Who is the mentor(s) of your life? Why does this person have great impacts on you?

It does come from ancient Greece originally a person who provides encouragement and practical plans for dealing personal dilemmas. More recently (past few hundred years) it meant a person who shares wisdom and knowledge with a less experienced person.

@Vu Hoang - I agree

@ Tam Duyen Hua - Interestingly in the US where we believe we are developed (maybe some areas yes and others no ^_^) there are really few mentoring programs like this. You may find it in larger and wealthier companies but most often even those programs are driven by self motivation. The assigned mentor will often do little unless it promotes their own career.

I was in a situation when I was younger where this was implemented. About 20 people were assigned to "C" suite executives for mentoring. The individuals being mentored would talk about it among ourselves. We found only one C suite executive had any interest in being sincere and the others saw it as wasting their time. I got stuck with a bad one - I was pretty excited and prepared to talk about serious things. All my mentor wanted to do was talk about his plans for the weekend. I suspect this is common in that not all executives will make good mentors and not all mentors will make good executives.

I guess I am different in that I believe mentoring should be based on a connection of sorts - meaning the mentor should have a sincere interest in providing advice for the sole purpose of helping others. Some will give good business advice and others will give good personal advice. One thing is for sure, we need as many good mentors as we can find.

The person who has impacted mylife the most, lived over 2000 years ago. His words are recorded in the New Testament. His name is Jesus

Myself - It is good for having 3 mentors . 1 is not enough for your life.

Tôi rất tâm đắc câu nói của Steve Jobs: Bạn hãy làm việc như ngày hôm nay là ngày cuối của cuộc đời bạn vậy, rồi ngày mai bạn sẽ thấy thành công.

My mother is the mentor of my life.
She has great impacts on me because she is my mother!!1