8. Be honest. Authenticity is a rare feature which can help you to establish fruitful professional relationships. Do not try to build a network of contacts based on a personality that is not really yours or one that is pretending to be someone else. Working together with someone who thinks that you are someone else than you really are is not the best idea. I’m not necessarily talking about just saying that you’re a rocket scientist when you’re really a clerk, but rather telling someone things just to show yourself from a good angle, but far from the actual truth.
