The Secret to Building a Powerful Network: Ask the Right Questions
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine just every day you're asking one person how you can be of service and if they know |
| 0:05.1 | anyone that can help you. That's 31,000 extra people that are in your network. |
| 0:10.2 | This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, |
| 0:15.6 | celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success. |
| 0:21.6 | You need to ask two things. Number one, you have to get in the habit of asking questions, |
| 0:26.4 | open any questions to be more interested than interesting. You need to be more interested. |
| 0:31.7 | You got to get people to tell you about what they're doing today, what they like about it, |
| 0:35.9 | what don't they like about it. What are the challenges that they have? Because the more you get |
| 0:39.6 | them and you more questions you ask, the more you'll understand according to your values, |
| 0:43.3 | what value you can provide to them. And once you can provide them value, they'll give you value back. |
| 0:48.8 | It'll be easy to receive. So the number one questioning, I always say the question, |
| 0:53.6 | the category is do the question is how could I be of service? How can I provide value? |
| 1:01.1 | The second question, which is underutilized by all ages, people get confused that they're not humble. |
| 1:06.8 | The second question is do you know anyone that can help me? |
| 1:11.3 | If you are not asking every day these two questions in person to people that you don't know |
| 1:17.6 | and people you know, on the phone, via email and media, radio, print, TV or social media, |
| 1:24.4 | if you're not asking these two questions every day, you are mathematically putting yourself at |
| 1:29.5 | a disadvantage. You're not allowing the matrix of the universe to work in your favor. You're not |
| 1:34.1 | reaffirming why we're here. Think about this, when we were younger, we would ask for help and we |
| 1:40.1 | were lucky if, you know, our mom's mage game or, you know, the men's group at the temple, |
| 1:46.8 | they would ask, oh, can you get Josh a job? Can you get Jake a job? Can you get David? |
| 1:50.8 | Right? And you have this little group of people that would help you. Today, on average, |
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