Forward Thinking (By Mat Sherman)

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Getting a Mentor Is Overrated

Getting a Mentor Is Overrated

But Getting a Friend Isn’t

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Mat Sherman
Mar 02, 2017
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But Getting a Friend Isn’t

Sometimes people ask me if I have any mentors and I always say the same thing.

“No, but I have a lot of smart friends”

I’m not sure when I developed this mindset. I think it was recently when I was working on a startup, people told me I needed to get a few mentors to help guide me. There was something about the terminology I didn…

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