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Find experts in your field to interview.

✅ Find a few
baseball
experts who would be willing to answer some mentoring questions. Add their names and email addresses below. More than three mentors? Just click the "+" sign to add them.

💡 To learn more about how to find mentors, read "First, Create a List of People to Interview" on page 42 of )
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test@gmail.com
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💡 You must connect your Gmail account with this Coda doc in order for the Create Gmail Draft buttons above to work. (Click the
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icon in the top right then "Packs" then "Gmail."). You can edit the email draft in , or, if you prefer not to connect a Gmail account, feel free to copy and paste the text of the email template into your preferred email client.

✅ Next, enter your name and contact info into the fields below, and create an email subject line.

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Your Name
John
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Your Contact Info
— 555-555-5555
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E-mail Subject Line
The questions I wanted to ask you...
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✅ Now, simply click each "Create Draft" button above to have an email with Tim's mentor questions automatically populated and added to your Gmail drafts folder, using this .

Tim's carefully tested questions are designed to help you discover and avoid the failure points for the first 5 sessions of learning your new skill.
Personalize the email in your drafts folder to reflect your own personal style, and then... send it off! An expert can be a great asset for helping you to deconstruct your chosen discipline.

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