This part inspired me to do some additional searches on the benefits of making relationships and levels/depths of relationships.

One of the topics that I’ve been very fond of since long time ago is “Friendships”. At least, it is connections-related but from another perspective and that’s why I was eagerly waiting for this part!!

I would agree with you here that connections is the most important part. At the end, we are human living in a community together and we are meant to live together and know each other, and all what we need is learning how to know each other properly.

General speaking, we need to learn how to make effective and successful relationships with diverse levels/depths!

The importance of this part comes from the 1st point you mentioned:
You can’t do it alone:
Speaking of myself, I tend to do things myself as much as I can without seeking others help.
My nature is to help others not to seek others help as much as possible. I don’t know this is because it makes you feel proud of yourself when you do things on your own without getting any help from others and makes you believe in yourself. But there is a mistake I was doing.
My mistake was that I never asked for help when I needed it, and I’m trying to change this and this part has confirmed me to do this!!
No one reached the tip without seeking the help of others.

and what inspired me the most is:
Number of Connections vs. Depth of Connections:
Or Quantity vs. Quality of Relationships, this is what inspired me the most to make more searches on relationships. I found that relationships can fall in 3 levels: Social, Personal, and Intimate. The intimate relationship is the deepest among them, but I don’t think this is a right choice to use here unless you wife is in (LoL).
In other words, depth of relationships will determine the depth of influence, how close are we with others? how comfortable are we towards others? The comfort level!!
Low quantity with high quality of connections is better than the reverse!!

At last but not least, my feedback to you is that you have really done a very inspirational series and keep feeding us the precious knowledge you have experienced..

Thanks a lot for your effort and thanks also for the link “that was very kind of you”.

Best Regards
Husain

Your very welcome for the links, its been a fun series to write about and discuss with everyone! Thanks.

Thanks so much for the inclusion!

This is a great wrap-up of the series, and I totally vibe with everything you’ve written here. I used to believe I could make it on my own, and that I didn’t have to rely on anyone else to create the life of my dreams. I’ve learned over time that this is NOT the best way to do things!

I like your explanation of how the depth of relationships is what’s important, NOT the number of relationships. I think this is an important point for people to understand. It allows for more honest feedback and collaboration.

Thanks for the wonderful series. I will definitely come back to it and read it over and over again.

- Rahul

Also, as you mention, if you have a network of people who “inspire, question and challenge you, support and help, you can much more easily research topics, come to conclusions, put down ideas and have discussions that take that even further.” I’ve found this to be very true in my own life: as I develop connections, in turn it has helped me to be more creative, productive, challenged.

I’ve bookmarked this series and will continue to come back and re-read it, there’s a lot of great material that you’ve covered here. Thanks also for the link – it was very nice of you!

All the best
-Ross

Thanks for all your added discussions and posts about these recent articles, it’s been great to read through and see your perspective on things as well. Without the ideas and thoughts of others, there really is no perspective is there?

First of all, thank you so much for the link!
This is a top, top article. And your series have been great and inspiring. Thank you, I love it! As you know that I’m new to the blogging world and I’m grateful that you are the first person to be “connected” to me.

Connection is a great thing and you remind me of the book I’ve recently read “Group Genius” by Keith Sawyer. He basically wrote that all innovations from the beginning of the history come from an “invisible collaborative web.”

I’ll think about your series through again and I hope that I will be more productive, I think that I will be. Thank you Mike.

It’s certainly been about the people for me in this series which helps to prove my points with this last section on connections. I highly value all of you who’ve helped comment, discuss and promote this series for me, I will certainly do more.

If you haven’t seen them, I do have a couple other shorter series in my ARCHIVES page at the top if you are interested. Thanks everyone!

Love this last point! For me a concept such as “productivity” can be so cold and isolated. Wonderful to bring in the fact that an integral component of successful productivity is PEOPLE.

Thank you for the series and thank you for the link.

Juliet