Can see why this is valauble and why people would do it. Mentoring is the hard problem to both generalize and scale. A world in which that problem is solved wou

Can see why this is valauble and why people would do it. Mentoring is the hard problem to both generalize and scale. A world in which that problem is solved would have a means to take in arbitrary people and return successful ones who can do well by themselves and teach others. It doesn't scale well because a mentor requires support infrastructure to be present and available with opportunity, and it is only as successful as the mentees openness to change. I was made a member of a private mentoring organization some years ago, and it's hard to stop indexing on mentoring as making others more like you. First it's having the relevant experience to share, and then being present to share it, and even then, just at the right moment on someones path. That makes mentoring a rare confluence of factors. Even if you sign up for skill lessons of some sort with someone, the mentoring that happens is a higher order effect of the practice and time together, and not just the tangible work in the lessons, that can be arbitrary. It's not therapy either, as that's a very specific kind of relationship that is separate from mentoring as well. I would be surprised to see how it works on a transactional basis at all. There's a lot I don't know about it (most of it really) but what a difficult and important problem!