A short YouTube talk by Dylan Vanas contrasting shallow, self-serving networking (exemplified as the "California influencer" who seeks personal gain) with a recommended approach: genuinely being interested in others, listening, prompting others to talk about themselves, and asking how you can help. The speaker argues that sincere curiosity creates a karmic imbalance that leads others to reciprocate and offer support.
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Don't be the California influencer, right? These are the people that they're going out to events and their whole thing is they have this ulterior motive. Everything they say, everything they do is filtering through like, what can I get out of this person? Are you hot and we can fuck? Are you a producer so you can make a movie about me? Are you a potential sugar daddy? Like, which one of the three are you? And if you're not, like, you know, get out of here, right? Instead of going in with this thing of like, what can I get? Who can I find that's like the person, Just go in, like, interested about other people and all of a sudd. When you do that enough, this weird shift happens. These people feel this karmic imbalance where they're like, oh, this person has given to me or listened to me so much. And they'll literally say, sorry, enough about me. What do you do? And then the further side is like, how can I help you? So if you go in with this thought of, like, how can I learn about people and just be interested? It's the best way to network.