# Why the Best Mentors Refuse to Chase You

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Podcast: [List Building Lifestyle With Igor Kheifets](https://stenobird.com/podcast/list-building-lifestyle-with-igor-kheifets-5717428)
Published: 2026-07-28T12:15:26+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/listbuildinglifestyleshow/episodes/Why-the-Best-Mentors-Refuse-to-Chase-You-e3ml7c2
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## Resource

You cannot make anyone succeed, and trying to is one of the most expensive mistakes a mentor can make. In this episode, Igor gets brutally honest about how his mentoring philosophy evolved from years of handholding and babysitting into what he calls the Morpheus approach: open the door, show the blueprint, offer every resource, but never chase. He shares the raw story of a young man he mentored an hour a day for a year, who had to lose two businesses and hit rock bottom before he finally became self-reliant. The uncomfortable truth at the center of it all is that you cannot be breastfed into success, and self-reliance is the one thing no mentor can ever hand you.

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