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All right, you wanna be a real ramblin earth shaker?Somebody who changes the world and gets recognized in the history books?

K. Anders Ericsson, the guy who created that ten thousand hour theory of expertise, says there ain't no two ways about it; you’re gonna need a mentor: These findings are consistent with a study of internationally successful athletes, scientists, and artists, where Benjamin Bloom (1985) found that, virtually without exception, each individual had been trained by a master teacher, who had trained earlier students to reach an international level. Remember Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the researcher who interviewed over ninety-one of the most creative people in the world? What did he find those big-timers have in common? Yup, by the time they were college age, almost every one of them had an important mentor.

 

Gerard Roche surveyed 1,250 top executives and found two-thirds had had a mentor, and those who did, made more money and were happier with their careers: "The average increase in salary of executives who have had a mentor is 28.8 percent, combined with an average 65.9 percent increase in bonus, for an overall 29.0 percent rise in total cash compensation. And, ladies, this is even more important for you. Every single one of the successful female executives in the study turned out to have had a mentor. Even if you're starting your own company and don't have a boss, if's still vital. In Shane Snow's great read Smartcuts, he points to research showing entrepreneurs with mentors raise seven times as much money and their businesses experience three and a half times as much growth. Why are mentors so important? You don't have time to make all the mistakes yourself, and of course making those mistakes can mean failure. It's better to let others make those mistakes and you can learn from them. Great mentors and great teachers help you learn faster. Even in high school, the right teacher makes a huge difference. Stanford economist Eric Hanushek says that bad teaches cover six months of material in one year. Great teachers cover a year and a half. That math isn't hard to decode, folks. He says you’re way better off with an awesome teacher in a lousy school than vice versa. But there's another, less acknowledged boost that good mentors give. I've talked a lot about that ten-thousand-hour theory of expertise and why anyone would want to spend that much time painfully improving at something. In chapter 1, you saw that one of the reasons was a touch of craziness and obsession. But that's not the whole story. Mentors make learning fun.They add a relationship to the stress and help you overcome the frustration while pushing you to be your best.Adam Grant says mentors can be what leads you down the path to grit and deliberate practice: It turns out that actually most of these world-class performers had a first coach, or a first teacher, who made the activity fun. If you excel at something, and you experience mastery, it often does make it more fun and enjoyable to do it. We've overlooked the reverse effect, which is that often interest precedes the development of talent. I's having a coach or teacher who really makes something exciting to be involved in that leads you to often put in the practice necessary to become an expert at it.

Barking up the wrong tree, Eric Barker

 

 

Elijah/Elisha

Moses/Joshua

Jethro/Moses

Deborah/Barak

Paul/Timothy

Saul-Paul/Barnabas

Elizabeth/Mary

Naomi/Ruth

Jesus/Disciples

Priscilla and Aquila/Apollos (Acts 18:24-28)

 

 

2 Tim. 2:2 And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.