Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Success and failure are the same road, with @EvanCarmichael

4 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Evan Carmichael argues that success and failure are the same road, and that a small push from a mentor can keep someone going. He describes mentorship as low-cost, high-impact: people return months later with tangible results from brief advice, fueling both their growth and his motivation to help more.

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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