You want people in a Rolls Royce

Published almost 2 years ago • 1 min read

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce, to get advice from those who take the subway” - Warren Buffett

If this sentence does not make you think for a while, read it twice. Or three, four, five times until your head blows up.

This sentence contains the essential difference between an advisor and a mentor.

The first talks to you from almost the academia.

The second from life experience.

At my MBA I thought that I’d see rich professors… but I didn’t.

It was supposed that I would learn from people that made the journey I wanted to make.

But they didn’t.

That’s the main flaw of the education system these days.

They teach you to be good employees, but not to thrive and grow personally.

And worst… the system hides the fact that you must be learning… your whole life.

I’m sure that you won’t see Elon Musk going to Harvard to join a course to get a pay raise or to find out how to sell more rockets, right?

That’s the point.

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