Networking, the word every successful entrepreneur, creative pursuer and mentor talks about. “The one and the only thing you need to do to succeed in life”. If you have ever attended an event where networking is a possibility or even obligatory, you know it can be really hard getting around to doing it. Even though everyone wants the same thing, you just want to bury yourself through the ground with your lukewarm beer in your hand. And if this was not hard enough — doing it is as an introvert sure is.

The first step to networking includes finding an event to attend in the first place. This is the easy part. In most locations there often loads of events in the genre of your interest that involves mingling or networking with other people. I would recommend browsing websites like Eventbrite, Meetup, and Facebook to find interesting events. I would also highly recommend not to attend meetups solely focused on networking — since this often puts pressure on the attendees to talk to as many people as possible in as little time as possible, instead of engaging in quality conversations. Try finding events of your interest that you sense might include networking in some form. One important thing to remember is, it will always end up being more fun than you think when signing up for an event.

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