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What Is A Guru?
The importance of mentors, coaches, and guides in life.
Much of my writing on Medium.com, explores the role of mentors, guides, consultants, experts, and gurus in business, strategic thinking, and spirituality. Much of my research here is based on Harrison’s Applied Game Theory (HAGT), a system I created for helping my life coaching clients make wiser decisions in group interactions.
It might be helpful before we explore how to find a mentor, guide, or guru to begin with a short introduction to the basics of HAGT. Below is an article (a 6-minute read) as well as a more in-depth video embedded in the article. Both were created so they would be understood by a 12-year-old.
All of us need mentors, coaches, and guides in life. Without these, we are likely to make poor choices as well as being less EEPPSA (effective, efficient, precise, productive, and self-awareness). One type of guide is the guru. Guru is a Sanskrit term for a “teacher, guide, master, or expert” of certain knowledge or field. In modern usage, especially in the West, a guru is more than a teacher. In…
