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Mentorship Through Friendship #mentorship #startups #entrepreneurship

Name: Mentorship Through Friendship #mentorship #startups #entrepreneurship
Uploaded: 2024-12-10T14:00:15+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Ray Deck
Description: In this monologue, the speaker advocates for a mentorship model built on friendship, describing how regular weekly calls with domain experts foster rapid…

10 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker advocates for a mentorship model built on friendship, describing how regular weekly calls with domain experts foster rapid learning and a growth mindset. By positioning himself as less knowledgeable in each expert’s field, he receives targeted guidance that noticeably improves his competence over a few sessions. Simultaneously, he offers his own expertise—technology, diagnosis, consulting, and software product development—to the same peers, creating a two‑way exchange where both parties benefit. The speaker emphasizes that when you surround yourself with people who are better than you in specific areas, the relationship becomes mutually supportive and accelerates personal and professional development.

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Embrace mentorship through friendship. I have a number of calls that I do every week with people who are experts in their domains, and I learn a tremendous amount from each of them, and they each imbue me with expertise from their fields, and that allows me to grow a great deal, and that allows me to keep up that growth mindset as well, because I will talk to them and I will be dumber than them in their domains. But they will even point out that I'm smarter in these domains than I was when we were talking like 3, 4 calls ago. And that allows me to grow. And at the same time, I'm bringing my expertise to them and they are asking me questions about my particular expertise. They might be asking me about technology or about diagnosis or about building a consulting practice or developing software products, which I've all done successfully. But they learn as well. When you have people who are better at you or who you perceive at least to be better at you in a given domain, they help you grow. And that friendship becomes mutual.