Who Do You Learn From?
I don’t know about you, but I’m very good at thinking small and thinking negatively:
“I can’t do it”, “I don’t know how”, “people will think this is dumb” blah blah blah
My antidote? learn from the greats of history. Especially when you find out they were simple humans just like the rest of us.
My goal here is to list out people from history (and some still alive), who’ve moved and inspired me to be my best.
More than anything, this is a reminder for myself to study deeper and learn more about them.
I’ll try to group people into rough categories, if for no other reason than to acknowledge that to be successful in life we need many different viewpoints and ideas, otherwise we become to 1-dimensional.
And to be irreplaceable, we must multi-multi-dimensional.
So here we go:
Authors – Fiction:
Richard Yates
Leonard Cohen
Chuck Palahniuk
Stephen King
Authors – Non-Fiction:
David Deida
Robert Greene
Malcolm Gladwell
Tim Ferris
Historic Leaders
Queen Elizabeth I
Napoleon Bonapart
Winston Churchill
Scientists
Albert Eistein
Charles Darwin
Mathematicians
Alan Turing
Leonardo Da Vinci
Marketers:
Seth Godin
Gary Vee
Russell Brunson
Musicians
Radiohead
Dr. Dre
Miles Davis
Mozart
Philosophers
Plato
Marcus Aurelius
Lau Tzu
Entrepreneurs
Jeff Bezos
Engineers
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Mythical Legends
King Arthur
Thor
Final Thoughts:
This list is entirely incomplete and forever evolving. As my tastes, direction and inspiration change, and as I learn more and more about different people from history, and all the wonderful and terrible things they’ve done, this list will grow and change.
There are too many amazing people that should be on this list but my brain has temporarily forgotten them. As they resurface, I will be updating this list.
Love,
Arthur
