Mentors

The popularity of reality show like American Idol has intoxicated the young generation's minds of instant success and rapid celebrity status. Young girls imitating the behavior and lifestyle of Paris Hilton while the boys try hard to be as cool as Jay Chou. Most of them have forgotten that success only can be achieved through years of hard work and dedication. They worship their idols like God. Commitment is simply too hard for them, they prefer short cut to reach their final destination. Sadly, most of them would deviate from the proper path if not guided along the way carefully.

Nowadays people don’t have mentors anymore, they have idols. Mentors is just too old school for them. I however, am from the old school. I was taught to learn from the greats. I have never personally met all these people before except Ken Yeang, some of them have even passed away before I was born. But their legacy lives on and their works are well documented that one can easily find in bookshops or libraries. The idea is to study the thinking of these masters who has reached the pinnacle of their career and adopt some of their successful strategy while avoiding their mistake. Now that is a constructive short cut indeed!