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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

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 essays I read. Now we meet every other week and know each other very well. This relationship has empowered me to raise the bar way higher than I could have ever raised…

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