This short excerpt from Joe Polish (YouTube) advises cultivating relationships by creating value for others before asking favors and by adopting an attractive, generous energy so people want to answer your calls. He emphasizes acting without agenda, being the kind of person others eagerly engage with, and paying attention to the emotional tone you project.
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One of the questions I get all the time is like, how'd you meet Richard Branson? And how do you meet all these people and stuff? And people always want to know, how do you meet famous people? Now, part of it is I never ask anyone to do anything for me without creating value for them first. So the whole premise is not what can someone do for me, but what can I do for them? And going into it without an agenda, I mean, truly be the type of person that you would want to answer the phone for. I mean, a lot of this is energy. I mean, if you sit and think about getting a phone call or getting a text, and if you just. How do you feel if a certain phone call comes through? And some that you immediately send the voicemail because you're immediately irritated versus if you get a phone call from someone that you just really appreciate or really like and you can't wait to talk to them. Why not set your life up to have more of those and less of the other thing? And if people are responding to you that way, what sort of energy are you giving off?