Ryan Holiday

Like, you know how the movie ends, right?

Every movie ends with you dying for all of us.

So like, what are you rushing towards?

I like reading.

Why am I trying to get this over faster?

So that's definitely one.

I mean, look, another one, people think mentorship is this like hack.

Now, it is right in the sense that there's a bunch of lessons that you don't have to learn necessarily by painful trial and error.

And you can have someone teach you.

And you see this.

People are like, will you be my mentor?

I don't get as many of those as I used to.

But I do think people thought it's this like button that you press.

A mentorship is something that you will get value in over the course of 12 years or 30 years or 40 years, right?

Like it's like you're out doing stuff and having experiences and then you're bouncing it off this person and you're also watching them and they're asking you.

It's this symbiotic relationship that

for the most part, evolves over a long period of time.

It's not like you're pulling your dead battery up to another car and then the jumper cables get yours going again.

Like it's a much more involved thing.

If you have the power to magically 10X things, you'd just be 10Xing your own stuff all the time.