Attitude is our personal perspective on our selves and our circumstances—our angle on things, our disposition, and emotional point of view.

Element. The second role of a mentor is encouragement. Mentors

High achievers often share similar attitudes, such as perseverance, self-belief, optimism, ambition, and frustration.

Being in your Element is not only a question of natural aptitude. I know many people who are naturally very good at something, but don’t feel that it’s their life’s calling. Being in your Element needs something more—passion.

“I understood the series of stages I was supposed to go through—you go to high school, you go to college, you get a credential, and then you go out and get a good job. I knew it wasn’t gonna work for me. I knew I was gonna be drawing cartoons forever.

This is why many of the people in the book describe finding their Element as an epiphany.

The third role of a mentor is facilitating.

“epiphany stories” because they tend to involve some level of revelation, a way of dividing the world into before and after. These epiphanies utterly changed their lives, giving them direction and purpose and sweeping them up in a way that nothing else had.

Fear is perhaps the most common obstacle to finding your Element.