Mentors
I’ve always been a fan of having a mentor, someone to look up to, to advise you on how to accomplish your goals. A few times in my life I’ve asked people to be my mentor. No one has really agreed to take it on full fledged but more often than not they’re happy to advise me.
Last night I had drinks with the Director of Product Development of a new awesome start up that will change the way we shop online, called Eblizz. She’s an old friend of mine that I met a few years back when I was at a friend’s restaraunt in Pasedena with a friend of hers. She’s got connections out the wazoo, and I’m just lucky to have her as one of mine.
After drinks where we talked a little bit of tech and had a lot of laughs, she invited me up to see her amazing downtown loft. This place is one of those apartments that really rock and are well put together. It’s got lots of cool tech add-ons like a projector over her bed to watch movies. Being there and knowing how accomplished she is in tech, I said “I want to be you one day, will you be my mentor, “Get over this mentor thing, be yourself, you’re already amazing.”
Now that’s what a good advisor/mentor should say. This maybe the best advice I’ve ever gotten.
great post!
be yourself, but do try to learn everything you can from the people you admire.
the last two times i sought mentors, i was just straightforward with them and said: “will you be my mentor?” and it worked! this was what my mentor did to get her mentors too.