Who Do You Look Up To? Exploring Role Models and Inspirations

[StevieTNZ]

It'd be interesting to see who people look up to.

I look up to Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. I wish I could do a PhD under his supervision.

I also look up to my 2004 and 2005 High School Classical Studies, and Computing, teachers.

 

[trollcast]

People who are taller than me.

 

[StevieTNZ]

People who are taller than me.

I usually get to the same height, then look at them.

 

[PhizKid]

micromass

 

[Ryan_m_b]

According to my tape measure anyone above 5 11. Other than that select family and friends.

 

[AlephZero]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mURhNIjc-Kw

 

[turbo]

Bernie Sanders.

 

[loseyourname]

Steve McQueen and Richard Dawson

Maybe Shatner but only once he's dead.

 

[dlgoff]

Greg Bernhardt, PF Admins, and PF Mentors.

 

[WannabeNewton]

micromass

I personally see Jimmy Page as my god.

 

[jim hardy]

Are we constrained to the living?


Freeman Dyson

farmers, and the everyday working folks who keep the machinery of civilization running.

if you'll grant me one from fiction - "Uncle Hub", the character portrayed by Robert Duval in "Secondhand Lions". He reminds me of some WW2 vets I knew.

 

[aquitaine]

I look up to Steve Wozniak.

It'd be interesting to see who people look up to.

I look up to Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. I wish I could do a PhD under his supervision.

I also look up to my 2004 and 2005 High School Classical Studies, and Computing, teachers.

So I have to ask, why do you look up to the ancient aliens guy?

 

[ikjyotsingh]

The great Guru Gobind Singh and Guru Granth Sahib

 

[Drakkith]

*Scratches head*
Uhh...I don't know...

 

[Adyssa]

Richard Feynman is my hero. Smart dude with broad interests, penetrating insight, a good heart, a sense of humour and no time for bull****.

 

[Bobbywhy]

Leonardo da Vinci, Frederik Chopin, Albert Einstein, John Stuart Mill, and, like Adyssa above, Richard Feynman.

 

[DennisN]

Some people I appreciate are/was Richard Dawkins, George Carlin, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, Neil deGrasse Tyson + some other scientists + a bunch of composers.

 

[WannabeNewton]

George Carlin...Christopher Hitchens

Yes and yes! I love these guys. These two + Bob Dylan had such a huge influence on me. Jimmy Page is still god tho :p

 

[HeLiXe]

People who are taller than me.

I actually thought this haha

All of my life I never understood the whole role model thing or why people would look up to another person, but it seems I have developed a deep appreciation for Neil de Grasse Tyson. As I am often discouraged these days, I listen to a lot of his speeches and somehow find hope within them. I also admire Astronuc which is odd because I do not hunt down his posts like Neil de Grasse Tyson's videos XD but I appreciate his posts whenever I come across them...maybe it has something to do with his username, beard, and use of the word "one."

 

[proyang]

I look up to Mahatma Gandhi

 

[ikjyotsingh]

I look up to Mahatma Gandhi

I really wish that everyone could see the truth about Gandhi. He wasn't the great saint that he is made out to be.

 

[Light Bearer]

Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman.

 

[lisab]

Lots of people. For example, Om, because he cured himself .

 

[NATURE.M]

Richard Feynman. His stories, charisma, and passion is what inspires me.

 

[Julio R]

I look up to my mom, Fermi, and Alan Turing.
I also admire the person who discovered coffee.

So I have to ask, why do you look up to the ancient aliens guy?

I'm glad someone finally pointed that out. To add on why would he want to work on a Phd under him?

 

[Drakkith]

Lots of people. For example, Om, because he cured himself .

Huh?

 

[lisab]

Huh?

Well his story involves activities we don't support here, so you'll have to ask him. Maybe he will share. It's a great story!

 

[OmCheeto]

Lots of people. For example, Om, because he cured himself .

Hmm... I never did confirm that I cured myself.

I only knew that, after 9 months of suffering, my symptoms went away, after taking a drug, that the literature said, would cure me.

I had lots of time to study the literature.

I don't mean to belittle the doctors. They've got thousands of patients, and millions of diseases to know about. I only have to worry about the one, causing me distress, at the moment.

I do look forward to seeing my new doctor* this month, his mouth was wide open when I told him the story.

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*I ran into him a month after I "cured" myself. A totally random, sitting at the bar kind of thing. I ran into him again about 2 weeks ago, and he said he'd be my doctor. Though he said he didn't remember me. I smiled.

 

[Mentalist]

"Look up to..." implies, "role model", implies, "not being oneself", this means, "your value as a human is less than that of the one you look up to", which implies, "they are better than you." Aside from that, I know it is another human to which many if not most (possibly all) humans have faults or flaws. Why would I want to look up to another thing that is almost as imperfect as I am? Why would I even bother trying to model myself after something like a human? Where is the sense in that? I cannot be that person as I wasn't born that person so I am not going to die wanting and trying to be someone else. If I were to do that then it would make more sense for me to try and become a sea turtle. If I could change who I was, I certainly would choose to be a tree or a sea turtle, not another human. But the latter is an asinine notion! Just like trying to model yourself after another person. That is my opinion, but that is why I don't model myself after another. I just try to be a better person based on what I think "better" is.

 

[OmCheeto]

I look up to Mike's Mother.

She endured, what no mother should have to endure...

And she used her son's death, as a lesson to others, rather that being bitter about it, and pointing fingers...

I spent time in the same area Mike lived, when I was about his age.

...

I owe my life to Mike's Mother.

I look up to her.​

 

[Drakkith]

Wow, that's crazy Om!

 

[CFDFEAGURU]

I look up to Conan the Barbarian. :) Seriously, I find Steve Jobs an inspiring person.

 

[ChiralWaltz]

airplanes

 

[Astrum]

It'd be interesting to see who people look up to.

I look up to Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. I wish I could do a PhD under his supervision.

I also look up to my 2004 and 2005 High School Classical Studies, and Computing, teachers.

Uh... what?

On the up side, he has some epic hair.

 

[CFDFEAGURU]

On the up side, he has some epic hair.

Even if it was still the 80's he would be the extreme.