Mentoring is Medicine
- Dustin Donaldson
- Jan 20, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 3, 2025
The fastest way to gain meaningful experience isn’t always by doing — it’s by listening to those who already have.
When you surround yourself with mentors and leaders who’ve already been where you’re trying to go, something powerful happens. You absorb the lessons they earned the hard way. You pick up signals. You learn to see around corners.
Mentorship isn’t about shortcuts. It’s about perspective. It teaches you to think critically before problems emerge — not just after they’ve made themselves known.
In my experience, the wisdom that comes from mentorship doesn’t just make you smarter. It makes you steadier.
“If experience is the teacher, then mentorship is the medicine that makes the learning faster, safer, and stronger.”

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