The Problem Of Friendly Mentorship
Having mentors as friends is terrible advice.
“If a relationship you have with someone isn’t helping you at all, you have to cut it.”
That was my mentors response when I asked him to help out an acquaintance of mine. This acquaintance was running into financial troubles. I no longer could support him and I was in another province so I asked my mentor, who lived in the area, if he could take him in.
Yeah well, maybe I should do the same for you since that’s probably the best advice you’ve given me since we started doing those coaching calls.
A few years ago, I met this man who was juggling multiple businesses and had all kinds of ideas. I liked his stamina and wanted to learn from him and how he was able to juggle the various commitments he had.
What began as that turned into me getting sucked into yet another network marketing company, free coach calls that did little to no benefit, and free work on writing several children’s books for him.
I wouldn’t call this experience that terrible compared to other stories. However I’m not the only one to have had bad experiences with mentors.
I was reminded about all this when I saw a Tai Lopez post pop up on Facebook this morning with the simple advice of…
