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…mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear.
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…mentors… offer up their own experiences for the benefit of others.
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061 |
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Mentoring is never about the mentor; it’s always about the mentee.
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061 |
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Mentoring can happen whenever there is a lesson to be learned, even if the lesson is something as basic as showing love.
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065 |
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A mentor must always guide, never push.
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It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
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072 |
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Even during our own personal low periods, we can continue to try to be a mentor to those around us.
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074 |
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…a mentor can speak across time and place, teaching truths through the decisions of his own life and the thoughts of his own pen.
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086 |
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The legacy a person leaves with his or her actions and writings is no less a means of mentoring than is a one-on-one conversation about experience and advice.
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086 |
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You often don’t recognize the mentors at the time they’re deeply involved in your life; and mentoring often occurs even when you don’t want it to.
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