Mentors don’t need to be famous. The manager who taught you how to count a register drawer counts.

A mentor is just somebody who shows you how a thing is actually done. That almost never arrives with a title or a following attached to it. More often it is a shift lead with twenty minutes of patience, teaching you something small and real that you will use for years. Waiting for an impressive mentor is how people miss the ones already standing in the room.

Name the person at your job, team or school who has taught you the most practical thing. Tell them so, plainly, and ask one more question about how they work. Most people are glad to be asked and nobody asks them.