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Finding Your Kindred Spirit: Les Brown on the Power of Mentorship and Community

Name: Finding Your Kindred Spirit: Les Brown on the Power of Mentorship and Community
Uploaded: 2024-07-30T16:00:16+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Mick Hunt
Description: Les Brown on why mentors matter: a Harvard study tracking people for 85 years found 87% of successful alumni had mentors or reference groups. Your peers…

30 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Les Brown on why mentors matter: a Harvard study tracking people for 85 years found 87% of successful alumni had mentors or reference groups. Your peers set your pace. Mentors see what you can't see in yourself and push you higher.

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Kindred spirits. You want someone that you have a connection with, someone that you trust, someone that inspires you and hold you to a higher level and challenge and push you. This 85 year study that Harvard University did, they wanted to know what was the common denominator among the people that became successful that graduated from there. And 87% of those people had a reference group, they had a mentor, and they had a community of collaborative, achievement driven, supportive relationships with people that's going in the direction of where they were going. The Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier said that when you go for a walk with someone, something happens without being spoken. Either you adjust to their pace or they adjust to your pace. And the question becomes, whose pace have you adjusted to? A mentor can see stuff that you can't see and will push you and challenge you to go to new heights that you can never go to by yourself.