Get Interested In People

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

I don’t remember the name of the book anymore, maybe it was just an interview with some famous person. The bottom line was that a man in the dashing nineties, like many then, went to America to earn extra money and try his luck.

But reality was not at all what he had imagined. The money soon ran out, and with a Soviet diploma as a doctor, he was not hired anywhere. What to do? I remembered my skills in sports, and began to earn money in a fitness club. Rather, he interrupted himself there with modest earnings, so as not to die of hunger.

In the sports club, many African Americans worked in auxiliary jobs. Our hero communicated with them every day, talked, was interested in their life, and found a common language, like an outcast who is also not accessible to the upper strata of society.

Unlike him, these guys had at least a steady income, housing, insurance. It is not known how the fate of the man would have developed further, but one day his dark-skinned friends, watching how he knocked about "on the parcels", decided to throw himself at him, at least fifty dollars - lifting for the arrangement of life.

In order not to offend, they said that they were lending, let them return it when they were "unleashed" in America. And he got off the ground! Instead of renting more suitable housing, the man bought a used car and began to tax the whole day. And at the same time, while driving a car, I decided to improve my English.

Talking to people, Vlad (let's call him that), was sincerely interested in their life, especially since he regularly drove many in his area, knew where they lived, worked, and had a rest. And also, passengers shared stories with him about their sores, jokingly calling him "dock".

But for Vlad it was not a joke, he spent all the money he earned from car sharing to pay for the exams to confirm his diploma. And during the taxation period, he also managed to gain for himself an extensive clientele from the residents of the district. And all the employees of the fitness club became his potential clients.

The moral of this "fable" is this: sincerely take an interest in the people around you, even if you yourself are not in the best circumstances. This is what I tell writers in a writing consultation. Now communication has moved to the Internet space. So don't be afraid to pay attention to your writing colleagues and the reading audience!

And, like a river with jelly banks, and an apple tree with golden apples in a fairy tale - they will surely answer you kindly, and not lash branches in your face. You will see, and over time you will gain a clientele for yourself, like the described man. And also, increase your rating, attract a large number of subscribers. And most importantly, you will feel that you have someone to write and work for.

And this is popularity, to which, as it were, high earnings will follow. Good luck with your creativity, productive and warm communication with readers!

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