Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("Even Introverts Can Network" by Chrissy Myers) offering practical advice for introverts on networking. The speaker says that simply attending an event is a major first step, that representing a client can change one’s confidence, and that introverts can look for other shy people in the room as potential connection points.
I can still walk into a room and get nervous if it's on my own time. If I'm representing a client, there's a whole different personality that comes out and I'm just able to do it. So I'm a little bit of both. But for the introverts, honestly, getting to an event is the first step. If you make it, you're already doing better than most that are afraid to go. And sometimes it's just looking for the other shy person in the room. So if you are naturally shy or an introvert and you don't know how to connect, there's another person in the room that's just like you, so.
