First of all not impressed, with the response to my last post. Is that all you v got my friends? Second of all a new topic
I believe that a mentor is a very important person in any man's life. He is the once who incepts ideas into you, makes you want to achieve. How many of you agree? and those of you who have a mentor please do share their information, if you could.
I for one have a lot of mentors, mentoring my various qualities. Example:
Dad
Paramacharya Shankaracharya
Newton, Albert Einstien, Stephen Hawkings
Alfred Marshall, J M Keynes, Amartya Sen
Cho Ramaswamy and Gurumurthy
Sekar Sir and B Saravana Prasath
MP Vijaykumar
G Saimukundhan (The bold tag intended)
Subramanya Swamy
That s about it. Those who know me will understand why they are my mentors because these people influence my every action and word. For the others, kindly research.
And once again @ All do share your comments on my statement and also your mentor / mentor list.
PS The above list in the order of my introduction to those people
ReplyDeleteFirst of your post which i throughly understood.
ReplyDeleteI just revisited my earlier post on same notes..
Here is the link....
http://ssundarraman.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-mans-i-admire.html
I am still searching for that perfect mentor. :(
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ReplyDeleteBtw your old template was good.. This one looks gloomy
ReplyDelete@mat sai sir will get furious on this post. How DARE!!! Its Saimukundhan and not Sai Mukundhan! Bloody, u've done umpteen Form 15CBs and still make d same mistake!! :O
ReplyDelete@ Mat... Ha ha ha.. thoppi thoppi...
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking to do a series of posts on the same topic under the label "Influences" or "Inspirations" starting from my first heroes (My Uncles). Unfortunately, didn't have the drive to put my thoughts into words.
ReplyDeleteAnd as JRSD put it, I do get furious when people mis-spell my name. But have realized that 9 out 10 people get the spelling wrong. The remaining one, get the name wrong (having been called Sami Mukundan, Saimurugan, Shajim etc etc.)
Cheers
@Sundar(S(i)r): I revisited the post of yours. A Good read that anytime, esp along with the comments.
ReplyDelete@ Sundar Jr.:Kamal? No? I d visualised him to be write up there when you commented.
ReplyDeleteAnd as regards the template. And just wanted to experiment that is all. Keep things changing or else things tend to give negative utlity.
ReplyDelete@Shravan: I d generally look out for legal fallacies when i do them forms. Anyway the error regretted.Hence rectifying it now. PS No other comment to this post?
ReplyDelete@ Sai Sir: Can't wait for what you have to say on those posts. Looking forward to them.
ReplyDelete@All: Since all of you have mentors, then it is right for me to say that all of you have been influenced at some point in time or the other by them. For me some how they become very important persons in people's lives. All of those whom i have spoken about, even today tend to influence me, most cases to reach higher.
ReplyDeleteOn a more egotistical note: I somehow believe i am my own mentor. Does that make sense to anyone?
Would be a pretty long comment. Bear with me if it sounds a bit incoherent.
ReplyDeleteBeing one's own mentor is actually possible only at a much evolved / later stage. When a person, endowed with all the abilities, starts realizing his potential and uses them, thats when he starts becoming his own mentor. And the external mentor's role is primarily to guide and inspire a person towards that goal, rather than direct him with torrents of instructions, to such an extent that without a mentor (instructor), the person couldn't move an inch. It is upon reaching that goal, that one becomes his own mentor.
Mentoring isn't restricted just to older guys doling out ideas / advices to the younger lot. It can sometimes be on the reverse. Our own peers can be a mentor (or tormentor). Our own juniors can be our mentor.
I believe that it is very difficult to pinpoint one or two individuals. Some of them would have inspired us (passive mentoring), rather than actively mentoring us (I think in your list the first four / five individuals fall in that category). This is more because, as we evolve, we are influenced by various factors / people / events that the reason for our evolution / mutation. To that extent, I am mighty glad that you have listed lot of people who could have influenced you.
I do strongly believe, knowing MSP, that there is a missing link in the above list. Your entire thought process was already conditioned to a very great extent even before you actively became part of the present set up. There should have been a more important mentor who should have, directly or indirectly, deeply influenced you and helped your thought process in your formative years (between 12 and 18 years). I would be surprised if there wasn't one.
Cheers
@MSP I didnt want to comment long and make the reading mokka. So in a single line summary, mentor is one who provides u a source of inspiration wen u drop down on energy or enthusiasm or provides a 'well' of positive source of energy(stored in our memory) that u can draw from wen u are low on positivity.
ReplyDelete@GSM passive mentoring??? Its simply called inspiration, right?
JRSD,
ReplyDeleteIt is only "INSPIRATION", as I have mentioned in the comment itself. I used the phrase "Passive Mentoring" because, MSP had identified a few individuals who, in my opinion, could have "inspired", rather than "Mentored", which I think requires, at some level, one-one interaction. Then I thought, if MSP considers those people as mentors, it can be only "passive", which is nothing but inspirations.
I liked the way you defined mentoring.
Cheers
@JRSD: Very correct and wide definition indeed. But a mentor also goes beyond that.His Scope is wider.
ReplyDeleteHe makes you reach higher, even when you are high on positivity. To put it crudely, he sets a benchmark mentally against which you peg and weigh your efforts.
Sir
ReplyDelete"Mentoring isn't restricted just to older guys doling out ideas / advices to the younger lot. It can sometimes be on the reverse. Our own peers can be a mentor (or tormentor). Our own juniors can be our mentor" This is some thing which you have stated in the past. Again something which you alone could have stated, praises for that.
@Sir: Now that you have mentioned it, i think you are right - There was a person who was my mentor during that period. If you are aware of my history. I lost my father at that age of 10. Believe me being a great man he was till he lived, people always expected me to become like him and take his mantle, even when he was alive. They even always called me "Kutti Mani" as a compliment to me and believe me that was a compliment to me at that point in time. I was amazed as a kid how a man could touch so many of those around him, how a man could live for those around him so much. (That concept was still is alien to me now, something i am amazed by till this date). You could understand now, that i wanted to be my dad from 12 to 18.
But at the age of 18, i came across another person, who was so right to take up that place from my father who was non existent for 8 years then. That person sir, was you. :-)
As a compliment to my dad, (though a post / book does not do him justice by a long shot - I will shortly write a post dedicated to him) - i add his missing name to the above list.
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