[Gretch]

A good mentor is "candid" without being threatening.......

Reason being; pointing out when someone gets "something right" is very easy..........

Getting a protege to see what they did wrong and learn from that mistake is a lot more challenging.

The ongoing, subliminal, underlying lessons are always: ethics, high personal standards of honesty, the value of focus, hard work and delayed satisfaction, some self depreciation and of course real humility...........

So, in the final analysis, be careful who you choose to mentor, not all candidates are worthy students.......... in fact most ARE NOT.