Creating Elite Players: Newsletter Day 60

arcticsunburn (32)in #network • 2 years ago

Much of life is a contradiction in some way, shape or form.

"Don't talk to strangers" may be a good survival tactic for a child, but it's bad advice for an adult. The moment you become autonomous, opportunity tends to unfold as result of the connections you make.

A couple of days ago, I talked about how reinventing the wheel did nothing for my English essay scores. It's only when I started summarizing and adding my own thoughts and opinions that I ended up with an A.

Adulthood, it seems, is a process of unlearning what you learned as a child.

Today, I discovered another zinger – ask.

If you're anything like me, you were brought up to believe, consciously or unconsciously, that people who ask for too much are deserted by their family, friends, partners, and investors.

Not so, says author Dan Kennedy. He says that asking has made a huge difference to the size of his bank account.

When I left network marketing to pursue my own creative ventures and businesses more seriously, I think I had some shallow notion that all I really needed was good content and that would propel my business through the stratosphere. It helped, sure, but it didn't do everything I hoped it would.

There is irony in the discovery, at least in the sense that I always stress networking with my students. Your next big breakthrough could be a connection away.

I think asking exists as a subhead under networking, and this is what you need to know:

Ask often. Ask plenty. Ask everyone.

You don't get what you don't ask for, and successful people have this in common, that they ask for what they want.