🚀 What is even more valuable than money...

The secret to real security in the 21st century!

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We once thought that money was the answer to everything! 💸

I thought if I had enough money, I could feel safe.

But what if there was something else that might give me even more security? 🤔

An invisible power that costs nothing, yet few people have it...

Well... it's community!

And that's exactly what we are going to analyze in this post! 😉

But first, let's see...

🚀 How's the challenge?

🧽 Final touches on the new App and Beta

All the pages are up and running and it's crazy fast! We hope to see the same numbers in Beta.

But if it stays that way - and it should - it will officially be the fastest Book Summary App on the market! ⚡️

Which is good because it makes it much easier to access the summaries and not have to wait hours for the Home page to load. ⏳

🎂 Side note: Happy Birthday to Kokesz from here too! Without him and Edu there would be no BookBase! Happy birthday, my friend!

🤖 An AI will help your progress

This will be our next big step in the market. No one in Hungary is using this yet, so we will be pioneers in this too!

Thanks to my friend Bence Babics, we will now have a personal recommendation in BookBase, which will suggest new summaries based on your reading history, tailored to your development. ✂️

Plus, under the existing books, there will be a "Similar Books" section where you will find similar books to the one you are reading. So, you don't have to browse through hours to find your next valuable study material! 📚

If you're reading this and are looking forward to the Update, just wait until March...

I promise you'll blow your mind there! 🤯

📍 How to make 12 new friends in 1 hour?

Did you know that the vast majority of young people hardly make any new friends?

In fact, to be precise, 78% of them have only 2 close friends. So that's the number of people they can share ideas with or ask for help with obstacles.😔

Yeah, that's not much! There are only 2 reasons for this:

1. It's hard to find like-minded people these days, because many are sucked into the comfort of ordinary life. 😥

2. Young people don't like/dare not socialize, so they don't have much chance to find people like that. 🫥

The good news is that I have a solution for you. I'll show you how you can meet people like me in a fun and infinitely simple way! 🥳

Click on the link below and I'll explain more:

https://conf-00804.ticketninja.io/

See you on the other side! 👋🏼

Let's get down to business! 🪓

💭 Why is it important to be part of a community?

If you think about it, it has provided security throughout history. 🔒

You can think of the cavemen or the ancient Greeks. If you were part of a community, you had a much better chance of getting along than if you tried to do it on your own.

There is an African proverb that I can easily identify with:

"If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go as a team."

As I wrote in the introduction, there's a misconception going around these days that I've seen debunked many times with my own eyes. 😨

"Money makes you safe."

Which I more or less agree with, but I have seen more than one example where money alone has failed to help.

Money does give a degree of security, but what really gives security is the network of relationships! 🤝

Knowing that whatever happens, you know who to turn to!

Here's my case, I feel safe not because I have a healthy amount of money in my bank account, but because I have good connections! ❌

No matter what happens to me, there are always 5-6 people I can always count on!

In today's life, this is what gives me real security. ✅

Let's see how a community is built...

A healthy community is made up of three types of members, all of whom are essential to your development:

1️⃣ More experienced members: these are the people who are more experienced in a particular field than you. They are more experienced than those who are in your field.

2️⃣ Members at a similar level: they are the ones who are following a similar path as you. You are on the same level with them, you can share your challenges with them, and of course they can support you in achieving your goals.

3️⃣ Beginner members: these are the people who are at the beginning of their journey. You can help them by sharing your own experiences, thus strengthening your own knowledge.

💡 Side note: Remember I wrote a few articles ago that you only really know something if you can explain it to a 5-year-old. Well, in your community, it probably won't be 5 year old’s, but if you can communicate your knowledge clearly to others, the community will reward you with respect. Not incidentally, you can remember 90% of the information if you pass it on to someone else. This is the best form of learning.

Many people tend to seek contact only with members of the first group, but this is not the best strategy. 👎🏼

A community is not only about what you can take away from it, but also what you can add to it.

When everyone in a community just wants to "take" - that is, they keep asking questions and asking for help, but giving nothing back - the community quickly becomes depleted. ☄️

Those who share knowledge don't get enough feedback or added value to motivate them to keep sharing. 🧠

A healthy community benefits all members, regardless of their level. 💪🏼

It is therefore important that everyone is actively involved in the life of the community, sharing knowledge and experience while learning from others.

There's a reason we push community building so hard, we know it's that 'little' extra that can add so much to an individual's development beyond the summaries! 🙏🏻

💡 Side note: Plus, life has already prepared me to think ahead. AI will replace many things in the future, but it will never replace community. Sure, you will be able to chat with bots, ask them for advice, but it will be far from sharing your obstacles with a human and brainstorming a solution together.

💡 Side note: I believe that 10 years from now, BookClub will be called a self-development community and not a book summary app.

📕 Book Recommendation: Patrick Bet David's brilliant book "Your Next Five Moves" can help a lot in developing strategic thinking. It's just been added to BookBase, so you can easily listen to it. 🎧

Okay now you understand why we need a community. Now it's time to see how you can be a valuable member of such a community! 😉

🧐 How can you be a valuable member of a community?

To make it even easier to understand, I've gathered my experiences so far and developed a formula to do so.

This has helped me to integrate effectively into communities where I was a newcomer and didn't really speak the language. That was Erasmus! 🌍

I'll show you what they mean and then explain them to you one by one: 🔥

- Interest
- Participation
- Support.
- Participation
- Collaboration

💡 Side note: Okay, that was so far-fetched that it felt a bit like a cheesy writer, but anyway the point got across. 🤡

1. Interest 🔍

First of all, it's important to get yourself interested in becoming part of a community. This could be any community from OM Discord to Tractor Meetup.

If you have the interest, then you need to start looking for what communities are there that you would like to be a part of? 🧐

What do those communities have to offer?
And what can you add to them?

Here you can start your search in several directions:

• 🌐 They could be online communities (Discord, Facebook group, Reddit)

• 📍 Or offline communities (Mindset Meetup, Future Founders Club, Tractor Meetup).

It's worth trying a few first and then making a decision, because...

"The test of pudding is eating it."

As soon as you enter a community it is important to take on a bit of an observer role and try to understand the rules, customs and language of the community. 🕵🏼‍♂️

😎 Example: You join the OM Discord server, write an introduction in the "Introductions" room, so that relatively quickly, many people can get to know you. You will immediately find some connections. Then read back a bit in the "Chatter" and see how the members talk to each other, what the topics are. Where could you possibly contribute?

Once you've done that, we can move on to the next level, "Participate".

2. Participation 💬

Now that you understand the community, you can connect with them.

It's time to join in the conversations, join the chat rooms - if the community is on Discord - and try to meet new people. ✏️

If there are networking events, I would include them here as well, as there you get on a fast track and suddenly get to know many members of the community. It's like a shortcut. 🚀

It takes a minimum of courage, but it pays off handsomely!

😎 Example: If you find a topic you can comment on, post in the chat, join the conversation. Sooner or later, you'll have the courage to go to the Voice Room and chat with the members there. We organize a networking event every 2 weeks on the Discord server, which can help you to get to the next level.

The next step is probably the most important, "Support".

3. Support 🤝

This is where giving value comes in:

"Don't just take from the community, add to it."

Since you already know 1-2 members, you know what their barriers are and what you can do to support them. 🚧

This is where you give to the community! You share your experience, help them, brainstorm with them or just listen to them when they need it.

This is typically the stage where you try to help those on the same level as you and with less knowledge than you. You are trying to lift them up! 🫴🏼

"Communities generally work in such a way that those who do a lot for the community are rewarded with respect by the community."

If you do this effectively, sooner or later the community will lift you up, which will be essential to move to the next level. 🎖️

And by effective, I mean that what you provide really helps them. It could be advice, an idea, a simple friendly chat, anything!

"Respect cannot be bought, it can only be earned."

😎 Example: you've made 2-3 new friends; see how you can help them. How can you add value to them? Let's say you know how to make videos and someone is looking to produce content for TikTok, go into a recording room and spend 10 minutes telling them what to look out for when making a video. Also, keep an eye on the Chat Room because they regularly throw questions in there too. Now is your time to contribute to the community.

If the community recognizes you, it will be easier for you to move to the "Build" level.

4. Building 🛠️

This is the level where you try to make the community better with your ideas.

You propose new events or share your knowledge with a larger group of the community.

💡 Side note: It's important to note that you don't always have to invent something new, it's enough to make an existing thing better.

This only really works if you've done the previous level well and are respected by community members. Because then the leaders in the community are more likely to take you at your word. 🎖️

Imagine if someone logged onto the OM Discord server and said they wanted movie nights and a drawing contest and dance lessons, I'd just blink and say "Yeah cool, we'll think about it." with a message.

But if that same person was an active member of the community, helped a lot of members, shared his knowledge regularly and he pitched these ideas, I'd actually consider them. 🧐

I'd certainly look at one before him, but what would be on my mind is that he already knows the community, so why would he suggest these.

It would make me kind of curious and I would really consider your suggestions.😎

That's exactly what you need to do, to get community leaders to consider your ideas.

If you can do that and give them a good - elaborate - idea, they might do it! From then on, it's your job to make sure the idea really works. 💪🏼

Because if you do, you'll earn the respect of your managers, who are probably more experienced than you.

And if you are recognized by them, you will be recognized by the rest of the community, because their respect will rub off on you. I've talked about a similar topic in a previous post.

😎 Example: you have an idea how to aggregate Blog articles and make them transparent to members. You do it in advance and send it to the leaders to see what they think. Since you did a nice job so it was really useful to have a final product. You have also earned the respect of the leaders.

💡 Side note: That's exactly what Dave did on the Discord server, he organized all the Blog posts so far and collected the book recommendations. The end product was a Notion site that blew my mind. I'll link it here for you. Dave here takes my hat off to you! 🙏🏻

Finally, here's the greatest value a community can provide! The "Collaboration"

5. Collaboration 👥

Collaboration means: Working together

Because most of the community already recognizes you, opportunities open up. They know they can trust you, so they ask you for help.

They'll tell you their ideas, their obstacles and their successes. 🏆

You get to know more and more members, so you get a complete picture of how:

• Who are the people you want to work with?

• Who do you complement each other with, in terms of skills? (Marketing Programming)

• Do you have ideas that others can help you with?

• Can you help someone else with their idea?

If you think about it, you will soon find someone you can start working with. I guarantee you that such collaborations are the best. Extra points if you complement each other's skills. 🔩

😎 Example: To give you an example, here is our example with Edu and Kokesz.

None of us would have succeeded with the idea of the BookBase if we had done it alone, but together we did! 🤝

I met them 1:1 in the community! Kokesz followed OM and I met Edu on OM Discord in a sound room. 🌐

That's the power of community!

Now let's see the summary list of what exactly you do...

But first an interesting fact...

✅ What exactly do you do?

[ ] First, find a community you would like to be part of. This could be OM's Discord server: here's the invitation. 📧

[ ] Step two, if you have the opportunity, introduce yourself so they get to know you quickly. 🤝

[ ] Step three, follow the conversation, understand it and contribute where you can. 🗣️

[ ] Step four, if there are networking events online or offline go to them, so you can get to know more people and speed up your integration. 🌐

💡 Side note: If you have a community on Discord, go to the voice room too, as it's much easier to build a relationship there than in writing.

[ ] Step five, see how you can share your experiences with the community in a way that is valuable to them. 🧐

[ ] Step six, since you already know some members, try to help them. Or simply ask who can you help today? 🙏🏻

[ ] Step seven, think of ways to make the community better and share your ideas with community leaders. 🛠️

💡 Side note: The better you develop your idea, the more value it will be to community leaders and the more useful you will be to them.

[ ] Step eight, by this time you will have plenty of contacts in the community, it's time to seek out opportunities for collaboration. If necessary, answer the questions above and that will help you get started. 👥

Remember, you can always go further together than you can alone.
Now is the time to open up to the world and build your network of connections. 🌐

Because in today's world, that is the only real security! 🔒

If you want to speed up this process, check out this guide.

📝: How to make 12 new friends for the price of 1 pizza without even having to endure awkward conversations!

🔥 Biggest obstacle

It's harsh to say, but I feel like everything is on track now.

The work is just perfectly coordinated, there is no need to wait for anyone, everything is on time. I couldn't wish for a better one! 🤞🏼

There is one big stone on my heart, though, because the Hormozis Podcast and the new BookBase update will be released at the same time, and that's quite a big responsibility.

A lot of things have to click for this to be a big one:

• Good video - which I think is ✅

• Good app - which I think will be good ✅

• Apple to accept the App on time - now that's what's a huge question mark ❓

Here again I can only say that we need to reach back to the Stoics and...

"Focus on what we have an impact on."

In this case, to get it done as quickly as possible, bug free and uploaded to the Appstore! 📲

📖 What am I reading now?

• I finished "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho and I'm not disappointed at all. It was an absolutely life-changing book for me, it confirmed me in many things and made me realize that I am on the right path to live my "Personal Story". 🙏🏻

📕 Book Recommendation: True it is brilliantly summarized above in BookBase, but I honestly believe it is worth reading in its entirety. It's only 170 pages and it's written in big letters.

• I decided to learn how to write good copy, copywriting in English. So, I dove into the modern-day bible of the subject, "Copywriting Secrets" by Jim Edwards. ✍🏼

  • I liked the summary so much on BookBase that I had to read it in full. I'm only 70% of the way through the book, but I've already learned a lot from it. And of course, my reading list has swollen thanks to the recommendations. 📚

💡 Side note: I have noticed that the really great marketing gurus always go back to books from the 1900s. Because the psychology hasn't changed since then and anyone who could sell toothpaste by mere postal mail has a lot to teach me. So, after Copywriting Secrets, I'm going on a journey through time and I'm going to read a lot of books from the 20th century.

📕 Book recommendations: If you're interested in copywriting and want to excel at it, "Copywriting Secrets" by Jim Edwards is a must-read. It saved me years of research. You can find it in BookBase! 🎧

🎧 What have I just listened to?

• I listened to our Hormone Podcast again and noted down the important stuff. It's a treasure, literally! It told me things I've never seen on any of the platforms, so really, unique info. 💎

  • Geri is well on her way with the editing, I think you'll be able to see it on YouTube between 9-16 December!

✍🏼 Top quote

"A community is simply a group of people who agree to grow together." ~ Simon Sinek

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