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What does it mean to accept that you'll die and be remembered for helping?
I've had a lot of mentors in my career. Many of them were paid, a few of them were free.
Why should mentors stop holding back and mentees respect their mentors?
The point of a good teacher is that the student does pass the teacher.
What story illustrates the relationship between Warren Buffet and his mentor?
I see this thing that happens all the time.
How can mentees surpass their mentors, and what does it say about mentorship?
When you are a kid and you learn arithmetic, first you learn your numbers and then you learn how to add. You level up and you learn how to multiply. And then you level up from there and you learn algebra. When you get to algebra, you don't think, man, my arithmetic teacher was a idiot. I can't believe they didn't teach me this stuff. It's like, dude, you weren't ready.
What lessons can be learned from the joy of mentoring others?
And you had to have the arithmetic in order to get to the multiplication. It's not that that teacher was an idiot. It's that that was the sequence. And so when you have a first teacher that teaches you the basics and you have a more advanced teacher later, it doesn't mean you should shit on your first teacher. It's like that person got you ready to receive the next thing. earlier on in my career, I definitely did the other way. This guy didn't know anything.
How does mentorship impact the next generation's success?
This guy is the guy. Rather than seeing it like you would see any other thing that you'd have in school. I've had the opportunity and the gift of being able to mentor whatever you want to say, provide advice, counsel, share my experiences. A lot of people hold me in a regard and most people who are winners are competitive. It's just like who you are, right? You want to win. You want to beat everybody because that's part of the competitive drive. But I think there's a comma there that needs to get put in, which is that you have to accept two things one is that you are going to die and no one is going to remember like real real 10 000 years from now no one's going to remember at all number two is that when you're at the end of your life the people who are going to be your buyer bet side are not the people you vanquish but the people that you helped i know that i have passed a lot of the mentors that i've had in my career in terms of financials etc earlier on used to think that made me better than them
As I've had a couple more years and some more scars, I've realized something different, which is that I was only able to get better than them because they gave me the head start. Step on my shoulder, you can reach that next branch. I think I experienced a lot of joy knowing that other people don't have to suffer as much.
What is the new definition of success for teachers and mentors?
We were walking around outside yesterday and someone's like, dude, I did everything you have and we're doing $4 million a year now. He was emotional just knowing that it's happening. It makes stomaching the hard times easier. It feels like it's not just me trying to do this for myself. It's me trying to do this for a lot of people. If I'm failing over and over again at this thing, I know that once I figure it out, I'll be able to help a hundred people cheat code their way through it and not spend five months figuring something out or two years figuring something out. Like I was stuck at mid 30 million for three years to everyone watching. They're like, boo hoo. That's not the point is that there's another guy who's going to get to that point and he's going to move right past it like in a blink of an eye because I've had the right advice that I didn't have.
And I think that if the mentees and the mentors both see it that way, then the mentees will stop shitting on the mentors that help them, and the mentors will stop trying to hold back secrets that have propelled them further because the point is not that you're gonna beat everyone. You're gonna get really old, and then you're gonna die. As you're getting older, there are gonna be people who are younger who had a head start. And as long as the next guy honors the fact that that guy died on the battlefield to give him these lessons and come back, and they have to recognize that they're going to die on the battlefield too for the next generation to pass them, they have it easier than us. That's the point of progress.
And so rather than lamenting that the next generation has it easier, I thought that what we all say, I want to make the world a better place.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What does it mean to accept that you'll die and be remembered for helping?
0:00–0:04
2
Why should mentors stop holding back and mentees respect their mentors?
0:04–0:08
3
What story illustrates the relationship between Warren Buffet and his mentor?
0:08–0:09
4
How can mentees surpass their mentors, and what does it say about mentorship?
0:09–0:23
5
What lessons can be learned from the joy of mentoring others?
0:23–0:43
6
How does mentorship impact the next generation's success?
0:43–1:45
7
What is the new definition of success for teachers and mentors?
1:45–5:21