
He was second in the state at chess. Then a man walked into the tournament uninvited, went to his father, and said: I want to teach your son. The man was not a chess master. He was a yoga master whose family had passed down a practice that increased mental capacity across generations. He had never taught anyone outside his family. He saw something in Antano and chose him. That choice changed a life. The role of a mentor in your life is to see trajectory in you before you can see it in yourself — and to invest in the foundation you don't yet know you need. Antano and Harini serve this function for thousands of people: practitioners who develop the intelligence to identify what someone is capable of and to build, patiently and precisely, the capabilities that trajectory requires. When the right mentor arrives, the direction of a life changes completely.