5 Leadership Lessons My Mentors Have Taught Me
The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions
Robin Sharma
4.8 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2016
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Newton once said "If I have seen more than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." I don't know if you have a mentor, but if you don't have a mentor, you'll want to get one as swiftly as possible because we become our influences, we become our conversations. We think and perform like the people we surround ourselves with in our orbit.
Here are the 5 Leadership Lessons My Mentors Have Taught Me:
1. Run Your Own Race
2. Be Willing To Be Eccentric
3. Stand for World-Class
4. Be Deep vs Be Light
5. Be Kind
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of the leader who had no title, founder of the Titan Academy, |
| 0:07.0 | and I'm so pleased to welcome you to this mastery session. |
| 0:10.0 | This mastery session is all about five leadership lessons my mentors have taught me. |
| 0:16.8 | I think it was the mathematician Newton who once said, if I have seen more than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. |
| 0:26.5 | And I don't know if you have a mentor, but if you don't have a mentor, you want to get |
| 0:30.7 | a mentor as swiftly as possible because we become our influences, we become |
| 0:36.3 | our conversations, we think like and we perform like the people we surround ourselves |
| 0:41.9 | with in our orbit. |
| 0:43.6 | And one of the things that has served me so well |
| 0:46.0 | is populating my professional life |
| 0:48.1 | and my personal life with people |
| 0:50.1 | who are at a higher level that I'm at. |
| 0:52.3 | And they are called mentors. |
| 0:53.9 | When I was 21 years old I lived in a relatively small city on the east coast of Canada and I was |
| 1:00.0 | very blessed to be associated with a mentor who was a financial |
| 1:04.0 | financial epic performer. He was doing very very well in the capital markets and I just looked his lifestyle and I looked at his belief system and we used to go for these long wonderful walks in the forest |
| 1:15.0 | that was also along the seaside on the east coast of Canada. |
| 1:19.0 | And one day it was a sunny day in the summer and he said something to me I still remember to this day he said |
| 1:23.9 | Robin run your own race and that's really the first lesson I learned from one of |
| 1:30.6 | my mentors run your own, stay in your own lane. You know, you have no competition if you are in your own division. |
| 1:41.1 | And what I mean by that is simply this, it's so easy to get swept off your game, swept off your vision, swept off your values, swept off your focus, when you're measuring your success and your performance by your so-called peers in your industry or |
| 1:55.4 | your competition within your craft. And that first lesson was so profound he |
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