Be Good To Your Mentors - Commoncog
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Mentor relationships can be absolutely wonderful over the arc of a career. This is a simple way to think about finding and keeping good mentors.
The anonymous authors over at the Stay SaaSy blog have this saying about mentorship that I like: “a mentor is just someone who answers questions more than once.” The way they frame it, career mentorship is not some great, mysterious thing. Career mentors are simply people who give you good advice — repeatedly. Treating your mentors this way means that there’s no ceremony to it. More importantly, so long as you keep this definition in your head, there’s relatively little emotional baggage associated with the relationship. This is usually a good thing. Of course, if you want to continue…
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