You Don’t Need a Mentor. You Need a Buddy.
Finding an accountability buddy is a simple and highly effective way to keep yourself going.
When you’re struggling to achieve your personal or professional goals, do you ever wish you could speak with a famous mentor? If only you could connect with a super successful business leader like Jeff Bezos or Meg Whitman, then you’d have the answers you’re looking for. Surely they’d point you in the right direction, right?
Think again.
Like most people, you might have succumbed to the “fundamental attribution error,” which , according to Dr. Cristina Bicchieri, is “the tendency to believe that what people do reflects who they are.”
In other words, just because a person is successful in one area of their life, we assume they’re endowed with the power to tell us what we should do in our own life.
Follow your dreams, work hard, surround yourself with good people… blah, blah, blah. You’ve already heard all the greatest hits.
Living the life you want isn’t about uncovering magical answers. It’s about following through and doing what you already know you need to do. The problem is we keep getting in our own way, starting with the idea that a mentor has any secret wisdom to bestow.
