Article: Why you need a mentor

● in order for a mentorship to be successful, you have to be willing to be mentored - be vulnerable

and own up to your shortcomings, be willing to work on them, be able to communicate with your
mentor
● A good mentor helps you set measurable goals as well as strategies to achieve them, but also
challenge you so that you are not complacent and hold you accountable for yourself and your
goals
● A good mentor will have personal experience and stories to tell you that might resonate with you,
and inspire and motivate you to achieve your goals and succeed without making the unnecessary
mistakes - important to be vulnerable and connect

Podcast:

● Holistic mentorship - guidance on every aspect of life, things that affect everything else - different
from other types that are specific / less personalised like sport mentors, peer mentors etc.
● The greatest gift in life is being able to help someone, the hardest thing in life is being able to
help someone
● I need my mentor but my mentor doesn’t need me - have to continually work for and earn that
mentorship, be consistent and continually activate it
● The mentor-mentee relationship is unique - my mentor has a financial interest in me - my benefits
also mean my mentor’s benefits
● This mentorship programme is an opportunity to be grateful for - one that is personalised and not
a cookie cutter process - finding such kinds of mentorship is immensely difficult

Book

● The idea of being a go-giver - the more you give the more you have, which sounds
counterintuitive in a seemingly dog eat dog world, but so many successful people in the world are
go-getters, and it has been proven giving is how you achieve lasting success regardless of the
whatever your definition of success maybe
● This idea of giving is also an ideal - we’re not giving as a quid pro quo, or as a way to get ahead,
but because it is a fulfilling way to be - this part really resonates with me
● The impact of the book: being a go-giver - not just a book but a movement, being integrated
widely by people in all sorts of businesses, inspired masses of entrepreneurs to change the way
they think about business
● Joe was a go-getter who felt like the harder he worked, the further away his success “more going
than getting” - contrast to Gus who seemed to not be a go-getter, an ancient relic who’s only kept
in the company out of loyalty who had long rambling phone calls with Pinterest clients about
anything but business, and yet had his own office
● Joe decided to do the unexpected and phoned The Chairman, expecting to have to convince
them to meet up, but was shocked to find he was willing to meet on a Saturday and also willing to
give Joe the Trade Secret