A professional and personal network of friends and peers is an important aspect of progressing in one’s career, as are skills like technical competency and design.

• If we have skills and no network, we are better off cultivating more relationships. 
• If we are having a huge network but no job-specific skills, we could try being useful so that knowing so many people gets us some tangible benefit. 

A huge network is useless if we ourselves are useless.

• Hard work is done alone and meeting new people while working can be distracting. 
• The solution is to cycle between the two modes, one being extroversion(building relationships) and the other being introversion(sitting and working.)
• Depending on our current state, we should ad...