What does the person you admired actually do differently? Not their stated principles, but their behaviour — how do they make decisions, what do they say no to, how do they carry themselves? That might tell you more about what you’re actually attracted to than trying to derive principles from scratch.
People I know
Person 1
- A man who lives with real integrity and values, even if it’s inconvenient as hell
Person 2
- A man who makes money in a way that seems very intellectually stimulating and cool (a venture capitalist), and has an awesome lovely wife who he can easily financially support
Carmen!
- She has a great job in London which is like, legit high skill and stuff. Like, I don’t just want to do an internal ops job, innit. She works in the government now, very cool
Attila! Of course!
- A great thinker, and executive director, exists at a higher plane of cognitive complexity/abstraction to me
Famous people
Heroes wall
- Note, these will only be famous people, rather than people who I’ve met
- Also, this was when creativity was especially important to me
Artists/creatives
- Tyler the Creator
- Childish Gambino
- Djo
- Brian David Gilbert
- D’Angelo
- Fiona Apple
- Car Seat Headrest
- Ben Howard
Comedy/charisma
- Geoffrey James
- NakeyJakey
- Shayne Topp
- Conan O’Brien
- Amir Blumenfeld
Emotions/art
- David Foster Wallace
- Kendrick Lamar
- Sasha Chapin