The most generous person in the room slowly becomes the most listened to.

Generosity reads as safety. When you help people without keeping a ledger, they stop bracing around you, and a person nobody braces around gets told things. Over months that turns into being consulted, then into being followed, and none of it was a strategy. Attention just flows toward whoever is not taking anything.

Give something away this week that costs you a little: notes, a ride, the shift nobody wants, twenty minutes explaining what you already understand. Do not mention it afterwards. The part that builds trust is the not mentioning it.