#138: The 3 Types of Role Models Everyone Needs In Their Career

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Mentors. Role Models. Learning from others. Those are topics we talk about regularly here on Seeking Wisdom – but there are actually 3 types of role models to follow and watch if you want to grow in your career, business, or personally. DC and DG break down Role Models, Reverse Role Models, Anti Role Models, and more on this episode of Seeking Wisdom. Before you go leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review and share the pod with your friends! Be sure to check out more insights on the Drift blog at drift.com/blog and find us on Twitter @davegerhardt, @dcancel and @seekingwisdomio. In this episode: 0:31- Introduction to today’s topic on role models 2:00 - Role models in general and why you need them 2:20 - Role models allow you to see what’s possible. 3:00 - Learn what works and doesn’t work from other people. 3:21 - We are in a constant fight with our own egos. 4:35 - We all model throughout our lives, but we get to a point when we stop modeling. 5:25 - The best marketers learn faster than anyone else. 6:13 - The classroom example- Whose earnings would you choose? 7:11 - Selecting your Role Model(s) 7:44 - Find somebody that is doing the same thing you are doing today. (peer) 7:50 - Find somebody that is one level ahead of you. 7:57 - Find somebody who is multiple levels ahead of you. 8:10 - Reverse Role Models introduced 8:18 - DG goes to a dinner event in with CMOs 10:00 - Reverse Role Models help you figure out what is possible. 10:32 - Anti Role Models- Find the people exhibiting the traits that never lead to the things that you want. (Charlie Munger’s Inversion Theory) 13:15 - Getting caught up in equipment, what you look like 13:45 - Rate & Review! Links: Learn more about Charlie Munger’s Inversion theory: https://www.learning-theories.com/inversion.html

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0:00.0	Yes.
0:01.0	Oh, that good old coffee. It's good? Mm-hmm. We need to upgrade the studio. We do. We were just talking about that. We've been talking about this for a long time. No action. We need books. We need murals. We need fan mail. Yeah. I'm afraid this doesn't show the true character of who we are. No. I feel like we're in, your basement will be nicer this. We're in your base.
0:23.3	We're in somewhere in my basement. If I had a basement, if he had a basement.
0:27.3	What's going on? What are we talking about?
0:28.9	Sorry, so you sent me this message about anti-role models.
0:21.1	Okay.
0:21.8	Okay?
0:22.2	It hit me like, role models is one of the most important things that we talk about on this podcast, on this show.
0:27.8	It's more than a podcast to me. You talked about anti-roll models. I thought this would be a good opportunity to talk about anti-roll models. But actually, let's do a full episode on role models. And let's call this the three types of role models everybody needs in their career. I want to unpack each role model. The nephew has a lot of notes. I got notes. I got notes.
0:55.0	So we have a system.
0:56.0	We're getting a system down now where I keep this doc as we do the show. And so like if there's things that you say or we say or whatever, I'd mark it down as a clip. So then the video crew knows like, oh, pull it out. So then Dan or Gonsuerv doesn't have to listen for 30 minutes to then pick out the good clip.
0:57.0	Woo! Look at that.
0:54.0	So, so... Saving you time, G.
0:56.0	But, no, no. What? So then Dan or Gonsuerv doesn't have to listen for 30 minutes to then pick out the good clip.
0:57.0	Ooh!
1:11.2	Look at that.
1:11.8	So.
1:12.6	So.
1:13.2	Saving your time, but no, no.
1:13.3	I had this conversation with Dan. Shout out. Young Dan. Young Dan. Young Dan the other day. I said, look, I want to pull out the clips and I want to write the headlines. Yeah. But if you have the mindset of I'm going to do this for you, this is your job, you're never going to learn it.
1:14.9	So I'm going to show you some of the things that I think would be good clips and headlines,
1:11.4	but I want you to take this. Oh, hey. And then take it with it. Okay. So that's how we got the clip. So like if you go, he sent me this great clip today, which is like, you know, one that we wrote down last time, which is the tell in hiring, you know, about management or whatever the heck it was.
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