Whenever 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 specifical

Whenever 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...