Crossroad #1 - What Family You're Born Into Life's most influential networks have high interaction frequency, are adopted early in life, have many overlapping strong ties & shared connections. In all of these measures, few of our other networks in life can rival family
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Crossroad #2 - High School Network High school networks are important because they're influential when we're 1st forming our identities / worldviews. In high school, forming a large number of strong relationships can help set you up for a vibrant future.
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Crossroad #3 - College Network Choose your college based on its network of students and their geographic network over all else. If you choose the right people to be around in college, it will lead to a virtuous cycle & have an exponential impact on your life.
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Crossroad #4 - First Job The relationships you form during your first job are the seed of your professional network which influences the arc of your career — from how you think about work, to how you’re known, to the geography where you have better job access for a long time.
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Crossroads #5 - Marriage/Choosing a Life Partner Marriage is one of the most important decisions in life. You're choosing someone else's full network to add to yours. This person will share the very center of your network hierarchy with you.
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Crossroad #6 - Where You Live Where you live largely determines who you know. physical proximity is predictive of network formation. Cities are like scaled-up colleges. They do a great job of helping us form networks because they are social + physical networks themselves.
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Crossroads #7 - Reassessments The most lasting and effective way to change your life is to change who you’re surrounded by. Since networks so powerfully shape who we are and what we do, the best way to change ourselves is to change our networks.
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This is a big limitation at the way we look at self-development. We think we can just roll out of bed one day, make a few new year’s resolutions, and become a new person. But this ignores the biggest part in the equation of who you are — the network force.
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For more on how to navigate life's big decisions more strategically, see my latest essay here:https://www.nfx.com/post/your-life-network-effects?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=internalshare-james …
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This article was excellent. Out of curiosity, have you read
@RichardKoch8020 's book Superconnect and the Power Laws? I think you will find a lot of similarity, although this was a great practical breakdown of network effects, that Richard might have missed before. -
I hadn’t read the book, but thanks for pointing it out. I’ll pick it up.
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