Bow to your Sensei
Welp, I missed my second entry last night. Oh well. Wasn't really up to the task last night. The Cowboys lost depressed me, I spent 3.5 hours in a poker tournament (staying later than I wanted) only to finish one spot off a $200 pay out, and to top it all off I felt pretty lousy. So that's my excuse. I went into work to take care of a few high priority items and then left at lunch and slept all afternoon. I'm going to bed early tonight too, so I should be at 100% again tomorrow. Anyway, on to my next entry... by the way, I'm purposefully leaving off the last names of any non-famous people, so some of you will know who I'm talking about and some won't, sorry...
Mentors. I dig the concept of mentors, like Mr. Miyagi for Daniel LaRusso. And there are different kinds of mentors. First, let me say that I consider a mentor to be someone outside of your family who takes you under their wing and teaches you and encourages you. My parents have taught me and encouraged me a lot, and not that I don't greatly appreciate, but that is kind of expected from your parents. Plus, children will sometimes tune out their parents on certain issues and need to be taught from a new direction. Also, mentors come in different shapes and sizes, there are general life mentors, like the kind you often find at church, who are just the kind of people you can go to for advice or to talk, and there are mentors for specific areas of your life. For example, I have a poker mentor, Martin, we I was first getting serious about poker he took me under his wing, taught me a few things and pointed me in the right direction for me to better my poker play. Mike and Rick from SCC used to be life and spiritual mentors to me. Despite how much I've written, or tried to write, I've never really had a writing mentor. Dean Koontz kind of mentors me from afar, and Reg has given me some tips from time to time. By far my dad has helped me out most with my writing, but he is family. Although, now that I think about it maybe a family member can be considered a mentor in specific areas, it is only life in general that you kind of expect that teaching. After all, I'm sure Todd Brunson would consider his dad to be his poker mentor. I can't think of any other areas where I've had a mentor, at least not off the top of my head.
I can't remember now what made me think of mentors as an idea for an entry. I guess I just kind of want to have that kind of relationship again, to have a mentor as kind of a safety net for life. Someone that I can go to with issues that I might not feel comfortable going to my parents with. Someone who might have gained from experience answers to questions that my friends can't help me with. And I also want to be a good mentor when the time comes. I've kind of mentored my brother in poker, but not so much since I moved out. I used to mentor some middle school guys when I lead their small group at church, or at least I was suppose to mentor them, not sure I did that great a job.
Anyway, that was kind of a random entry. Something just made me think about mentors and mentoring a couple of days again and I wrote down the word mentor, but not what made me think about it. The mentor apprentice relationship just seems to be a special one, in many ways mirroring the father-son (or to be more generic parent-child) relationship. Perhaps that is why I don't attach the word mentor to parents, because it is similar, but one notch down from a healthy parent-child relationship. Just a think, let me know if you have any thinks on this topic.
Mentors. I dig the concept of mentors, like Mr. Miyagi for Daniel LaRusso. And there are different kinds of mentors. First, let me say that I consider a mentor to be someone outside of your family who takes you under their wing and teaches you and encourages you. My parents have taught me and encouraged me a lot, and not that I don't greatly appreciate, but that is kind of expected from your parents. Plus, children will sometimes tune out their parents on certain issues and need to be taught from a new direction. Also, mentors come in different shapes and sizes, there are general life mentors, like the kind you often find at church, who are just the kind of people you can go to for advice or to talk, and there are mentors for specific areas of your life. For example, I have a poker mentor, Martin, we I was first getting serious about poker he took me under his wing, taught me a few things and pointed me in the right direction for me to better my poker play. Mike and Rick from SCC used to be life and spiritual mentors to me. Despite how much I've written, or tried to write, I've never really had a writing mentor. Dean Koontz kind of mentors me from afar, and Reg has given me some tips from time to time. By far my dad has helped me out most with my writing, but he is family. Although, now that I think about it maybe a family member can be considered a mentor in specific areas, it is only life in general that you kind of expect that teaching. After all, I'm sure Todd Brunson would consider his dad to be his poker mentor. I can't think of any other areas where I've had a mentor, at least not off the top of my head.
I can't remember now what made me think of mentors as an idea for an entry. I guess I just kind of want to have that kind of relationship again, to have a mentor as kind of a safety net for life. Someone that I can go to with issues that I might not feel comfortable going to my parents with. Someone who might have gained from experience answers to questions that my friends can't help me with. And I also want to be a good mentor when the time comes. I've kind of mentored my brother in poker, but not so much since I moved out. I used to mentor some middle school guys when I lead their small group at church, or at least I was suppose to mentor them, not sure I did that great a job.
Anyway, that was kind of a random entry. Something just made me think about mentors and mentoring a couple of days again and I wrote down the word mentor, but not what made me think about it. The mentor apprentice relationship just seems to be a special one, in many ways mirroring the father-son (or to be more generic parent-child) relationship. Perhaps that is why I don't attach the word mentor to parents, because it is similar, but one notch down from a healthy parent-child relationship. Just a think, let me know if you have any thinks on this topic.
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