A mentor tells their mentee to teach a friend instead of referring them to Ray. Teaching a peer reinforces your own understanding, clarifies your ideas, and creates value for both of you. It's learning by doing it yourself.
Mentor to learn. I got a question from one of my mentees about, like, they had somebody who was a friend of theirs and they were sort of asking— their friend was asking for their advice and they said, "No, no, you should really talk to Ray about this stuff." And my answer was, you know, it's fine that they won't talk to me, but it's great that they want to talk to you because your opportunity here is to then be a good mentor to that person and to be able to teach that person the things that you think that he thinks, that my mentee thinks, and then be able to hear his own words coming out of his mouth to get his thinking really clarified, to be able to understand his own ideas better through teaching them to someone else. By doing that, you not only create value for your friend, for the mentee, maybe even create a commercial relationship, but you you really park the ideas more deeply in your own mind. Teaching to learn is a fundamental idea. Mentoring to learn is transcendent.
