No asks for a year

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Make networking less transactional

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0:00.0	I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record
0:08.0	hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.
0:14.0	The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.
0:20.7	Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever
0:28.5	you get your podcasts.
0:33.5	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart radio.
0:39.3	Good morning.
0:40.9	This is Laura.
0:42.8	Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
0:45.7	Today's tip is no asks for a year.
0:50.3	Networking feels far less transactional when you approach it from a long term perspective.
0:57.8	Today's tip, like several others this week, comes from my friend Dory Clark's new book,
1:03.5	The Long Game, How to Be a Long Term thinker in a short term world.
1:09.4	Part of building a big, sustainable career is having a really good network, and yet
1:15.1	networking can feel tedious or not fun when you feel like you are constantly badgering
1:20.6	people to do things.
1:22.8	So don't badger people to do things.
1:27.1	Dory's rule is no asks for a year.
1:31.5	This doesn't mean you can't ask any questions, like, hey, what's the name of that transcription
1:35.6	service you used, or even, hey, want to be on my podcast?
1:39.6	If you are booking guests every week.
1:42.4	What Dory is talking about is asks that require political capital.
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