How to Find a Mentor (Ep. 203)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ready for the next level, but not sure how to get there? Maybe you need to find yourself a mentor. We talk about what it means to be a mentor and how to find one. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain Neil deGrasse Tyson Standard Broadcast Star Talk podcast Marques Brownlee on YouTube Wendover Productions on YouTube Listen Money Matters The Ultimate College Debate Roundtable How to Save Money in College Round Table Peter Drucker Winning, by Jack Welch Weapons of Influence #4: Liking (Ep. 195) Steve Kamb Nerd Fitness Benny Lewis Fluent in 3 months Caleb Wojcik Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:06:09 - What exactly is a mentor 0:20:08 - How to and how not to find mentors 0:32:22 - Mastermind groups (or Jedi councils) 0:37:59 - Criticisms on certain aspects of social media 0:45:46 - Conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:33.4	What's going on everybody and welcome back to the college info geek
0:37.0	podcast with special guest Ben Franklin's ghost.
0:42.1	Yeah, yep what camera is that on? uh... Ben Franklin's ghost. Yeah?
0:43.0	Yep.
0:44.0	What camera is that on?
0:45.0	He's not on camera.
0:46.0	He's just here to haunt us.
0:49.0	That was his contribution.
0:50.0	Okay.
0:51.0	He did specifically say that he would not contribute any advice, but he would just be present.
0:57.4	So, I don't know. All right. I wasn't wearing. I'm feeling the patriotic spirit maybe. Oh always feel that spirit every day every single day yep you just wake up man I just feel so patriotic every day every single day
1:11.6	Some cool stuff happened over the last, well week and a half, I think it's been since we last recorded or maybe, yeah, when do we last record?
1:19.0	I don't know. It's probably a week and a half ago.
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