Use your mentors' own experiences to shorten your learning curve. Learn from their mistakes and let their pasts serve you. Mentors need not be alive. Becoming a serious student of great people who have lived before us by reading their biographies and analyzing their personal habits will work just as well as any association with a living achiever. Play the Numbers.
Success is a numbers game.
Smart salespeople will tell you that the average sale is closed on the fifth try and yet most people give up after the first. Similarly, the more times you try to succeed, the closer you get to success. The more times you ask for something, the greater the probability that you will get it. Take more chances, seize more opportunities and take more action. Just as the farmer who plants more seeds reaps a richer harvest, you will attract much more success into your own life.