Ideas don’t overwhelm me like they do other people. You can say something “new” and while it may sound extraordinary for some, it probably won’t shock me at all. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a nod. More often than not, it’s a blank stare. Call it the arrogance of knowing. With the Internet being the great equalizer, one only has to get online to run with the knowledgeable crowd. Hell, you can even fake it if you have a really trusting audience*.
Since it’s so hard to get a true mentor these days, here are a few tips for mentor wannabees. Call it the immutable laws of mentorship:
- True knowledge is hard to come by these days (there’s nothing you can’t Google)
- To know is a burden. To teach is divine.
- Listening is to mentorship, as eyesight is to driving.
How do I know this? I don’t, that’s the good part.
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*tab·u·la ra·sa
n. pl. tab·u·lae ra·sae (tby-l räs, -z)
a.1 The mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience.
a.2 The unformed, featureless mind in the philosophy of John Locke.
b.1 A need or an opportunity to start from the beginning.