
Coaches, Mentors and Sponsors
Ideas That Matter Podcast by Vusi Thembekwayo
How to Choose a Mentor
The mentor is the person who has walked the path that you are walking. They know where every pothole and every crevice is. As they say in kiswahili, what an old man sitting under a tree can see a young man standing at the top of a hill cannot. And that is the mentor. In my life, I've had several mentors. These are people for whom, or rather people in whom I look when I am lost. The first thing you're looking for is credibility. Are they credible at the specific thing you want them to mentor you at? The second thing you's looking for is experience. Have they done it? Because theory is just this
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