Comments on: Mentors

By: XochitlTheblogsmaid

XochitlTheblogsmaid — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:33:49 +0000

Thanks for this, Sean! This is such a great post for people just starting out, when it’s still scary to verbalize your ideas and visions for fear of criticism. Having mentors has has enabled us to really take periodic steps back and re-evaluate.
AND, this made me email my mentor and friend Roberta Bickford, who was one of my art history professors in college. My profession couldn’t be further from academia, but I still go to her for guidance on a regular basis.

By: Dina Eisenberg

Dina Eisenberg — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:50:19 +0000

The experience of learning how to think in new ways was the richest part of law school for me. Years as a mediator taught me how to speak in new ways. I couldn’t succeed at making life easier for people in conflict if I hadn’t learned both.

My contracts prof was quite a gal, too. Kate Judge was one of the first women to attend law school in Massachusetts. Boy, she was tough, and I’m the better for it!

Thanks, Sean!

By: Better Mondays | No. 3 | It's Better Together

Better Mondays | No. 3 | It's Better Together — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:05:20 +0000

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By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:26:13 +0000

I love this “There is no right answer, just the one that is most appropriate given the circumstances.” Also great: “Going down the right road the wrong way is so much better than going down the wrong road the right way”!!
Thanks Sean for all your posts and especially the last two. You are a mentor to many, myself included and I look forward to continued learning.

By: Bella Design

Bella Design — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:52:56 +0000

Ah, isn’t it amazing how certain people in our life have such a huge influence on how we think? One of the reasons I originally went into neuropsychology (how far is that from an event designer!) was because of the AMAZING professor I had. He was infamously difficult, but absolutely brilliant. You had to fight to get into his class, and fight to stay in it! What I learned later was that he not only taught me the subject matter at hand, but he taught me HOW to think, how to be objective, how to look at everything in every possible way, how to look at the whole and see the details, and how to take all the details and put it together into a whole. And that skill is priceless, and transferable into any subject matter. And yes, it has made me a much better designer than I would have been otherwise, and I swear I use those skills daily! Nowadays, I have several mentors, you among them, that DO teach me about the subject matter I am working on currently, and that too, makes me a better designer, and better business woman. Thank you.