If we can acknowledge the moments that we mentor, where we acknowledge the moments that we've been mentored and we thank the people that have mentored us, it makes us do it more and it ties it back to legacy so that we then can feel our impact.

That's Dr. Deborah Heiser.

She's an applied developmental psychologist slash coach who spent the last eight years helping others witness the transformational power of mentorship through her organization, The Mentor Project.

She's also the author of the book The Mentorship Edge.

So you'll learn one, the fundamental human need that mentorship fulfills.

Two, why most struggle to find mentors and the simple fix.

And three, the unlikely places where you can find more mentors.

And if you want a quick summary write-up for the actual takeaways,

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I'm Pete McItis.

This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.

And now, here's Debra. Deborah, welcome. Thanks for having me. I'm delighted to be here.

I'm excited to chat about mentorship, but I understand that you currently have a 21-year-old mentor.

What's the story here? So I am 57. I'm a Gen Xer,

and I decided that I wanted to try out social media for the next big thing that I'm working on

and to get some word out there. So I asked if this person who's 21 could mentor me. I didn't say, hey, can you be my mentor? But we talked. And he agreed. And so he's been mentoring me for two and a half months now. And it's amazing to be in the position of a mentee. It made me have a whole new perspective. That's super. Well, could you share with us what's

a social media insight you've picked up from this 21-year-old phenom? That it is not as easy as it

looks. That there's a lot of work that goes into it. There's a lot of thought that has to go into it,

even the things that are supposed to look really completely off the cuff, they're generally not.

So that was really a new insight for me.

Understood.

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