Every successful person had a mentor

[drangos]

You do not need to have a mentor before you can become successful in life. There are many successful people in life that does jot have a mentor.

Some people only like after a role model and they may want to be like such people and work towards it.

But know that success is not about having a mentor or looking after someone as a role model. It is about how smart you are in achieving successes. Opportunity and exposure are also very important.

Absolutely,  you need no one to be successful,  you can learn from people without them knowing,  the world is a global community,  you can learn everything online and still be successful,  success does not depend on mentorship,  because not all mentess that are successful in life, if you're not working smart and you're not determined in your business with a mentor you can still fail, we have to understand the time and season to be able to win in life.

In those days, in my country Nigeria you have to join your uncle or senior brother in their shops or business to learn a trade, you have to stay for 10 years under mentorship,  at the end ,the mentee will still not be successful,  after spending 20 years in the trade, it's just a waste for time and resources in this era, before it was working but now it doesn't matter again because of social media,  if you need to learn anything you have to learn them online.

I agree that the success doesn't require having a mentor. The web can today give access to knowledge. Experience and practical guidance that were only years ago the domain of personal training. But don't discount mentorship as a total productivity tool as it can save time and money by learning from someone who panned something. Success is the result of knowledge, but it is turned into action through determination. Consistency adaptability. And action by a mentor.

[Babeth534]

I simply believe that everyone should do what they think works best for them. If they think having a mentor is good for them, it's okay to have one which I know could make a significant change is a person's personal and also professional development. Where I don't completely agree is that not every successful person do have a mentor.

There are people that have gathered a lot of experience, read books, done courses to improve their personal and professional development over time and automatically find themselves in that position people call success due to their hard work and consistency in the part they have chosen.

[SOKO-DEKE]

It doesn't necessarily mean you must have a mentor to be successful. It's still doesn't mean every successful man had or still have a mentor foe them to get to the level they are. Some people sees their mentor as an idol. It doesn't necessarily mean they were one on one with them to learn from. Some persons grabs their zeal from a distance and tells themselves I want to get to this level too or more. So people pushes their selves to become rich based on some challenges they once faced.
So not every successful person had a mentor

I agree with it because I have seen a few people before who did not have mentors but were still able to become successful. In fact, some of them are even more successful than those who claim to have mentors because of what they have been able to achieve.But what having a mentor does is make someone's journey easier. It helps some people achieve their aims because they are less likely to make certain mistakes that someone without a mentor might make. This is because they already have someone guiding them. However, someone who does not have anyone guiding them may make those mistakes, and it could take them a long time to find solutions.Even when someone sees another person who is guiding them physically and follows that person's steps, that person is still their mentor. So, having a mentor does not necessarily mean someone must be physically present to guide you.

[Obulis]

Not every successful person had a mentor, have seen some successful people with flourishing business and they did it all by themselves without any mentorship from anybody and I also believe that you don't even need one to be successful. A mentor can help you speed up thing's, outline some mistakes he/she must have encountered when they started their business till it became successful, and a mentor can also guide you that's if you've a good one who's genuine and is not after your money but your growth and development.

There's nothing wrong in having someone at your corner because it will help you to make things faster and easier but then most successful people who are still standing strong till date are people who just learnt from their own lives, like failures, feedback from customers, loosing their jobs or crash or business and they had to ask around to know from people why things happened the way they did, and these things can even teach you better to what any human can do. There are people who had mentors and still failed, so not every successful person had one and not having one doesn't stop you from being successful, these days and time people are even learning without anybody putting them through it.

I can say that the way you are looking at mentorship or someone having a mentor is what instigated your view on this matter. A mentor is a teacher whether professionally (business and work) or casually. Most times, a mentor is usually an elderly person, who's there for you formerly or not. And now that we have mobile device and these level of technology, an online class or group may not necessarily answer or be seen as mentorship, but all the mental and other support needed for business or works are easily available nowadays.
A mentor is a teacher and everyone needs to learn and even keeps learning.

[Achalugo BTC]

I agree that the success doesn't require having a mentor. The web can today give access to knowledge. Experience and practical guidance that were only years ago the domain of personal training. But don't discount mentorship as a total productivity tool as it can save time and money by learning from someone who panned something. Success is the result of knowledge, but it is turned into action through determination. Consistency adaptability. And action by a mentor.

Exactly, for one to be successful in life doesn’t mean that one has to have a mentor. Technology has make things easier for one, as one can learn or acquire knowledge through online, which they can practicalize on what they learn, only if they are determined and consistent with whatever thing they are doing. Although, there are some people that do understand things faster, if they are being mentored, as they believed that way will help them prevent and prepare themselves for the future instead of learning everything the hard way.  So becoming successful depends entirely on the ability of one, because other people will make their dreams to come to reality.

[Patrol69]

If a person has a mentor, then it becomes easier for that person to take decisions and his path to success becomes easier, but I have seen many such people who have reached the peak of success from zero only through their own efforts. Basically, everything depends on the ability of a person, the stubbornness of a person and the strong desire to achieve something.

People have to take decisions alone in some matters because the mentor does not always influence a person in making all decisions, but there are some decisions that the person has to take on his own.

And in some cases I feel that the person from whom I take advice is a failure in all his matters, so what advice will he give me. Again, someone who is already successful will never want me to do better than him or go to his level, so even if he gives me advice, he will not share all the secrets with me. So you have to take your own decisions and be ready for everything.

[pusaka]

I agree that the success doesn't require having a mentor. The web can today give access to knowledge. Experience and practical guidance that were only years ago the domain of personal training. But don't discount mentorship as a total productivity tool as it can save time and money by learning from someone who panned something. Success is the result of knowledge, but it is turned into action through determination. Consistency adaptability. And action by a mentor.

Exactly, for one to be successful in life doesn’t mean that one has to have a mentor. Technology has make things easier for one, as one can learn or acquire knowledge through online, which they can practicalize on what they learn, only if they are determined and consistent with whatever thing they are doing. Although, there are some people that do understand things faster, if they are being mentored, as they believed that way will help them prevent and prepare themselves for the future instead of learning everything the hard way.  So becoming successful depends entirely on the ability of one, because other people will make their dreams to come to reality.

Not everything requires a mentor. There are many things we can learn on our own, especially in this era of easy access to information. Some people can even learn things on their own and become experts. So, having a mentor is optional.

However, there's added value in having a mentor. Someone will guide us when we make mistakes. And when we don't understand something, they can explain it based on their own experience, which makes it more relatable to life.

[Kevin2Big]

Not every successful person has had a mentor. Most of them grow through independent study, self discipline.
Some without one on one kind of mentorship... Some studying the life of others without actively getting close to them can also shape the mind.

[Halifat]

Not every successful person has had a mentor. Most of them grow through independent study, self discipline.
Some without one on one kind of mentorship... Some studying the life of others without actively getting close to them can also shape the mind.

I have to partially agree with you but the percentage of this kind of people is very small and that is why since the majority have taking the lead then a lot of people trying to generalize it because it is very common to see everyone successful today but there will be pointing figure to their mentor. Having a mentor make a lot of things easier when it comes to success and again those that you think they don't have mentor and they are successful, but most of them are not opportune to have a mentor but despite that they still have someone who they were looking up to.