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RE: You Shouldn't Take Advice From Those Who Are Successful
I agree with this to a certain extent but not entirely. Sure if you try to walk in the exact same footsteps as a successful person your life will not turn out like theirs, but you can still learn a lot from some of the underlying principles behind their actions. As a musician I see many others trying to copy the sound of their heroes, forgetting that what their heroes did was create something unique and original. Instead of trying to recreate the exact sound of another artist you can only be successful by coming up with something original that has it's own character. Many if not all of the greatest artists in history understood this, but most people do not.
You can learn a lot by the underlying principles of any person. You can take any successful emperor and learn to be ruthless. You can take Steve jobs and learn how to be an asshole. You can take gandi and learn about self sacrifice.
it is irrelevant who you choose to take examples. Qualities don't matter. at all. it is the sequence of events that bind everything together.
You are talking nonsense here.
@captaincanary has a valid point: by observing successful people one can extract what's common between them and learn from this.
No you can't. if that was true then most people on this earth would be successful since most people are sheeple and follow the leaders.
the earth's population proves you wrong.
Yes, you can. Extracting common features is not easy (that's why most people cannot do it) but actually this is the basis of abstract thinking and intelligence in general.
People learn from each other, mostly by looking up to other people. But you need to make a distinction between imitation and inspiration.
Which proves you wrong.
not hard. very easy actually. anyone can do it.
both go hand in hand
You just told me "this is a can of coke therefore potato"
no it doesn't prove me wrong. It proves you incoherent though.
Yes, sir. I'm incoherent. Therefore potato.