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Seeking to do great things is not linked to fame. The public is generally ignorant of every great person alive today, they just see the people who need to be se
by BucketSort 8y ago
Seeking to do great things is not linked to fame. The public is generally ignorant of every great person alive today, they just see the people who need to be seen because it supports their ventures.
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- ismail 8y agofully agree. People conflate fame with impact. Everyone’s version of impact may be different but having Impact does not necessarily lead to the other. Consider the case of Howard Thurman, not nearly as famous as Martin Luther king Jr[0], or Nelson Mandela[1]. Yet highly influential on them, and they went on to catalyse massive change. So his impact if we consider social change, was massive and far outpaced his actual fame. [0] he mentored Martin Luther King and otherS [1] Mandela came out of prison with a completely different philosophy to when he went in.Mandela appears to have been highly influenced by by his writing while in prison.
- BucketSort 8y agoSo many examples of this. This highly charming piece by a former IAS director goes into this so well: https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf