When you accept mentorship, you are putting your development in the mentor's hands.
- When you accept mentorship, you are putting your development in the mentor's hands.[ih]
- You have to trust them to not contort you into something that just benefits them.
- They're helping point out a path for you that you can't see (or can't take) yourself.
- Cult leaders take advantage of this.
- If they put you down a dangerous path, you wouldn't necessarily know.
- One reason why it's good to see your mentors as role models in all aspects of life, not just in one dimension.
- Otherwise you could fall into a trap of "The way to get a marginal benefit in your work life is to pay absolutely zero attention to your family."