There is always a balance to be achieved between creating stuff oneself and mentoring others. The ideas which helped me on this have been: (a) never offer ment

There is always a balance to be achieved between creating stuff oneself and mentoring others. The ideas which helped me on this have been: (a) never offer mentoring/review/training if it's forced or otherwise unsolicited; (b) reading Feynman talking about teaching: https://www.math.utah.edu/~yplee/teaching/feynman.html https://www.math.utah.edu/~yplee/teaching/feynman.html