Susan Cain: evaluation

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…One other thought along these lines is also a Naval lesson, and it's interesting how much these insights stick in my head and make it, like change the way I operate. His other piece of advice is around networking, because what you're talking about a little bit is like there's actually power in meeting people and networking, essentially. And his advice is instead of networking, do things that are valuable, and people will come to you and want to meet you, versus you trying to meet them. And I found this to be absolutely true. I find it to be so true also. And also even just for attending networking events, like if you've done something valuable, those events are much easier because people want to talk to you about whatever that thing is, and you want to talk to them about their thing, and then all the other things that you didn't even know about each other. But, I don't know. My other mode or MO for networking types of events is, I feel like if I meet one or two or three people at one of those events who I truly, truly like, truly want to stay in touch with, truly want to be helpful to, I consider it a success. And then I feel like I can go home or spend a lot of time in the hotel room after that. Whereas I have friends, I see it, like sometimes I'll go to one of these events and I have friends who make a point of meeting every single person who's there. And then we'll be talking a few months later and they'll mention such and such person. They'll like, "Yeah, don't you remember? They were at that event." And I have no idea who they're talking about. And so yes, it would be probably a more maximum value approach to meet every single person as long as you're there. But I don't believe that to be true if you're not wired that way. And I think the power of, over a lifetime, of just trying to have from every situation in life, one or two people where the connections are true and deep, over a lifetime you have a network that you really love. All right, shoot. I got to go to more events, I guess.…

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