 Seventy, the professional does not give his power away to others. The dictionary defines icon as an article, a relic, say that once belonged to a saint or a holy man, that serves as an object of worship. A person can be an icon. When we make someone into an icon, we give away our power. We say to ourselves unconsciously, this person possesses qualities I wish I possessed. Or I will worship this person in the hope that that quality will wear off on me, or I will acquire that quality by virtue of my proximity to this mentor, sensei, lover, teacher, hero. In my experience, when we project a quality or virtue onto another human being, we ourselves almost always already possess that quality, but we are afraid to embrace and to live that truth. The amateur is an acolyte, a groupie. The professional may seek instruction or wisdom from one who is further along in mastery than he, but he does so without surrendering his self-sovereignty.