The average person will never help you become better than them on purpose.

Your realization of your being better than someone at something is not an invitation for you to advise them on that thing.

You do not need someone’s permission to learn from them.

We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.

It is seldom possible to respect someone about whom you know everything.

The biggest problem with mentorship is that in almost all cases the mentor either cannot make the mentee better than them, or does not want that to ever happen.