Mentors

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How many people on here have mentors? Mine has helped me understand everything and fight off terrible conditioning from my parents. I only know him online though. Imagine if I was ever around him there would be a lot of music playing ::D:

My best friend is also my mentor. He's encouraged me to start looking for a better job.

Same; he's pulled me away from narcissism and crippling depression at different points, it's amazing what a mentor can do for you. A good example would be how Dr. COx is towards JD in Scrubs (my mentor is very similar actually haha.)

I dont have any personal mentors, but I do have inspiring people and works that I draw from, such as Temple Grandin, Dan Millman, Steve Jobs, Paul Fisher (space pen), and profound writings. Here's one in particular that I'm very fond of.

"The entire world is a mirror. The only thing you can ever experience is yourself. Everything you think, feel, do, and see is you. Your thoughts, feelings, ideas, values, philosophies, and opinions create your world. Everything you experience is as it is because that's how you experience it. We experience the world the way we do because of who we are, not because of how it is. from The Key and the Name of the Key Is Willingness Today, without allowing the voices of conditioning any opinions at all, allow yourself to see yourself through the world you are projecting."

by Cheri Huber

Steve Jobs was a terrible human being though...

There are no people who I would think worthy of emulating entirely. His placement in my list is for his dare to be different attitude and relentless drive. As for his people skills, I can only say that people who worked with him did so by choice, and he wanted people to eat sleep and breathe their work, and had no sympathy for those who demonstrated any less. A good team doesn't win becuase they have a passive, yielding coach behind them. They win because they are better, and they are better because they are pushed, and they are pushed because in order to achieve greatness, they need stretched beyond what seems comfortable or fair or reasonable to them. That's part of what a coach does.

Some people say Steve Jobs was a jerk, but If he had been a successful coach instead, those same people might very well have admired him for the very thing they found distasteful.

Fair enough; I just believe in business ethics and hard work together. I acknowledge most Americans are lazy though. Still doesn't justify how hev treats offshore workers or how he outsources jobs.

I don't agree with outsourcing or offshore jobs either. Sure it might save money in the moment, but it soon becomes the industry standard and then it's not saving anyone anything anymore, plus we've got that much less money circulating in our economy.