My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.
I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.
It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
I'm not a person of mentors.
I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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.
My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.