If your circumstances limit you to hire a mentor, then books can serve as a temporary alternative for it. In fact, reading books before looking for mentors will fill the gap fast as compared to hiring a mentor directly. Let’s learn how to use books as an temporary alternative for mentors below.
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List out books and writers of your mentor traits and convert them into living mentors as much as possible. It has double advantages as it serves the information written by past and present masters in your field.
Through some imagination on your part, you turn them into a living presence. You ask yourself what would they do in this situation or that? It helps you to try to seek out the answer to many of your questions. Eventually, books will solve many of your puzzles and will also help you to find your perfect mentor. You can see the perfect mentor traits clearly when you encounter him/her because of knowing them through books.
Example of a perfect mentor
Countless generals have used Napolean Bonaparte traits through books to solve their battlefields puzzles.
It concludes that if you want to solve many of your life’s puzzles or want to change your life fast hire a mentor if not then books will serve as the temporary alternative for mentors. Filled the gap of your mentor till the time you find him/her by using this strategy.
Refer the book “Mastery by Robert Greene” to know more about mentor-mentee relationships.
Also refer this article- How to read 52 books in 52 weeks
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About the author
Manoj Sonawane is an author, business storyteller & education strategist. He had several publications at the national and international levels to his credit. He is on a mission to transform over one million lives into successful lives in the next five years through his writing, books, and teaching.
