#9 - Why you absolutely need mentors and are a mentor yourself. (Part 2)

Why are there actually so few women mentors in fiction, stage literature and film?

To a large extent, this is naturally related to the miserable, lived everyday culture in which everything that concerns wisdom and leadership is almost reflexively always assigned to male figures.

In fact, this shortcoming smells all the more paradoxical because, in principle, everyone meets a mentor as their first mentor, right?

And yet: Really juicy mentor legends of the Merlin/Gandalf/Obi-Wan Kenobi type who are really well known to everyone? Missing!

The world needs mentors, and if you don't have one, you can be one. Be the mentor you wish you had. Because we, humanity, are looking for perspective and orientation and meaning at every turn. Many of us even know the way, but don't see it.

For this, mentors are needed - for the big steps and for the small ones: people who ask questions and question, who tell lived lives, who share their stories with others.

Our existence consists of a dense web of little stories in which we ourselves are the main characters, each in his, and each other mentors, each to the other. Each of us, every one of us, can prove to be heroine and mentor in equal measure, because she does what heroes and mentors do on their journey: recognise, understand, transform and accompany others along the way - oh Captain, my Captain!

With our stories, we make each other strong: as people, as teams, as a society. And in these stories, we are all protagonists and always mentors, sometimes even at the same time ...