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Mentor Wisdom: "My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better." — Steve Jobs
Mentor Lesson: Diamonds get squeezed into existence
The diamond sitting on someone's finger started as ordinary carbon getting crushed under impossible pressure.
Steve Jobs was famous for rejecting prototypes dozens of times.
His team probably wanted to throw computers at his head. But that pressure created the iPhone, not another flip phone.
Think about your favorite teacher. Bet it wasn't the one who gave everyone A's for showing up. It was probably the tough one who made you rewrite that essay three times. The one who pushed when you wanted to quit.
Pressure reveals what we're really made of. A tea bag looks pretty ordinary until you drop it in hot water.
Then the magic happens.
Most people avoid pressure like it's poison. They want the easy path, the gentle feedback, the participation trophy.
But diamonds don't form in bubble baths. They form deep underground where the heat is intense and the pressure is crushing.
The entrepreneurs who change the world don't get there by being coddled. They get there by having mentors who demand excellence, who point out the flaws, who refuse to accept "good enough."
As promised, wisdom in under a minute.
Talk soon,
-Chris
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