Mentor Advice

At work, we have a mentorship program where you get paired up with someone that fits your mentorship needs and is a level above you. I breached the system and reached out to an SVP (5 levels above me) who has a very good reputation and highly successful at what he does. I wrote a long introduction about myself in an email, and talked about how we have a lot in common and plenty to talk about. It's selling oneself to someone else is what I despise the most, but need to be good at. Within a few minutes, he responded with an enthusiastic one-liner: "Let's do it!" It was unexpected, and I was so thrilled.

I got the chance to meet him in person for the first time last week and he gave me his very first "mentor" advice, which will forever be with me and will pass on to my mentee and my children and my grandchildren. He said "Where I'm going is where I've never been."

Lalim, pare.