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Sarah Robb O’Hagan: Find your perfect mentor
From the course: Succeeding in a New Role By Managing Up
Sarah Robb O’Hagan: Find your perfect mentor
(gentle music) - I think mentorship is absolutely critical because no matter what, when you are younger in years, you just don't have the same life experience to not worry about things in the same way. So what I mean by that is, I look at myself now, I'm 45. So I've been through enough, if it fails, and enough, corporate situations where you're on the track, and then things go wrong, to take it all with a bit more of a calm grain of salt because I'm like, "I've been here before. "I've been fired before. "It'll be okay." And therefore, those experiences to share with a young person who's not been through that, to help remind them when they go through it, "It's okay, this is normal." And I do think for younger people today, finding mentors who are literally in the moment with you, seeing you do what you do. I actually don't think mentors that are in a different industry, or whatever, can be so helpful 'cause they're not seeing you in the moment. It needs to be someone who's actively…
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