PPI #81: How to Build Powerful Connections

Most likely, you're building your network and connections in the wrong way. 

Today I want to teach you three principles you can use to build stronger connections with the people who matter most.

Today's principles are all around the acronym CPR, like the Health Saving Technique, but the letters stand for something different here. The C is for curiosity, the P is for persistence and the R is for reciprocity.

The first principle is all around curiosity. Be curious, ask why, ask deeper questions. And you'll see that the conversation just naturally flows. When you're curious about someone and you're asking that one level deeper, they will immediately be more engaged with you. They will immediately feel something magnetizing about that conversation, because you're simply being curious about them.

The next is persistence. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. Everyone's super busy, right? You're super busy, so is everyone else. And often when someone gets that first email, when somebody is trying to approach them, they will discount it. Maybe they won't respond right away or they won't respond at all. But you have to just keep trying.

And the third thing is the R, reciprocity. When you're looking to connect with someone, ask yourself, "Well, what is it that you can give? How can you help them?" Don't even ask for their help at first. How is it that you might help them further their cause? Give first and then you'll receive more likely in return.