Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

The Real Way To Win People..

19 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Richmond Dinh uses a vivid metaphor of visiting a king’s household to illustrate how to win over influential people in networking contexts. He explains that within any influential figure’s “house” there are distinct roles: the king (the primary decision‑maker), the queen or spouse (gatekeeper), knights or siblings (additional gatekeepers), and the children (broader audience). Success depends on identifying these roles and earning the favor of each—through respectful behavior, thoughtful gifts, attentiveness, and observing house rules (e.g., taking off shoes). Dinh also stresses the importance of welcoming new guests (new contacts) warmly, positioning oneself as a gracious host who helps others feel included. The overall message is a practical, relationship‑focused strategy for building influence by treating every interaction as a respectful house‑guest experience.

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How do you win over the king? If you go into someone's house, like, there's a king, there's probably a queen, there's some, like, if you say go to, like, say Russell Brunson's house, he's the king, the gatekeeper is definitely Collette, his wife, and the people are the kids. And so, like, you know, find out who the people are, the gatekeepers, the knight might be his brother. If his brother's there, or his, you know, his sister there, like, the knights, the gatekeeper, the people are the kids. And so, how do you win over the king? If the kids love you, that goes a long way. If the wife loves you, that goes a long way. If the brother loves you, that goes a long way. So be a respectable houseguest and maybe you come with a gift or maybe you are attentive to everyone in the room or maybe you know what the rules are and you take off your shoes. And now if there's more than one guest coming in there and you've just got in the house first and you're sitting down, you've been there for half an hour and another guest comes in, you're like, Hey! "Name is Sally, welcome, I've been here." How do you mingle with other guests too? And so that was a very direct metaphor, and I said to you, for example, when someone comes into P1, we want to make sure that you welcome them with open arms. So like, you know, it's like, it's like, this is how you play this game.