I love your writing and this newsletter. (Is that weird, to get praise for this rather than for the music?) As somebody who's sort of in the mentoring biz, though, I had a reaction to your thought about time-release bombs, and it's this: Speaking for myself, I'm not that smart. It's all I can do to try and give people good advice; I don't have the chops to work it out so that a time bomb will go off for them years down the line. And more importantly, if you're (not you, Sharon -- some other "you" who's in the mentoring biz) approaching mentoring that way, you're doing it wrong. Because you're making it about you, and it has to be about the person you're teaching. It needs to be OK that the person you're mentoring maybe never will appreciate it (that happens), or else you're approaching the job in the wrong way. My two cents, anyway.
I love your writing and this newsletter. (Is that weird, to get praise for this rather than for the music?) As somebody who's sort of in the mentoring biz, though, I had a reaction to your thought about time-release bombs, and it's this: Speaking for myself, I'm not that smart. It's all I can do to try and give people good advice; I don't have the chops to work it out so that a time bomb will go off for them years down the line. And more importantly, if you're (not you, Sharon -- some other "you" who's in the mentoring biz) approaching mentoring that way, you're doing it wrong. Because you're making it about you, and it has to be about the person you're teaching. It needs to be OK that the person you're mentoring maybe never will appreciate it (that happens), or else you're approaching the job in the wrong way. My two cents, anyway.