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October 22, 2004
Importance Of Mentors
Interview
with Steven K. Scott, author of the book, Mentored
By A Millionaire
Mike
Carruthers:
It would appear to be almost impossible to achieve success
without a mentor. Steven
K. Scott:
Nobody
in history has even done it. Never. Steve
Scott author of the book Mentored
By A Millionaire… Give
you a perfect example, Steven Spielberg. I went to high school with Steven, eighteen
years after high school we had both achieved our impossible dreams and we ran
into each other in a restaurant, we began to compare notes. We had done the exact
same strategies; we had both found a mentor. Unfortunately most people don't have
mentors. Another
universal key to success, says Steven, is creative persistence. Underline
the word creative. Persistence is not hitting a brick wall, getting up hitting
it again and again and again, that's stupidity. Persistence, creative persistence,
hitting the brick wall realizing I'm not going to get through it so I got to go
under it, over it, around it or I've got to blow it up. And
another important success strategy is to be able to communicate your ideas using
emotional word pictures. One
of the masters at using emotional word pictures was Ronald Reagan. When Ronald
Reagan said that the Soviet Union was the evil empire that came on the heels of
the most popular film Star Wars. So, instantly it created a picture in the minds
of millions of Americans of this group intent on doing evil. Reagan could have
given a long speech of how evil the Soviet Union was and he wouldn't have generated
near as much feelings or commitment from the American people as simply calling
them the evil empire. That said it all.
At
somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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