What do mentors do? They introduce you to your future self. | Bishop Omar Jahwar

Bishop Omar Jahwar explains that before mentors can inspire others, they have to be inspired themselves.

- What kind of work does a mentor do? Many expect that mentors can only help others that have been in the same situation as their mentees, but this is not the case.

- What matters is that mentors can see their mentees' potential so that they can help them move away from the situation that they are in and towards the person that they actually are.

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