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Erik: At this moment in your life, where are you seeking advice and coaching?
Shaheen: That's a great question. That's a great question and I like it for two reasons.
Less for the answer I'm gonna give you about me, but I like it because I think everybody
needs someone they seek advice and coaching from, and it's become like one of my late—my
new little mantras, I kind of tell people to get—not a life coach but like a career
coach, a mentor, someone they can look up for. So right now, you know, I have—I still
have and I've always had the highest respect for my boss, I think the world of him, you
know, I consider him a friend, and he has done a lot at a young age, he's smart. And
I see little pieces of myself and I'd love say I see big pieces of myself in him, so
I still—I seek a lot of advice from him. But then also at this point of my career,
I have friends who have done in—you know, I work in—I work at a hedge fund, I'm an
analyst, I have friends who've gone farther than I have in this business in terms of they've
launched a hedge fund, or they've done whatever. So it's really interesting to kind of hear
how they think about things and why they did what they do or whatever. So it's—I think
this is peer-learning. You're peer learning, you know? But it is getting harder—I still
have people who are ahead of me doing cool things, you know? That I can ask and be like,
how did you get here? Or how do you think about things? Or what's changed? What's better?
What's worse? What do you like? What would you do different? But certainly the pool shrinks
in terms of finding people who you can reach out to, and you can ask about—Good thing
is, is that most people, you can go up to anybody and just say, hey, will you be my
mentor? Or I'd love to learn from what you've done, because it's so deeply flattering, most
people will make time for that. But I think it's so important to be connected to someone—they
don't have to be older than you, like it doesn't have to necessarily be an age thing, I think
it helps, but they don't have to be older, but they have to be a little further down
the road than you, just—this is what this is all about, isn't it?