The great advisors provide four things, all wrapped up in a fifth, governed by a sixth. The four things are insight, objectivity, courage, and empathy, all wrapped up in a methodology unique to you, governed by a dismissive perspective about your own future—a disregard for how you will survive. Let’s look at each of those. You bring insight that very few other people possess. This insight owes to the prior decisions you’ve made about what work you will turn down so that you can go deep in one particular area. Insight comes from repeated
