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The Qualities Of A Great Mentor
Great mentors are hard to come by.
Everyone wants a mentor.
But many people think attracting a mentor means finding someone who is going to “give them all the answers for free.”
The truth is, mentors are everywhere: in your workplace, your gym, your neighborhood, your apartment complex. Even someone you chat with once a year could be considered a mentor, if you know how to make use of that relationship and still extract value.
The challenge, however, is most apprentices or ambitious individuals don’t know how to put themselves in a position to be mentored in the first place. And I don’t mean physically, as in “being in the right place at the right time.” I mean emotionally.
The same people who say they want to be mentored, also go to great lengths to prove how much they already know; and in turn, end up repelling potential mentors (because who wants to teach someone who thinks they already know everything?).
Finding a great mentor requires you to be open, humble, and ready to admit what you don’t know.
That’s step one.
