Overview
In Part 12 of the Who or What Series, on the only Business Networking Podcast on iTunes, Jay Papasan, co-author of The One Thing, Albert Preciado from The Mortgage Guys, and David Burkus author of Friend of a Friend explain to your host Travis Chappell whether they believe that who you know or what you know is more important and why.
Episode Highlights:
- Jay Papasan
- You want a short path to people who do things that are remarkable.
- Know who you determine wealth for and who are your wealth determiners.
- If you can’t afford to hire a bunch of mentors, use resources like YouTube to get their insight.
- Albert Preciado
- You can’t know anything but just know people, you have to put in the work.
- Build yourself first so you have something to show when you meet a potential mentor.
- Albert’s adversity growing up contributed in a large part to his success.
- Albert focused on systems and people’s strengths and weaknesses to build teams.
- David Burkus
- “It’s not what you know it’s who you know” is actually really good news.
- We need to redefine networking and understand the network that’s already around you.
- If you have a Facebook account you’re only 2-3 degrees of separation from most people.
- What a good follow-up system should look like.
- We need to be intentional about all of our relationships, even the least ones in our network.
3 Key Points:
- Information is always accessible and you can learn from people’s lives and journeys.
- Overcoming adversity can be a big contributor to success.
- We need to be intentional about all of our relationships, even the least ones.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “If you just know a bunch of people and never take the next step you won’t get very far.” -Jay
- “Adversity is where we learn life’s greatest lessons.” -Travis
- “We’re better off getting as many possible introductions in the beginning and then narrow down.” -David
Resources Mentioned:
- Visit Travis’ website at Buildyournetwork.co
- Learn more about mentorships and masterminds for FREE at freemmcourse.com/enroll
- Explode Your Network at travischappell.com/explode
- Book Recommendation: The One Thing by Jay Papasan & Gary Keller
- Book Recommendation: Friend of a Friend by David Burkus
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