Evan argues that everyone has elite-level talent waiting to be unlocked. He credits mentorship, even brief conversations, with helping people break through obstacles and achieve their goals. Mentees often return months later to say his guidance changed their trajectory.
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Success and failure are the same road. It's just you have to push through a little bit farther, you have to drive a little bit longer, you have to dodge a few more obstacles, and then you'll find that success. And so what you're saying is you believe in people, you give them the ability to stick on that road a little bit longer, and maybe they'll get through that final obstacle that allows them to see what sort of opportunity lies in front of them. And that's really cool that you do that. And I mean, you've certainly done it for me.
Yeah. And like, the more you do it, and the more you start to see, like, you'll start to get hooked on it too. But at the beginning, I didn't do it as much as I do now. But then when When you do a little bit, like when you pour belief into one person, and then a year later, or 6 months later, or whatever, they come back and they say, dude, like, I took your advice and look what I made. And then they give you all the credit, you're gonna do the same thing as like, nah, like, I'm 1%. Like, you did the work. But when you see that, it's so fun to see it come back in 6 months or a year or whatever, to see their growth, that it just makes you want to go and find more people to do the same thing with. Because it doesn't take that much time. How much time did I actually invest in— into your podcast? Not a lot. But like, to be