TIL: community, depression & width

Have you ever thought of starting your own community?

Let me share my experience before you do so.

Let’s start from the basics.

A community is a group of people who share common characteristics, interests, or goals, and often reside in the same area or interact regularly.

There is a huge set of reasons for starting something on your own, but I want to share a perspective that changed my perspective forever.

Every week a couple of times I was finding myself home.

At home without something particularly interesting to do.

I was wondering if I should trade 4 hours of my life to go out and have pretty much the same experience.

I hadn’t realized that instead of going out, I could connect with 5-10 community members. Connect & build something meaningful between us.

Devoting a couple of afternoons of your week can be an interesting choice.

You can connect and network with people within your community.

In that way, you consistently explore opportunities.

Instead of engaging in random conversations on a surface level, you can make this a weekly or monthly occurrence.

Allow you to build in-depth relationships with the people you respect or care about.

THINGS I’VE LEARNED

1.
The new dimension of depth

Marketing is building new relationships at scale.

Effective marketing is often done when you do things that other people don’t.

Depth triumphs over any form of trendy marketing.

In other words – Transparency and a genuine connection that resonates with audiences on a profound level.

This is often what makes the difference.

Width may offer immediate accessibility and seem scalable.

It often remains superficial, lacking the depth necessary to cultivate lasting relationships.

The magic sometimes is hidden behind scaling the unscalable.

This may also be one of the reasons why influencer marketing has emerged as one of the dominant marketing methods of our decade.

2.
#1 symptom of depression

Even though I am not a psychologist and what I am about to say is probably not accurate,

I think that the #1 symptom of depression is rumination.

In other words, pathological obsessing over your pain.

Thinking about your problems all the time

and talking about your problems all the time

literally makes the problems grow.

I’ve heard this theory on a Joe Rogan episode and it just makes sense.

I’d love to hear your opinion.

3.
Pets work on you more than you work on them

Having a pet can be hard at times.

You become a parent.

Something you may not have thought about is that regardless of the effort and sacrifices it takes to keep your pet happy, the effects that parenthood has on your character and your mood make everything worth it.

Taking care of another being is not an easy job.

Having an animal child may give you some valuable experience points before having your first human child.

GROW YOUR INFLUENCE

Post this post. Run this ad. Set up your Calendly.

Calendly is an app that allows you to book calls with other people. If you go to Calendly.com, you can have your account set up in minutes.

Once you do so, share the link with your community (or followers) and encourage them to have genuine conversations with you.

I bet you will be surprised by the opportunities and the quality of the conversations that will be created in your week.

to your growth and influence,
>> Chris Fountoulis
Founder – GrowthOfInfluence.com & Elcune.com
chris@growthofinfluence.com

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