Today I answer a question from John, an aspiring entrepreneur. How do I find a mentor?

And my answer is you don't. You don't find a mentor. A mentor is not going to save you. They can't.

And if you're willing to accept that, you can start on the path to where you want to go.

But it starts with you not believing that the perfect guiding voice

is going to tell you what to do next. If you wait for that, you're going to be waiting your

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Thanks. Today, I want to show you why mentors don't give you the answers. And what actually will? I know this firsthand because I struggled with this for years. I thought if I only had a mentor, I've only had somebody who just guide me to where I need to go. That person does not exist, number one. Number two, they don't know. They don't know who you are. They don't know what your challenges are. They don't know what's best for you. Only you know what's best for you. And that's the truth of the matter. That's the bad news. The bad news is that you've got to figure this out on your own. Now, there's strategies, there's skills that you can learn from other people. But when it comes to figuring out what you want, this is going to take internal work.

And I'm going to share with you what to do, step by step.

Number one, a mentor can teach you skills, but they can't make the decisions for you.

You need to build that muscle to make decisions for yourself.

You can learn strategies, you can learn tactics,

you can learn techniques and frameworks. Absolutely. That stuff is important. That stuff is

valuable. And I learn a ton from other people when it comes to those areas. But no mentor is

going to be able to tell you what to do or what you should do because you're living in a different

life. You're living in a

different situation with different goals and responsibilities and resources and fears and baggage

and priorities. I can go on and on and on. The point here is that when somebody is going to

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