A short talk by Joe Polish contrasting genuine value-creation and connection in entrepreneurship with opportunistic behavior. The speaker emphasizes creating value first, gratitude, usefulness, and authentic connecting rather than ego-driven sales pitching, and distinguishes pursuing opportunities from being an opportunist.
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Like the people that you really resonate with go deep with that. So I always try to do that with anyone and I don't expect anyone to give anything to me without creating value first. It goes back to the question, what's in it for them? The world doesn't owe me anything. The world doesn't owe any of you anything. You know, you don't get heat out of the fireplace until you put in the woods. So people want things given to them, but they have to generate it. And that's what entrepreneurship is. You actually go out and create something and you generate it by being useful, being grateful, being valuable, not being egotistical. There's connecting, which is genuine connecting and there's connecting people that have that sales pitch. They always got to do their sales pitch. There's nothing wrong with being pursuing opportunities. I love opportunities. But there's a big difference between pursuing an opportunity and being an opportunist.