Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Aug. 2009
In general terms, the word mentor designates that person who exercises the function of advising or guiding another in some aspect and who is in a position to do so because the experience or his knowledge about it endorse it and put it in that superior and guiding place.
On the other hand, a mentor will also be considered a person who teaches another a skill, subject, among others and that later underpins it, supports in entering the field in which the art or learned practice, that is to say, that in some direct or indirect way opens the doors of that area for it to develop.
Most likely, the person who exercises the role of mentor occupies a very prominent and prominent place in the field in which he works, that is, generally a mentor is also a leader in their metier and is unanimously recognized as such.
Meanwhile, among the most distinctive skills that a mentor should display to be considered by others as such are the ability to communication, the disposition towards counseling,
transmission of knowledge and experiences in a clear and precise way and the ability to reach that other to effectively transmit knowledge, advice and that the other recognizes in him his role as mentor.A mentor only with his presence and support will provide the other who recognizes an important range of virtues in him, the strength and the certain possibility of achieving success.
In the world artistic, although obviously it is not reduced only to him, it is very common to find the figure of the mentor, generally in the figure of an artist consecrated, who, thanks to his remarkable career, manages that other artists not yet consecrated or conveners approach him in the search for support, promotion and teachings and then end up being something of a kind of artistic children of this that will help them to succeed in his art.
Meanwhile, these artistic children tend to express absolute devotion and admiration for their mentor, and of course, also gratitude for that permission to be near him and allow them learn of the.
Some professions and trades, such as the one already mentioned as an actor, are characterized by the presence of mentors, teachers, putting them in more precise terms. Popular and precisely these are the ones who teach the activity and who also ensure that their students are integrated into the environment with their support and sponsorship.
It is even very common for the media, critics and the press to recognize them as successors to their mentor due to the symbiotic relationship that mentors usually create with their students.
In history we meet countless mentors, who in various arts, sciences and practices were notable and recognized mentors of personalities and figures They also managed to stand out and much of it had to do with the teachings of his mentor.
One of the most important and ancient examples is that of the Greek philosopher Aristotle who was acknowledges having been a mentor to Alexander the Great, one of the most notable kings and authorities of antiquity classical. His father Philip II, who succeeded to the head of the Macedonian throne back in the three hundredth century BC. he taught her the tactics and strategies Meanwhile, he gave one of the most important philosophers of that time, Aristotle, the intellectual training of his son Alexander.
The enormous teaching that he received from both mentors, his father, on the military and political level and on the intellectual level of Aristotle, gave him allowed Alexander the Great to go down in the history of mankind as one of the greatest politicians and one of the greatest transformations and advances he made.
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