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How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement
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How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement

by Steve McDermott
January 2008
Beginner
208 pages
3h 40m
English
Pearson
Content preview from How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement

Chapter Ten. Don’t have a mentor or be a mentor

Besides seeking out Master Mind Alliances, successful people also identify one or two individuals who can become their personal mentors. Someone perhaps, but not always, in the same field as them. Someone, often but not always, older and more experienced. Someone who is already achieving the results they’d like to enjoy. To identify the right person, they ask themselves questions based on the goals they are trying to achieve. Questions like, “What resources will I need?” “What do I have now?” “Do I know or can I find anyone who has ever done this before?”

They then search out the best person to help. They encourage ...

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