By Larry Chiang
This article is controversial. I’m at risk just for bringing this taboo topic of ‘default mentors’ up. It’s definitely not going into my blog at Women 2.0
here http://women2.com/minimizing-risk-in-entrepreneurship-pattern-recognition-iteration/, here,
here,
here http://women2.com/3-things-that-keep-us-women-down-regarding-entrepreneurship/
and HERE. http://women2.com/imposter-syndrome-and-how-to-beat-it-cisco-co-founder-sandy-lerner-and-barbara-tuchman/
Default mentors severely impact females. Default mentor is the mentor that you unknowingly let mentor you. In the same vein that you are the sum total of the five people you hang out with most, default mentorship is those people mentoring you and you really do not realize it.
When we as women listen better, it hurts us
Default mentorship has a higher impact on the gender that listens better. Default mentorship happens at a nail salon because women will get mentored by a thrice divorced nail tech on how to Ace Their Current Relationship. Default mentorship rounds out the 4th category of mentors. The three categories are
– superstar mentor. It’s a name brand, legendary human mentor like Mark McCormack, Mark Cuban, Tom Kosnik, Tom Byers, Steven Zumdahl, and Steven Blank.
– co-hort mentor. It is a peer that mentors you. Like Paul Graham. Jk, Paul is a superstar mentor. A co-hort mentor is like Ryan Shea. We are both recently gradumatated engineers that took a class together called ENGR 145.
– Junior mentor. It’s a junior person, li’l kid or even a dog that mentors you. If you believe that you start to LOOK like your dog, you better believe that you start learning and mimicking your dogs behavior.
Superstar, Co-hort, Junior and Default mentor. I guess what I am saying is that women should take their superior listening skills and focus their listening. Hate me because I say what everyone was already thinking but not solving. Hate on me over at Quora where my trolls live :-))
Exercise: list out your default mentors.
Homework: get a VC you don’t know to mentor you.
Read http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/09/7-ways-to-get-an-industry-leader-you-dont-know-to-mentor-you/ And more mentorship advice from an industry titan
http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/03/7-ways-to-get-a-vc-you-dont-know-to-mentor-you/
What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit http://www.slideshare.net/larrychiang/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit American Express’ Under-Promoted Credit Truths at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (MBFW)” http://t.co/inxTmZAj My Stanford Engineering video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve
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