But people want the model! They want someone to tell them what to do! They want someone to give them social permission to try new things.
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School is an *absurdly* permission based model. You can't fail at a new math equation until a teacher tells you "It is now OK to do that."
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If you attempt to learn something without special dispensation, by failing at it (the way you learn anything), you can get disciplined.
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You don't need a mentor to start a business. You don't need a mentor to learn a new programming language. You can just straight-up do these.
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There is no disciplinarian who will say "Wait you tried learning Ruby?! You're not cleared for that for 2 years. Going on permanent record!"
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Ever heard people complaining about emotional labor? Asking someone to be a mentor is that: hey, please take responsibility for me.
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"I'm needy and I need validation, so I'd like you to own my success outcomes." "But I have minimal ability to influence those b/c work."
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I have had people propose very elaborate mentoring schemes for me, and they felt like work, in the sense that cargo culting usually does.
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"Successful businesses involve meetings with smart people and therefore if I schedule lots of meetings with smart people then boom success."
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Successful businesses also involve lots of boring grinding. As your non-mentor, I advise you to spend many more cycles on boring grinding.
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I have very rarely regretted a day spent making things, selling things, or talking to customers. Bank a lot of days like these.
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Are there ways you can do these better by showing your work to peers and experts and getting feedback? Yes, sure. Do that.
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I think it really depends on the expectations of what "mentoring" means, then. For me, this ^^ is mentoring, NOT offloading risk.
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