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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#155: The Importance of Selecting the Right Mentors (and How to Do It)

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Show me your friends and I'll show you your future. It's a common refrain because it's true – you are the average of those you spend the most time with. That's why it's so important to choose your personal and professional mentors wisely. DC and Adam tell you how to choose the best mentors, where to look, what to expect, and more in this episode of Seeking Wisdom. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends. You can connect with DC and his co-host, Adam Schoenfeld, on Twitter @dcancel @schoeny @HYPERGROWTH_Pod

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0:00.0

We're back for another episode of Seeking Wisdom.

0:11.0

We have a mini series going on here with a great illustrious Adam Schoenfeld from the Great Northwest joins me to dig into some of these topics, these mental models,

0:21.6

these things that baffle us and, or at least baffle me. And I'm grateful to have him here.

0:26.8

Adam, thanks for helping me do this. Hey, I'm glad to be here to ask you some questions. Let's get

0:32.7

right into it. Yeah, Adam is leading all this. I do nothing but answer questions.

0:38.1

Well, I'm still younger than you. So the headline of what you wish you knew when you were younger, I am still younger. So maybe I can apply these lessons 10 years ahead of you.

0:48.8

All right, we're going to talk about mentors. And you said, find mentors who have achieved success in what I want,

0:56.3

love, happiness, community, parenting, financial. Let's dig into that. Why did that make the list

1:01.7

for you? Massive one for me. So, you know, we often talk about mentors, or I talk about mentors a lot,

1:07.5

the importance of it. Now I had three mentors who really helped me throughout my life, all named Sam.

1:12.8

That's a whole other episode.

1:14.3

And, you know, one of the things that I found in talking to people about the importance

1:20.4

of mentors and walking through mentorship and how it works and getting questions from the

1:25.8

audience on how do I find one, who's the right one.

1:28.3

One thing that I noticed was people were always thinking about it in a single context, which was professional, which is obvious.

1:34.3

We talk about professional stuff here, but I thought it's important to emphasize that mentors are not only in your professional life,

1:42.3

you should be seeking mentors for every

1:44.3

dimension of your life.

1:45.3

Right?

1:46.3

You want to become a better father.

1:47.5

You want to become a better friend.

1:48.5

You want to become a better wife or husband.

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