 Mentors are living examples of what you want to achieve in your life. All artists, entrepreneurs, athletes, scientists, influencers, actors and actresses, they all have a mentor or coach. They are where they are now because of what they believe and what they do on a daily basis. Welcome to the David Wong channel. In this video, you're going to learn 10 reasons why you need a mentor. So who's David Wong? I'm a martial artist. I'm an entrepreneur and I'm also a meditator and a peak performance innovator. If you want to get more life-transforming tips and lessons from me on this channel, make sure you subscribe to this channel, click the subscribe button, hit the bell, comment, like and share with friends. That said, let's get on with the show. Number one reason why you need a mentor is that they have been there and done that. They have the personal experience of success and failures. There's two ways to learn from mistakes. Either you make the mistakes yourself and learn from it, or you learn from the mistakes of others, which one's less painful, obviously the way of learning the mistakes from someone else. So get a mentor that's already gone through where you want to go so you don't have to make mistakes yourself. Reason number three is that you're statistically more likely to be successful as a mentor. Studies have shown that 80% of CEOs have received mentorship and 93% of startups attribute their success to having a mentor. Number four is mentors push you to improve. Not only are they there to give you advice, but they'll give you motivation and inspiration and help you to build the fire to motivate you to become better than yourself. Mentors have an eye of experience that allows them to look at you and tell you what you lack and what you need to improve on so that you can overcome your shortfalls, find out your strengths and be the best that you can be. Number five is mentors are living examples of what you want to achieve in your life. Not only do they talk to talk, they also walk to walk, they practice what they preach. They are where they are now because of what they believe and what they do on a daily basis. So if you follow a mentor and do exactly what he did to get there, then you're most likely going to get there too. Number six reason that you should have a mentor, they have the ability to spot opportunities for you that you may not even ever be aware of and not only that, they can give you the resources and the tools to help you succeed in that path. Number seven, you've heard of before, what's better? You want to work hard or do you want to work smart? There are a lot of people in this world working hard, hard, hard, but they're still broke. But then there's very successful people that actually don't work that hard and they're very successful at making lots of money. So what do you need to do? You need to work hard and smart. And how do you work smart? You get smart by listening to a mentor when he or she tells you which path to go on, where to focus your efforts. Number eight, when you get to mentor, the lucky thing you get to have is you get to study the life of a high achiever. There's very small nuances of a person's lifestyle that is highly successful. That's different from people who are not successful. Habits, speech patterns, and the only way to learn this is to have a relationship, shadow someone, and they have close communication with someone like a mentor. Number nine, you know the difference between book smarts and street smarts? Well book smarts will tell you all the theory, but not how it works in real life and real situations. So you may think, oh, all I need to do is just read books and I can be a successful entrepreneur. I don't know any successful entrepreneur that all they did is learn from books. Yes, you can learn from books, but what you really need is a mentor to hold you by the hand and then take you down the path that you need to go on. And what's more, whenever you have a problem, you just ask your mentor, I have this problem, what do I do? And they'll tell you, do this. And number 10 on the list, all artists, entrepreneurs, athletes, scientists, influencers, actors, and actresses, they all have a mentor or coach. Mike Tyson has a custom model. Kobe Bryant had Michael Jordan. Mark Stegelberg, founder of Facebook, had Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, had Bill Campbell. Luke Skywalker had Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi. And wha! Bruce Lee had Kidman. What do you know in the comments below? Which one is your favorite reason for having a mentor? So until next time, use the chi and prosper. Hey, the content doesn't stop here, so make sure you click the videos here to keep watching and get more awesome content like this video.