Seek Out Mentors
It’s absolutely essential to find somebody who is good at the skill you want to improve and model their methods and use what helps you. By continually finding new mentors in different areas in your life, befriending them, and picking their brain you will ensure a steady stream of personal growth and improvement in whatever you set your mind to doing.
1. Find an expert in your field and offer to buy them lunch. Do make friends with this person.
2. If you can’t find somebody right away, don’t worry. Read books, watch videos, go through home study courses. Seek out the answers and the understanding that you desire for your skill set. But continue to find those that are better than you at what you do.
3. Once you have found a mentor, use that resource wisely and get as much help and advice as you can. This could be a lifelong friend so treat them that way. They will only help you that much more and root for your success.
4. After you have learned all you can from one mentor, find another and repeat the process.
5. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
6. Don’t forget to pay back the favor. Do this enough times and you will be the expert. Somebody will come to you for friendship and mentoring one day. Hone your craft even further by teaching it. You will still learn as much if not more by teaching than you will by learning on your own.
I can’t always meet in person the mentors I want, but I have been very fortunate to meet many great ones. With the media resources available nowadays with books, courses, and the internet there is really no reason not to find an expert and study their skills for your own benefit from a distance at the very least. An important realization though is that you can only do so much by reading or watching. This is another advantage to having a personal mentor: to be guided through practical application of a skill by an expert.
Go network and find the mentors that will carry you to the next level in your life. 
