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How finding the right mentor is the secret to life

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the most valuable things I've learned so far with Sasha Chapin as my mentor

How finding the right mentor is the secret to life the most valuable things I've learned so far with Sasha Chapin as my mentor Carly Valancy Jul 07, 2026 138 17 17 Share I notice a tendency in you that also exists in myself: discrediting what you’re good at as incidental. Like regarding your people skills as a fake ability (they are not). It might be generative to ask: what would it look like to really double down, to believe that I could be among the very best in the world at my particular thing? My mentor said this to me recently. Not to long ago he was a stranger whose work I followed and e

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