Power Mentoring

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION TO POWER MENTORING

And when the event, the big thing in your life, is simply an insight—isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: Isn’t that amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you’ve experienced before?

—JONATHAN FRANZEN, THE CORRECTIONS

 

 

 

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Maybe it did not work out that you would be a movie star or an Olympic athlete, but have you found the level of joy in your work that you had hoped for? When you chose your major in college and then later changed it, or perhaps recently made a job or career ...