Thread by @BowTiedElephant

How do you work for the people you want to work with?

Or the story of Ekalavya

A Thread from personal experience 👇

In the Indian Epic Mahabharatha there's the story of a guy called EKALAVYA who wants to learn archery from the greatest guru DRONA

The problem is Drona won't teach him

He was too busy teaching the Kaurava and Pandava bros who were the Royalty

This, however did not deter Ekalavya because nothing stops a determined man

He just made a statue of Drona and began self-learning archery while fully taking it in his mind that the statue is no different than the real Guru Drona himself

And master he did the art of Archery

End of story as this explains the point I want to make. Read the rest in wikipedia if u want

There's a lesson here tangential to the point of the story

When you find someone who u really admire and think you can learn a lot from, you just have to do anything and everything to get in their radar

The problem is, many other determined people will do the same

And the Great One will simply ignore all of you

So how will u distinguish yourself?

While all others are still waiting for the Great One's eyes to befall on them and their ardent emails, you can simply proceed to work for them already

The key to arrive at this mindset is a 2-step process:

When u come across a Great One,

1. First, throw them off the pedestal

This is not to disrespect them, this is the only way your mind will begin to work on new ideas to collaborate with them

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2. Then, just ask yourself:

"How can I be of help to them?"
"What talents/skills of mine could help advance *their* mission?"
"How to get them more rich?"

Now, let your mind do the magic

Ideas will arrive

The Universe will cook up something special for you.
Just grab whatever it gives and go with it courageously

Do the work
Share it with them
Do more work
Keep sharing

Eventually they'll notice and you'll get your break

This is in fact how many Degen Animals get noticed by the great Bull @BowTiedBull

They just provide value after value to the community in whatever ability they can

@jackbutcher calls this Permissionless Apprenticeship

Remember the Ekalavya story and these 2 words

I got a client for my agency work using only this method

And I missed a great opportunity to work with one of my favorite people (u might know them!) just yesterday

Still smacking my head for that

But this lesson is being impressed deeply into my mind slowly and I can't help but win in the coming days and years if I just follow it

I wish that for you too!

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