Joe Polish argues that the value you give should equal or exceed what you want in return. He advises entrepreneurs to collaborate with people who give more than they take, and to pair any request with a generous contribution.
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Make your. Your give equal to or bigger than your want. So we all want something here. No one here would invest the time, attention, money, effort, and energy, 25 grand the time to come here. If you don't want something, you want to build your business, you want to grow your business, you want to have a more awesome life, you want to have better clients, all that stuff. So, and that's great. And there's a lot of people here that can help facilitate that for you. Just make sure that whatever you're asking someone for, anything here, it's sort of the culture of genius network, is make sure that your want comes with a give. That is awesome. Because the people that we love to collaborate with, the people that we love to hang out with, are people that are takers. And so a giver gives more than they take.