Podcast
The Jordan Harbinger Show
It explored the science behind networking, highlighting the importance of weak and dormant ties in a network, rather than just focusing on meeting new people.
I'm either going to kill myself or I'm going to turn recovery into a game
— Episode: 36: David Burkus | How to Become a Netwo...
Episode: 36: David Burkus | How to Become a Networking Supe...
It explored the science behind networking, highlighting the importance of weak and dormant ties in a network, rather than just focusing on meeting new people.
I'm either going to kill myself or I'm going to turn recovery into a game
You only go as high as your five closest friends or you're the average of the five closest people around you
The problem when most of us when we meet someone is we assume that like if they're not immediately useful to me now then this is a waste of my time then we start doing the the eyes looking over thing even unintentionally right and then we become the very jerk that we hated from the same event.
You have a very different question you are asking in your mind okay I can't help this person but who can I connect this person to that could help them with this. You're taking care of the entirety of the network that's around you and over time the network started taking care of you and bringing those connections to you.
I think the lesson here and again this is why the book is called Friend of a Friend not like how to be a power network scientisty whatever right is that we know this is kind of true on our personal side and we know that the people that were around us affect us personally but we tend to like put networking in a box and think it's only about professional networking and it's only about adding more context and in reality like your friend of a friend is your future your whole network around you affects the decisions you're gonna make how happy you're gonna be how satisfied with your life you're gonna be and so there's no excuse for not being intentional about it because it's affecting you in more ways than you know if you want control over that then you have to start looking at your whole network seeing all of it how people are interacting and connecting to each other so that you can navigate it accordingly to get what you want out of life.
Episode: 36: David Burkus | How to Become a Networking Supe...
It discussed the science of networks and how to leverage weak and dormant ties, rather than relying on typical networking advice. The authors also explored how to become a 'broker' and connect diverse groups to build a stronger network.
The problem when most of us when we meet someone is we assume that like if they're not immediately useful to me now then this is a waste of my time, then we start doing the the eyes looking over thing even unintentionally right and then we become the very jerk that we hated from the same event.
You have a very different question you are asking in your mind okay I can't help this person but who can I connect this person to that could help them with this.
You're taking care of the entirety of the network that's around you and over time the network started taking care of you and bringing those connections to you.
I'm either going to kill myself or I'm going to turn recovery into a game.
I'm not good at it at all that's why it took 12 years it's because I don't have the systems or didn't have the systems until recently.