Harley Finkelstein

You got to check them out.

They're great.

One thing that I think a lot of people, and I myself made this mistake, was that you end up, when you think about the idea of a mentor, you end up thinking about the 360 of the mentor.

Like, I'm going to emulate everything about the mentor.

My experience has been that, back to the spiky object thing, that any mentors that anyone watching or listening have in their lives, they probably are really good at something, like really good, obviously they wouldn't be a mentor otherwise, but they're probably lacking in other areas entirely.

And I had a mentor early on in my life that ended up convincing me to go to law school.

And I won't say his name now because I'm about to say something fairly, well, he won't mind, but I won't say his name anyway.

He's the one that convinced me to move to Ottawa to go to law school.

He convinced me to go to law school to become a better entrepreneur, not become a lawyer.

Great man.

I've known him since I was a child.

I was actually, years before, I was the ring bearer at his first or second, I think his first wedding or second wedding.

Which brings me to my point is that this guy is an amazing career mentor and helped me more than almost anyone else.

He's not what I would call a marriage or relationship mentor.

He's on his third marriage now.

And he's happily married now, but he's on his third marriage.

If you try to cargo cult everything about one particular person, you're going to adopt all their good stuff and all their bad stuff.

Instead, it's much easier to figure out what are the couple things I want to get good at.

Entrepreneurship, being a great dad, being a great philanthropist, a great DJ.

I want to be a great tea entrepreneur.