I cannot be your mentor, here’s everything I know – adrienne maree brown
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I cannot be your mentor, here’s everything I know – adrienne maree brown
A mentor who doesn’t frequently say 'I don’t know' needs to be replaced.
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Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner.
The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety: https://t.co/dW7DAcmyng
It’s also important to think about what you’re well-suited for. This is hard to do with pure introspection; ideally you can ask a mentor or some people you’ve worked with what you’re particularly good at. I’ve come to believe that founder/company fit is as important as product/market fit.
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If you want to do something extremely well, you need to surround yourself with the right mentors. High-level goals require high-quality mentoring. If you suck at something, it’s because you haven’t received quality mentoring in that thing. The best mentorships are the ones in which you