Constellations, Not Fireworks: A Framework For Building Your Legacy
Every mentor I’ve ever had, had a mentor of their own.
In my early 20s, I got to spend some time around my mentor’s mentor. He was one of the other Managing Partners at the agency I worked at, but didn’t live in Chicago. Every few months, sometimes only twice a year, he would come to town.
He’d swing by the office, run through a series of meetings, and then anyone who wanted to stay late was invited to join him and the other Managing Partners for dinner somewhere down the street.
I always went.
If I had learned as much as I had from my own mentor, “Imagine what I could learn from the guy who teaches him,” I thought to myself.
One evening, we were sitting waiting for our Indian food at a restaurant a few blocks away called Jaipur.
The partners were talking about a client who had spent a ton of money on their launch event, but hadn’t invested very much into their actual product.
“Going to be fireworks,” he said, in his thick Australian accent.
But, listening from across the table, I was confused. I thought fireworks were a…
