Doctor! Doctor!

I take a consultative approach to my mentoring.

I ask questions: “Where does it hurt?”

I make suggestions, “Have you tried not punching yourself in the face quite so often?”

But I rarely say “Do this. Then this. And finally this.”

I have learnt over many mentoring sessions that people, no matter how explicit the directions, will do the exact opposite unless they “figured it out for themselves.”

Most of my job is making you believe you arrived at the answer yourself and stopping you from hurting yourself.