"how do you empower people to claim self responsibility for their own lives." I believe you are correct actually. I feel like I am providing band-aid solutions. But really, I am looking for a solution because I hear it constantly. It's noise that exists from real pain.
Teaching people to become self-sufficient, well, I believe it must be a combination of drive on the part of the person and also a mentorship situation. I had a good experience with a writing mentor and I really sought him out because I felt really passionate. Once he said, "Leah, I really like your writing", it was like gold to me. I felt that I could move on from being a student, to becoming independent. I feel that personalized attention is one of the greatest things lacking in the modern world as far as adults are concerned. At least that was what i experienced. But my passion led me into to the territory of "never giving up." I tried to turn my back on writing several times, and I literally was not able to. James Altucher became my inspiration to go down the path of discovery, mastery and self-reliance. It was important for me to find someone who was both successful and odd, eccentric. He's both of those qualities, and I am also eccentric, in some ways, so I had to find someone I identified with before I could properly emulate.
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Agree with you 100%.
I would phrase it that the greatest gift you/I/we can ever give another person is simply our time, to sit and listen. The problem is that time is such a limited and precious commodity; and why I would suggest; (as both you and I have experienced the direct positive benefits of this) a mentoring/sponsorship/training programme via Whale to Dolphin to Minnow. That the first generation on Steemit teach the second and so forth.
I believe a band-aid approach is much preferable to letting someone just "bleed out" btw :)
I already took on a mentee during the first week. He found me and asked me. I said yes. Now I am asking to become someone's mentor. I have been doing this mentorship all along, quietly, behind the scenes.