With The Sims 4: Businesses & Hobbies, mentoring has been expanded and Sims can now both mentor others and be mentored themselves. Skill building is much faster using this system and mentoring can be used for most skills, not just pottery and tattooing.
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The Master Mentor Aspiration is a new aspiration path that will help you go through the basics of both receiving mentorship and offering it to other Sims. Here’s how to complete it.
Master Mentor Aspiration Guide
The Master Mentor aspiration is a four-part aspiration which comes with the Businesses and Hobbies expansion. You can find it in the Knowledge category underneath Nerd Brain.
You’ll notice that the aspiration is split into two types of goal. The first two sections contain goals surrounding receiving mentorship from others, then the second half changes to goals based on passing on your knowledge to others.
Do I Need To Own A Business To Complete The Master Mentor Aspiration?
Yes. You can complete the first part of the aspiration by attending classes at Terra-Potta, and speaking to other Sims there, but the second half requires you to teach classes.
You can give lectures to others without owning a small business, but classes can only be run by small business owners. This means that you’ll need to set up a small business to finish the aspiration.
Useful Traits For Sims
There are a few useful traits for this aspiration, although the value of them is variable.
Creative – This makes Sims inspired more often, leading to better quality crafted items. Since you’ll be crafting while receiving mentorship and during classes, this is useful. Inspiration can also help when sharing knowledge and being mentored.
Practice Makes Perfect – You’ll build skills a little slower at first, but then your learning speed will increase after the first couple of levels, which makes the late-level skills grind much faster. The trait is very useful for gaining levels quickly to impart your knowledge to others, but if you end up more skilled than your mentor too fast, they cannot teach you anymore.
Make sure to start this aspiration with a low skill level to give you the most time to get through the first two parts before you out level your mentor!
Self-Assured – This builds a Sim’s confidence, something which can make delivering classes and lectures easier for them. It can also make it easier to befriend other Sims.
Outgoing – Being outgoing helps Sims befriend others quicker. They also gain positive moodlets from socializing, which helps when making friends in classes and when mentoring.
Aspiration Reward: Motivational Speaker Trait
Once the aspiration is complete you’ll receive the Motivational Speaker Trait. This allows Sims to deliver motivating speeches. The speeches give a boost to skill gain speed, increase the chances of skill perk discovery and offer a happiness moodlet.
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How To Complete The Master Mentor Aspiration
There are four parts to this aspiration. Here’s how to complete them all.
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Fledgling Mentee |
Gain A Mentor |
Begin by starting a conversation with a Sim above level 5 in the skill you want to learn. You should see the option ask to be mentor appear under friendly – hobbies. |
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Earn Bronze Level 3 Times From Attending Hobby Classes |
The easiest way to do this is to attend Terra-Potta’s pottery classes. You’ll need to pay $9 an hour for entry, then click the white board and choose Ask To Start Class. Classes cost $180. Click Jolanda and choose listen to lecture. When the 30 minutes is up, discuss pottery techniques twice for a quick bronze. |
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Achieve Level 3 In 3 Skills |
It doesn’t matter what these skills are, so things like cooking, logic and charisma also count. It doesn’t have to be a hobby skill. |
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Master Mentor |
Make A New Friend While Attending A Hobby Class |
This can take a while, but the same Sims tend to turn up. We recommend chatting with a few Sims while getting your bronze medals, or outside of classes, but not enough to hit friendship. Once you are close, start the class and just focus on the friendship. You can hit other goals later if there’s time left. |
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Achieve Gold Level From Attending A Hobby Class |
The easiest way to do this is to listen to the lecture for 30 minutes, then cancel before starting to make a pot. While doing pottery, you’ll see the option on Jolanda’s social menu to ask for mentoring. This combination gets you close. Glazing your pot should finish the gold. If not, just discuss pottery techniques twice. |
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Be Mentored For 3 Hours |
If you ask for mentoring during a class you won’t be charged. If you ask outside of classes you may be, unless you are a mentee. Asking during the classes you take for the other goals is the easiest way to do this. |
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Achieve Level 5 In 3 Skills |
You’ll easily have pottery skills at this level now, so just make sure to brush up on your other regular skills. |
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Passionate Teacher |
Become A Mentor To Another Sim |
Once you have level 5 in a skill, you can mentor other Sims. Strike up conversation and volunteer to be their mentor through the hobbies social menu. |
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Mentor Another Sim For 3 Hours |
You don’t need to be a Sim’s mentor to offer mentoring. Select a hobby item, such as the pottery wheel, then choose offer mentoring. You can offer paid or unpaid mentoring. Valid Sims will come up for you to choose from. |
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Teach 5 Hobby Classes |
In order to teach a hobby class, you will need to have a small business. You’ll also need a whiteboard and enough hobby items for 3 Sims. Click the whiteboard to lecture for 45 minutes. This is enough to get a bronze medal and consider the class successful. |
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Achieve Level 8 In 3 Skills |
Again, this is simply a case of making sure you’ve kept up with 3 different skills. |
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Master Mentor |
Earn Gold Level 2 Times From Teaching Hobby Classes |
After the lecture, the easiest tasks are Talk About Tattooing (twice) and Ask About Hobbies And Skills. Both are under the hobbies social menu and completing them will net you a silver. The friendly interactions won’t take you over, so you’d also need to become inspired. Due to this, either designing a tattoo on the sketchpad or mentoring someone using a table or sketchpad is the easiest way to gold. |
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Gain A Mastery Perk |
Mastery Perks are gained by hitting hidden targets, similarly to lifestyle gains in Snowy Escape. The Creative Aura is fairly easy to trigger by repeatedly practicing the same creative skill. |
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Achieve Level 10 In 3 Skills |
Take those 3 core skills of yours to the max to finish this aspiration. |
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