Mentorship

The next challenge is to find a mentor. This mentor is supposed to be someone you look up to in some way. When I read about this challenge I thought of Socrates and Plato, and the movie Good Will Hunting. The relationship between Matt Damon and Robin Williams, albeit a counselor and patient relationship, is kind of what a healthy mentoring relationship looks like. There is built up trust, laughs, serious times, and break throughs for both people.

Mentoring made me also think about how one gets trained at work is just like being trained at life. When I worked at in-n-out I saw how important training was. Each store has their own trainer and I feel this helped the quality of work immensely. The trainer told me about how the best trainers train their trainees to be better than themselves one day. I feel that trainers, teachers, mentors should instruct while believing that the trainees, the students, the mentees will surpass their level by using passed on wisdom as a foundation and building from there.

I asked someone from my church to mentor me and I'm excited to see where this will lead. I feel that having the structure of a mentorship will make our already close relationship even closer and deeper.

The mentoring challenge has been completed, yet it has only just begun.