Mentor: The Odyssey's Quietest Character
The word mentor comes from a character in Homer's Odyssey who barely speaks, and from a Proto-Indo-European root that also gave us dementia.
Last night I watched Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. During the scene where Mentor dies, my mind went somewhere else entirely. The company I work for runs a Mentor programme. When someone new joins, they are assigned a mentor. That person walks them through onboarding and, in the first months…
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