The speaker has met billionaires and eight-figure entrepreneurs who act nothing like you'd expect. The most successful ones are extraordinarily generous and ask how they can help you. Real mentorship happens over meals and casual conversation, not in books.
Yeah, I've been around some of the most high-performing business owners in the world, 8-figure, 9-figure, 10-figure business owners. And the thing that you don't get out of the books that these amazing people write or TV shows or whatever that they have, when you get to meet them personally, I always say this very simply, the ones that are uber successful are the ones that give the most. The ones that are successful in quotation marks aren't the ones that give the most. And that's always fascinated me. But you only get to experience that when you sit in a room with them and you're learning from them and you understand where they're at. And the ones that are billionaires, I've sat down with billionaires who go, Colin, how can I help you? What do you need? And I'm like, is it the other way around? And it's like, no, this is exactly what we do and this is how we do it. So I think that's the piece for me that's the most important. I love spending time with them because I get to read their body language. They get to read my body language. We get to give a hug to each other. We get to spend time with each other. Sometimes have a glass of wine or have a meal together. You don't get that from a book. Sometimes the best mentorship is not through the words you read or the words they say, it's through the actions of who they are.
