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You Don't Need Mentors

Name: You Don't Need Mentors
Uploaded: 2025-03-12T03:35:02+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this concise monologue, Shanli Liu argues that formal mentors are unnecessary because progress is built on standing on the shoulders of those who came…

12 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise monologue, Shanli Liu argues that formal mentors are unnecessary because progress is built on standing on the shoulders of those who came before. Rather than trying to understand the technical details of every invention, we should study the decision‑making processes of highly successful figures such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg. By observing and abstracting their behavioral patterns into models, we can adapt those models to our own actions, thereby increasing the speed at which we achieve success. The speaker emphasizes a shift from seeking personal mentors to constructing mental models of proven leaders, positioning this approach as a more efficient path to personal and financial growth.

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Is a mentor required? No, but all of humanity has been built on us standing on our forefathers' shoulders and taking what they learned. We don't have to figure out how light bulbs work. I have no idea how the internet works, but I know that it works. And so we just start where they kind of lay off the baton and then we pick it up from there and we run the next hour of money and then we die and we hand it to the next guy. You don't need mentors, but you need to learn from people ahead of you. I consume a tremendous amount of Elon, Bezos, Zuck, anything that I can find. And the whole goal is I want to think about their decision-making process as it relates to what they did. And so I think in models, not mentors, what can I model about their behavior so that it can change my behavior to increase the likelihood that I win faster?