YOU DON’T NEED MORE NETWORKING. YOU NEED MORE TIME WITH YOURSELF.

YOU DON’T NEED MORE NETWORKING. YOU NEED MORE TIME WITH YOURSELF. Before You Build More Connections With the World, Build a Deeper Connection With Yourself. We have been taught a powerful formula: The bigger your network, the bigger your success. So we keep collecting. Contacts. Memberships. Events. Business cards. Photographs. Invitations. Followers. Prestigious circles. But somewhere in the race to know everyone else, many of us stopped knowing ourselves. Dr. Abhishek Gilara lived this race too. Before Covid, he worked hard to enter the best networking circles he could find. Being accepted felt like progress. Being rejected made him work even harder to prove that he was worthy. Then the world shut down. The networking stopped. And the most important connection of his life began. The connection with himself. He redirected his time toward fitness, management learning, spirituality, writing, family, business, his professional teams and welfare work. His physical socialising became smaller. His learning network became global. His early mornings became his most powerful networking club. And many of the achievements people later asked him about came during the years in which he was spending far more time developing himself than trying to be seen everywhere. This is not a book against networking. It is a book against random networking without clarity. Because every invitation has an invisible invoice. Every yes to an event is a no to something else. Your sleep. Your health. Your family. Your team. Your learning. Your writing. Your routine. Your peace. Or simply your time with yourself. This book asks a different set of questions: Are you networking to learn—or to look important? Are you collecting contacts—or capability? Are you building genuine relationships—or borrowing confidence from prestigious circles? Would you still attend the event if no photograph could be posted? Are you becoming more connected to the world while becoming less connected to yourself? And above all: Before asking who can open the next door for you—have you built the person who will be ready when it opens? Through personal experience, behavioural insights and lessons from business, fitness, spirituality, mentorship, family and leadership, Dr. Abhishek Gilara argues for a different model: Build the centre first. Then build the circles. Network outward. But return inward. Meet powerful people. But own what no one can outbuy. Build bridges. But never lose your base. Attend important rooms. But never hand those rooms the power to define your worth. Because networking may create an introduction. Capability decides what happens after it. And sometimes the best networking decision you can make is not another event. It is going home. Sleeping on time. Waking up. Sitting with yourself. And building the person your future network will one day be proud to introduce. Before you build more connections with the world, build a deeper connection with yourself.