First, what is a mentor?
A mentor, in my personal opinion, is a person who offers guidance to you,
in whatever areas that you need help in.
It can be your life mentor, your technology mentor, your biz mentor, etc.
Second, how to treat your mentor?
Respect is the number one thing. Since most of the cases, you are benefiting free of charge from your mentor,
you jolly well do something to reciprocate in kind back to him.
For example, if he is promoting a certain affiliate product that you need to get, you may consider getting it from his link.
I think this is ethical, because your mentor is dedicating his time, free of charge, to educating you on a certain subject.
Or your mentor is needing some resources on a certain thing and you have just the expertise to get this done. You jolly well volunteer for it and point him in the correct direction.
Remember, your mentor could have simply said NO to your request and left you hanging for answers, directions for a couple of hours, days, weeks, or even years. By keeping your mentor happy, he feeds you with quality information that you need.
Yup, that’s all for now.
Cheers!
Ming Chern
(P.S. The same thing may be said for your list. Treat your list with respect and they’ll reciprocate, aka moolahs )