You can network the hard way or the easy way #Habits

26 Aug 2020 · 1 min

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TJ Walker advises that career success requires networking and contrasts two approaches: the "hard way" (traditional cold outreach such as knocking on doors and making many cold calls—e.g., "300 cold calls a day") and the "relatively easier way" suited to the 2020s: sharing good ideas on social media and spotlighting others' ideas to attract people who value your thinking.

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If you want to have a successful career, you're going to have to network, like it or not. Now, you can either do it the hard way or the relatively easier way. The hard way is the old way. Knocking on lots of doors, making 300 cold calls a day, hoping that 10 people talk to you and one person will meet with you. That's the hard way for most people. It's just too annoying. The relatively easier way is to network by putting your ideas out to the world through social media. Put out good ideas, spotlight other people's good ideas, and attract people who value your ideas. That is the best way to network in the 2020s.