A Question I Have Been Asked A 100 Times
Avinash Agarwal
Director, Disha Publication | Best Seller Author | Study Skills and Habit Coach
For the longest time, I have been asked one question:
?Last week, a student preparing for JEE asked me the same thing.
"Sir, will mentorship work for me?"
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With utmost calmness, I told him,?"no!"?which left him confused.
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"If not, Sir, why are we doing this session?"
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"I don't know. You tell me."?I questioned him back.
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There was an immediate silence. The student couldn't think of what to say.?
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"Are you here to confirm, or are you here to make it work?"?I asked him.?"Because I am not a magician. I am a mentor."
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"Either you don't trust me, or you don't trust the process,"?I added.?"If you don't trust me, I can do one thing for you – show you the results that my previous students have got. But if you don't trust the process - there's nothing much I can do."
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The following day, the student came with his parents and enrolled on my mentorship lessons. They said it was what they were looking for - not getting spoon-fed but being led to his own answers.?
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Friends, nothing works until you want it to work.
Nothing changes until you want to implement the change.?
You must have faith in your mentor, his process, and above all, in yourself.?
Nothing will ever work if you are not ready.?
A true mentor does not give you answers. He just asks the right questions.
Mentorship isn't success insurance, but a success roadmap.
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Food for Thought
Approximately 250 million Indian students were affected by school closures during the lockdown induced by COVID-19.
?Public and private schools faced several challenges due to the pandemic, including an increase in dropouts and self-isolation among students, which made?mentoring and student counseling?play a more significant role for both students and teachers to cope with the stress of the ongoing changes.
(Source: KPMG).
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2 年Amazing thoughts Avinash. I am really impressed and inspired too. The problem with most of the students is that they accept a thing to be impossible. They don't give it a try or they don't want to believe it because they don't want to go through the grind.