Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped by Russell Brand

Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped is a book by Russell Brand. It focuses on mentorship, drawing on the author’s experiences of being guided by others and supporting people in return.

Key details

• Author: Russell Brand
• Explores mentorship and the role of guides, mentors and heroes
• Includes the author’s reflections on recovery and a mentorship tradition
• Discusses finding mentors and making better use of existing support
• Draws on experiences from growing up in Essex through to family life

Synopsis

In Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped, Russell Brand describes the influence of significant people across different stages of his life, from those he sought to copy while growing up in Essex to the individuals he turns to now as he tries to be a better father. He also reflects on a mentorship tradition within the recovery process he practises.

The book considers how people, both deliberately and without realising, select guides, mentors and heroes over time, and looks at the fresh perspectives these relationships can offer. Brand also encourages readers to seek mentors of their own, make fuller use of the support they already have, and reflects on what he has learned from mentoring others.