Let me hit you with a classic - What would you choose? Fame or Money? Aah, whatever you choose. But what if there's another option - 'Access'?
And that is what I want, Access. What if you had access to the most important people, places, resources and advancements? Isn't that a superpower?
Maybe deep inside, Money and Fame also unlocks some of it. It gives you access to many of these things. But what if, we switch these things and rather than chasing money or fame, chase access? I believe if you are a smart person with a great network and access to some of these things, money follows and fame is optional.
Opportunities are proportional to the access you have. The higher the value of access you have, the higher the opportunity to turn it into monetary outcome, followed by fame.
So what is the difference? If I go after chasing money (because I believe it's easier to do that than going 'the fame way'), my metric would be how much money I would make, and that can start from day one. If I am chasing access, there's a difference, it is hard to measure its value quantitatively. It might take some time or maybe, a lot of time to show some results.
Someone told me, "in networking, if you just go one level up, everyone knows everyone".
That's the beauty of access.
I'm kinda learning how to climb these levels of networking, and yeah utilising some of my unfair advantages (will write sometime about unfair advantages, hopefully)
So yeah, it was just my little perspective. Thanks for reading!