3 Laws You Must Know To Build a Network of High-Value People
How To Flip The Script and Make Reputable People Desire to Be Around You
Your inputs determine your outputs.
What you consume determines who you are, what you like, what you don’t like, and more.
If there’s something you do, but you’re not sure why, check the inputs.
Somewhere down the line, your environment told you that’s what you should be doing.
That said…
Turning your life around is as simple as altering your environment.
If you change the inputs, the outputs will change.
… and one of the best inputs you can change for rapid results is the company you keep.
Get around better people, and you’ll be better.
In the words of my personal trainer, “Even personal trainers have personal trainers.”
To constantly grow and improve, you must put yourself around people who are ahead of you in an area of life you’d like to advance.
This doesn’t happen by chance!
It requires deliberate effort and clarity.
If you wanna get around the best of the best, there's three laws you must embrace.
Here they are…
The law of value
Don’t be a taker!
The worst thing you can be when you’re trying to get on someone's radar is a taker.
As someone who’s made this mistake several times, I can tell you free…
It doesn’t work.
What you should do instead is lead with value.
Add a tremendous amount of value to their life before you ask to take from them.
Andrew Tate’s videographer is a great example of this…
He was browsing YouTube one day and saw Tate in a podcast studio.
This told him everything he needed to know about Mr Tate — “This guy is tryna make it big.”
Instantly, he decided he was gonna send a pitch.
He hopped in the shower — cos that’s how he generates ideas — and the question he asked himself the entire time was, “How do I cater to this guy's ego in 60 seconds or less?”
When he got out of the shower, he was ready…
He set up the camera, and here’s what he said in his pitch video word for word (according to what he says in this interview):
“Look Andrew… you and I can both agree; you’ve got the best cars, you’ve got the best houses, you’ve got the money, you’re a 4x world kickboxing champion.
If you’re the best at all of these things, and you have the best of all of these things, why are you settling for a videographer who’s decent? You need the best videographer, and I am the best.
Here’s what I’m gonna do for you… I will fly out to wherever you are — I don’t care where you’re at; all expenses are on me. And I will make you a video for free. No risk to you; I incur the risk. And I wanna show you what I’m capable of.”
He’s now Andrew Tate’s full-time videographer.
To capture the attention of a high-value person, you must lead with value.
It should always be about what you can do for them and not what they can do for you.
The law of compensation
You’re given in direct proportion to how much you give.
If you help more, you’ll be given more.
For example, check your last payslip…
The numbers there are a representation of how much value the company believes you bring.
A job may never pay you the exact amount of value you add since the founders take on the majority of risk…
… but the lower your income, the lower the amount of value you add to the company.
This law states you’re compensated for your efforts and contribution, regardless of what it is, however much or however little.
In Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay “Compensation,” here’s how he framed it…
“The world looks like a multiplication table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will. Its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you.”
Jesus Christ of Nazareth also had a take on this law 2000+ years ago…
In Luke 6:38 (NLT), he said to his disciples…
“Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full — pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.”
If the presence of a high-value person in your network is what you want, you must be prepared to give big.
Using Tate’s videographer as an example again…
He gave big.
He took on all the risk and offered his services for free to get Tate as a client — and it worked.
TLDR: I’m not a Tate fan. The guy has a net worth of $300M, so there’s probably a few things you can learn from him if you’re not there.
The law of influence
The law of influence is about leadership…
It states that the greatness of a leader is not measured by the amount of money one makes or the position one has but by the number of lives one influences.
John C. Maxwell captures this beautifully in his book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership,” where he writes, “The accurate measure of leadership is influence — nothing more, nothing less.”
Why am I telling you this?
If you want people of high value in your network, you must be a leader.
That is…
You must put other people’s interests before yours.
Don’t get me wrong; this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have any objectives you’re pursuing.
It means you get the things you want by helping others.
This trait naturally attracts people of high value since it positions you as someone with resources.
If you have the resources people need, they will come.
Final thoughts
You must be a giver if you wanna build a network of high-value people — there’s no other way around it.
Such people are extremely familiar with multitudes trying to take from them. This includes their own family members.
You won’t get their attention if you’re just trying to take; you’ll just be like everyone else.
Leading with value flips the script.
What you give with no strings attached will return to you in the same way.
Putting the interest of others before yours will attract great people to you.
In the words of my mentor, Matt Gray, “Your network is determined by how many people you abundantly serve.”
If you abundantly serve millions, you’ll have a network worth millions.
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