The Power of Creativity \(Book 1\): Learning How to Build Lasting Habits, Face Your Fears and Change Your Life pdfdrive com

Burn Your Mentor’s Ideas Into Your Own
Read, watch and listen to everything your mentor sends you, produces or creates.
Keep a file or a notebook and write down everything they have to teach you and
review regularly what you’ve learnt from them.
Whenever  you  face  a  decision  about  how  to  spend  your  time  or  resources,
use  your  mentor’s  teachings  to  guide  you.  Ask  them  questions  and,  if  possible
get them to review your work and provide critical feedback.
Do what they tell you, and put as much of their teachings into practise as you
can  at  the  expense  of  advice  you  hear  elsewhere.  The  fire  of  your  mentor’s
teachings should temper you so that you can face external ideas and challenges
without becoming overwhelmed.
At first, your mentor’s advice might seem odd and even against your better
instincts, but remember your mentor knows far more about the creative journey
you’re both on.
Later,  when  you  start  to  achieve  results,  you  can  bring  more  of  your

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experiences and knowledge into your chosen creative field.
Nothing lasts forever.
There will come a point when you must develop self-reliance and strike out
on your own. It will naturally arrive if you’ve hired a mentor to work with you
for a pre-determined period or if they’re working with you in a more distanced
capacity. Be sure you’re both prepared to make the break.
If  you  are  working  directly  with  your  mentor  and  have  hooked  their
attention, they might become dependent on you and even hold you back.
They might want to keep you within the fold because they need you or even
because they are afraid you will outshine them.
If  this  happens,  remember  the  goal  of  any  mentoring  relationship  isn’t  life-
long friendship; your creative work must come first.