{"product_id":"9781250226273","title":"Mentors : How to Help and Be Helped","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMentors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Russell Brand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRussell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and mentors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? \u003ci\u003eMentors \u003c\/i\u003e– the follow up to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eRecovery \u003c\/i\u003e– describes the benefits of seeking and offering help.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I have mentors in every area of my life, as a comic, a dad, a recovering drug addict, a spiritual being and as a man who believes that we, as individuals and the great globe itself, are works in progress and that through a chain of mentorship we can improve individually and globally, together . . . One of the unexpected advantages my drug addiction granted is that the process of recovery that I practise includes a mentorship tradition. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I will encourage you to find mentors of your own and explain how you may better use the ones you already have. Furthermore, I will tell you about my experiences mentoring others and how invaluable that has been on my ongoing journey to self-acceptance and how it has helped me to transform from a bewildered and volatile vagabond to a (mostly) present and (usually) focussed husband and father.\"—\u003c\/i\u003eRussell Brand \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMentors: How to Help and Be Helped\u003c\/i\u003e describes the impact that a series of significant people have had on the author – from the wayward youths he tried to emulate growing up in Essex, through the first ex-junkie sage, to the people he turns to today to help him be a better father. It explores how we all – consciously and unconsciously – choose guides, mentors and heroes throughout our lives and examines the new perspectives they can bring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] compact book with a huge heart. . . . [\u003ci\u003eMentors\u003c\/i\u003e] is self-consciously a hero's journey, from lost youth to mentor and father . . . [with] many touching personal confessions and real . . . insights” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Brand] shares stories of who he was and how he changed via the help of various mentors . . . [illuminating] his transformation from an angry, disillusioned person to the more well-rounded father and spiritual person he is today.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250226273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Henry Holt and Co.","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40688676372686,"sku":"9781250226273","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250226273","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}