How to cultivate mentors

I spent years thinking mentorship had to be bestowed upon me. That if I worked hard enough and got lucky some benevolent titan of industry would grant me the privilege of being their mentee. As you can imagine, I spent many years without any kind of real mentorship.Sure, maybe I had some helpful chats with the head of my department or my boss or someone a bit more senior than me in another department, but I was pretty much going through my career alone. The thing is, you always go further, fa...