Your top four people, that you’ve tried to emulate, has been the biggest influence, has been someone you looked up to, were important in molding who you are in a positive way, etc.
They don’t have to be famous, just have to be yours.
Mine:
Chuck Yeager: I’ve looked up to this guy and what he accomplished for a long time, one of the most unflappable guys in Americana.
Eric: A Master Chief I worked for while I was active duty in the Navy. A hardcore motherfucker who bled Navy Blue but still had the work hard play hard old school Ethos as a part of his day to day. One of those dudes you never forget, and still hear bitching at you about being a dumbass a decade later.
Jim Henson: The advent of Sesame Street and The Muppet Show taught me a lot, including tolerance as well as music in a format I could understand.
Hunter S. Thompson: “Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride.” It’s made a lot of sense to me from when I first read the phrase. I think people got hung up on the “take the ride” part, ignoring “buy the ticket.” To me this meant that you need to earn, you need to work and make something of yourself before indulging. Goes back to the work hard play hard ethos I guess. HST also showed what it meant to be learned and well rounded. Yeah he partied his balls off, indulged too much, but also had the angle on American Politics, Sports, and social commentary that simply made sense without giving a fuck what anyone thought…
[quote]lawsonsamuels wrote:
Louis L’amour, the author
Sam Houston
Joshua Chamberlain
Miyamoto Musashi
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Musashi FTW!..I take it The Book of Five Rings is one of your fav’s.
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you would be correct sir. trained in an okinawan karate system in college, the instructor was big on philosophy and got me into reading Musashi as well as Sun Tzu and the Tao Te Ching.
I swear I thought this was going to be a thread about TiTs.
I only have 3. Never really looked up to Man. Admired some for what they have done but never emulated except for:
My Grandmother
My Mother
Ghandi (I live in such Anger, It’s there always an the thought of anyone holding me down and not striking out amazes me, to walk ahead knowing you will face an attack ) what man thinks of this as an option?
