It takes 4-6 months to build trust with a new mentor
I’ve been thinking a lot about mentorship lately, and I think one of my recent conclusions is that a new mentoring relationship doesn’t really become useful until after the first 4-6 months, because that’s how long it takes to build trust. Sometimes it takes even longer to build that trust. I’m not saying that the first few months won’t be useful at all – if you think they’re completely useless, that opinion is unlikely to change significantly – but you probably won’t be able to go very deep because you’ll still be vibe-checking each other at first.