In a previous post, I wrote an brief "overall" review on the book Thou Shall Prosper by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. This book comes highly recommended by both Dave Ramsey and Dan Miller.
In this post, I continue going through each commandment in more detail. Today, we're going to look at The Second Commandment - Extend the Network of Your Connectedness to Many People.
Lapin suggests in this chapter that friendships lead to wealth, rather than the reverse. Here are some of his key points regarding building relationships:
- Honor the relationship with your parents and learn from them.
- Health and human companionship do go hand in hand.
- Try to win friends not in order to influence people for your benefit, but for the sheer joy of forming and maintaining human relationships. This cannot be faked!
- Find opportunities to make friends - civic clubs, Rotary International, synagogue, church, etc.
- Forge friendships by creating ongoing obligations. This may seem materialistic, but constantly creating and discharging obligations nurtures and sustains a friendship.
- Only crowds of people can create wealth - locate yourself in the heart of large populations of people who share your values. Then begin connections.
- Improving connections enhances wealth creation.
- Helping others improve their lives helps you improve your own life.
- Don't be a "wage slave" - be in business for yourself.
- Be proud of and let people know what you do.
- Choose your friends and customers carefully.
- Service doesn't mean servility.
- Love others, not just yourself.
- To learn how to serve, learn how to be served.
This book's second commandment could be summarized thus: Make lots of new friends, try to help them, and make sure that they all know how you could help them and that you are eager to do so.
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