My Mentors

My Mentors is Kyle’s personal Roam thread for collecting passages about mentorship — who shapes him and how he gives it back. The recurring idea is that mentors come in two flavors: personal and impersonal. A Message to Every Entrepreneur frames it through David Perell’s line that “your professors are the writers you read,” arguing you can and should have both personal and impersonal mentors (a thread Kyle ties to Live the Library). The Expertise Economy reinforces it with Jim Rohn’s “you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with” and Dorothy Leonard’s questions for navigating mentorship.

From Becoming, Kyle tags the “relay” model of mentorship — “we should always have three friends … one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us … and one who we reach back for” — pairing it with his Pay it forward thread. And from the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letters he flags the simple discipline of “give credit where credit is due.” Taken together the thread treats mentorship as bidirectional: study and follow those ahead of you, and deliberately reach back for those behind you.

Where this appears

• A Message to Every Entrepreneur — personal and impersonal mentors; “your professors are the writers you read” (Live the Library).
• The Expertise Economy — Jim Rohn’s “average of the five people you spend the most time with”; Dorothy Leonard’s mentorship questions.
• Becoming — the three-friends “relay” model of mentorship, paired with Pay it forward.
• Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letters — “give credit where credit is due.”

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