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You Don’t Really Need a Mentor
You can have heroes instead
Those who have been reading me for a while know that I wrote my first book this year. It’s called “10 mentors” and it’s (unfortunately) in Russian only. The idea behind the book was simple:
All the answers to your questions are already there. They are just in other people’s heads.
With this idea, the 18-year-old version of me gathered together 10 entrepreneurs and business leaders of my country to ask them the very questions that bother every 18-year-old.
- What is success? How do you achieve it?
- What’s the most important thing I have to look out for while I am on my journey?
- What mistakes to avoid?
- Should I go back to school?
My readers and YouTube followers in Russia know me as the guy who values mentorship as a way to learn. It’s no surprise, as all of the guests for the book are really my mentors.
So at some point, I realized, that it would be selfish to keep these people and their ideas to myself, and I decided to write a book to share them with others.
At the end of the book, I encouraged people to go and find their own mentors. I wrote:
Mentors are everywhere, and you should look for them…
