Great thoughts and advice on how to approach a mentor: “I’ve been working hard on this thing and I really think I need the perspective from someone more experienced — what do you think?”
Mentoring is a way for experienced people to give back and pay forward as without acknowledging it enough, we are mentored and advised throughout our own journey!
It’s equally important to “invert” and avoid like the plague the “anti- mentors” who will drag you down. I never had a mentor as a young man but I did have “anti-mentors”.
On the value of mentoring, Auden wrote in 1936 of "The four necessary human relationships: to love; to be loved; to be a teacher; to be a pupil."
Love this!
Great thoughts and advice on how to approach a mentor: “I’ve been working hard on this thing and I really think I need the perspective from someone more experienced — what do you think?”
Mentoring is a way for experienced people to give back and pay forward as without acknowledging it enough, we are mentored and advised throughout our own journey!
Excellent, as usual.
Thank you, Marc!
It’s equally important to “invert” and avoid like the plague the “anti- mentors” who will drag you down. I never had a mentor as a young man but I did have “anti-mentors”.