Best Mentors in the World Just For You

The article says that mentorship can be extended into a mental exercise. By learning how respected people think through their books, interviews, and articles, you can anticipate how they would answer your questions and use that perspective when facing your own problems.

It also suggests writing a detailed one-pager for a mentor before sending it, because the process of organizing the situation can reveal the advice you need. The same idea can be expanded into a personal board of advisors, real or fictional, whose different views you imagine discussing a decision together. The author still stresses that this does not replace real human mentorship.

Reading notes

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• Build familiarity with a mentor’s perspective by consuming what they publish and learning how they operate.
• Draft a short, detailed explanation of your problem as if you were sending it to a mentor, and use that process to clarify the issue.
• Create a personal board of advisors made of people you trust, living or fictional, and ask what they would do.
• Use the imagined discussion to surface different points of view and possible solutions.
• Treat the exercise as a supplement to, not a replacement for, real mentorship and human connection.