Learning regularly from people of all ages seems to be both: (a) incredibly enjoyable and life-enriching; and (b) a kind of creative superpower. For instance, I know 80 year olds with mentors in their 20s, 30s, and 40s; it's amazing what it does for them.
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Finding / creating / fostering / building the relationships that can take on the form of mentorship is a huge challenge for most people though (myself included)
A lot of people - not saying this is true of you! - have the idea that mentorship is like having a private tutor who devotes lots of time to you. AFAICT, it's really just hanging out with people you like & admire, & learning a lot from them incidentally, & occasionally explicitly
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A way I like to think: in terms of mutual mentorship. Yes, I'm learning a lot from them. But also vice versa. And pretty much all the time.
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Agreed! But then, what would you say the difference is between a respected peer/colleague/friend and a "mentor"?
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Provided - as this a big caveat - you take care to learn a lot from them, there is no difference. Many people seem to me to be relatively uninterested in learning from their friends.
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