You Are the Sum of Your Mentors | Mindset Monday

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Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Who are you learning from? In today’s episode of Mindset Monday, I’m challenging you to look deep in your life and clearly see your goals and the mentors that can help you learn their method of success. All the great figures of the world have modeled after wise people who mastered their lives and used their skills to reach that goal. Are you reinventing the wheel or looking for a mentor that can help you reach your goals?

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0:00.0	Who are you emulating?
0:03.0	Think about it.
0:04.0	Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,
0:07.0	all the way to Alexander the Great.
0:09.0	What did they do?
0:10.0	They learned from a mentor so they could go out and implement and do more and execute
0:14.4	faster and ultimately cut off decades of painful experiences because of that
0:20.2	wisdom. I talked to a young friend recently who was trying to figure out
0:24.3	where she wanted to go in her life and I said look it's very simple you got to
0:26.8	answer a few you know basic questions about life and business and the lifestyle
0:30.3	that you want but ultimately you got to ask yourself this, like, who are you modeling right now?
0:34.7	Who are you emulating?
0:36.3	I am a sum total of all of the mentors I've had in my life.
0:41.2	The people that I chose to pull pieces from, Mike Vance, creativity,
0:45.3	Mike Ferry, discipline, all these extraordinary men and women that were able to share with me
0:50.4	whether it was one-on-one face to face or just by reading their books
0:54.5	taking decades of their work and basically owning it in days after just reading or
1:00.7	listening to something. My point to you is this.
1:03.6	Too many people right now are trying to reinvent the wheel.
1:06.3	Too many people are trying to figure out
1:08.0	like, how do I do this and how do I do,
1:10.2	versus who's already done it?
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