Shaan Puri: Mentorship requires asking specific advice and following up
Shaan Puri · How to Buy Distressed Assets, How to Network with Codie Sanchez | My First Million Ep. #176 · Apr 28, 2021 · at 51:01
Shaan Puri outlines the three-step organic process for developing long-term mentor relationships.
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“The way you actually do form a mentorship bond is you ask somebody for a specific situational piece of advice. So not just what should I do, but like, Hey, I'm debating between these two options. How would you think about this? Or here's how I'm thinking about it. Would you poke holes in that? And then you follow up, which is where 95% of people fall off the cliff. They get advice, and then they don't follow up with, hey, I listened to what you did, or I did a variation of what you did, and here's what happened.”
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