Sean: From Patrick. Question is, who do you consider your mentors in life?

So for me, if you have more mentors for different areas of life, because a mentor who is great doesn’t really mean that he/she can mentor all areas of your life that you want to grow in. So I would say, like, get one mentor per one area of your life that you want to grow in. For example, for stocks, it's definitely Marvin and it didn't have to be like a long mentorship relationship. Sometimes I just ask him via Facebook messenger like, what he thinks about this, what his insights are about either this stock or this cryptocurrency. And then for finance, I have a different mentor for my spiritual walk, which is an everyday discipline. I have a different mentor for business, especially when I was starting to try and understand valuation of a business: How do you sell a business? How do you value a share? I also have a different mentor there.

So it would depend on what part of your life you want to grow in. You have to be very specific about it. You know, I learned that people, we fall into the trap of thinking that we grow personally in all areas of life, just by living. That's not true. And that's because, as we grow up and get older from a child, we grow taller, we grow bigger, and we grow faster. We can do a lot more things. We're more knowledgeable. We grow a little bit wiser with some experience in life. We get a lot of these things. And we think that growth is automatic.

Here's the problem. Growth is not automatic. In fact, after you graduate school, whether high school or college or post-graduate, you don't learn new things anymore, unless you're intentional about your growth. So being not intentional about growth is a problem because a lot of people think that after they graduate, that’s already it. That’s your education so you’ll stop there.

Don't let your schooling interfere with your education. Don't let yourself get into that trap. Get mentors because after you graduate school, they're going to be the ones who will hyper speed your growth in terms of wisdom, what you want to learn in business, or what do you not want to learn in stock trading, investing. Get mentors in those areas. Always desire and pursue growth. Be intentional.

Marvin: What I do is, if I know someone who knows something more than me, I just ask them. It’s like that for me. For example, I want to learn something about SEO from you, I just message you right away. Is this okay? Something like that. Or for example, with Carlo Ople, we talked about the Satan rubber shoes. I asked him: What’s your take on this? So if I don’t know something, I just like asking. And I think that's where I learn. So even with the investments that I try to make, I try to learn as much as I can, but I also try to learn from experience.

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