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Ask HN: How do you find a mentor?
I think, the role of a mentor in our life is understated and another issue is finding a suitable mentor.
One can learn things on their own (after job/school) but a mentor can help you narrow down the things you want to learn and supervise your journey.
Please note I am not talking about spoon feeding but someone who helps accelerate your learning.
- onion2k 11y agoFind someone who you think you'd like to be mentored by and ask. Obviously you need a bit of realism (Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to mentor you), and it helps to have an existing relationship on some level, but seriously, you just have to make the first move.
- exolymph 10y agoYup, what onion2k said. Email people you admire and ask if you can help them out.
- dozzie 10y agoWhenever I hear about searching for a mentor, I imagine some guy that simply waits for illumination to happen, by osmosis, I suppose. I see searching specifically for a mentor as a kind of fashion or supersitition of these days. (Mind you, this is merely an association, a first impression that I have when I see such questions.) Do you have a plan how to use this "mentoring" thing? A concrete idea what you want from a mentor and how your work would look like? Do you have anything to show him/her, so the mentor has any foothold for comments? This is a good piece of article about exactly that: http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-mentor-me-is.html http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-me...