Power Mentoring
Chapter One
Introduction to
Power Mentoring
And when the event, the big thing in your life, is simply
an insight-isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely
nothing changes except you see things differently and
you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger
as a result: Isn't that amazing that a completely invisible
thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've
experienced before?
-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Maybe it
did not work out that you would be a movie star or an Olympic athlete,
but have you found the level of joy in your work that you had
hoped for? When you chose your major in college and then later
changed it, or perhaps recently made a job or career switch, why
did you do it? Maybe it was because you suddenly had the Great
Career Insight-I will spend the majority of my waking hours for
the rest of my life at work, so if I am not as happy at work as I want
to be now, then I am wasting my life! We spend more time working
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