create? How do you feel like you align your values? What are your values? How do you respect and be respected? So this deepening of understanding about this other half or more of your life that we spend working has been debunked. By virtue of this emotional connectedness concept and a love workplace concept.