Is Honesty the Best Policy? w/Tanner Chidester #shorts

For me, the mentors I appreciate the most are the ones who, like, have those hard conversations with me and they're like, hey, man, you're not good enough. Like, your stuff sucks or you need to redo this. And I just don't think enough people get that. And then if you say that to people, they think you're the devil or you're mean, but the reality is those are the people are going to help you the most.

I think you're making an excellent point, though, because let me know if this happened to you before, where someone will reach out to you for consulting or mentorship, like, on a paid basis, and you don't feel confident in their ability to maybe get the job done. And what I've done in the past, and this is immature, is I would lie and say, oh, sorry, I'm booked. Then they see me the next day on LinkedIn saying, if you need help growing your business, DM me right now, it's like, bro, you're not booked, right? So I just. Now I'm just honest with people. Like, based on what you've told me, I don't see a path to success based on my abilities and what I'm seeing from you. And they appreciate that because I'm not going to take thousands of dollars from you. I want to make sure you're getting the most out of it.