My mentor’s mentor is my mentor

I went for a program on Saturday – (2 days ago) where my I was privileged to listen to my mentor speak on a topic titled $1 million dollars. It was a seminar aimed at pointing those who had been making money conning people through the internet in the direction of using those same skill sets they employed in duping people to make money legitimately.

He started by showing the audience a quote of one of his mentors on a power point presentation slide. Two things immediately struck me hard:

1. The name of his mentor.
2. The veracity of his words.

Immediately, I decided to adopt the same man as my mentor. Please note; this man is a situational mentor. This means that he’s a mentor in a particular area or dimension. He is not a full or rounded mentor. He’s not exactly someone my mentor or I would like to model in terms of lifestyle or values. He is just a mentor by virtue of what he said in his aging years and the application of those words to our lives and other. His name is no none other than Lucky Luciano.- greatest mafia boss who ever ruled in America. Even Al Capone for his fame and terror fades into 2^nd place beside Lucky Luciano. What made him unique:

• He was the only Mafia boss of his time who died a natural death – Charles “Lucky Luciano” (born Salvatore Lucania) died of a heart attack in 1962. He was 62 years old. Most of his colleagues died by assassination.
• Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime.
• He is also considered as the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade.
• He is the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family.
• TIME magazine name Luciano amongst the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20^th century.
• Even today Luciano is recognized as the biggest gangster ever and one of the most influential criminals in world history due to his direct participation in major criminal conspiracies like the establishment of Cosa Nostra in the United States and the importation of heroin during his exile in Italy.
• He was regarded as one of the wealthiest men living in America during his lifetime.

What qualified him to be my mentor’s mentor and my own mentor by extension? Just before he died, Lucky was asked a question at an interview with journalists.

“If you had the privilege of starting over again, what would you do differently?” and he replied

“ I discovered too late that the same effort it took to make a honest million dollars is the same effort it took to make a dishonest million dollars, if I had the opportunity to start over again, I’ll do it legitimately.”

Learning and applying all available skill sets on the dishonest side of this world to add value and succeed legitimately is the area where Lucky stands as mentor to my mentor.

“Everything you have applied wrongly to get results can be applied rightly to achieve positive results.”