The Letter from the Mentor
The Letter from the Mentor is a weekly letter from your favorite old wizard, the Mentor. Full of advice, stories, and encouragement, the Letter from the Mentor is based on the greatest heroes of our time and the times before. You can get the letter in your inbox every Tuesday morning by subscribing here:

040 | I Can Believe Anything
Greetings, hero! Now I know many of you don’t love being addressed as ‘hero’. And the critical reader might ask, if these letters are addressed

039 | Become the Mentor
Greetings, hero! I love heroes—all of them, and everything about them. I love their journeys, their stories, and the trials they face, big and small.

038 | That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named
Greetings, hero! I’m afraid my letter today is unusually dark. I do my best to always be the encouraging voice, the mentor who shows up

037 | Magus Fit, Non Nascitur
Greetings, hero! Now right off the bat, I have to apologize for the latin. I’ve never really been fond of people who intentionally quote things

036 | Magic is Real
Greetings, hero! As the Mentor, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in the position of breaking the news to people. See, being

035 | Start Anew Every Morning
Greetings, hero! And just like that, we are into the New Year. The old is gone, as last year is now forever relegated to the

034 | The Secret of New Beginnings
Greetings, hero! You’ve done it! You braved the treacherous roads and perilous paths of 2020, winding their way through the same twelve months in a

033 | Always Winter, Never Christmas
Greetings, hero! As I write this letter, I know many of the people who would normally read it will not—and with good reason. They’re off

032 | Ruins to Ruins
Greetings, hero! Today, I have to spill the beans. As a traveler of all the great worlds, I can safely say there aren’t enough words

031 | Just In Time.
Greetings, hero! It seems like it was just yesterday when I was reminding a hero that mentors never arrive early, or late, but precisely when

030 The Anatomy of a Failure
Greetings, hero! Today, I want to teach you a very important lesson: how to completely fail at your goal by just about every conceivable metric,

029 | Thank You
Greetings, hero! Today is Tuesday—a Tuesday on a week much like any other, a week in a month of a year that hasn’t exactly played
028 | The Imaginary Kingdoms
Greetings, hero! Today’s letter is about one of my greatest foes—a person responsible for more things going wrong in my life than any other. They’re

027 | The Secret Shame
Greetings, hero! I have to come clean: today’s letter is titled “the secret shame”, yet I don’t actually think there’s anything that secret about it.

026 | How to Make the World a Better Place
Greetings, hero! In all my time, and all my travels, I’ve heard a lot of theories, ideas, and plans, all related to one underlying question—how

025 | The World is Quiet Here
Greetings, hero! I want you to try something with me—right here, right now. Take a deep breath in, let it out slowly, and listen: what

024—The Ultimate Fantasy
Greetings, Hero! Today, as I sit and write this letter, I’ve had to write and rewrite this opening line countless times. I can’t for the

023—My Archrival.
Greetings, hero! I have to say, today’s letter is a little difficult to write. As the Mentor, I can’t tell you how many heroes I’ve

022—Not Just a Good Time
Greetings, Hero! I have to confess that for all of my attempts to be the mysterious wizard with a great plan (and a spell or

021 – How To Get Away with Anything
Greetings, Hero! As the mentor, I’m forever in the hero business, helping people become the heroes of their story with the occasional nudge in the

020 – Failing from the Start
Greetings, Hero! Today’s letter is a bit of a paradox—because while it’s piece of advice, it’s about the exact dangers of taking advice, or at

019 – Too Much of a Good Thing
Greetings, Hero! Anyone who has undertaken any endeavour in life, from the most epic of quests to the simple tasks, like cleaning out an old

018 – How To Find Your Allies
Greetings, Hero! For today’s letter, I’m not sharing a piece of advice or insight about one of my favorite heroes—instead, I thought I would share

017 – When It All, It All Falls Down
Greetings, Hero! I can’t tell you how many times someone, usually the brooding, tough-love type, has said to me, “Good intentions aren’t enough.” And in

016 – A Dangerous Wisdom
Greetings, Hero! I’ve heard it said that the difference between knowledge and wisdom is this: knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit, wisdom is

015 – If You’re Reading This, You’re Right On Time. Letter from the Mentor
Greetings, Hero! I think one of the defining things about Mentors is their impeccable sense of timing. I think it was Gandalf who said “A

014 – The Most Common Thing
Greetings, Hero! I have a confession to make about this letter—one I hope you’re willing to forgive. Every week, I try to write about the

013 – What You Should Really Be Afraid Of
Greetings, Hero! Fear. It’s one of the great unifying human experiences. Whether it’s jumping off a diving board for the first time, learning how to

012 – Search All the Parks in All the Cities
Greetings, Hero! I find myself reflecting today on one of my favorite quotes about heroes. But it’s a bit of a pesky quote, in part

011 – Arete
Greetings, Hero! I must confess to being so far behind the times that I couldn’t tell you if today’s topic is long-lost or largely misunderstood—or