Every mentor needs a mentor because having one optimizes information flow within the business organization. It builds more critical infrastructure for the mastermind to work. Learning from a mentor is like meeting yourself further down the road you’re on.

A good mentor is someone like you, just with more knowledge that you haven’t experienced yet, and a sense of humor about the trade you’re learning that you haven’t yet acquired.

Alexander the Great had a mentor. His mentor was Aristotle, who was his childhood tutor. Alexander the Great, in turn, was a mentor to many people—he had to be in order to organize people around his ambitions to use military might to conquer as much of the known world as possible and consolidate it under imperial administration through simple, repeatable plans and protocols.

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