Importance of Mentors
Mr. Ahmed:
Who is your Role Model?
John:
My seat mate.
Mr. Ahmed:
Who is your Role Model? (Faces another student)
Adeniyi:
Chike Obi
Mr.
Ahmed: Clap that boy.
Class:
(claps)
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| Chike Obi |
Mr.
Ahmed: Why did you choose him as your role model?
Adeniyi:
He’s a great Mathematician and I want to be like him in future.
Mr.
Ahmed: That’s great. Well, if you don’t know what Role model means, it simply means
“A successful person in one or more areas of life and has touched your heart
with his success and you wish to be like him”. (He told the story of Chike Obi).
After
the story he told, the whole class wanted to be like Chike Obi. I no longer want
to be any other thing more except A Great Mathematician. That’s when I know the
value of mentor.
“Back in my youth I was trying to convince a
very wise business man to mentor me and the price and risk suddenly became very
high.
You see, my rich dad was my first mentor. But
he wasn’t my only mentor.
Back in 1996, through a mutual friend, I met
Peter. He was a distinguished and articulate man who has had his own companies
listed on the American and New York Stock Exchanges and on the NASDAQ.
The problem was he was very private and did
not mentor.
How was I going to convince him to take me on
as an apprentice?
Over the course of several months I finally
got him to agree to a meeting to talk it over. I told him I would work for him
for free if he would teach me everything he knew.
Naturally, he was skeptical. But once he saw
that I was serious, he decided to take my offer on a trial basis.
There was a bankrupt gold mine in Peru he was
considering buying. He asked me to drop everything and fly to Peru at my own
expense, inspect the mine, meet with a bank and find out how much it wanted for
the mine, and then fly home and give him a report.
That caught me off guard!
At first I hesitated. I had appointments
scheduled for the week, it was expensive and moreover, I wasn’t sure I was up
to the challenge. But deep inside I knew this was a defining moment for me.
In those few seconds, I realized that if I chose
not to go to Peru I would lose this valuable potential mentor. Setting aside
self-doubt and swallowing all excuses, I decided to take a leap into the
unknown.
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| Robert T. Kiyosaki |
I flew to Peru and inspected the mine. It
turned out to be an unwise investment, and I recommended against his buying it.
He agreed with my findings and more
importantly, he agreed to teach me.
By shunning doubt and excuses, I gained the
courage needed to take the next step toward my financial goals.
I am telling you this story to illustrate how
important a mentor was to me and what I was willing to sacrifice to get a great
mentor. Mentors changed my life.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki.
What else do I still have to say about
mentor? With the little enlightenment above I hope I have been able to
enlighten you about MENTOR.
Watch out for… “How to Choose Mentor”
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