Short advice from Codie Sanchez on networking: be a creator of value rather than a hustler. She recommends doing inspiring work and sharing meaningful ideas so you attract interesting, like-minded people and move conversations beyond superficial small talk.
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How do you network with cool people? It's like, be cool, dude. And I don't mean like outfit cool. I mean try to do cool or inspiring things that bridge your curiosity. Once you're around a bunch of humans who are like, oh, he's a builder. Oh, he's got interesting ideas. No, no, no, he's not a hustler because that's not really what the people that you want respect from or interested in. It's like, no, he's a creator. And by that I mean a creator of value in this world. You talk about what ideas are in your head and things are you building that are worthwhile for us to have a conversation that doesn't feel like we're at the shallow end at a certain point. That's where you want to go when you've had some success because when you do that, eventually you just attract other people who are interested and trying too.