Mentors are a beautiful thing, always older, often ruthless, they can teach you things in a way and at a pace neither school nor self-learning can.

But here's the thing about mentors.

You don't choose them, they choose you.

If you're asking for a mentor, you don't deserve one.

"Please be my mentor!"

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Instantly unworthy of being mentored.

Will not explain.

Inverse this.

An eye for brilliance, the ability to recognise what nobody else has recognised - to spot the unorthodox, the outlier, the divergent mind, and to do this when they're still insignificant and unimportant

These people are your future investments

The untapped worthy

When they're a nobody with a potential to be somebody that neither the world, nor perhaps they themselves realise can be a somebody - you have undue influence over them. Your support and investment, no matter how humble, means the world to them.