Mentors, Russell Brand
Mentors, Russell Brand
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Mentors
How to Help and Be Helped

Author: Russell Brand

Narrator: Russell Brand

Unabridged: 3 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2019


Synopsis

"British comic Russell Brand narrates this powerful combined memoir and personal growth lesson as if he were performing a one-man play... this audiobook reveals Brand's startling insights about how we human beings can make a lot of serious mistakes but somehow keep the faith about our potential for healing, love, and honesty in all of our affairs." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

This program is read by the author.

Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and mentors.

Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Mentors – the follow up to the New York Times bestseller Recovery – describes the benefits of seeking and offering help.

"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.

"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."—Russell Brand

Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped 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.

About Russell Brand

Russell Brand is a comedian and an addict. He's been addicted to drugs, sex, fame, money and power. Even now as a father, more than fifteen years into recovery he still writes about himself in the third person and that can't be healthy. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Recovery. He still performs as a comic and is studying for an MA in Religion in Global Politics. He has two cats, two dogs, a wife, two daughters, ten chickens and sixty thousand bees in spite of being vegan curious. He is certain that the material world is an illusion but still keeps licking the walls of the hologram.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on June 01, 2019

My commutes this year have been enhanced by lectures on concert music (The Great Courses lecture series by Dr. Robert Greenberg, ten Great Masters, Their Lives and Music), and when this came across in an email, I was happy to expand my arts education again. I received a review copy of this from Edel......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on July 17, 2019

This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 4.25 of 5 Before I ever wrote my first book review, I was an art student and I had been writing reviews of art shows in my community. It never occurred to me that anyone could make a living as an art historian/reviewer ... I did it as......more

Goodreads review by Mary on May 27, 2019

My friend has a collection of Beatrice Wood pottery and collages. When I saw that Mentors concerned the author’s relationship with Wood and other luminaries of the art world I knew I had to read it. There are two major themes in the book; the making and shaping of an art historian devoted to DADA an......more

Goodreads review by Kitty on August 12, 2021

I loved this book. For a while I have been a great admirer of Francis Naumann, and this book solidified these feelings even further. It was witty, gripping and even touching at times, providing a compelling look into Naumann's life and the people who inspired him. As an aspiring art historian myself......more

Goodreads review by Scott on June 09, 2019

Naumann, one of the foremost experts on the works of artist Marcel Duchamp, is a fluid writer with a strong sense of self. This memoir captures both his irreverence and his tenderness for others. By tracing the roots of these personal traits to individual mentors, we learn a great deal about Naumann......more