Mentoring

I’ve been reading a lot about mentoring. Everyone wants a mentor/mentee and everyone has an opinion on how to get one and be one. There’s so many opinions out there that it’s exhausting and hard to determine what content is valuable.

Personally, I subscribe to a simple approach. For my mentees I offer to help when I can, continue doing so, and it becomes a habit to meet or “mentor” all the better. For my own personal mentors, when I need help, I ask for it. If that help becomes a habit, I consider that person a mentor and if we’ve been in the habit of “meeting” and it gets too long (you’ll know whens it been too long) I ask them if they want to hang out.

I think there’s more nuanced things this two paragraph blurp on mentoring is missing. However, I do think this captures a large percentage of what mentoring should be.