Networking!! You major in something you love, get great grades, take summer internships in the area of your interest, join the politically correct clubs (sororities) and never get caught at anything illegal.  Then you enter the real world, armed with all kinds of facts that you can, at will, recall at a moments notice, should you need them.  You dress well, smell great, wear sensible shoes, and put in the long hours that it takes to hone your craft, and, of course, get noticed.  You keep a projected five year plan scribbled down somewhere in your desk, in case you get considered for the next promotion up from your entry level job.  You wait, and keep your enthusiastic attitude at the ready.  Then, one day, the big jerk in the next cubicle gets the promotion you deserve because he knows something that you don’t.  He or she knows how to network.  They know how to get that odd entrepreneur client to remember their name, and seek them out in social situations.  They know how to impress, flatter, sell out and kiss up to, without losing peoples’ respect.   I did not know about this kind of brilliant behavior, then, but I am learning.