Mentorship is a time honored tradition in learning...
The original Mentor, the one actually named Mentor, lived in ancient Greece...
Imagine living such a life that your name is still used as both a noun and a verb thousands of years later...
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants...
- Sir Isaac Newton
Mentors from the Past...
We are all here to learn from our mistakes...
But not exclusively.
We are blessed to be able to learn from those who walk ahead of us on the path...
That way, we can learn from their mistakes, as well as ours...
We can bypass the pitfalls and roadblocks they have identified and mapped for us...
And make even better mistakes than we otherwise would have...
You are part of an unbroken chain of human minds seeking Achievement of Excellence™.
In the end, the only real mistakes are the ones we haven't learned from yet.
The great breakthroughs in understanding come from exploration combined with contemplation.
Do not expect great things to come from great funding, or institutions of great power...
Look to those in the past who have achieved lasting insight...
And look around you to find those who are seeking the next level solutions...
You will find them thinking outside the box of convention...
Because that is where the future lies...