This is a book that you would find in the business section, but it was pretty different than a lot of business books I’ve read.

The main message in two key points: 1. Share that great information you have already gleaned from doing your own extensive reading,( and keep reading new books for more ideas ) 2. Keep track of all your contacts so that you have a way of easily helping friends/associates, even ones you haven’t seen or heard from in a while.

The reason for taking your contacts seriously as pointed out in this book: You have a ready supply of people whose interests/professions you know about, whom you could contact when you’ve run into valuable information they might be interested in.

This allows you to build a network of very grateful people ( and grateful people help you out also, but this is not about trying to get something, folks), whom you now have contacts for in a permanent sytem.

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