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“I promised to mentor him and I actually gave him the hours.”
Promising to help is cheap; the hours are expensive, and they competed with everything else you wanted. You gave them anyway — showed up, taught, answered the late questions. A promise to invest in someone is only real in the time you actually spend. You kept it, and you may have changed the arc of his life.
Your Practice
- Notice the promise was kept in time given, not in the offer made.
- Protect the recurring hour the way you'd protect any commitment.
- Watch him grow and know your kept word made it possible.
- Let investing in people be a promise you keep, not just one you make.
The Architects
“Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade?”
— Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1750