Managing Director of Multichoice Ghana, Cecil Sunkwa-Mills has said that while the youth look out for mentors to guide them in life, it is equally important that they search for indirect mentors to motivate them.
Sharing his own experience of how he benefited from indirect mentors, he told YFM’s Akosua Hanson on the Y Leaderboard Series, “there are people that you see that you don’t make a physical connection with but the way they live their lives and what you read about them inspires you. They also give you another dimension of mentorship.
When I was in primary school, there was one guy, Siaw Tata; he is the person who built the ABC brewery. His kids were my mates in primary school. I admired how he organized his family but then he was not really educated but he had set up a big business. There were others that I narrowly got to meet but I saw the work that they did. And I said that when I grow up I want to be like them”.
Meanwhile, he noted that there have been mentors he has met face to face who challenged him into big projects, which subsequently gave him the opportunity to prove himself.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah