There are a lot of misconceptions about what it takes to be a mentor. In my early 20s, I was asked to mentor a few business students at my alma mater. I was barely into my career, and I remember thinking that I needed to study and prepare lesson plans. My job was to give sage wisdom and advice, to be an expert and a teacher, to have all the right answers and to say all the right things because, after all, their success depended on me, right?