How to be a positive role model and mentor?

If you are a ‘good’ role model for younger, one typically aspires to and exemplifies (or attempts to according to one’s reasonable abilities) to be more ideal and thus show attributes of the ideal and classical merits: courage, temperance, understanding, patience, fun, joy bla bla… as one gets older, a good role model (parent to teen or older friends or lovers etc), tends to often extend this ‘positive role model’ to some more pragmatism and relativism, often due to one’s own experiences in life. It is a broad concept and can be so easily mismanaged and misunderstood due to hubris; the arrogance of believing one’s concepts must hold true, especially due to being based in one relative mythos or truth/belief system.

To be a good role model, I would however, recommend to let you know most people and societies share fundamental values , although expressed differently; stick to these.. and I recommend reading philosophy, especially classical philosophy, and nice poetry ;)

Should get you going.