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So what about non-professional events.
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So for non-professional events these obviously are any events that are not professional that don't that
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don't exist just for networking or for professional reasons.
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Very often when I mentioned non-professional events the big the first thing that comes to people's mind
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is golf.
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And I understand this.
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I I was in business school in the 90s and back then a lot of people would say that you know you should
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take up golf.
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They would say stuff like old business deals are made on the golf course and you know golf is business
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person sport et cetera et cetera.
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So there was kind of this idea that if you go to these events that are non-professional then you know
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golf is something that you should do and golf is a sport you should take up and golf is an activity
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a hobby that you should have.
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And so yeah I remember I was practicing golf trying to learn golf.
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I had I had a roommate actually who was very much into golf and he was kind of showing me the ropes.
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And I even took a course our school offered an elective course in golf and I took this course and but
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I realized after a while that well first of all I didn't enjoy it that much.
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I didn't really like playing golf all that much.
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And my favorite part was going to the clubhouse after and having a hotdog and.
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And then later on it took me a while but I also ended up doing a kind of a quick calculation and this
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calculation I tried to figure out you know sort of the amount of time the energy the money that I'd
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be spending on learning golf.
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So this is you know all the time that it would take me to kind of learn golf semi normally semi well
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and all the basically all the money that it would cost me you know for the clubs for the balls for the
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membership because membership isn't cheap for this stuff.
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Very often for the attire because golfers have all their own attire you know to join these clubs and
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to spend weekends and days off or whenever it is afternoons with other people or with friends or whoever
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might be playing golf that this was a very serious investment.
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And at a certain point I was kind of wondering how much money am I going to have to make in these deals
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that I make on a golf course for a hit from to break even or to make this profitable.
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And so after a while I started getting to my head that this might be worth it if you do enjoy golf and
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or if you if the deals that you're talking about are multimillion dollar deals if you're in high finance
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or if you're in like really high end real estate or something like that then yeah.
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Then maybe one of these deals can pay off for this whole investment in golf.
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But let's face it most of us aren't in that in that situation and most of the deals we do they can be
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quite lucrative but they probably aren't worth trying to fake it through years and years of golf just
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because we think you know it could be possibly a good investment because it's always a gamble you never
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know maybe you won't make any deals on the golf course and quite frankly I think it's losing a bit of
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its popularity anyway.
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Having said all that it's just to say that very often you hear similar things like this I've heard a
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similar thing in Europe regarding polo and my general recommendation is just to find something you enjoy
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if you enjoy something then that's probably the best thing to be doing.
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And so for example if you enjoy cycling then you find a cycling club and they meet every weekend or
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every other weekend or wherever my being goes cycle somewhere new.
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Then that's the thing you should join because you're going to you're going to enjoy it.
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First of all you're going to meet other people who have the same passion you do so you'll enjoy talking
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about it with them comparing notes and giving each other advice et cetera et cetera.
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And even if you have to make an investment say a bike or the time you take it's going to be pleasurable
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and it's worth it for you.
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And in essence you want to choose something that even if you don't get any business out of it you still
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find worth it.
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And so I know this is for networking and this course is for you trying to increase your business let's
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say.
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But with non-professional events I think it's best to concentrate on something that you already enjoy
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doing because not only is it less risky because you'll get more out of it but also it shows the fact
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that you enjoy it will show and everyone else will notice and it'll make it that much more likely that
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you actually make better and more sincere friends out of this activity.
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So some other types of examples they don't necessarily even need to be sports like just as as an example
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here in a language exchange language learning this could be some other type of group that maybe you
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could enjoy book clubs school alumni groups so forget those if you attended a certain university college
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or high school or whatever and they have alumni groups then by all means.
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These can be fun and and good things to get involved with a country specific groups are also interesting
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if you're from a different country or have an interest in a different country by the way.
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This doesn't even need to be if there is a French group or like the French embassy or French association
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or anyone says has something close to you you don't need to be French or even speak French to join you
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could just decide that I like French wine I like French food and I want to join and I mean I attend
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a lot of country specific groups and there are plenty of people that are not from that country but they're
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just interested in it and they're always welcome.
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Obviously any sport or hobby you might have could be interesting groups centered around games or movies
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you enjoy no board games are a big thing now.
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So if you're into those you can probably find a group where you can share that with other people.
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Another thing to remember is that you can also create your own group.
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You know if you're interested in something and say board games but there is no group close to you right
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now that meets together to have board games and you can always set one up meetup dot com.
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Once again this is they make it quite easy I think intonations if you're a member or least if you're
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an albatross member is something you can sort of create your own groups anyway if you have some passion
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if you want to meet people you up for board games or I don't know even just for eating out and you know
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you like to go someplace nice to meet once a month or whatever it might be and the group doesn't exist
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yet.
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Feel free to create it because you never know who else might be interested in it and in fact very often
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you'll be surprised.
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