Use your idols for inspiration. But keep them at a distance. Your perception of them is often far better than reality.
I like meeting my idols and realizing they're often pretty ordinary, can be flawed in many ways, have bad days etc.
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Same. Meet your heroes, learn that they are flawed, and forgive them.
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And sometimes they’re awesome.
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often they are awesome *and* are flawed in many ways
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In my experience, the danger of idols lies in trying to be like them. The great lives and works of others show what’s possible when you *think for yourself* rather than trying to copy others.https://twitter.com/dela3499/status/1043575005815234560?s=21 …
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We should look to them as reference for one or a few areas, not as super humans
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Talked with physicist Lawrence Krauss last year about his Feynman bio which was first time I read about his dating students and affairs
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