Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

What Mentors Teach That School Rarely Does | MikeAbramowitz

18 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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Cameron Herold struggled with reading until a mentor handed him Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. That one book sparked a lifelong habit that led to nine books of his own. He argues mentors have skin in the game: they profit when their mentees succeed, unlike teachers paid the same whether students learn or fail.

I failed reading in middle school because I didn't want to read the books. But then my mentor gives me a book, how to win friends and influence people. And I read that book and reading became learning. And then, you know, now I wrote nine books. And, like, I love reading and I love learning. Our mentors made money when we made money, so they were incentivized to help us succeed, where, like teachers, they were paid the same whether I get an A or an F. So it was just like a whole different paradigm and of, like, a job that we probably had before, like working, bagging groceries or something.