So is yours. So is everyone’s. We have blind spots, preferences, biases. In hindsight, our experiences appear to be leading us – but in the right direction? Who can say.
A mentor can. That’s why it’s so important to have a mentor in our life. (Especially before our mid-20’s, when our prefrontal cortex is undeveloped, but that’s another day.)
Anyone can benefit from having a teacher. But the secret to success is to understand this list.
1. Your mentor will have: skills, judgement, taste, and a personal connection with you.
2. You will respond to their mentoring.
(So far, relatively easy…)
3. You trust them even if you disagree.
If you will acknowledge your flawed judgement, you must accept that your mentor can see more, and guide you better, than you can guide yourself.
At some point you will need to seek a new mentor as your grow, or divorce yourself a mentor if their judgement proves flawed. But in the meantime, you will make progress, and progress on a path that might be better suited to you than the one you would have chosen yourself.
[Finding a mentor is one of Jed’s Laws of Success]