If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

If you mentor someone, and you don't feel the need to tell the whole world you are mentoring someone to stroke your own ego, are you still mentoring?

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The lost art of showing someone the ropes and not being a dïck about it.

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I appreciate when people go out of their way to tell me I should avoid them before I even meet them.

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I would still be mentoring. And the reason is that I’m a firm believer that the good you do to someone else always comes back to you.

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We washed oil off these baby ducks

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The person you’re mentoring is listening. They’ll tell other people both up and down the ranks. If that’s what really matters.

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There’s always some in the forest to notice the sound, birds etc…😉

But if you weren’t there, how do you _really_ know

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