 The three things that you should be looking for in a mentor The three things that you should really be kind of qualifying and screening for when going and seeking someone out to have a successful Mentorship firstly that they make money Money is the fuel of any company Peter Drucker said business is innovation and marketing The idea of entrepreneurship really is you can have an incredible product or service But you also have to be able to sell and market that thing effectively You need to find someone who is doing both of course if you find someone who's really good at sales and marketing But they have a terrible product that will probably rot your soul and you won't wake up very happy in the morning So find someone who's doing both The second is that they are ambitious They're ambitious and they're wanting to continue to grow in what they're doing if you find someone who is lazy and stagnant It's not going to go very far You're going to be having to convince them for every big project that you want to take on and it's quickly going to wear you out a Mentorship is a bit like a game of tennis to have an incredible rally You both need to be really committed to the point and going all out and the third is that there is in person potential There is potential to go and work with this person in person. That is where you really soak up Everything that you can learn. That's where the osmosis really kicks in now This isn't an essential step as there's a hell of a lot that you can learn remotely with someone I'm now in the position with Matthew where he's based over out in Los Angeles I'm over in the UK and we're not working together every day and Some great freedoms come with that. You control your time. You're working from home. You can wake up in your underpants However, I have built a three or four year foundation of work ethic and discipline Which has allowed me to actually do well in that environment if I was starting at 17 trying to work remotely with someone I very much doubt that I would have had the discipline and the resolve to do so effectively a topic I'd now briefly like to mention