The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.
So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.
It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
I'm not a person of mentors.