If you are lucky you may discover an older…
If you are lucky you may discover an older friend who will become your guide and mentor for part of your life, someone who is spotted the best in you and wants to encourage it.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy
In the book
You will remember your great teachers far longer than the subjects they taught — so become your own great teacher, and teach yourself the way the best of them taught you. If you are lucky you will also find a mentor — an older friend who spots the best in you and wants to draw it out — and you will recognize your own gifts by what you pick up fastest, since the speed at which you learn a new skill is the surest clue to where your talent lies. Third, learn from others; as Newton said, if he saw further it was by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)