Who Should You Mentor ?

When Should You Mentor?

I once had the opportunity to take batting practice in Boston’s Fenway Park and to talk with Hall of Fame Red Sox great Jim Rice.
Jim talked about how he was mentored as a ball player throughout his life.

• He honed his athletic ability in his neighborhood growing up with older kids where he learned how to work hard to be better every day.
• Rice learned the art of catching a fly ball off the Green Monster from Carl Yastrzemski when he was just a rookie.
• Ted Williams showed him how to hit out of a slump before he was ever in a slump.

Rice then demonstrated how to swing the bat to get a hit every time. Wow, batting lessons from a hall-of-famer – it doesn’t get better than that. Well, they only way it could have been better is if I had those batting lessons before I got up to take batting practice.

Teaching others what you know is best done before they need to use your knowledge