To meet the man you have to meet the man

Dave Partner
3 min readJan 16, 2020

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To meet the man you have to meet the man.

Many people are praying for destiny helpers but they have already canceled the meeting. Their biggest curse is the comfort of their home, they have built the perfect shell there.

Facebook estimates that all humans on earth currently are connected by a factor of 3.5. That means, that for you to meet President Putin, you just need to meet 3 and a half strategic people. You just need to know someone that knows someone at the embassy, that knows a Russian politician, that knows Putin’s secretary.

But how can this be possible if you don’t even want to meet that someone that knows someone who works at the embassy?

One property of successful people is that they are always having meetings, always. They are always at events, after the event, they hang around and take pictures.

100% of all your customers, mentors, clients, family members, friends, associates, employers, investors and so on are humans. Meeting humans is a key ingredient to success.

Whenever you meet a poor man, their first complaint is that they don’t have anyone to help them. They don’t have anyone to run to. Yes, that’s partly because some people cancel all the opportunities to meet others.

The content of the discussion during meetings is also very important. Even though most such meetings are informal, it is important to keep the rules of meetings when doing so. The most important point here is to set an agenda for the meeting, which is to exchange value.

When rich people meet, they talk about how they can find mutually beneficial grounds and work together. When poor people meet, they talk about other people. When poor people meet rich people, they try to tax them to give them something.

Imagine twin sisters meeting Dangote at an event, there they have the opportunity to talk to the richest Black man alive for 15 seconds each.

The first one says “please sir, since I graduated I have been looking for work, I learned tailoring but no money is coming from it. God will bless you so much if you can just give me 50k to survive”

Then the other says “I am microbiology graduate, but I have gone into fashion design and I am working on making top quality and high-end suits for the rich, something as cool or even cooler than what you are putting on currently. I am currently looking out for investors”

Now, which of these do you think Dangote would love to have a second meeting with? Which of these do you think he would give a card to?

Begging is a fast way to ruin a meeting, a faster way is to cancel that meeting and whatsapp all day from your little shell at home or office routine.

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Dave Partner
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