Establish a creative environment

“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." As a mentor, you have the power to change your mentee’s life by teaching them to fish instead of fishing for them. This means enabling a creative environment where your mentee learns to come up with innovative solutions by themselves. In other words, your guidance must set their wheels of thought in motion instead of presenting answers and solutions directly unless it is absolutely urgent and essential that you do so. This sets the stage for a lifelong habit of creative thinking in your mentee.