Don't be a cheap Copy.

Even as we listen and incorporate the ideas of our mentors, we must slowly cultivate some distance from them. Mastery

A mentor’s job is to give you the foundations: the principles, the frameworks, the hard won wisdom from their own journey. That’s invaluable. You’d be an idiot to ignore it. But here’s the trap: their wisdom comes with an expiration date built in. Not because they’re wrong, but because they figured everything out in a completely different world than the…