Rebooting Networking courtesy @Adam Grant

It is another Sunday, where one catches up with reading all that was missed during the week. It is a bit of "full circle" *now where did we read this recently..* when I bumped into this article by @Adam Grant in NY Times titled - Good News for Young Strivers: Networking Is Overrated. 

A few lines in the article are: "The best way to attract a mentor is to create something worthy of the mentor’s attention. Do something interesting, and instead of having to push your way in, you’ll get pulled in. The network comes to you."

Hustling, networking is seen as a sign of the weak, a sign of those who want to latch on and have no merit of their own. Well at least that is how I have heard folks around me treat it, professional and off it. Be it @ the Iyengar Bakery or connecting with a vertical head, networking has seen many folks, cringe!

My opinion and experience is always, always different. Even the Avengers needed to depend on a collective team and back home our own epics highlight the same. Networking is all about falling back on the expertise of the best option you have but with a caveat. Have you given / now achieved, before you seek and are you somebody who has the potential to give it back, when needed? This approach breaks the problem and uneasiness about networking into easier bits. Build your capability and raise your accomplishments or even attempts, to begin with. Hustle and talk about it. Another line from the article reads - "Accomplishments were the dominant driver of who invested over time."

So as we get ready to meet another Monday, yet a new Monday in many ways, I think this article helps me shrug off the inhibitions of the and get back to the hustle mode. And who better to share the emotion / resolve but with the many minds here who have helped, always! And thank you @Adam Grant !