IF THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD NEEDS TO NETWORK, WHAT ABOUT YOU?

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I have always loved to read biographies & autobiographies.  In fact, the first real book I remember reading in elementary school was a biography of Amelia Earhart.  Why I chose that book, I will never know.

Since then, I have read as many biographies as I can get my hands on.  I guess I just enjoy learning about people—particularly famous people. 

I’m currently reading Albert Einstein, His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson.  Let me be quick to admit, I don’t understand any of the science in the book.  Please don’t ask me questions about the special & general theories of relativity, post-Newton expansion, or the deflection of light by gravity.

It’s pretty clear Einstein is one of the smartest people who ever lived & the word “Einstein” is synonymous with genius.

You would think that someone who published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works, & won the Nobel Prize for Physics, would not need to worry about his business & personal relationships.

It’s very clear that if Einstein had not had help from his friends & associates, he never would have had the opportunity to be Einstein.

He had difficulty getting into top schools.  Friends & acquaintances came to the rescue.  After he graduated, it took him eight years to land a job in the Patent Office in Switzerland…a job he never would have gotten without a friend.  His goal had always been to work for a major university, & that wouldn’t have happened without a recommendation.

My goodness!  If Einstein couldn’t have been Einstein without the support of his friends & associates, what chance do we have? 

This is David Sher, your WeMentor guy saying once again, it’s not what you know, but whoo you know.