The author of an article in marcandangel.com says that one of the most frequent questions asked to him is how to find a successful mentor to achieve professional of business goals.
He says that he has faced with the same problem at the initial stages of his career and he would send email inquiries to many bloggers asking the same question.
'We let them know that we admired specific professional decisions they had made and certain character traits they had displayed publicly over the years, and that it would be a dream come true if we could learn directly from them, perhaps by volunteering our time to assist them with some of their active projects,'he said.
Not in the wildest of his dreams the author had expected to get an reply.
However, the author states that he was pleasantly surprised when he started receiving responses.
'We received an email reply… and a second… and a third… And over the next few years, we found ourselves learning from and being directly and indirectly mentored by an enormously successful group of people who were undoubtedly our biggest heroes at the time,' he says.
The author quotes them and said 'Because after a couple of decades of running business, every single person who reached out to me with a cold inquiry wanted something from me. They wanted my money, they wanted me to give them a job, they wanted something for free.'
'Needless to say, we learned something important about life and business that day,' the author concluded.
