A brief motivational talk (YouTube clip) presenting the “33% rule”: spend 33% of your time with people less accomplished than you, 33% with peers, and 33% with people about 20 years ahead to shadow and learn. The speaker argues mentorship is a common thread among major achievers, citing a claim that of the top 40 influential people he reviewed, 39 attribute much of their success to mentors.
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If you want to do big things in life, you have to follow this thing I call the law. 33%. So you spend 33% of your time around people with less accomplishment with you. Those are people maybe you mentor, you help. Then you spend 33% of your time around people who are on your level. Those become your friends, who you smoke cigars. But the last 33% is what's missing in education, in society, is where you spend 33% of your time around people 20 years ahead of you shadowing them. A few years ago, I made a list. Everybody that you think of is great people. Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett. And I was like, some of them went to college. But I was like, what's a common thread that they all have in it? And as I went through the list, I found in the top 40 people that you could say have done big things in our time. I think 39 of them attribute a lot of their success to mentors.
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