Mike Dillard Alpha Networker

What It Means To Be “Alpha”…

January 26 2010 with 208 comments
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Why do groupies flock irrationally to celebrities and rock stars?

Why do people become “famous”?

Why do some women find certain men completely irresistible even if he’s dead broke and usually a jerk?

Why can you throw 10 complete strangers in a group together, and within minutes or hours, a leader will emerge that the others will follow?

Why does everyone want to work with the top earners in your company?

Why can those individuals join any opportunity in the world and have a sizable organization within weeks or months with little or no effort compared to the average Joe who’s busting his tail for dismal results?

And most of all, how do you tap into this phenomenon and become pursued yourself?

These are questions I asked myself for years, before I discovered the answer that I’m going to share with you right now…

And even though you’ll have the answer within your grasp within the next few minutes, you’ll still have to go through the process of actually becoming “Alpha”, if you want to enjoy the rewards, which is why we produced the new “Alpha Networker” program you’ll learn more about tomorrow.

Now the answers to the questions above lye in basic human psychology, so that’s where we need to start.

What I’m about to share with you is at the core of human-to-human attraction, and I’m actually pulling this from the pages of “Magnetic Sponsoring” for you today, because I don’t think I could say it better a second time round…

So know this: Attraction is not a choice.

It’s a biological/instinctual trigger that evolved millions of years ago to help keep you alive, which is usually why it’s never consciously understood or perceived by people until they actually start to study it.

Here’s a very basic version of a complex, PHD level subject…

By nature, people thrive and live in social groups. They follow a leader until they gain enough experience and confidence to challenge for leadership themselves or start their own group.

This is a survival instinct that has been engrained in us.

People cannot survive on their own, so we’ve formed trusting groups and families.

The leader (usually referred to as the Alpha), was typically the strongest and most dominate individual in the group or family both physically and mentally. One of his primary responsibilities was to protect his group, and in return for that protection, they would follow him.

Everyone lived longer and were therefore able to reproduce, passing down these survival traits in the process to the next generation.

That instinct is still present and definitely used today, but the inherent value of a leader is now expressed through different abilities such as business savvy, sociability, monetary means, and education, instead of physical prowess.

Essentially, we are hard-wired to find other people attractive or un-attractive based on the level of value they have to offer because we gain a portion of their power through the association alone.

Think of a celebrity and his or her entourage.

The people in their group gain social status through their association with him, making them more attractive to others. They become “cooler” and more attractive to other people outside the group who want in.

There are two important lessons here:

1: People have a subconscious attraction to others who convey leadership qualities and have a high level of personal value.

2: If you want to make it big in networking, (or anything in life), you must learn to convey those qualities, and eventually become a leader with value to offer others.

If your prospect or new distributor doesn’t have these qualities, they will struggle as well until they develop them. It’s likely that this process will continue for years until they finally gain the right qualities by accident, or until someone nice happens to share this book with them.