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 good mentor won’t hand you the answers, but they will try to help you see your problem from a new perspective. They’ll loan you some of their hard-fought advice so you can discover your own solution.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
Mentors are all around us; they are everywhere we look. Anywhere there is a sharing of knowledge or a teaching of experience, there is a mentor.
Don Yeager • A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring
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.
blog.samaltman.com • Idea Generation
Tool 4 -
Ask For Help
"I have three mentors.
When I’m stuck on a problem and need their help, I take the time to write a good description of my dilemma, before reaching out to them. I summarize the context, the problem, my options, and my thoughts on each. I make it as succinct as possible so as not to waste their time.
Before sending it, I try t... See more
Ask For Help
"I have three mentors.
When I’m stuck on a problem and need their help, I take the time to write a good description of my dilemma, before reaching out to them. I summarize the context, the problem, my options, and my thoughts on each. I make it as succinct as possible so as not to waste their time.
Before sending it, I try t... See more