A speaker reflects on why successful people mentor others and shares their experience with Greg, a former COO and CFO, who taught them that most people quit when things get difficult. The difference between those who get help and those who don't comes down to persistence.
And here's my experience with everybody that I've ever encountered that's been successful beyond a certain degree. They all want to turn around and help other people. Almost to a person, very rarely do you meet somebody that's just the dragon hoarding the gold. Usually they want to help others. But what's interesting about that is the people that you want to help are the people that are willing to help themselves. Greg's a really good example of this. I'm not the only person that Greg mentored. Greg had dozens of mentees, especially in the very beginning. When I first met him, he was the COO and CFO of one of the largest privately held banks in the world. And there were all these young people working at the bank that Greg was trying, honestly, very hard to help mentor. And some of them would pursue Greg a little bit, but they'd stop as soon as it got hard. Man, I didn't stop, you know, if Greg called me and said he had a friend at the bank that needed a mini. Storage emptied, they just needed labor. Well, it's like Mr. Miyagi in the wax on, wax off. Like, Mr. Miyagi's making me wax his car. What the hell am I doing? I was on that shit like white on rice on a paper plate in a snowstorm. Because I just sort of knew. I was like, I know what this guy's doing.
