Here's something nobody warns you about.
You can have too many mentors.
I know that sounds wrong. Mentorship is supposed to be good. Advice is supposed to help. The more perspectives you gather, the smarter your decisions should be.
But that's not how it works.
I went through a phase where I talked to everyone. Investors, advisors, other founders, people on Twitter who seemed to know what they were doing. I collected opinions like trading cards.
And you know what happened? I got more confused, not less. Everyone had a different framework. Everyone contradicted someone else. I spent more time synthesizing advice than actually building.
The mentor paradox is this: Too many voices drown out your own.
At some point, you have to stop asking what everyone else thinks and start asking what you think. You have to trust that you've absorbed enough input and now it's time to make a decision.
The best mentors know this. They don't want you dependent on them. They want you to develop your own judgment.
So if you're feeling scattered — if every conversation leaves you with more questions than answers — maybe the problem isn't that you need more advice.
Maybe it's that you need less.
This is Founder FM. Trust yourself a little more.