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Re: Every successful person had a mentor
by
m2017
on 06/12/2024, 17:44:18 UTC
I would like to discuss this here to understand how many people decide to take this step to find a mentor?
Doesn't this belief in an "experienced sensei" who will come and teach you everything look like a desire to take a passive position, putting all the responsibility for your success on this mentor?

To me, it looks like waiting for a "good daddy" who will solve all your problems for you. But what about your own path to overcoming difficulties without outside help? This increases the value of your achievements.

I asked myself this question because in almost every book or interview with successful people I come across a mention of them having, or even currently having a mentor who guides them, helps them develop, and perhaps points out mistakes that will not allow them to grow.
Do these mentors have their own mentors? Who was the mentor of all mentors? Smiley

Of course, mentors make the path of development easier, but what should you do until you look for one? Sit around doing nothing? And while you're waiting for a mentor, you're already developing without one, which calls into question the necessity of his presence.

There is a category of "self-made" people. They somehow managed without mentors, didn't they?

And I was interested in how many of you at some point decided that you needed a mentor, how difficult it was to find one and how did he help you? I suppose that few people use this, maybe even out of fear, because for example I don’t even know who it could be and how can I ask my future mentor about this if I manage to find such a person.

A sage sees a teacher mentor in everyone he meets. There is such a proverb.

I don't think you should get hung up on needing a mentor. Just one. There's a whole world out there of opportunities and people you can learn from.