I want to tell a story about a customer of mine who I wanted to do business with for 3 years now and finally succeeded to engage with only two months ago. High status customer, well connected to politicians, runs a charity, has a large network of content makers and can afford to work with anyone. My early cold reachout attempts yielded no response and I moved on. I kept networking with people in the industry and did a lot of good things to a lot of folks. After 2 years of doing good and expecting nothing in return I happened to work with someone who is very close to my client. All the good things I've done were speaking volumes about me and randomly (or it felt like it then) I was invited to an event that was organized by that client (which I didn't know about). Turns out that people at the event were well aware of my podcasting and other activities. When I showed up, the organizers asked to co-emcee the event, which put me in the spotlight. After the event the client approached me and said that they've heard a lot of good things about me. We talking about future plans, motivations, drivers and common interests. There I got invited to help with their next event. I showed up and delivered. Got invitation to next one with a bigger invoice and so on. Takeaways: 1. Do good to people and expect nothing back. That said have a framework to identify value takers and phase them out; 2. High status folks have a lot of options and direct selling to them is quite inefficient; 3. Elevate above the noise through action. People will talk about you, both good and bad things. Remember - words are nothing and actions are everything. It is difficult to deny good deeds. Do not listen to words, focus on being awesome (I'll attribute this quote to @Anthony DiRico ) 4. When you do good things for high status people, they reciprocate. Often very generously.

Just went to a bar today that is very well known for their range of gins, and they have a gin society that gives access to their gin collections, pretty much anything to do with gin. Events such as gin tasting, new gin launches, dinners are some of the perks of joining. The membership for this society will cost me $100++ SGD per year. It seems as though anyone can join though, will this be a problem? Anyone with a $100 can pay for this easily. If I join, I see it as a chance to network with high value individuals. Got me thinking about joining exclusive member only clubs. Wondering about how I should start getting into these places. I don't know anyone now who has memberships in these clubs. How should I begin? I'm sure there are a few more exclusive member only societies where the barrier to entry is high in my country.

Took some notes from one of the best pod classes from Rollo in a while. Fantastic game and some very entertained segments led to some interesting topics for me to discuss with y'all. Before I get into my serious notes: Michael's brother wants to invent They-Dar. A device to assay people chromosomes to determine sex at birth... Seems very space age but that will actually be in your iPhone in the nest 5 years or so. I was working on similar tech for the agricultural industry until a bikini model embezzled 80k from my business and left me broke. You can measure volatile compounds in live time and even triangulate the location of items or insects within a space. It is just a special sensor, a broad band infrared light, and then you have to determine the wavelengths of infrared light the will be reflected back by said target compound. I spent a whole 2 months working with the Power Environment and Energy Institute testing phosphorescent ceramics to be used in siloxane slurries and placed on monochromatic semiconductors to develop my own broad band IR LED chip for this purpose, but then Nichia ********** nvm... Point being, the people at Nichia are smart but they aren't creative and are missing a huge opportunity. Just like if I had a room full of black paint, a green ball in the center, and a white light was shined throughout the room. The (muso) black does not reflect light in the visible range back, the only object that will reflect light back is the ball, but only light in the 490nm-580nm range or more specifically the wavelength of that exact shade of green. Now throw 100 red balls in the room and try to find the green ball. EASY just turn the light on the green ball will clearly be visible and stand out from the red balls. Same concept with infrared light microscopy. The only work that has to be done is to determine a standard curve for your target compound. AKA what color is the ball as determine by our eyes or a sensor. Would also work for determining hormones in girls blood stream to determine her point in ovulation.

Found a good hack to invite more - and higher quality - girls to events. I'm living in a major city (2 million people), so it was hard af to throw events. Big cities already have well-stablished systems in place, built by high status men. So you either: 1. Increase your status by networking, or 2. Leverage your CURRENT status in a lower status city Number 2 is extremely powerful. Most guys don't realize they can have 10x more status by doing literally nothing, because status is relative. In a lower status city, every offer you make will be more appealing, girls will be more attractive, and they'll actually appreciate the value you're offering. Below is a photoshoot I did, using this concept. It happened in my small 1-person apartment (it got crowded with 4 people). We shot in the street, no fancy location or luxury. The catch? Girls are top-tier models, but coming from a small city 18km away, this was a great opportunity to increase their own status, so my otherwise low-value offer was actually appealing. It's a great hack to get started with whatever little access you have

I remember Michael Sartain recommending me to go to either Citizen nightclub or Bottled Blonde nightclub in Dallas since I’m in the DFW area. I just went to Citizen nightclub just now and I got in line by about 11:30 or so, and there was a long ass line, and I noticed the door men were very selective about who they were letting in. And of course, most of the women they let in, and of course people who actually had tables they let in, or people who they seemed to know and be cool with they let in. I just went there by myself to try to practice the ring light trick that Michael Sartain talks about. I had to wait in line over two freaking hours and I got in like the last 15 minutes before they closed. By the time I got in it was like 1:45 or so and I was just in regular GA and I noticed that most of the women of course were already at the tables. It wasn’t as many women in GA and it was like mostly dudes in GA and I didn’t have access to a table. So I was walking around in the club, trying to find some groups of really attractive women to try this ring light thing with, but most of the attractive woman were already at the tables and it wasn’t really that many women in GA. So I’m wondering how I’m supposed to practice this whole ring light thing at these types of clubs, if it’s a pain in the ass to get in the club in the first place, and then once you get in its mostly dudes in the dance floor and most of the hot chicks are in the VIP sections with table service. How am I supposed to practice this thing? I haven’t been to bottled blonde yet. Maybe I should’ve went a lot earlier because they open at 10. Maybe I should’ve went at 9:30 or really early and had small talk with the door men. I don’t know. Any advice from people with experience with this? I know that when you start out with this thing you have to start from scratch and cold approach to build a social circle, which is what I was trying to do to get some IG’s from women, but it didn’t end up working out like I thought it would, and I didn’t get to do the ring light trick at all. Thoughts?