Du bist wen du kennst. (You are who you know.)

The book’s german title seems to me to better illustrate how this cuts both ways. Network with intention; network with attention; network for worth.

An internationally known public speaker, entrepreneur, and marketing executive shares practical, up-to-date tips for mastering the skills of networking. Networking doesn’t have to be that frenzied old-school game of calendars packed with stuffy power lunches and sterile evenings at community business gatherings. We’ve entered a new era, one in which shifting cultural values and the explosion of digital technology enable us to network in vastly more efficient, more focused, and more enjoyable ways. A fresh take on How to Win Friends and Influence People, Your Network Is Your Net Worth is an entertaining, straightforward guide filled with revealing case studies, hands-on advice, and innovative strategies for building your network. Written by sought-after speaker, entrepreneur, and marketing executive Porter Gale, with a foreword by Apple evangelist and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki, this book shows you how to establish, expand, and nurture your connections both online and off. New ways to network are popping up every day—and Gale tells you how to make the most of them—but even traditional networking opportunities are not the same animals that they once were, and we need to shift our attitudes and approaches accordingly. Networking has evolved from a transactional game to a transformational process. Whereas once it was about power plays, now it’s about charting your own course, following your passions, and making meaningful connections, which in turn increase your happiness and productivity. In addition to chronicling her own rise from an ad agency intern to an in-demand consultant, Gale also shares the inspiring stories of so many others who live by this networking model: a military wife who connects with social media communities while her husband is deployed overseas, a young woman blog-ger battling leukemia, a dyslexic politician who wins elections by telling stories, and the CEO of a Major League Baseball team who once made a phone call that changed the course of his life. When you focus on your passions and reorganize your networking around your values and beliefs, you will discover the kind of lasting relationships, personal transformation, and, ultimately, tangible wealth that are the foundation for happiness and success. With a message both timely and important, Your Network Is Your Net Worth is the definitive handbook to Networking 2.0.

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Personal Development

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Mindfulness

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Habits

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Communication

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Books

Porter Gale

Your Network Is Your Net Worth

Educate the masses about the horrors of war and the beauty of peace.

Promote Education

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Encourage open, honest communication between conflicting parties.

Foster Dialogue

“Dialogue is the most effective way of resolving conflict.”

Empower and support nonviolent methods of protest and resistance.

Support Nonviolent Movements

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.”

Work towards creating and enforcing international laws that prevent war.

Strengthen International Law

“The law is the first step toward peace.”

Always seek diplomatic avenues before considering conflict.

Encourage Diplomatic Solutions

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

Foster economic partnerships that make war less appealing.

Promote Economic Cooperation

“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.”

Strengthen democratic institutions that can address grievances peacefully.

Support Democratic Institutions

"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people."

Support the role of women in peacebuilding and conflict resolution.

Empower Women

“There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.”

Teach empathy and understanding from a young age.

Cultivate Empathy and Understanding

"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself."

Address the root causes of conflict, such as inequality and injustice.

Promote Social Justice

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

On a personal journey to curate the best practices that have historically fostered peace, mitigated conflict, and ended wars. This part is dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Philosophy

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History

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Politics

Antidote to Bloodshed : Part I

You have no idea how brave you have to be to pour your emotions out. It's not always easy. The fear that people will make fun, tell you you're weak. But putting yourself out there can be the bravest thing. It takes courage. Be True to yourself. You will feel better and you may even inspire others to follow suit.

I Know Feeling Vulnerable Is Scary

Release that hurt, I think you may be surprised by how many people can relate and how many people understand. Don't. Be. Afraid. Talking about some issues can help take the power away from the trauma you suffered. I hope you have someone trusted and safe you can talk with, the weight will become a little more bearable.

Hiding Your Hurt Can Cause Problems In The long Run.

Have courage and be kind.

I know a lot of people struggle showing their heart, and things they are feeling. Its heavy, scary, daunting. You feel as though you will be judged. But I say FUCK it!

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Love & Relationships

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Alfred Adler was a part of the psychoanalytic movement of the early 1900s that focused on the causes of personality.Adler targeted the role of the family system, including sibling influences, as central in personality.A key construct in Adler’s theory was the inferiority complex.

Adler’s theory of individual psychology

From Adler’s perspective, social comparisons and power dynamics in families were central in the individuals’ sense of self. Adler’s insights led him to advocate the importance of egalitarianism—including equal treatment of siblings—as an important preventive measure in promoting self-esteem.Adler’s interest was the birth-order effects on individual development and the impact on sibling relationship process.

Sense of self & Feeling Of Inferiority

According to Adler, rivalry between siblings is grounded in each child’s need to overcome potential feelings of inferiority.Sibling differentiation is a key dynamic in families.Parental favoritism of one sibling over the other is linked to poorer sibling relationships. Cultural factors also may be at play, such that differential treatment has more negative implications in individualistic than in collectivistic cultures.

Siblings Rivalry

Sibling differentiation serves to minimize sibling competition.

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Parenting

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Mental Health

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Problem Solving

Sibling Relationships

Waiting for that "special someone" to magically appear in your close social circle isn't going to cut it. You need to go out and talk to people. Take matters in your hands. This is the reality for most people. Go to parties, social meetings or any place you feel like you have the courage to meet new people.

Getting To Know People

In social media you can literally be whoever you want. You can add filters to alter your physical appearance. You can delay and think your answers for as much as you like. You've living a life out of sync. Physical contact and close interaction is everything. It's straight forward. That's how humans are programmed to interact and that's how you should do it too. Observe the other person's facial expressions and body language and judge for yourself. Hear their voice, smell their scent and feel their touch. Don't be limited to using one sense instead of all 5.

Always Prefer Face To Face Interaction

This is a must. It's the base of everything. No matter what your style is, being clean and fresh is non-negotiable. Take a shower, change underwear, brush your teeth. Nobody likes to feel like smelling the inside of a septic tank everytime you open your mouth (unless they have a fetish or something wild like that, then you do you). Work on your mental health before dating, the other person is not your babysitter or your therapist. Do NOT talk about your exes, do NOT talk about your insecurities. If you must say you feel a little nervous that's ok, it can make you feel relaxed and open up.

Take Care Of Yourself Physically And Emotionally

Failing means learning and learning is good. The first times are going to feel painful. Failing at anything is unpleasant, but it's the only way to get your feedback and improve yourself. Accept rejection as a part of the process and don't fear it. Try to analyze what went wrong and where you can do better to have a different outcome next time. Failing is the main part of becoming successful at anything really.

You Will Fail. You MUST Fail.

Leave the cliché openers where they belong: in the trash. Nobody is gonna sleep with you or date you just because you said 10 words you saw on the internet. Be straight forward, be clear about your intentions and about the reason you approached the person in the first place. Leave no space for misunderstanding. It's not what you say specifically but how you say it. Be confident, believe in yourself. Keep your style and your humour because that's what you're gonna actually have in 2 or 3 months time. You can't keep faking forever.

Approaching The Other Person

Start new hobbies, read a lot of different things and generally don't stick to only doing one thing in your life. Everybody wants to have an inspiring and interesting person by their side. Being able to converse about a lot of things opens up your chances in the dating market by a A LOT, don't be a one-trick-pony because you're limiting yourself. Having common things to talk about is really important in the long run, you can't rely on small talk forever.

Be Versatile

Just because you're the one making the move doesn't mean the other person isn't afraid or stressed. Always make the other person feel as if they've known you for years. Pick up the conversation when it seems like it's dying and don't forget to let the other person speak. A person that feels they can let their inner child free is instantly a potential partner. Actively listen to the other person because it can always help you continue the conversation later and it shows you are able to care. Always face the other person as a simple human, just like you, not some kind of higher being

Understand That The Other Person Is Afraid As Well

You might be the most cultivated, the most interesting, the most "you name it" person in the world, but the other person might still not be interested in you or even find you boring. Many will also reject you for your looks. That's ok, that's great actually. Not everybody matches. They save both of you time with the honest rejection. Do not play the "friendship" card, people are not machines that you put kindness coins in them and they'll eventually love you. Take the loss because it's only a battle and not the war. Move on, no hard feelings. If the person says no, it's a no.

It's Not All About You

You've had your fair share of social interactions, you even feel like you are pretty good at communicating, but when it comes to dating or even talking to someone romantically/sexually , things don't seem to work out. Here's what might help:

Understanding dating and unlocking your potential 

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭. 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬.

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Leadership & Management

Benefits of Informational Reminders and Trying Workarounds

Glass is transparent, colourless and these makes it invisible even though it is valuable. This is because glass doesn't absorbWe should be like glass, shouldn't absorb any emotions, shouldn't judge anyone, letting people express themselves. This will make us valuable and we are scared of becoming invisible

Being In The Moment

Porcelain used to be the symbol of wealth and power. Ring any porcelain cup to test it and it should reverberate. If it isn't fully formed then it won't be able to transmit through the cracks and sound becomes dullWhen we are fully formed we should be able to reverberate knowledge insted of making it fall through our cracks. knowledge is wealth and power

Wealth And Power

Materials around us are the complex expression of our needs and desires. In a way they give us our identity

Identity

At atomic, nano, micro, macro, miniature and human scales the non living and living things are made of same things. The difference is the extra connection achieved by having communication across these scalesExtra communication, extra connection, extra liveliness in our lives

What Makes Us, Us

A New York Times Bestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself. A globally-renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world. In Stuff Matters, Miodownik entertainingly examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor and the graphite in his pencil to the foam in his sneakers and the concrete in a nearby skyscraper. He offers a compendium of the most astounding histories and marvelous scientific breakthroughs in the material world, including: <ul><li>The imprisoned alchemist who saved himself from execution by creating the first European porcelain.</li><li>The hidden gem of the Milky Way, a planet five times the size of Earth, made entirely of diamond.</li><li>Graphene, the thinnest, strongest, stiffest material in existence--only a single atom thick--that could be used to make entire buildings sensitive to touch.</li></ul>From the teacup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, the plastic in our appliances to the elastic in our underpants, our lives are overflowing with materials. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way.

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Meditation

Mark Miodownik

Stuff Matters

Technology gives huge leverage to smaller populations and groups. It removes the advantage of number. When we go down this path it makes people to have lesser and lesser interactions with other people as the technology is taking away the necessity and dependency Is there a technology that brings back the necessity of interactions ? Yep I think it's human brain

Boons And Banes Of Technology

Technology and Human interactions 

𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭. 𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞.

𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰...

Couples who are In Love Spend More Time Making Eye Contact

Without transparency of our thoughts the communications becomes a twisted mazes

Transparency

Human Interactions 

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