April 14 — Tags: ,

The importance of Mentorship

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The 7 lessons on the importance of Mentorship, in Man About Town:

Lesson 1 Absorb everything you can from your mentor
Lesson 2 Seize any opportunity to learn and be humble enough to listen
Lesson 3 Never pass up the opportunity to work alongside someone creative
Lesson 4 Be Lucky
Lesson 5 Absorb enough of your mentor’s experience to hear their voice inside your head
Lesson 6 A mentor helps, but you still have to put the graft in
Lesson 7 The hardest lesson of all. You have to have talent or your potential mentor will pass you over all together.

Buy the magazine and read the complete lessons by David Waters. It inspired me to look for my mentors. Two mentors I’d like to write down are Jochem Leegstra & Edson Williams. They both inspired me in my way to perfection and mentored me in graphic design, entrepreneurship and photography.