If you only use one mentor, you can only benefit from their one perspective. Diversity of thought helps with your ability to solve different problems that you may come across.
You also grow faster by seeing different models of success. Because you can mimic the different paths of success, but you won’t always achieve that success in the same way. So, if you find other people that have been successful, and you can find out why they were successful, you can adapt their approaches to your unique skills and capabilities.
You might be able to invent something interesting and new from what multiple mentors have taught you. You also develop your own compass instead of borrowing someone else’s, so you have to have your own true north, it make sense that you’d have your own path to there as well.
You need to have your own project, you need to have your own goals and you need to earn your own money. You should also have your own network, which leads to our next point:
Building a network of mentors helps you avoid dependency on one individual Mentor.
What if your only mentor dies?
Your entire Network, gone in one day?!
You want to be able to diversify your network and the fact that you can have different connections, opportunities, and credibility because more opportunities can come and go through a variety of people, and you want to have as much of surface area as possible to be able to earn your success through having multiple Mentors.
Until Tomorrow,
Jason Ziebarth
JZ#655